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Armenian chess grandmaster (born 1995)
Karen H. Grigoryan
CountryArmenia
Born (1995-02-25) 25 February 1995 (age 29)
Yerevan, Armenia
TitleGrandmaster (2013)
FIDE rating2618 (December 2024)
Peak rating2666 (January 2021)
Peak rankingNo. 71 (April 2020)

Karen H. Grigoryan (Armenian: Կարեն Հ. Գրիգորյան; born 25 February 1995) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster.

Chess career

He was awarded the Grandmaster title in May 2013 during the Presidential Board Meeting in Baku. He was the Armenian U14 Champion (2008); European U16 Champion (2010), the winner of the G. Kasparyan Memorial – Young Masters 2010, the 2011 Youth Stars Tournament; the Armenian Chess Championship 2011, the Albena Open (2012), the Open Internacional Escacs Vila de Sitges in July 2013, the 2nd Yerevan Open (2017), the 9th Penang Open (2017), the Jolimark (HK) International Open Chess Championship (2017). In 2019, he won the 26th Elgoibar GM with a score of 7/9 points.

In June 2019, Grigoryan tied for first place with IM Aleksandr Ostrovskiy in the Charlotte Chess Center's Summer 2019 GM Norm Invitational held in Charlotte, North Carolina with a score of 6.0/9.

In 2021, Grigoryan won the 46th Seville Open after tying for first place with Salvador Del Rio De Angelis with a score of 5.5/7, and winning the tiebreaks.

He is the fourth highest-rated Armenian player as of September 2023.

References

  1. Karen H. Grigoryan
  2. "Tournament report October 2017 - 2nd Yerevan Open". FIDE. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  3. "9th Penang Heritage City International Chess Open 2017 Penang Open 2017". Chess-results. 2017-12-09. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  4. "Jolimark (HK) International Open Chess Championship 2017". Chess-results. 2017-12-23. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  5. "The Week in Chess 1311". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  6. "CCCSA GM/IM Norm Invitational - Winter 2022 CCCSA Norm Invitational Chess Tournament".
  7. "The Week in Chess 1391". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  8. "Grigoryan, Karen H. – Profile info". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved August 1, 2021.

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