Smbat Lputian

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

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
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (1984)
FIDE rating2574 (June 2024)
Peak rating2640 (January 2005)
Peak rankingNo. 17 (January 1989)[2]
Medal record
Men's chess
Representing  Armenia
Chess Olympiad
Turin 2006Open
Bled 2002Open
Calvià 2004Open

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. 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. 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.
  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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