Artashes Minasian

Artashes Minasian (also transliterated as Minasyan; Armenian: Արտաշես Մինասյան; born 21 January 1967) is an Armenian chess grandmaster. He tied for first in the 1991 USSR Chess Championship and is a six-time Armenian Chess Champion.

Artashes Minasian
Minasian at the 2008 Chess Olympiad
Country	Armenia
Born	(1967-01-21) 21 January 1967 (age 58) Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster (1992)[1]
FIDE rating	2460 (August 2025)
Peak rating	2620 (July 1998)[1]
Peak ranking	No. 52 (July 1998)

Chess career

Minasian (2nd left) with his 2008 Olympiad teammates on a 2009 stamp of Armenia

He participated in eight Chess Olympiads with a record of +23 −12 =28. In 2006 the Armenian team took the first place at the 37th Chess Olympiad. Along with himself, the team consisted of Levon Aronian, Vladimir Akopian, Karen Asrian, Smbat Lputian, Gabriel Sargissian).^[2] Minasian won the Armenian Chess Championship six times, in 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2004 and 2006.^[3] He also won the final USSR Chess Championship in 1991^[4] and New York open championship in 1998.^[5]

He achieved a peak rating of 2620 in July 1998.^[1]

In December 2009, he was awarded the title of Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia.^[6]