Smbat Lputian Explained

Smbat Lputian
Full Name:Smbat Gariginovich Lputian
Country:Soviet Union (until 1992)
Armenia (since 1992)[1]
Birth Date:14 February 1958
Birth Place:Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Grandmaster (1984)
Peakrating:2640 (January 2005)
Peakranking:No. 17 (January 1989)[2]
Fideid:13300024

Smbat Gariginovich Lputian (also transliterated as Lputyan; Armenian: Սմբատ Լպուտյան; born 14 February 1958) is an Armenian chess grandmaster.

Chess career

He was first at the tournament in Berlin in 1982, shared first place at Athens and at Irkutsk in 1983, first at Sarajevo in 1985 and at Irkutsk in 1986, shared first at Hastings in 1986–87, and first at Dortmund in 1988. He won the Armenian Championship in 1978, 1980, 1998, and 2001.[3] 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.[4] Smbat Lputyan has been the founder-president of Chess Academy of Armenia since 2002.[5]

Lputian earned the International Master (IM) title in 1982 and the Grandmaster (GM) title in 1984.[6]

In December 2009, he was awarded the title of "Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia".[7]

On the July 2009 FIDE list, his Elo rating is 2574. His handle on the Internet Chess Club is "SM".[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: FIDE rating history :: Lputian, Smbat G.. OlimpBase.
  2. Web site: FIDE Rating List :: January 1989. OlimpBase.
  3. Web site: All Champions of Armenia . Armchess.am . 16 December 2011.
  4. Web site: Olympiad R13 Armenia and Ukraine take Gold . 2006-06-05 . ChessBase . 22 March 2011.
  5. Web site: Chess Academy of Armenia . www.chessacademy.am.
  6. Book: Gaige, Jeremy . Jeremy Gaige . 1987 . Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography . McFarland . 0-7864-2353-6 . 257 .
  7. Web site: High Titles of Olympic Champions . 2011-12-16 . Armchess . 19 December 2009.
  8. Web site: SM . Internet Chess Club . 3 March 2011.