| Hrant Melkumyan | |
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Hrant Melkumyan, 2011 |
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| Full name | Հրանտ Մելքումյան |
| Country | Armenia |
| Born | April 30, 1989 |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2615 (No. 178 on the November 2011 FIDE ratings list) |
| Peak rating | 2619 (September 2011) |
Hrant Melkumyan (Armenian: Հրանտ Մելքումյան; born April 30, 1989) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster and European Blitz Champion in 2011.
He won the international Internet championship organized by the ICC chess Internet portal. In 2006, he won the U18 silver medal at the World Youth Chess Championship.[1] In 2009, he tied for 1st–5th with Sergey Volkov, Andrey Rychagov, Andrei Deviatkin and Zhou Weiqi in the Chigorin Memorial.[2] In 2010, tied for 1st–8th with Sergey Volkov, Viorel Iordachescu, Eduardo Iturrizaga, Gadir Guseinov, David Arutinian, Aleksej Aleksandrov and Tornike Sanikidze in the 12th Dubai Open.[3] In 2011, he tied for 2nd–4th with Borki Predojević and Mircea Pârligras in 41st International Bosna Tournament in Sarajevo;[4] tied for 1st–2nd with Baadur Jobava in the Lake Sevan tournament in Martuni and finished second on tie-break;[5] tied for 3rd–15th in the open section of the 15th Corsican Circuit.[6] In December 2011 Melkumyan tied for 1st–3rd with Alexei Dreev and Radoslaw Wojtaszek in the European Blitz Chess Championship and won the event on tie-break.[7]
On the November 2011 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2615. His handle on the Internet Chess Club is "Pchyolka".[8]