Hrant Slavayi Melkumyan (; born April 30, 1989, in
Yerevan
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) is an Armenian
chess
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Grandmaster and European Blitz Champion in 2011.
Chess career
He won the international Internet championship organized by the
ICC chess Internet portal. In 2006, he won the U18 silver medal at the
World Youth Chess Championship. In 2009, he tied for 1st–5th with
Sergey Volkov,
Andrey Rychagov,
Andrei Deviatkin, and
Zhou Weiqi in the
Chigorin Memorial. In 2010, tied for 1st–8th with
Sergey Volkov,
Viorel Iordăchescu,
Eduardo Iturrizaga,
Gadir Guseinov,
David Arutinian,
Aleksej Aleksandrov, and
Tornike Sanikidze in the 12th Dubai Open. In 2011, he tied for 2nd–4th with
Borki Predojević and
Mircea Pârligras in 41st International Bosna Tournament in
Sarajevo
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; tied for 1st–2nd with
Baadur Jobava in the Lake Sevan tournament in
Martuni and finished second on tie-break; tied for 3rd–15th in the open section of the 15th Corsican Circuit. In December 2011 Melkumyan tied for 1st–3rd with
Alexey Dreev and
Radosław Wojtaszek in the European Blitz Chess Championship and won the event on tie-break. In January 2012 he won the 2nd Armenian
Chess960 Championship and in February 2012 tied for 4th–8th with
Alexander Khalifman,
Maxim Rodshtein,
Fabiano Caruana, and
Dmitry Andreikin in the 11th
Aeroflot Open. In 2013 he tied for 1st–8th with
Alexander Moiseenko,
Evgeny Romanov,
Alexander G Beliavsky,
Constantin Lupulescu,
Francisco Vallejo Pons,
Sergei Movsesian
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...
,
Ian Nepomniachtchi,
Alexey Dreev, and
Evgeny Alekseev in the
European Individual Chess Championship. On February 21, 2014, Melkumyan won the Casino Graz International held in Graz, Austria. In June 2014, he won International Chess Tournament Teplice Open in Czech Republic. On July 12, 2014, Melkumyan won the XXXIV Open International Villa de Benasque held in Benasque, Spain. In August 2014, he won the
Riga Technical University Open with a score of 7,5/9. In 2017, he shared 1st–3rd places with
Gabriel Sargissian and
Sebastien Maze in 9th CSC London Chess Classic FIDE Open.
His handle on the
Internet Chess Club is "Pchyolka".
and he currently resides in Canberra, Australia.
References
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1989 births
Living people
Armenian chess players
Chess Grandmasters
Chess players from Yerevan
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