Ukrainian Vasyl Ivanchuk became the winner of the European Rapid Chess Championship, which ended on Monday, November 29, in the capital of Armenia. Vasyl Ivanchuk scored 9 points out of 11 possible. In 11 rounds, the Lviv grandmaster achieved seven victories and drew four times.
Another representative of Ukraine, Oleksandr Areshchenko, took sixth place, scoring eight points.
Second place at the European Championship was taken by Zviad Izoria from Georgia (8.5 points). Third with a result of 8 points was Beniamin Galstyan from Armenia, who on additional indicators surpassed the Russian Alexei Ilyushin.