Georgy Arzumanian (born August 16, 1981 in
Tbilisi
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) is a Georgian-Armenian
chess
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grandmaster. Since 2009 he has the title
grandmaster.
Biography
He was born in 1981 in
Georgian SSR
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and achieved his peak ranking in 2009 at 2504.
Georgy Arzumanian lives in
Ukraine
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.
In October 2005 he won in
Charkov with 7.5 points out of 11 games the ''Femida 2005'' chess tournament.
In Ukraine he played for the chess team of the Law University in Charkov. With this team he won in 2007 the sixth championship for university teams, which was held in
Istanbul
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. In Germany he plays since 2015 for ''Schachclub Siegburg''.
He attained the title
International Master
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(IM) in 2001. Norms for the title
grandmaster (GM) he fulfilled in January 2007 at the ''Stek-Friday tournament'' in
Tula, in October 2005 at the ''Femida 2005'' tournament in Charkov and in November 2006 at the second Memorial tournament in Tula, which was held to honour the late grandmaster
Alexei Suetin
Alexey Stepanovich Suetin (; November 16, 1926 – September 10, 2001) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster and author. He was the World Senior Chess Champion from 1996 to 1997.
Biography
A resident of Minsk (in 1953-1968), a mechan ...
who had died in 2001. The Suetin Memorial was won by Arzumanian. The request for receiving the GM title was filed in November 2007. Granting the title took place after Arzumanian's
Elo rating
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The Elo system wa ...
had fulfilled the requirement of passing 2500, which happened in January 2009.
request for granting the GM title
ratings.fide.com
External links
Georgy Arzumanian at 365chess.com
FIDE card of Georgy Arzumanian
References
Chess Grandmasters
Living people
1981 births
Chess players from Georgia (country)
Armenian chess players
Chess players from Tbilisi
Austrian chess players
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