Smbat Lputian

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

Smbat Lputian
Lputian in Heraklion, 2007
Full nameSmbat Gariginovich Lputian
CountrySoviet Union (until 1992)
Armenia (since 1992)[1]
Born (1958-02-14) 14 February 1958 (age 66)
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (1984)
FIDE rating2574 (January 2025)
Peak rating2640 (January 2005)
Peak rankingNo. 17 (January 1989)[2]

Smbat Gariginovich Lputian (also transliterated as Lputyan; Armenian: Սմբատ Լպուտյան; born 14 February 1958) is an Armenian chess grandmaster.[3]

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]

References

  1. ^ "FIDE rating history :: Lputian, Smbat G." OlimpBase.
  2. ^ "FIDE Rating List :: January 1989". OlimpBase.
  3. ^ a b Gaige, Jeremy (1987). Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography. McFarland. p. 257. ISBN 0-7864-2353-6.
  4. ^ Felice 2022a, p. 172.
  5. ^ Felice 2022a, p. 315,351.
  6. ^ Felice 2022b, p. 64.
  7. ^ Felice 2022b, p. 195.
  8. ^ "All Champions of Armenia". Armchess.am. Retrieved 16 December 2011.[dead link‍]
  9. ^ "Olympiad R13 Armenia and Ukraine take Gold". ChessBase. 5 June 2006. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
  10. ^ "Chess Academy of Armenia". www.chessacademy.am.
  11. ^ "High Titles of Olympic Champions". Armchess. 16 December 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2009.
  12. ^ "SM". Internet Chess Club. Retrieved 3 March 2011.

Bibliography

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