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Full name
  
Artashes Minasian

Role
  
Chess Player

Country
  
Armenia

FIDE rating
  
2488

Title
  
Grandmaster

Peak rating
  
2620

Name
  
Artashes Minasian


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Born
  
21 January 1967 (age 57) Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (
1967-01-21
)

Artashes Minasian (sometimes transliterated as Minasyan; Armenian: Արտաշես Մինասյան; born 21 January 1967) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster.

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Chess career

He participated in eight Chess Olympiads with a record of +23 −12 =28. In 2006 the Armenian team took the first place at the 37th Chess Olympiad. Along with himself, the team consisted of Levon Aronian, Vladimir Akopian, Karen Asrian, Smbat Lputian, Gabriel Sargissian). Minasian won the Armenian Chess Championship six times, in 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2004 and 2006. He also won the final USSR Chess Championship in 1991 and New York open championship in 1998.

In December 2009, he was awarded the title of Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia.

Notable chess games

  • Kateryna Lahno vs Artashes Minasian, 6th Aeroflot Festival 2007, Caro-Kann Defense: Classical Variation (B18), 0-1
  • Artashes Minasian vs Tigran Nalbandian, Armenian Championship 2008, Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Modern Variation (A01), 1–0
  • Artashes Minasian vs Loek Van Wely, Philadelphia 1994, Pirc Defense: Byrne Variation (B07), 1-0
  • References

    Artashes Minasian Wikipedia