Robert Hovhannisyan (Armenian: Ռոբերտ Հովհաննիսյան; born 23 March 1991) is an Armenian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2010.[1]
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Country | Armenia |
Born | (1991-03-23) 23 March 1991 (age 31) Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union |
Title | Grandmaster (2010) |
FIDE rating | 2607 (June 2022) |
Peak rating | 2650 (August 2019) |
In January 2011, Hovhannisyan won the 71st Armenian Chess Championship.[2] In July he was a member of the gold-medal winning Armenian team at the World Team Chess Championship in Ningbo.[3] The following month, Hovhannisyan tied for first place with Dariusz Świercz in the World Junior Chess Championship in Chennai, placing second on tiebreak.[4][5] In November, he played again on the Armenian team in the European Team Chess Championship, in which his team finished fourth. In January 2012, Hovhannisyan took second place in the Armenian championship.[6] In 2013 he won the 6th Karen Asrian Memorial in Jermuk.[7][8]
In 2015 Hovhannisyan tied for first with Alexei Shirov in the 5th Riga Technical University Open in Riga, finishing second on tiebreak.[9] Hovhannisyan won this tournament three years later.[10]
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