Tigran L. Petrosian

Tigran L. Petrosian
This article is about the chess grandmaster born in 1984. For the chess world champion, see Tigran Petrosian.
Tigran L. Petrosian
Full name Tigran L. Petrosian
Country Armenia
Born September 17, 1984 (1984-09-17) (age 27)
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2604 (November 2010)[1]
Peak rating 2629 (October 2008)

Tigran L. Petrosian (Armenian: Տիգրան Պետրոսյան; born September 17, 1984) is an Armenian chess player who holds the title of grandmaster (2002). His first name was deliberately chosen by his father to match the name of the former world champion Tigran V. Petrosian who was also of Armenian descent. It happened that, when the late Tigran won the world title, Tigran's father dreamt that if he ever had a son he would call him Tigran.[2]

Petrosian learned chess at the age of five. He received coaching from Gagik Sargissian and Melikset Khachiyan before entering a chess academy in 2002, where he was occasionally instructed by GM Arsen Yegiazarian and IM Ashot Nadanian. He achieved his grandmaster title by scoring norms at the under 18 World Championship in 2002, the Batumi Open in 2003, and the Aeroflot Open in Moscow in 2004.[3] In the same year he tied for 2nd-3rd with Zhao Jun in the World Junior Chess Championship in Kochi, India.[4] In 2005, he tied for first in Tehran, Kish and Lausanne; in 2006 tied for first in Lyon and Dubai; in 2008 tied for first in Wheeling and Las Vegas.[5] In the same year he won a team gold medal (together with Levon Aronian, Vladimir Akopian, Gabriel Sargissian and Artashes Minasian) at the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden.[6] In 2011, Petrosian tied for 1st-3rd with Marat Dzhumaev and Anton Filippov in the Georgy Agzamov Memorial in Tashkent and won the event on tie-break.[7] In the same year he tied for 2nd-4th with Abhijeet Gupta and Magesh Panchanathan in the 3rd Orissa International GM Open Chess Tournament[8] and came first in the 31st Villa de Benasque Open.[9] He plays on the Internet Chess Club (ICC) under the pseudonym "Tigrano".

In December 2009, he was awarded the title of "Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia".[10]

References

  1. ^ FIDE card for Petrosian
  2. ^ "Armenia revels in its chess prowess". BBC News. 2009-09-26. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8275099.stm. Retrieved 2010-05-25. 
  3. ^ Savinov, Misha. "Interview with Tigran L. Petrosian". chesscafe.com. http://www.chesscafe.com/text/misha19.pdf. Retrieved 2009-08-26. 
  4. ^ "World Juniors Champ.". FIDE. http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=29392. Retrieved 7 May 2011. 
  5. ^ "Tigran L. Petrosian". Armenian Chess Players. http://armenianchessplayers.blogspot.com/2009/09/tigran-l-petrosian.html. Retrieved 19 December 2009. 
  6. ^ "Olympiad Dresden 2008 Open". Chess-Results.com. 2009-02-05. http://chess-results.com/tnr16314.aspx?art=20&lan=1&flag=30&m=-1&wi=1000&snr=9. Retrieved 22 March 2011. 
  7. ^ "Georgy Agzamov Memorial". Chessdom. http://www.chessdom.com/news-2011/georgy-agzamov-memorial. Retrieved 26 March 2011. 
  8. ^ "GM Aleksej Aleksandrov victorious in Orissa". Chessdom. http://tournaments.chessdom.com/news-2011/aleksandrov-orissa-international-gm-open. Retrieved 7 June 2011. 
  9. ^ "Tigran Petrosian Victorious in Benasque Open". Chessdom. http://tournaments.chessdom.com/news-2011/benasque-open. Retrieved 17 July 2011. 
  10. ^ "High Titles of Olympic Champions". Armchess. 2009-12-19. http://www.armchess.am/. Retrieved 19 December 2009. 

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