Artashes Minasian
Armenian chess grandmaster (born 1967)
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Artashes Minasian (also transliterated as Minasyan; Armenian: Արտաշես Մինասյան; born 21 January 1967) is an Armenian chess grandmaster. He tied for first in the 1991 USSR Chess Championship and is a six-time Armenian Chess Champion.
Minasian at the 2008 Chess Olympiad | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 January 1967 |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Armenia |
| Title | Grandmaster (1992)[1] |
| FIDE rating | 2460 (May 2026) |
| Peak rating | 2620 (July 1998)[1] |
| Peak ranking | No. 52 (July 1998) |
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).[2] Minasian won the Armenian Chess Championship six times, in 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2004 and 2006.[3] He also won the final USSR Chess Championship in 1991[4] and New York open championship in 1998.[5]
He achieved a peak rating of 2620 in July 1998.[1]
In December 2009, he was awarded the title of Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia.[6]
