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Artashes Minasian (21 January 1967) is an Armenian Grandmaster of chess (1992).He is the last USSR Chess Champion (1991). Played in the Chess Olympiads of 1992 (team bronze medal), 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 (team bronze medal), 2004 (team bronze medal), 2006 (team gold medal) and 2008 (team gold medal) and in the World Men's Team Championships of 1993, 1997 (team bronze medal) and 2001 (team bronze medal). Participated in the FIDE World Chess Championship of 2000. Minasian won the Armenian Chess Championship in 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2004 and 2006.
Other results include: =2nd at Groningen 1990; 1st at Candas 1992; 1st at Paris 1994; 2nd at Cannes 1995; 1st at New York 1998; =7th at Ubeda 1999; =1st at Ubeda 2000; 2nd at Yerevan 2000; =1st at Dubai 2001; =2 at Batumi 2003; =7th at Los Angeles 2003; =2nd at Dubai 2004; =3rd at Yerevan 2004.
On the September 2009 FIDE list, Artashes Minasian has an Elo rating of 2561, making him number 348 in the world and Armenia's number eleven.
Minasian was awarded the Khorenatsi medal in 2006 and the title of "Honoured master of sport of the Republic of Armenia" in 2009.
