Zaven Andriasian | |
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Zaven Andriasian, Warsaw 2012
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Country | Armenia |
Born |
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union |
March 11, 1989
Title | Grandmaster (2006) |
FIDE rating | 2615 (February 2017) |
Peak rating | 2645 (March 2011) |
Zaven Andriasian (sometimes transliterated as Andriasyan; Armenian: Զավեն Անդրիասյան; born March 11, 1989 in Yerevan) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster and former World Junior Chess Champion.
He won the 2005 European Youth Chess Championship for under-16 and the 2006 World Junior Chess Championship. The latter victory automatically earned him the title of Grandmaster (GM). In November 2010 he won the Russian Cup Final after defeating Artyom Timofeev in the second game of the final. In January 2012 he came second in the Armenian Chess960 Championship. In December 2012 he shared first with Alexander Kovchan and Sipke Ernst in the Groningen Chess Festival. In 2016 Andriasian won the Armenian Chess Championship.