Smbat Lputian
Armenian chess grandmaster (born 1958)
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Smbat Gariginovich Lputian (also transliterated as Lputyan; Armenian: Սմբատ Լպուտյան; born 14 February 1958) is an Armenian chess grandmaster.[3]
Armenia (since 1992)[1]
Lputian in Heraklion, 2007 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Smbat Gariginovich Lputian |
| Born | 14 February 1958 Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Soviet Union (until 1992) Armenia (since 1992)[1] |
| Title | Grandmaster (1984) |
| FIDE rating | 2574 (April 2026) |
| Peak rating | 2640 (January 2005) |
| Peak ranking | No. 17 (January 1989)[2] |
Chess career
He was first at the tournament in Berlin in 1982,[4] shared first place at Athens and at Irkutsk in 1983,[5] first at Sarajevo in 1985 and at Irkutsk in 1986,[6] shared first at Hastings in 1986–87,[7] and first at Dortmund in 1988.[citation needed] He won the Armenian Championship in 1978, 1980, 1998, and 2001.[8] In 2006, he won a team gold medal (together with Levon Aronian, Vladimir Akopian, Karen Asrian, Gabriel Sargissian and Artashes Minasian) at the 37th Chess Olympiad.[9] Smbat Lputyan has been the founder-president of Chess Academy of Armenia since 2002.[10]
Lputian earned the International Master (IM) title in 1982 and the Grandmaster (GM) title in 1984.[3]
In December 2009, he was awarded the title of "Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia".[11]
On the July 2009 FIDE list, his Elo rating is 2574. His handle on the Internet Chess Club is "SM".[12]
