Tigran Kotanjian Explained

Tigran Kotanjian (Armenian: Տիգրան Քոթանջյան; born September 1, 1981)^[1] is an Armenian chess grandmaster.^[2] He was Armenian Chess Champion in 2014.

Career

Kotanjian won the Dubai Chess Open in 2009^[3] and Karen Asrian Memorial in 2010. In 2011, he tied for 2nd–3rd with Kirill Stupak in the 4th Beirut Open tournament.^[4] In the same year he won the 4th Karen Asrian Memorial in Jermuk.^[5] He won the 74th Armenian Chess Championship in 2014.^[6]

He received his International Master title in 2003 and Grandmaster title in 2006.^[7], he is the No. 22 ranked Armenian player.^[8]

Web site: Ratings of Chess Players of Armenia by November 1, 2009. MIKA Chess Club. 19 December 2009. 6 July 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706072805/http://www.mikacc.am/ratings/2009-2/index7b41.htm. dead.
http://www.chessgames.com/player/tigran_kotanjian.html "The chess games of Tigran Kotanjian"
http://reports.chessdom.com/news-2009/dubai-chess-open "GM Tigran Kotanjian wins the Dubai open"
Web site: Beirut 4th International Open Chess Championship 2011. 2011-05-22. Chess-Results.com. 24 May 2011.
Web site: 4th Karen Asrian Memorial. Chessdom.com. 28 June 2011. 5 October 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20111005014549/http://tournaments.chessdom.com/news-2011/karen-asrian-memorial. dead.
Web site: Tigran Kotanjian wins Armenia's Chess Championship. 2014-01-21. Aysor.am. 21 January 2014.
http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=13301250 "FIDE Chess Profile: 13300059: Tigran Kotanjian"
http://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml?ina=1&country=ARM "Federations Ranking – Armenia"