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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 1958, the national team of Armenia took part in the USSR Chess Championship. The federation organizes men and women tournaments every year in the Armenian Chess Championship. The first championship was held in 1934 and the first champion of Armenia was Genrikh Kasparyan, who went on to win the championships a total of 10 times. So far, 75 ...
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.
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.
In July 2023, he won the Qualifier 1 Losers Brackets by defeating Renato Terry, and qualified for the 2023 Bullet Chess Championships on chess.com. [3] In June 2024, he won the silver medal in the U20 World Junior Chess Championships. [ 4 ]
At the under-10 European Youth Chess Championship, Andriasian came in third place. Andriasian won the senior Armenian Chess Championship thrice in 2006, 2007 and 2011. She was also the runner-up in 2004 and 2005. [1] She won a bronze medal with the Armenia women national chess team at the European Team Chess Championship 2007. [3]
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]