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Gabriel Sargissian
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Full name Գաբրիել Ազատի Սարգսյան
Country  Armenia
Born February 3, 1983 (1983-02-03) (age 26)
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2676
(No. 51 on the November 2009 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating 2678 (September 2009)

Gabriel Sarkisyan (Armenian Գաբրիել Սարգսյան, other transcriptions of the name are Sarkissian and Sarkissyan, the transliteration is Gabriel Sargsyan; born 3 February 1983) is an Armenian chess player and International Grandmaster of Chess (2002). The FIDE lists him as Gabriel Sargissian.

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Career

Sargissian is the winner of the World Youth Chess Championship (under-14) in 1996 and the European Championship (under-16) in 1998[1]. He won the Armenian Chess Championship in 2000 and 2003. Also, he was victorious at the tournaments of Reykjavik (2006)[2] and Dubai (2006).[3] After this he took the first place at the 37th Chess Olympiad (together with Levon Aronian, Vladimir Akopian, Karen Asrian, Smbat Lputian, and Artashes Minasian). In 2007 he won the Ruy Lopez Festival (Zafra, Spain, March 16-25)[4] finishing with 6.5/7, a point-and-a-half above the rest including in particular super players Ponomariov, Sasikiran, I. Sokolov.

On the November 2009 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2676.

In December 2009, he was awarded the title of "Honoured master of sport of the Republic of Armenia".[5]

Notable chess games

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