David Paravyan
Paravyan in 2020
Full nameDavid Arturovich Paravyan
CountryRussia
Born8 March 1998 (1998-03-08) (age 25)
Moscow, Russia
TitleGrandmaster (2017)
FIDE rating2612 (January 2024)
Peak rating2660 (September 2021)
Peak rankingNo. 78 (September 2021)

David Arturovich Paravyan (Russian: Давид Артурович Паравян; born 8 March 1998) is a Russian chess player of Armenian descent, who was awarded the title of grandmaster by FIDE in 2017.

Chess career

Born in Moscow,[1] Paravyan received the international master title in 2013[2] and the grandmaster title in 2017.[3]

In February 2018, Paravyan participated in the Aeroflot Open tournament. He finished eleventh out of 92, scoring 5½ points from 9 games (+4–2=3).[4] The following year, Paravyan competed in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2019, held on the Isle of Man from 10 to 21 October. He finished tenth with a score of 7/11 (+4–1=6) for a performance rating of 2774.[5] He won the Gibraltar Masters open tournament in January 2020. After tying for first on a score of 7½/10 (+5–0=5), Paravyan won a four-way playoff to take the title. He defeated Wang Hao in the finals.[6] Paravyan qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Title Applications. 88th FIDE Congress 2017, 7-15 October, Goynuk, Antalya, Turkey. FIDE.
  2. ↑ "List of titles approved by the 84th FIDE Congress in Tallinn, Estonia". FIDE. 17 October 2012.
  3. ↑ "List of titles approved by the Executive Board in Antalya, Turkey". FIDE. 17 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "Vladislav Kovalev wins Aeroflot Open 2018". Chessdom. 28 February 2018. Archived from the original on 3 March 2018.
  5. ↑ McGourty, Colin (22 October 2019). "Wang Hao wins it all! 9 Grand Swiss conclusions". chess24.com. Archived from the original on 22 October 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  6. ↑ "Gibraltar Chess Festival 2020: Paravyan wins in a playoff!". ChessBase. 30 January 2020.
  7. ↑ "David Paravyan | Top Chess Players". Chess.com. Retrieved 24 July 2023.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.