Haik M. Martirosyan


Haik Mikaeli Martirosyan is an Armenian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2017. He is the 9th best Armenian player.

Career

Martirosyan won the World Youth Chess Championship in the Under 16 category in 2016. In 2017 he played for the World team that won the Match of the Millennials in St. Louis, US scoring 4 points from 7 games. In 2018, he won the Armenian Chess Championship and played for the Armenian team in the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi with a performance rating of 2708. Later in the same year, he also won the Zurich Christmas Open edging out Rasmus Svane, SL Narayanan, Dennis Wagner and Andrei Istrățescu. In February 2019, Maritosyan shared first place with Kaido Külaots in the Aeroflot Open, finishing second on tiebreak.