Tatev Abrahamyan – Chess Women Grandmaster From The United States

Tatev Abrahamyan is an American Chess Women Grandmaster with over a 2200 Elo rating from FIDE. She was born in Yerevan of the Soviet Union before moving to the United States to claim her position in the Chess community and earning the highest title of WGM.

Full Name: Tatev Abrahamyan

Title: Women Grandmaster

Born: January 13, 1988 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union

Federation: United States of America

Ratings

World ranking: 4612

Rapid: 2373

Blitz: 2347

Classical: 2291

Profiles

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Biography

Tatev Abrahamyan is an Armenian chess player born on January 13, 1988, in Yerevan, Armenia. He lived with his parents in Armenia until 2001, when she migrated to the United States of America. In the U.S., Abrahamyan settled in Glendale, California, and studied at the high school level at Clark Magnet School. She later proceeds to California University after finishing her high school education in La Crescenta. He later graduated from the university in 2011 with a political science and psychology degree.

However, Abrahamyan started participating in chess games when she was still in her youth stage, living in Armenia. For this reason, she has an extensive record in the chess industry as a chess player from both Armenia and the United States of America. However, she spent most of her chess career playing for the USA since his settlement in the country in 2001. For this reason, she has more achievement play in the USA than in Armenia.

The Beginning

Abrahamyan started featuring in chess games in 1999 when she secured a chance to participate in the European Youth championships under 12 sections. In the tournament, Abrahamyan finished first in a tiebreak with Varvara Kirillova and Nana Dzagnidze. This made him win a bronze medal in the competition on a tie-break. In 2005, Abrahamyan competed in the U.S. Women’s championships, where she tied for first and finally lost to Rusudan Goletiani in a playoff match. She has later announced the winner of the Under 18 section of the Girls category of the Pan American chess festival. She became the winner after she scored 9/9 points in the tournament, which was held in Cuenca, Ecuador.

In 2008, she won the award of the Goddess chess after showing the uncompromising play in her chess career. Abrahamyan secured a chance to compete in the U.S. national women’s chess championships in 2010. In the tournament, she tied with Anna Zatonskih for second place. The game was later won by Irina Krush, who scored 8/9 points. Abrahamyan was also featured in the 2012- and 2015-Women’s World championships. She also joined the U.S. national team and represented the country in the Chess Olympiads Women category. She also represented the United States of America in the Women’s World Chess Championship.

Achievements

Tatev Abrahamyan is a high profiled chess player with remarkable achievements in his chess career. By featuring in many chess games for two countries, Abrahamyan has made a great history of records of achievement. She has a women’s grandmaster title awarded to him by FIDE in 2011. Back in Armenia, Abrahamyan featured in the European Youth championships Girls under 12 sections as its first meg tournament in chess competitions. She won a bronze medal in the tournament on a tie-break. This made her gain popularity in her chess career in the youth stage, which later allowed her to participate in many other chess tournaments.

She was the winner of the Pan American festival in the Youth under 18 section girl’s categories in 2006 at Cuenca, Ecuador. She won after scoring a shocking result of 9/9 points. This made him win the Goddess award for delivering an uncompromising play in the tournament. She also secured a chance to compete in the Women’s Chess World championships in both 2012 and 2015. In addition, she secured an opportunity to represent her country in Women’s team chess Olympiad games and the Women’s Team World Chess Championship. Abrahamyan reached a peak rating of 2397 in July 2019 and currently has a rating of 2291.

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