Armenian team will play without Aronyan in the first round

Armenia's chess team will in the framework of the World Chess Olympics play with Costa Rica's team. The meeting will start at 4 p.m. Yerevan time in the Russian town of Khanti Mansijsk.

All the competing pairs are already known.

Armenia's team will in the first round compete with the Costa Ricans without Levon Aronyan, thought without him the 4 Armenian players exceed their rivals with their rankings.

The first pair includes Vladimir Hakobyan (2691) and Aris Santana Morigion (2345). The other pairs are Gabriel Sargsyan (2677) and Leonardo Valdes (2429), Arman Pashikyan (2639) and Bernard Gonzales (2423), Avetik Grigoryan (2579) Vleys Sebastia (2172).