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Sergey Grigoriants

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Sergey Grigoriants
Grigoriants in 2008
CountryRussia (until 2022)
Hungary (since 2022)
Born (1983-11-02) 2 November 1983 (age 41)
Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR
TitleGrandmaster (2003)
FIDE rating2531 (November 2024)
Peak rating2606 (August 2015)

Sergey Mikhailovich Grigoriants (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Григорьянц; born 2 November 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster who represents Hungary.

Chess career

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Grigoriants won the U14 section of the World Youth Championships in 1997 and the U16 section of the European Youth Championships in 1999.[1] In 2004, he shared first place with Evgeny Najer, Kaido Külaots, Artyom Timofeev, Zoltan Gyimesi and Oleg Korneev in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open tournament.[2] The following year, Grigoriants attained the title of Moscow Champion.

In 2006 he scored 7 points out of 10 games, a half point less than the winner, at the 22nd Open tournament in Cappelle-la-Grande.[3]

In 2018 he married the Hungarian chess player Petra Papp.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Crowther, Mark (13 September 1999). "TWIC 253: European Youth Championships". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  2. ^ Crowther, Mark (8 March 2004). "TWIC 487: Cappelle-la-Grande open". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  3. ^ Cappelle op 22nd, www.365chess.com
  4. ^ Ещё одна шахматная семья: поженились Сергей Григорьянц и Петра Папп (Another chess family: Sergei Grigoriants and Petra Papp are married), chess-news.ru, 20 June 2018
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