Tigran Gharamian (, born 24 July 1984) is an Armenian-French

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grandmaster. He won the

French Chess Championship The French Chess Championship is the annual, national chess tournament of France. It was officially first played in 1923 after the formation of the ''Fédération Française des Echecs'' in 1921. The first unofficial national tournament was played i ...

in 2018.

Chess career

Gharamian played for Armenia in the Children's Chess Olympiads of 1999 and 2000. He came first at Fourmies 2007 and

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2007. In 2010 he tied for 1st–3rd with

Vadim Malakhatko Vadim Volodymyrovych Malakhatko (; 22 March 1977 – 5 June 2023) was a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the 2001 World Team Chess Championship. In 2000, he won with the Ukrainian team ...

and

Deep Sengupta Deep Sengupta (born 30 June 1988) is an Indian chess player. He is India's 22nd player to be awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE. Sengupta competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2017. Career Born in Chakradharpur, Sengupta started chess with ...

in the 24th Open Pierre and Vacances. In 2011 he won the

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Open and tied for 2nd–4th with Alexander Kovchan, Boris Grachev and Ante Brkić in the Open Master Tournament in

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. Gharamian tied for 1st–5th with

Pentala Harikrishna Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is an Indian chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster. He achieved a peak world ranking of 10 in November 2016, and a peak Elo rating system, Elo rating of 2770 in December 2016. On 17 August 2001, he bec ...

Parimarjan Negi Parimarjan Negi (born 9 February 1993) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 20 days, which made him the second youngest grandmaster in history at the time. he is the ninth you ...

, Tornike Sanikidze and

Martyn Kravtsiv Martyn Kravtsiv (; born 26 November 1990) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013. Career Kravtsiv was taught how to play chess on his sixth birthday by his father. Later, he trained at the Lviv Chess Club ...

in the

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2012. He won the

in 2018.Gharamian topped playoff over Edouard & Gozzoli to win French Chess Championship
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* 1984 births Living people Chess players from Yerevan Chess Grandmasters Armenian chess players French chess players {{france-chess-bio-stub Naturalized citizens of France