Sergey Grigoriants

This article is about the Russian chess player. For the Soviet and Russian political activist, see Sergei Grigoryants.

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mikhailovich and the family name is Grigoriants.

Sergey Mikhailovich Grigoriants (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Григорьянц; born 2 November 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster who represents Hungary.

Sergey Grigoriants
Grigoriants in 2008
Country	Russia (until 2022) Hungary (since 2022)
Born	(1983-11-02) 2 November 1983 (age 41) Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR
Title	Grandmaster (2003)
FIDE rating	2552 (April 2025)
Peak rating	2606 (August 2015)

Chess career

Grigoriants won the U14 section of the World Youth Championships in 1997 and the U16 section of the European Youth Championships in 1999.^[1] In 2004, he shared first place with Evgeny Najer, Kaido Külaots, Artyom Timofeev, Zoltan Gyimesi and Oleg Korneev in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open tournament.^[2] The following year, Grigoriants attained the title of Moscow Champion.

In 2006 he scored 7 points out of 10 games, a half point less than the winner, at the 22nd Open tournament in Cappelle-la-Grande.^[3]

In 2018 he married the Hungarian chess player Petra Papp.^[4]