YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 28, ARMENPRESS. Armenian GM Karen Grigoryan is going to participate in a grandmaster round-robin tournament to be held from November 28 till December 2, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. As reports “Armenpress” citing Armchess website, the rivals of Grigoryan will be GMs Li Chao (China), Balogh Csaba (Hungary), Miguel Illescas, Alvar Alonso, Marc Narcisio (Spain).

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.

The World University Championships (WUC) are part of the sporting events of the International University Sports Federation. Alternating with the Summer and Winter Universiades, they are organised every even-numbered year. The first FISU World University Championship was organised in the city of Lund (SWE) in 1963 and welcomed the best student handball players of the time. 2013 will mark the 50th anniversary of the World University Championships, which will be celebrated throughout the year.