Smbat Lputian
Armenian chess player
Smbat Garegini Lputian (also transliterated as Lputyan; Armenian: Սմբատ Լպուտյան; born 14 February 1958) is an Armenian chess grandmaster.
Chess career
He was first at the tournament in Berlin in 1982, shared first place at Athens and at Irkutsk in 1983, first at Sarajevo in 1985 and at Irkutsk in 1986, shared first at Hastings in 1986–87, and first at Dortmund in 1988. He won the Armenian Championship in 1978, 1980, 1998, and 2001. 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.
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.
In December 2009, he was awarded the title of "Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia".
On the July 2009 FIDE list, his Elo rating is 2574. His handle on the Internet Chess Club is "SM".
References
Bibliography
Felice, Gino Di (25 August 2022a).
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