Full name Արսեն Եղիազարյան Role Chess Player Country Armenia | Title Grandmaster Name Arsen Yegiazarian | |
Born June 18, 1970 (age 53)
Yerevan, Armenia ( 1970-06-18 ) | ||
Arsen Yegiazarian (Armenian: Արսեն Եղիազարյան, born June 18, 1970 in Yerevan) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster (2000) and FIDE Senior Trainer (2011).
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Career
Yegiazarian graduated from the Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture in 1992. He became a Grandmaster in chess in 2000. Yegiazarian had won the Armenian Youth Championship in 1984 and 1988 in the under-18 group and came in third place in at the senior Armenian Chess Championship in 1998 and 2000. The Yerevan city chess club, which included Yegiazarian, won the 1995 European Chess Club Cup. Yegiazarian won the international tournament in Tbilisi 2001 and came in first place at Batumi that same year. In 2005, he came in first place at the Aeroflot Open section of the A2 Tournament.
He competed at the Chess Olympiads in 1994 and 1996.
Yegiazarian was coach of Armenian men national chess team in 1998 and, in 2000, became coach of the Armenian women national team. Since 2002, he has been working at the Yerevan Chess House as a trainer. Yegiazarian was named a FIDE Senior Trainer in 2011.