Mamikon Gharibyan (; born 21 September 2004) is an

Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...

n chess grandmaster.

Biography

Mamikon Gharibyan started playing chess at the age of six. In 2012, he won the Armenian Youth Chess Championship in the U08 age group, but in 2014 Mamikon Gharibyan was best in the U10 age group. In 2013, he won the international youth chess tournament ''

Nona Gaprindashvili Nona Gaprindashvili ( ka, ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი; born 3 May 1941) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster. Noted for her aggressive style of play, she was the women's world chess champion from 1962 to 1978, and in 1978 ...

cup''. Mamikon Gharibyan repeatedly represented Armenia at the

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s and

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s in different age groups, where he won two gold medals: in 2014, in

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at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U10 age group, and in 2016, in

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at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U12 age group. Gharibyan earned the grandmaster title in 2023.

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chess games at 365Chess.com * 2004 births Living people Armenian chess players Chess Grandmasters Sportspeople from Gyumri {{Armenia-chess-bio-stub