Were Monte Melkonian and Tatev Abrahamyan both chess players?
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Monte Melkonian Monte Melkonian (classical Armenian: Մոնթէ Մելքոնեան ; reformed: Մոնթե Մելքոնյան; November 25, 1957 – June 12, 1993) was an Armenian left-wing nationalist militant, revolutionary, and commander. He was the leader of an offshoot of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) in the 1980s and the most celebrated commander during the Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s.
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Tatev Abrahamyan Tatev Abrahamyan (Armenian: Տաթև Աբրահամյան ; born January 13, 1988 in Yerevan) is an Armenian-born American chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Renato Naranja Renato Naranja (born September 24, 1940) is an International Master of chess from the Philippines.
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Abram Szpiro Abram (Abraham) Szpiro (1912, Stringenau, Płock Governorate, Russian Empire — 16 February 1943, Auschwitz) was a Polish chess master.
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Emory Tate Emory A. Tate Jr. (December 27, 1958 – October 17, 2015) was an American International Master of chess. He was born in Chicago, Illinois.
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Vladimir Margaryan Vladimir Margaryan (born 8 March 1991) is an Armenian boxer. He competed in the men's welterweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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Vladimir Fedoseev Vladimir Vasilyevich Fedoseev (Russian: Владимир Васильевич Федосеев ; born February 16, 1995) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2015.
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Parham Maghsoodloo Parham Maghsoodloo (born 8 November 2000) is an Iranian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2016, the same year he was awarded the title of International Master.
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Evgeny Sveshnikov Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov (Russian: Евгений Эллинович Све́шников ; Latvian: Jevgēņijs Svešņikovs; born 11 February 1950) is a Russian, former Soviet and Latvian grandmaster of chess, and a chess writer.
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Chess World Cup 2017 The Chess World Cup 2017 is a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, being held in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 2 to 27 September 2017. It was won by Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian. This was the second time he had won the Chess World Cup, 12 years after his first win in 2005.
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Lilit Mkrtchian Lilit Mkrtchian (Armenian: Լիլիթ Մկրտչյան ; born 9 August 1982 in Yerevan) is an Armenian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and four-time Armenian women's chess champion.
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Leonid Shamkovich Leonid Aleksandrovich Shamkovich (Russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Шамко́вич; June 1, 1923 – April 22, 2005) was a chess Grandmaster, and chess writer.
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Sergei Makarichev Sergei Yuryevic Makarichev (Russian: Серге́й Юрьевич Макарычев ; born November 17, 1953) is a Russian chess player, who gained the Grandmaster title in 1976.
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Tigran Petrosian Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (Russian: Тигра́н Варта́нович Петрося́н ; Armenian: Տիգրան Պետրոսյան ; June 17, 1929 – August 13, 1984) was a Soviet Armenian Grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his almost impenetrable defensive playing style, which emphasised safety above all else.
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Ilya Smirin Ilya (or Ilia) Yulievich Smirin (Hebrew: איליה יוליביץ' סמירין‎ ‎ ; Russian: Илья Юльевич Смирин ; born January 21, 1968, in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.
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World Chess Championship 2006 The World Chess Championship 2006 was a match between Classical World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik, and FIDE World Chess Champion Veselin Topalov. The title of World Chess Champion had been split for 13 years. This match, played between September 23 and October 13, 2006, in Elista, Kalmykia, Russia, was to reunite the two World Chess Champion titles and produce an undisputed World Champion.
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Levan Aroshidze Levan Aroshidze (born July 9, 1985) is a Georgian chess grandmaster. In 1995, he became World under 10 champion at the age of nine. He won the 13th Obert Internacional d’Escacs Ciutat d’Olot tournament in Olot, Spain with 7.5/8 in joint first with Jorge Gonzalez Rodriguez.
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Chess in Armenia Chess has been played in Armenia since the early Middle Ages; however, it was institutionalized during the early Soviet period. Highly popular in Armenia today, chess gained widespread recognition during the 1960s, when Soviet Armenian grandmaster Tigran Petrosian became the World Chess Champion. A country of about three million people, Armenia is considered one of the strongest chess nations today. Among countries, Armenia has one of the most chess grandmasters per capita.
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Abel Aganbegyan Abel Gyozevich Aganbegyan (Armenian: Աբել Գյոզի Աղանբեկյան ; Russian: Абе́л Гёзевич Аганбегя́н ; born 8 October 1932) is a leading Soviet and Russian economist of Armenian descent, a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an honorary doctor of business administration of Kingston University, the founder and first editor of the journal "EKO".
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Mihhail Rõtšagov Mihhail Rõtšagov (born 12 November 1967) is an Estonian chess Grandmaster.
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Peter Leko Peter Leko (Hungarian: Lékó Péter ; Serbian: Петер Леко ); born September 8, 1979 in Subotica, Yugoslavia) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. He became the world's youngest grandmaster in 1994. A two-time World Championship Candidate, he challenged Vladimir Kramnik in the Classical World Chess Championship 2004 and drew the match 7–7, with Kramnik retaining the title.
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Aron Nimzowitsch Aron Nimzowitsch (Latvian: "Ārons Ņimcovičs" , Russian: Аро́н Иса́евич Нимцо́вич , "Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich"; born Aron Niemzowitsch; 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess master and a very influential chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the "hypermoderns".