Robert Hovhannisyan ( hy, Ռոբերտ Հովհաննիսյան; born 23 March 1991) is an

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player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by

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in 2010. In January 2011, Hovhannisyan won the 71st

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. In July he was a member of the gold-medal winning Armenian team at the

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. The following month, Hovhannisyan tied for first place with

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in the

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, placing second on tiebreak. In November, he played again on the Armenian team in the

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, in which his team finished fourth. In January 2012, Hovhannisyan took second place in the Armenian championship. In 2013 he won the 6th

Karen Asrian Karen Asrian ( hy, Կարեն Ասրյան; 24 April 1980 – 9 June 2008) was an Armenian chess player. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1998, he was a three-time Armenian champion. Asrian was a member of the gold medal-winning Arme ...

Memorial in

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. In 2015 Hovhannisyan tied for first with

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in the 5th

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, finishing second on tiebreak. Hovhannisyan won this tournament three years later.

References

External links

Robert Hovhannisyan
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team chess record at Olimpbase.org 1991 births Living people Chess grandmasters Armenian chess players Sportspeople from Yerevan {{Armenia-chess-bio-stub