Thursday, September 10, 2009

Ashot Anastasian (Ашот Анастасян)

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Ashot Anastasian (16 July 1964) is an Armenian Grandmaster of chess (1993).
He played for Armenia in the Chess Olympiads of 1992 (team bronze medal), 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002 (team bronze medal) and in the World Men's Team Championships of 1993, 1997 (team bronze medal), 2001 (team bronze medal), and 2005 (team bronze medal). Participated in the FIDE World Chess Championships of 2002 and 2004. Anastasian won the Armenian Chess Championship in 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1994, and 2005.
Other results include: 1st at Plovdiv 1987; =1st at Voskresensk 1992; =2nd at Moscow 1992; =1st at Katowice 1993; 1st Yerevan 1994; 1st at Budapest 1999; =1st at Abu Dhabi 1999; =2nd Dubai 2005; =1st at Abu Dhabi 2007; =1st at Dubai 2009.
On the September 2009 FIDE list, Ashot Anastasian has an Elo rating of 2566, making him number 325 in the world and Armenia's number ten.