Gabriel Sargissian

Infobox chess player
playername = Gabriel Sarkisyan


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birthname = Գաբրիել Ազատի Սարգսյան
country = ARM
datebirth = birth date and age|1983|2|3
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title = Grandmaster
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womensworldchampion =
rating = 2660
(No. 61 on the July 2008 FIDE ratings list)
peakrating = 2676 (January 2008)

Gabriel Sarkisyan (Armenian Գաբրիել Ազատի Սարգսյան, other transcriptions of the name are "Sarkissian" and "Sarkissyan," the transliteration is "Gabriel Sargsyan;" born 03 February 1983) is an Armenian chess player and International Grandmaster of Chess (2002). The FIDE lists him as Gabriel Sargissian.

Sargissian is the winner of the World Youth Chess Championship (under-14) in 1996 and the European Championship (under-16) in 1998 [ [http://www.chessgiants.am/index.php?Page=Sargissian&Lang=1 Chess Giants] ] . He won the Armenian Chess Championship in 2000 and 2003. Also, he was victorious at the tournaments of Reykjavik (2006) and Dubai (2006). After this he took the first place at the 37th Chess Olympiad (together with Levon Aronian, Vladimir Akopian, Karen Asrian, Smbat Lputian, and Artashes Minasian). In 2007 he won the Ruy Lopez Festival (Zafra, Spain, March 16-25) [ [http://www.chessvibes.com/tournaments/lang_nlsargissian-scoort-tpr-van-3021lang_nllang_ensargissian-scores-3021-performancelang_en/ Sargissian scores 3021 performance] ] finishing with 6.5/7, a point-and-a-half above the rest including in particular super players Ponomariov, Sasikiran, I. Sokolov.

On the October 2008 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2642.

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* [http://www.olimpbase.org/players/eugq0mmj.html OlimpBase]
* [http://chess.vrsac.com/search/player_e.asp?FC=13300881 Rating data]
* [http://www.coruschess.com/participants.php?year=2008&group=2&bio=4 Biography of Gabriel Sargissian]