Hrant Melkumyan
| Hrant Melkumyan | |
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 Hrant Melkumyan, 2011 |
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| Full name | Հրանտ Մելքումյան |
| Country |  Armenia |
| Born | April 30, 1989 |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2620 (January 2012) (No. 178 on the November 2011 FIDE ratings list) |
| Peak rating | 2619 (September 2011) |
Hrant Melkumyan (Armenian: Հրանտ Մելքումյան; born April 30, 1989) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster and European Blitz Champion in 2011.
[edit] Chess career
He won the international Internet championship organized by the ICC chess Internet portal. In 2006, he won the U18 silver medal at the World Youth Chess Championship.[1] In 2009, he tied for 1st–5th with Sergey Volkov, Andrey Rychagov, Andrei Deviatkin and Zhou Weiqi in the Chigorin Memorial.[2] In 2010, tied for 1st–8th with Sergey Volkov, Viorel Iordachescu, Eduardo Iturrizaga, Gadir Guseinov, David Arutinian, Aleksej Aleksandrov and Tornike Sanikidze in the 12th Dubai Open.[3] In 2011, he tied for 2nd–4th with Borki Predojević and Mircea Pârligras in 41st International Bosna Tournament in Sarajevo;[4] tied for 1st–2nd with Baadur Jobava in the Lake Sevan tournament in Martuni and finished second on tie-break;[5] tied for 3rd–15th in the open section of the 15th Corsican Circuit.[6] In December 2011 Melkumyan tied for 1st–3rd with Alexei Dreev and Radoslaw Wojtaszek in the European Blitz Chess Championship and won the event on tie-break.[7] In January 2012 he won the 2nd Armenian Chess960 Championship[8] and in February 2012 tied for 4th–8th with Alexander Khalifman, Maxim Rodshtein, Fabiano Caruana and Dmitry Andreikin in the 11th Aeroflot Open.[9]
On the November 2011 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2615. His handle on the Internet Chess Club is "Pchyolka".[10]
[edit] References
- ^ Official homepage of the 2006 WYCC
- ^ "M.Chigorin Memorial 2009". World Chess Federation. http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=46419. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ "Tournament report July 2010: 12th Dubai Open 2010". World Chess Federation. http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=51596. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ "41st International Tournament Bosna 2011". Chess-Results.com. 2011-05-12. http://chess-results.com/tnr48745.aspx?art=4&lan=1&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=1000. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
- ^ Nadanian, Ashot (2011-08-02). "Lake Sevan 2011 - Jobava wins volcanic event". ChessBase.com. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7426. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
- ^ "15th Corsican Circuit – final Anand vs Mamedyarov on Monday". ChessBase. 2011-10-31. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7641. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
- ^ "GM Hrant Melkumyan is 2011 European Blitz Champion". Chessdom. 2011-12-17. http://www.chessdom.com/gm-hrant-melkumyan-is-2011-european-blitz-champion. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ "Hrant Melkumyan becomes Armenia’s Chess 960 champion of 2012". PanArmenian.net. 2012-01-28. http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/90416/Hrant_Melkumyan_becomes_Armenias_Chess_960_champion_of_2012. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
- ^ "Aeroflot Open – Mateusz Bartel comes out on top". ChessBase.com. 2012-02-16. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7922. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
- ^ "Pchyolka". Internet Chess Club. http://www.chessclub.com/finger/Pchyolka. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
[edit] External links
- Hrant Melkumyan player profile at ChessGames.com
- Rating data
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