| Tigran Gharamian | |
|---|---|
 Tigran Gharamian, 2016 Baden-Baden | |
| Country | |
| Born | 24 July 1984 Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster (2009) |
| FIDE rating | 2572 (October 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2676 (September 2011) |
| Peak ranking | No. 67 (September 2011) |
Tigran Gharamian (Armenian : Տիգրան Ղարամյան, born 24 July 1984) is an Armenian-French chess grandmaster. He won the French Chess Championship in 2018.
Gharamian played for Armenia in the Children's Chess Olympiads of 1999 and 2000. [1]
He came first at Fourmies 2007 [2] and Charleroi 2007. [3] In 2010 he tied for 1st–3rd with Vadim Malakhatko and Deep Sengupta in the 24th Open Pierre and Vacances. [4] In 2011 he won the Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy Open [5] and tied for 2nd–4th with Alexander Kovchan, Boris Grachev and Ante Brkić in the Open Master Tournament in Biel. [6] Gharamian tied for 1st–5th with Pentala Harikrishna, Parimarjan Negi, Tornike Sanikidze and Martyn Kravtsiv in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open 2012. [7] He won the French Chess Championship in 2018. [8]
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