Melikset Khachiyan

Melikset Khachiyan
Surname	Melikset Khachiyan
Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Armenia (until 2003) United States (from 2003)
Born	July 6, 1970 Baku
title	International Master (1995) Grand Master (2006)
Current  Elo rating	2481 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating	2546 (April 2009)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Melikset Khachiyan ( Armenian Մելիքսեթ Խաչիյան Melikset Chatschijan ; born July 6, 1970 in Baku ) is an Armenian - American chess player and coach .

Life

Khachiyan learned the rules of chess when he was eight. He made very rapid progress and won the Baku Junior Championship at the age of ten. At the same age he reached the first category in the then Soviet skill level determination, two years later he advanced to the Soviet master candidate and received the Soviet championship title in 1990.

In the years 1983-84 Khachiyan was a member of the chess school of ex-world champion Tigran Petrosyan . Other trainers of his were Alexander Nikitin and Alexander Shakarow , both former trainers of the ex-world champion Garry Kasparow .

Khachiyan was awarded the title of International Master in 1995 and the Grand Master title in 2006 . In 1996 he played for Armenia (second team) at the Chess Olympiad in Yerevan (+3 = 1 −4). In 1997 he took part in the World Team Championships in Lucerne for the Armenian national team and won team bronze.

In 2001 Khachiyan emigrated to the United States of America . He lives in Glendale , California . He has been eligible to play for the US Chess Federation since 2003. In the United States Chess League Khachiyan played from 2010 to 2014 for the team of Los Angeles Vibe , but he received in 2011 for his win over Ioan-Cristian Chirilă the price Game of the Year (Game of the Year).

Coaching career

Khachiyan began working as a trainer in the early 1990s. He was awarded honorary coaching titles by both the Armenian and the Moldovan Chess Federation. Among his students are six youth world champions: Almira Scriptschenko , whom he coached until 1992, Levon Aronjan , who was his protégé from 1991 to 1997, Elina Danieljan , with whom he worked from 1991 to 1994, and the US youth world champions Steven Zierk and Kayden Troff and Annie Wang , with whom he trained after emigrating to the USA.

Web links

• Homepage (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chess Grandmaster Melik Khachiyan: My Biography , accessed July 7, 2019.
2. ↑ Olimpbase - 1996 Olympics , accessed July 7, 2019.
3. ↑ Olimpbase - World Team Championship 1997 , accessed on July 7, 2019.
4. ↑ FIDE.com. Transfers in 2003 , accessed July 7, 2019.