YEREVAN, AUGUST 22, ARMENPRESS. The 13th World University Championship is being held in Katowice, Poland. Armenian chess players Karen Grigoryan, Zaven Andrisian, Tigran S. Petrosyan are participating in the men’s and Maria Gevorgyan in the women’s section.

After five rounds Grigoryan has scored 4 points and is leading together with three other participants.

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.