Sergey Grigoriants

Sergey Mikhailovich Grigoriants (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Григорьянц; born 2 November 1983) is a Russian chess player, who was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 2003.

This article is about the Russian chess player. For the Soviet and Russian political activist, see Sergei Grigoryants.
In this Eastern Slavic name, the patronymic is Mikhailovich and the family name is Grigoriants.
Sergey Grigoriants
Grigoriants in 2008
CountryRussia
Born (1983-11-02) 2 November 1983
Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR
TitleGrandmaster (2003)
FIDE rating2546 (February 2021)
Peak rating2606 (August 2015)

Chess career

Grigoriants won the U14 section of the World Youth Championships in 1997 and the U16 section of the European Youth Championships in 1999.[1] In 2004, he shared first place with Evgeny Najer, Kaido Külaots, Artyom Timofeev, Zoltan Gyimesi and Oleg Korneev in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open tournament.[2] The following year, Grigoriants attained the title of Moscow Champion.

In 2018 he married the Hungarian chess player Petra Papp.[3]

References
  1. Crowther, Mark (13 September 1999). "TWIC 253: European Youth Championships". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  2. Crowther, Mark (8 March 2004). "TWIC 487: Cappelle-la-Grande open". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  3. Ещё одна шахматная семья: поженились Сергей Григорьянц и Петра Папп (Another chess family: Sergei Grigoriants and Petra Papp are married), chess-news.ru, 20 June 2018


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