Arshak Petrosian

Arshak Petrosian, Warsaw 2013
Association	Armenia
Born	December 16, 1953 Yerevan
title	International Master (1978) Grand Master (1984)
Current  Elo rating	2475 (July 2020)
Best Elo rating	2514 (July 1999)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Arshak Petrosian Bagrati ( Armenian Արշակ Բագրատի Պետրոսյան in scientific transliteration Aršak Bagrati Petrosyan * 16th December 1953 in Yerevan ) is a Soviet - Armenian chess player who works primarily as a trainer since the 1990s. He is not closely related to the late world chess champion Tigran Petrosyan . The world chess federation FIDE has it under the English transcription Arshak Petrosian.

Life

Arshak Petrosyan became champion of the Armenian SSR in 1974 and 1976 . In 1978 he received the title of International Master , and since 1984 he has held the FIDE Grand Master title . Petrosyan has been the coach of the Armenian national team for many years. At the 1992 Chess Olympiad (in which Armenia reached third place) and 1996 he also played as a substitute player, also at the 1993 World Team Championship and the 1999 European Team Championship . At the 2006 Chess Olympiad in Turin he was the captain (equivalent to the coach) of the victorious Armenian team around Levon Aronjan . He has been FIDE Senior Trainer since 2004.

Assak Petrosjan's daughter Sofia has been married to Péter Lékó since September 2000 , so that Petrosjan is not only coach and second , but also father-in-law of the top Hungarian player and 2004 World Cup finalist.

Petrosjan is listed as inactive by FIDE because he has not played an Elo- rated game since the 2000/01 season of the NRW Oberliga .

In Germany, Petrosjan played in the 1990s first for the Lübeck chess club from 1873 , later for the SF Dortmund-Brackel.

See also

• List of masters of the Armenian SSR in chess

Web links

Commons : Arshak Petrosian  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Replayable chess games by Arshak Petrosian on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ALL CHAMPIONS OF ARMENIA ( Memento from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Armenian Chess Federation
2. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 93.
3. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 78.
4. ↑ Arshak Petrosjan's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Arshak Petrosjan's results at the team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Arshak Petrosjan's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ^ DWZ evaluation of the 2nd Bundesliga North 1992/93 at the German Chess Federation
8. ^ DWZ evaluation of the NRW Oberliga 2000/01 at the German Chess Federation