Smbat Lputian

For other people with the same name, see Smbat (disambiguation).
Smbat Lputian

Smbat Lputian, Heraklion 2007
Full name Smbat Gariginovich Lputian
Country  Armenia
Born (1958-02-14) 14 February 1958
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2574 (December 2016)
(No. 275 on the July 2009 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating 2640 (January 2005)

Smbat Gariginovich Lputian (sometimes transliterated as Lputyan; Armenian: Սմբատ Լպուտյան; born 14 February 1958 in Yerevan) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster.[1] He was first at tournament in Berlin 1982, shared first at Athens 1983 and at Irkutsk 1983, first at Sarajevo 1985 and at Irkutsk 1986, shared first at Hastings 1986-87 and first at Dortmund 1988. He won the Armenian Championship in 1978, 1980, 1998, and 2001.[2] 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.[3] Smbat Lputyan has been the founder-president of Chess Academy of Armenia since 2002.

Smbat Lputian
Medal record
Men's chess
Representing  Armenia
Chess Olympiad
Turin 2006 Open
Bled 2002 Open
Calvià 2004 Open

Lputian earned the International Master (IM) title in 1982 and the GM title in 1984.[1]

In December 2009, he was awarded the title of "Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia".[4]

On the July 2009 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2574. His handle on the Internet Chess Club is "SM".[5]

He has three children he lives with, but also has one daughter who is now living in the United Kingdom with Smbat's first wife. Ani Lputian born on 19/08/92, during the height of Smbat's career.

References

  1. 1 2 Gaige, Jeremy (1987). Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography. McFarland. p. 257. ISBN 0-7864-2353-6.
  2. ↑ "All Champions of Armenia". Armchess.am. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  3. ↑ "Olympiad R13 Armenia and Ukraine take Gold". ChessBase. 2006-06-05. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
  4. ↑ "High Titles of Olympic Champions". Armchess. 2011-12-16. Retrieved 19 December 2009.
  5. ↑ "SM". Internet Chess Club. Retrieved 3 March 2011.


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