Vladimir Akopian

Vladimir Hakobyan (Armenian Վլադիմիր Հակոբյան; born December 7, 1971 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR ) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster. The FIDE lists him as Vladimir Akopian.

Name

Hakobyan is known as Vladimir Akopjan (in English transcription Vladimir Akopian ) of Russian Владимир Акопян. This addition to the usual in the Soviet Union Russification to do with his birthplace. Hakobyan was born in Baku, the capital of the former Azerbaijan SSR, where the Cyrillic alphabet was used, which does not reflect the hours. In addition, writing the name Hakob ( the Armenian variant of Jacob ) in Russian traditional Akop, and Akopjan derived from it. As a representative of the Soviet Union in chess tournaments he became known internationally under the Russified form of the name.

Achievements

Hakobyan was established in 1986 in Rio Gallegos U16 and 1989 in Puerto Rico U18 World Champion. In 1991, he won the Junior World Championship in Mamaia, but could not penetrate to the absolute world top afterwards. In 1996 and 1997 he was Armenian national champion. In 1999, he came as a surprise to the final of the FIDE knockout world championship. In the contest over six games, which was held between August 21 and August 28, 1999 in Las Vegas, but he lost to Alexander Khalifman with 2,5:3,5.

At the World Championship 2004 in Tripoli, he came to the quarterfinals where he retired against Michael Adams.

In June 2006, he won the Armenian national team's gold medal at the Chess Olympiad in Turin. With nine points from 12 games without defeat at board 2, he was - in addition to Gabriel Sargsyan (10/13, Brett 4) - the most successful player of his team. At the Chess Olympiad in Dresden in 2008, he contributed 8 points from 11 games on board 2 with an Elo performance of 2813 at the latest success of the Armenian team.

Hakobyan one of the few players that can have a positive balance against Garry Kasparov: a winning game in the competition Russia against the rest of the world in 2002 and three draws.

Chess Composer

Since his youth Hakobyan created chess compositions. In 2003 he published a selection of his works: My 111 Problems and Studies (edited by Chess in Armenia ).