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The Chess Academy of Armenia (Հայաստանի շախմատի ակադեմիա) is a leading education institutions of chess in Armenia. It was founded in 2002 by the initiative of Grandmaster Smbat Lputian and supported by then-Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan. The academy has also organized international and national chess tournaments. [71]
In 2002, the Chess Academy of Armenia was opened. The chess house is also serving as the home of the Chess Federation of Armenia. The president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, is the current head of the Chess Federation of Armenia. The building of the chess house is listed among the historic and cultural monuments of the city of Yerevan.
Smbat Lputyan has been the founder-president of Chess Academy of Armenia since 2002. [10] Lputian earned the International Master (IM) title in 1982 and the Grandmaster (GM) title in 1984. [3] In December 2009, he was awarded the title of "Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia". [11] On the July 2009 FIDE list, his Elo rating is 2574.
Since 1970, the federation has been operating in the Yerevan Chess House, which in 1984 was renamed the Tigran Petrosian Chess House. The building is located on Abovyan Street. In 1972, Kasparyan published the Chess in Armenia magazine. The Chess Academy of Armenia was founded in 2002.
Tigran Levoni Petrosian (Armenian: Տիգրան Լևոնի Պետրոսյան; born 17 September 1984) is an Armenian chess player who holds the title of grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 2004. A two-time national champion, he competed in two Chess Olympiads, winning team gold in 2008 and 2012.
Robert Aghasaryan (Armenian: Ռոբերտ Աղասարյան; born 1994 in Yerevan, Armenia) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster (2014). As of June 2018 [update] , he is rated by FIDE as with an Elo rating of 2537, his best until now.
Siranush Andriasian (Armenian: Սիրանուշ Անդրիասյան, born 4 January 1986) is an Armenian chess International Master. She is a three-time Armenian Women Chess Champion and has won a bronze medal at the European Team Chess Championship for Armenia. [1]
Varuzhan Akobian (Armenian: Վարուժան Հակոբյան, born 19 November 1983 in Yerevan, Soviet Union) is an Armenian-born American chess Grandmaster. Originally from Armenia, he now resides in St. Louis. He played on the bronze-medal-winning U.S. team in the 2006 and 2008 Chess Olympiads. [1]