Lilit Mkrtchian ( hy, Լիլիթ Մկրտչյան; born 9 August 1982) is an

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player. She holds the titles of

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(IM) and

Woman Grandmaster FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

(WGM), which

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awarded her in 2003 and 1998 respectively. Mkrtchian is a four-time Armenian women's chess champion. In 2002, Mkrtchian won the

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in the European Individual Women's Championship in

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, scoring 8½/11 points. She participated in the Women's

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2003 in

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, Bulgaria, helping

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to win the

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. Mkrtchian took the

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at the 7th European Women's Individual Championship 2006 held in

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, Turkey, scoring 7½/11 points. In the 2009 edition she tied with

Tatiana Kosintseva Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva (russian: Татьяна Анатольевна Косинцева; born 11 April 1986) is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. Kosintseva is a two-time European women's c ...

for first place scoring 8½/11 and took silver after losing the playoff. In December 2009, she took tenth position in the list of best sportspeople of Armenia in 2009. In 2013, she came third at the European Women's Individual Championship. In the 2015 Women's

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(China) Mkrtchian won the individual gold medal on the second board.Board results
FIDE Women's World Team Chess Championship 2015.

References

External links

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Grandmaster Games Database - Lilit Mkrtchian

team chess record at Olimpbase.org
Interview

Press Conference with Lilit Mkrtchian
1982 births Living people Chess International Masters Chess woman grandmasters Armenian female chess players Armenian chess players Place of birth missing (living people) {{Armenia-chess-bio-stub