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Armenian chess grandmaster (born 1991)
Robert Hovhannisyan
Robert Hovhannisyan, 2013
CountryArmenia
Born (1991-03-23) 23 March 1991 (age 33)
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (2010)
FIDE rating2626 (January 2025)
Peak rating2650 (August 2019)

Robert Ararati Hovhannisyan (Armenian: Ռոբերտ Արարատի Հովհաննիսյան; born 23 March 1991) is an Armenian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2010.

In January 2011, Hovhannisyan won the 71st Armenian Chess Championship. In July he was a member of the gold-medal winning Armenian team at the World Team Chess Championship in Ningbo. The following month, Hovhannisyan tied for first place with Dariusz Świercz in the World Junior Chess Championship in Chennai, placing second on tiebreak. In November, he played again on the Armenian team in the European Team Chess Championship, in which his team finished fourth. In January 2012, Hovhannisyan took second place in the Armenian championship. In 2013 he won the 6th Karen Asrian Memorial in Jermuk.

In 2015 Hovhannisyan tied for first with Alexei Shirov in the 5th Riga Technical University Open in Riga, finishing second on tiebreak. Hovhannisyan won this tournament three years later.

References

  1. Titles approved at the 2nd Quarter Presidential Board 2010, FIDE
  2. GM Robert Hovhannisyan is the new Armenian champion, FIDE
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  4. K Muralimohan (2011-08-15). "Swiercz Dariusz and Cori T Deysi are World Junior Champions". FIDE. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
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  6. "72nd ARM Championship. The Highest League". Chess-Results.com. 2012-01-22. Retrieved 22 January 2012.
  7. "GM Robert Hovhannisyan wins Karen Asrian Memorial 2013". Chessdom. 2013-06-25. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  8. "6th K. Asrian Memorial". Chess-Results.com. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  9. "GM Alexei Shirov clinches the title in 5th Riga Technical University Open". Chessdom. 2015-08-19. Archived from the original on 2018-08-22. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  10. "Hovhannisyan wins Riga Open 2018". Chessdom. 2018-08-13. Retrieved 2019-03-31.

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Chess players for Armenia with the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM)


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