Karen Grigoryan becomes winner of Spanish chess championship

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 19, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s current chess champion Karen Grigoryanbecame the winner of Spanish chess championship. “Armenpress” was informed about the latter by the Chess Federation of Armenia. Grandmaster Karen Grigoryanshowed wonderful performance at Madrid open chess championship winning 8 points out of 9 and becoming the sole winner of the championship. Another Grandmaster from Yerevan Robert Hovhannisyan also participated in the championship. The latter won 7 points and shared the 2-7 places.

Karen H. Grigoryan was born 25 February 1995). He 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.