Tigran Nalbandian | |
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Nalbandian in 2010 | |
Country | Armenia |
Born | (1975-06-05) June 5, 1975 (age 49) Yerevan, Armenia |
Title | Grandmaster (2004) |
FIDE rating | 2466 (December 2024) |
Peak rating | 2527 (October 2005) |
Tigran Vaanovic Nalbandian is an Armenian chess grandmaster.
Chess career
He is a graduate of the Henrik Kasparian chess school, alongside other Armenian grandmasters Levon Aronian, Gabriel Sargissian, Vladimir Akopian, and Hrant Melkumyan. He has coached grandmaster Robert Aghasaryan, and was also the coach of the Armenian team that won the 37th Chess Olympiad in 2006 and 38th Chess Olympiad in 2008.
In July 2010, he won the Dortmund Open with a score of 7/9.
In September 2019, he became head of a new chess school that opened in the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Yerevan.
References
- Polgar, Susan (December 25, 2010). "Mkrtchian, Petrosian win Kasparian tournament".
- "Chess Informant 120 Maracana with Morozevich". June 26, 2014.
- "ARMENIAN CHESS PLAYERS WON FIRST PLACE AT WOLRD CHESS OLYMPIAD AWARDED MOVSES KHORENATSI MEDAL". June 7, 2006.
- "Chess: Tigran Nalbandian wins Dortmund open". July 27, 2010.
- "GM Tigran Nalbandian wins tournament in Dortmund". July 27, 2010.
- "The Children of the Nuclear Power Workers Took Part in the Chess Tournament". September 13, 2019.