Haik Mikaeli Martirosyan ( hy, Հայկ Միքայելի Մարտիրոսյան; born 14 July 2000) is an

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player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by

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in 2017. he is the second-highest rated Armenian player.

Career

Martirosyan won the

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in the Under 16 category in 2016. In 2017 he played for the World team that won the Match of the Millennials in

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, US scoring 4 points from 7 games. In 2018, he won the

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and played for the Armenian team in the

43rd Chess Olympiad The 43rd Chess Olympiad ( ka, 43-ე საჭადრაკო ოლიმპიადა, ''43-e sach’adrak’o olimp’iada''; also known as the Batumi Chess Olympiad), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and c ...

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with a performance rating of 2708. Later in the same year, he also won the

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edging out

Rasmus Svane Rasmus Svane (born 21 May 1997) is a German chess grandmaster. He has represented Germany at the European Team Chess Championship and Chess Olympiad. He is the No. 8 ranked German player as of July 2020. Personal life Svane was born in Allerød ...

, S. L. Narayanan,

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and

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. In February 2019, Martirosyan shared first place with

Kaido Külaots Kaido Külaots (born 28 February 1976) is an Estonian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2001. He has won the Estonian Chess Championship in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014 and 2020. Külaots has represe ...

in the

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, finishing second on tiebreak. Martirosyan entered the

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as the 59th seed. He defeated GM

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in the rapid tiebreaks for round 3, and advanced to round 5 after defeating GM

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in round 4. He was eliminated in round five by GM

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