Smbat Lputian
| Smbat Lputian | ||||||||||||||||||||
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 Lputian in Heraklion, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Smbat Gariginovich Lputian | |||||||||||||||||||
| Country |  Armenia | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 February 1958 Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR | |||||||||||||||||||
| Title | Grandmaster | |||||||||||||||||||
| FIDE rating | 2574 (February 2022) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Peak rating | 2640 (January 2005) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ranking | No. 275 (July 2009 FIDE) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Smbat Gariginovich Lputian (sometimes transliterated as Lputyan; Armenian: Սմբատ Լպուտյան; born 14 February 1958 in Yerevan) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster.[1] He was first at tournament in Berlin 1982, shared first at Athens 1983 and at Irkutsk 1983, first at Sarajevo 1985 and at Irkutsk 1986, shared first at Hastings 1986–87 and first at Dortmund 1988. He won the Armenian Championship in 1978, 1980, 1998, and 2001.[2] 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.[3] Smbat Lputyan has been the founder-president of Chess Academy of Armenia since 2002.
Lputian earned the International Master (IM) title in 1982 and the Grandmaster (GM) title in 1984.[1]
In December 2009, he was awarded the title of "Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia".[4]
On the July 2009 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2574. His handle on the Internet Chess Club is "SM".[5]
He has three children he lives with, but also has one daughter who is now living in the United Kingdom with Smbat's first wife. Ani Lputian born on 19 August 1992, during the height of Smbat's career.
References[]
- ^ a b Gaige, Jeremy (1987). Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography. McFarland. p. 257. ISBN 0-7864-2353-6.
- ^ "All Champions of Armenia". Armchess.am. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
- ^ "Olympiad R13 Armenia and Ukraine take Gold". ChessBase. 5 June 2006. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
- ^ "High Titles of Olympic Champions". Armchess. 16 December 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2009.
- ^ "SM". Internet Chess Club. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
External links[]
Media related to Smbat Lputian at Wikimedia Commons
- Smbat G. Lputian rating card at FIDE
- Smbat Lputian player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Smbat Lputian at Grandmaster Games Database (redhotpawn.com)
- Smbat Lputian Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org
- Interview with GM Smbat Lputian at Chessdom.com (24 March 2010) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-03-28)
- 1958 births
- Living people
- Armenian chess players
- Chess grandmasters
- Chess Olympiad competitors
- Sportspeople from Yerevan