YEREVAN, OCTOBER 3, ARMENPRESS. Armenian GM Karen Grigoryan and WFM Maria Gevorgyan are going to participate in the World Junior Chess Championships to be held on October 6-19, 2014 in Pune, India. “Armenpress” reports about this citing Armchess.am.

Pune is all geared up to host this prestigious and second most important Chess tournament in the World from 5thOctober to 20th October at Hotel Hyatt.

More than 125 players in the open category and over 75 girls from over 45 countries have confirmed participation. A special feature of this edition will be that both the Open and Women's section will boast of players featuring in the top hundred in the World and will include six super Grandmasters (Above ELO 2600) apart from Grandmasters, International Masters. Vladimir Fedoseev (2677) and Alexandra Goryachkina (2430) from Russia are the top seeds in the open and girls category respectively. Vidit Gujrathi ranked sixth and Padmini Rout ranked third in the WJCC 2014 rankings will spearhead the Indian challenge in the Open and Girls category.

Karen H. Grigoryan is an Armenian chess Grandmaster. On the November 2013 FIDE list, he was ranked number 211 in the world, number 9 in Armenia and had an Elo rating of 2604. He is the Chess Champion of Armenia with 9½/13 (2013).

He became a Chess Grandmaster in May 2013 during the Presidential Board Meeting in Baku. He was the Armenian U14 Champion (2008); European U16 Champion (2010), the winner of the G. Kasparyan Memorial – Young Masters 2010; the 2011 Youth Stars Tournament; the Armenian Championship 2011, the Albena Open (2012), the Open Internacional Escacs Vila de Sitges in July 2013.