Arman Pashikian
Number of games in database: 273
Years covered: 2001 to 2013
Last FIDE rating: 2603
Highest rating achieved in database: 2663
Overall record: +105 -58 =110 (58.6%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (20)      B23 B90 B30 B78 B45  King's Indian (13)      E94 E90 E66 E61 E97  Queen's Indian (11)      E15 E17 E16  Semi-Slav (11)      D45 D43 D44  Grunfeld (11)      D85 D80 D87 D97 D81  Slav (9)      D15 D17 D16 D10	With the Black pieces:  Ruy Lopez (39)      C67 C65 C84 C88 C68  Queen's Gambit Declined (13)      D38 D30 D31  Semi-Slav (11)      D47 D45 D44 D48 D43  Ruy Lopez, Closed (10)      C84 C88 C89 C85 C90  Queen's Pawn Game (9)      D05 D02 A46 A40 A45  Sicilian (8)      B51 B90 B22 B72 B50

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   A Pashikian vs I Kurnosov, 2009 1-0
   A Pashikian vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2010 1-0
   Macieja vs A Pashikian, 2004 0-1
   A Pashikian vs A Istratescu, 2004 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   World Junior Championship (2006)
   Armenian Championsip (2007)
   European Individual Championships (2007)
   World Junior Championship (2007)
   Euro Club Cup (2008)
   Lake Sevan (2008)
   10th European Individual Championship (2009)
   Aeroflot Open (2009)
   Chess Olympiad (2010)
   European Individual Championships (2010)
   13th European Individual Championship (2012)
   European Individual Championships (2013)

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ARMAN PASHIKIAN (born Jul-28-1987) Armenia [what is this?] Grandmaster. Pashikian came 2nd in the Armenian championship of 2006, won the Armenian championship in 2009, and won Lake Sevan in 2010. He qualified for the World Cup (2011) through the European Individual Championships (2010), but was eliminated in the first round by Polish GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek. He is married to Maria Kursova. Photo: http://www.bidmonfa.com/pashikian_a... Wikipedia article: Arman Pashikian

page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 273  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. A Shalamberidze vs A Pashikian   1-0 48 2001 open A16 English 2. M Lomineishvili vs A Pashikian   1-0 29 2001 open E60 King's Indian Defense 3. A Pashikian vs A Vardanian   1-0 35 2001 open B35 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Modern Variation with Bc4 4. A Pashikian vs N Aginian   1-0 31 2001 open C03 French, Tarrasch 5. M Gagunashvili vs A Pashikian   1-0 30 2001 open D86 Grunfeld, Exchange 6. N Mamedov vs A Pashikian   1-0 35 2001 open B72 Sicilian, Dragon 7. A Pashikian vs Nodar Tsiramua   1-0 34 2001 open B06 Robatsch 8. A Pashikian vs N Avanesian   1-0 45 2001 open C21 Center Game 9. A Pashikian vs S Gvetadze   1-0 36 2001 open B23 Sicilian, Closed 10. Wang Yue vs A Pashikian   ½-½ 41 2002 WYb16 A45 Queen's Pawn Game 11. M Amanov vs A Pashikian 1-0 38 2002 Int Youth Games U16 D02 Queen's Pawn Game 12. G Sargissian vs A Pashikian   ½-½ 39 2003 ARM-ch 63rd playoff 25+10' A40 Queen's Pawn Game 13. A Pashikian vs G Sargissian   0-1 42 2003 ARM-ch 63rd playoff 25+10' C53 Giuoco Piano 14. G Sargissian vs A Pashikian   ½-½ 59 2003 ARM-ch 63rd D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 15. A Pashikian vs A Yegiazarian   1-0 39 2003 ARM-ch 63rd B54 Sicilian 16. A Pashikian vs A Yegiazarian   1-0 52 2003 Batumi BCSA op B40 Sicilian 17. Stefansson vs A Pashikian   1-0 42 2004 5th Individual European Chess Championship D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 18. Macieja vs A Pashikian 0-1 44 2004 Petrosian Memorial C42 Petrov Defense 19. A Pashikian vs A Istratescu   ½-½ 35 2004 5th Individual European Chess Championship B23 Sicilian, Closed 20. A Pashikian vs A Minasian   ½-½ 10 2004 5th Individual European Chess Championship B23 Sicilian, Closed 21. M Kobalia vs A Pashikian   1-0 68 2004 Petrosian Memorial C43 Petrov, Modern Attack 22. A Pashikian vs Macieja   ½-½ 33 2004 5th Individual European Chess Championship B49 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 23. A Pashikian vs Pelletier   ½-½ 54 2004 Petrosian Memorial B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation 24. D Goksel vs A Pashikian   0-1 35 2004 5th Individual European Chess Championship D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 25. I Cheparinov vs A Pashikian   ½-½ 36 2004 5th Individual European Chess Championship C42 Petrov Defense  page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 273

Mar-17-06    BIDMONFA: Arman Pashikian PASHIKIAN, Arman http://www.bidmonfa.com/pashikian_a... _ Jun-05-06    ARTIN: Apparently this is the guy who came up with the novelty that Aronian used against Sokolov in the 37th Olympiad. Jan-26-09    arsen387: Pashikian won the Armenian Championship this year, which means that he'll be the 5th player in Armenian National Team in 2009 (after Aronian, Akopian, Sargissian, Petrosian). Gaining 8.5/13 with Kotanjian, he became the champion by tiebreaks. Congrats to Arman, my prediction is that very soon he'll be amongst the elite in chess world Feb-23-09    Davolni: WOW. Pashikyan is having a hell of a tournament, with a second place in Aeroflot!!! Good luck to him in the rest of the tournament! Aug-07-09    Vakus: Pashikian - winner of Lake Sevan 2009. 2700 is sooo close. Nov-01-09    Tabanus: FIDE: http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?.... Biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arman_.... Lake Sevan 2009: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr236... Jan-25-12    tamar: Pashikian is credited with finding the exchange sacrifice Aronian used today on Giri A Giri vs Aronian, 2012 Part of its appeal to Aronian was that engines did not see that it was good, but he could see a clear plan for Black, and only found plans for White after extensive work with the computer. So Pashikian found a doubly good novelty, one that has merit on its own, and one that is unlikely to have been studied by players of the White pieces because the engines don't give it a plus evaluation.

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