Robert Hovhannisyan

Armenian chess grandmaster (born 1991) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Hovhannisyan

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.[1]

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Robert Hovhannisyan, 2013
CountryArmenia
Born (1991-03-23) 23 March 1991 (age 34)
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (2010)
FIDE rating2635 (April 2025)
Peak rating2650 (August 2019)
RankingNo. 101 (April 2025)
Peak rankingNo. 101 (April 2025)
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In January 2011, Hovhannisyan won the 71st Armenian Chess Championship which he won again in 2024 and 2025[2][3][4] In July he was a member of the gold-medal winning Armenian team at the World Team Chess Championship in Ningbo.[5] The following month, Hovhannisyan tied for first place with Dariusz Świercz in the World Junior Chess Championship in Chennai, placing second on tiebreak.[6][7] 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.[8] In 2013 he won the 6th Karen Asrian Memorial in Jermuk.[9][10]

In 2015 Hovhannisyan tied for first with Alexei Shirov in the 5th Riga Technical University Open in Riga, finishing second on tiebreak.[11] Hovhannisyan won this tournament three years later.[12]

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