chessgames.com
Members · Prefs · Laboratory · Collections · Openings · Endgames · Sacrifices · History · Search Kibitzing · Kibitzer's Café · Chessforums · Tournament Index · Players · Kibitzing

Lilit Mkrtchian
L Mkrtchian 
 

Number of games in database: 1,024
Years covered: 1996 to 2025
Last FIDE rating: 2396 (2305 rapid, 2293 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2503
Overall record: +297 -139 =365 (59.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 223 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 English (81) 
    A13 A10 A15 A11 A14
 English, 1 c4 e5 (51) 
    A29 A20 A25 A21 A28
 Sicilian (48) 
    B50 B56 B27 B42 B90
 Reti System (34) 
    A06 A04 A05
 English, 1 c4 c5 (28) 
    A36 A30 A34 A33 A37
 King's Indian (28) 
    E90 E71 E63 E62 E60
With the Black pieces:
 French Defense (119) 
    C03 C01 C18 C11 C02
 Queen's Gambit Declined (54) 
    D31 D37 D39 D35 D38
 Queen's Pawn Game (42) 
    A46 E00 D02 A45 A40
 French Tarrasch (41) 
    C03 C04 C09 C07 C05
 Sicilian (38) 
    B43 B40 B47 B22 B44
 Queen's Indian (35) 
    E15 E12 E14 E17
Repertoire Explorer

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   L Mkrtchian vs M Korneva, 2009 1-0
   L Mkrtchian vs V Golubenko, 2008 1-0
   E Di Primio vs L Mkrtchian, 2011 0-1
   L Mkrtchian vs Hakob Vardanian, 2014 1-0
   L Mkrtchian vs E Ubiennykh, 2005 1-0
   T Tuominen vs L Mkrtchian, 2001 0-1
   L Mkrtchian vs M Lahav, 2015 1-0
   L Mkrtchian vs T Kosintseva, 2006 1-0
   M Schoene vs L Mkrtchian, 2008 0-1
   K Rukhaia vs L Mkrtchian, 2001 0-1

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   European Team Championship (Women) (2013)
   Wch U20 Girls (2001)
   European Championship (Women) (2002)
   European Championship (Women) (2006)
   European Championship (Women) (2013)
   European Championship (Women) (2009)
   1st Serbian Women's League (2022)
   Russian Club Championship: Women (2006)
   European Championship (Women) (2008)
   Istanbul Olympiad (Women) (2012)
   Tromso Olympiad (Women) (2014)
   European Championship (Women) (2014)
   Budapest Olympiad (Women) (2024)
   Khanty-Mansiysk Olympiad (Women) (2010)
   European Championship (Women) (2012)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Lilit Mkrtchian's Tactical Sacrifices by khursh

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 European Championship (Women)
   D Daulyte-Cornette vs L Mkrtchian (Apr-11-25) 1/2-1/2
   L Mkrtchian vs A Ushenina (Apr-10-25) 1/2-1/2
   T Injac vs L Mkrtchian (Apr-09-25) 1-0
   L Mkrtchian vs A Kirtadze (Apr-08-25) 1-0
   G Beydullayeva vs L Mkrtchian (Apr-07-25) 0-1

Search Sacrifice Explorer for Lilit Mkrtchian
Search Google for Lilit Mkrtchian
FIDE player card for Lilit Mkrtchian

LILIT MKRTCHIAN
(born Aug-09-1982, 42 years old) Armenia

[what is this?]
Woman Grand Master, International Master and four times Armenian Women's Champion.

Mkrtchian came 6th in the Girls U14 World Championship in Menorca in 1996. In 2000, she came equal first in the Black Sea Countries Championship (Women). In 2001, she came third in the U20 World Girls Championship held in Athens. In 2002, she won the silver medal in the European Individual Chess Championship in Varna, Bulgaria scoring 8.5/11 points and the bronze medal at the 7th European Individual Championship 2006 held in Kuşadası, Turkey, scoring 7.5/11 points. She also placed equal fourth in the North Urals Cup (2006) in Krasnoturinsk in 2006 and reached round 4 (quarter finals) of the Women's World Championship (2008), bowing out after losing to Yifan Hou. She contested the FIDE Knock-Out Women's World Championship (2012) and defeated Scottish GM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant in the first round before bowing out to Russian GM Nadezhda Kosintseva in the second set of rapid tiebreakers in round two.

She participated in the European Team Championship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 2003, helping Armenia win the gold medal.

Wikipedia article: Lilit Mkrtchian


Try our new games table.

 page 1 of 41; games 1-25 of 1,024  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. S Galdunts vs L Mkrtchian  1-0361996Yerevan opC00 French Defense
2. Z Hagarova vs L Mkrtchian  1-0671996Yerevan Olympiad (Women)C09 French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line
3. N Ioseliani vs L Mkrtchian  1-0421997European Team Championship (Women)D05 Queen's Pawn Game
4. M L Cuevas Rodriguez vs L Mkrtchian  0-1321997European Team Championship (Women)D30 Queen's Gambit Declined
5. L Mkrtchian vs E Boric  1-0271997European Team Championship (Women)A07 King's Indian Attack
6. I Rajlich vs L Mkrtchian  ½-½361998Elista Olympiad (Women)D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst
7. L Mkrtchian vs I Gaponenko  0-1311998Elista Olympiad (Women)B56 Sicilian
8. L Mkrtchian vs L Javakhishvili  1-0171999Tbilisi zt (Women)B54 Sicilian
9. L Mkrtchian vs P Ornstein  1-0391999European Team Championship (Women)B08 Pirc, Classical
10. B Hund vs L Mkrtchian  ½-½411999European Team Championship (Women)C01 French, Exchange
11. S de Blecourt vs L Mkrtchian  0-1371999European Team Championship (Women)D31 Queen's Gambit Declined
12. L Mkrtchian vs B Jaracz  ½-½631999European Team Championship (Women)C93 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense
13. L Mkrtchian vs N Bojkovic  ½-½111999European Team Championship (Women)B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
14. L Mkrtchian vs R Theissl Pokorna  0-1561999European Team Championship (Women)C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
15. E Boric vs L Mkrtchian  0-1901999European Team Championship (Women)C01 French, Exchange
16. E Danielian vs L Mkrtchian  ½-½222000Black Sea Countries-ch (Women)A05 Reti Opening
17. L Javakhishvili vs L Mkrtchian  ½-½322000Black Sea Countries-ch (Women)D37 Queen's Gambit Declined
18. L Mkrtchian vs S Matveeva  ½-½312000European Championship (Women)A07 King's Indian Attack
19. S Matveeva vs L Mkrtchian  ½-½162000European Championship (Women)D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst
20. S Matveeva vs L Mkrtchian  1-0602000European Championship (Women)D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst
21. L Mkrtchian vs S Matveeva  1-0312000European Championship (Women)A07 King's Indian Attack
22. A Khegai vs L Mkrtchian  ½-½412000Istanbul Olympiad (Women)D30 Queen's Gambit Declined
23. L Mkrtchian vs A Zatonskih  0-1392000Istanbul Olympiad (Women)C01 French, Exchange
24. L Mkrtchian vs E Kovalevskaya  0-1462000Istanbul Olympiad (Women)B58 Sicilian
25. T Tuominen vs L Mkrtchian  0-1422001European Championship (Women)C01 French, Exchange
 page 1 of 41; games 1-25 of 1,024  PGN Download
  REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Mkrtchian wins | Mkrtchian loses  

Kibitzer's Corner
< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 3 ·  Later Kibitzing>
Mar-13-06  percyblakeney: Mkrtchian survived a car crash with a broken arm and a brain concussion earlier this year and spent a week in hospital. She turned up in the Women's World Championship, but lost in the first round against a much lower rated opponent, not too unexpected given the circumstances.
Apr-06-06  BIDMONFA: Lilit Mkrtchian

MKRTCHIAN, Lilit
http://www.bidmonfa.com/mkrtchian_l...
_

Apr-07-06  Jim Bartle: Maybe she and former volleyball player Bob Ctvrtlik should go on Jeopardy and buy a vowel.
Apr-27-06  percyblakeney: Doing fine in the Russian Club Championship, five wins and one draw in six games.
Jun-21-06  weisyschwarz: <blingice> there was even a better picture of her in the kosteniuk kollection of fotos taken during the Turin Olympiad.
Dec-09-06  percyblakeney: One of Mkrtchian's best games from a tournament in Croatia earlier this month. A double exchange sacrifice at moves 35-38 against a very strong opponent takes her close to the win, but then things go wrong in the endgame.

[Event "14th Salona"]
[Site "Solin, CRO"]
[Date "2006.12.01"]
[Round "8.4"]
[White "Movsesian, Sergei"]
[Black "Mkrtchian, Lilit"]
[WhiteElo "2637"]
[BlackElo "2468"]
[ECO "A07"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 c6 3. Bg2 Bg4 4. O-O Nd7 5. d3 Ngf6 6. Qe1 e5 7. h3 Bh5 8. e4 dxe4 9. dxe4 Bc5 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. Nc4 Re8 12. a4 Nb6 13. Na5 Rb8 14. Nh4 Nc8 15. Bg5 h6 16. Bd2 Nd6 17. Nb3 Bb6 18. Bb4 Bc7 19. Kh1 Nd7 20. f3 Qf6 21. Rd1 Rbd8 22. Rd3 b6 23. f4 c5 24. Bc3 Qe7 25. Nd2 f6 26. g4 Bf7 27. f5 Nf8 28. Rg3 Nc4 29. Nxc4 Bxc4 30. Rg1 Rd6 31. Nf3 Nh7 32. h4 Ba6 33. Bf1 Bb7 34. Bc4+ Kf8 35. Rh3 Rd4
36. Bxd4 exd4 37. Be6 Qd6 38. g5 Rxe6 39. fxe6 Qxe6 40. Qf1 Bxe4 41. g6 Ng5 42. hxg5 hxg5 43. Qg2 Bf4 44. Re1 Be3 45. Qg3 g4 46. Rh8+ Ke7 47. Qc7+ Qd7 48. Qxd7+ Kxd7 49. Kg2 Bxf3+ 50. Kg3 f5 51. Rf8 Ke6 52. Rf1 Be4 53. Re8+ Kd5 54. Re7 f4+ 55. Kxg4 Bxg6 56. Rxg7 Bxc2 57. Rxa7 Kc4 58. Rxf4 Bxf4 59. Kxf4 d3 60. Ke3 Kb3 61. Rb7 Kxb2 62. a5 c4 63. Rxb6+ Kc1 64. Rd6 c3 65. a6 d2 66. a7 Be4 67. Kxe4 d1=Q 68. Rxd1+ Kxd1 69. Kd3 1-0

Position after 49. Kg2, where Shredder gives gxf3+ as more than 2 pawns up for Mkrtchian. She took with the bishop instead and lost in the end, but still one of the more interesting games of 2006.


click for larger view

May-04-08  Billy Vaughan: <Maybe she and former volleyball player Bob Ctvrtlik should go on Jeopardy and buy a vowel.>

Heehee. But methinks Mkrtchian could just rearrange the letters of her name to something like "Mirkantch" without spending the money on vowels :)

Anyways, +6 -1 =4 in the European Individual Championships for women - very nice!

Sep-05-08  DUS: Congrats to Lilit Mkrtchian for nice victory against Harika Dronavalli!
Sep-08-08  arsen387: Mkrtchian reached to Woman's World Championship quarterfinals and drew the first game with Hou Yifan. She is the first Armenian woman who reached to that stage, and what's also remarkable, is that she is yet undefeated in the championship. Congratulations. Go Lilit!
Jan-14-09  spasskey69: Is there any more personal information available? Who is her trainer?
Mar-13-09  Wild Bill: Lilit Mkrtchian is currently leading the European Women's Championship in St. Petersburg.

It's too bad she isn't more of a devotee of a certain subset of the French. It would remind us how to get a close approximation to the pronounciation of her name.

Hint: A Rudolf vs L Mkrtchian, 2008

Mar-14-09  MMan: "Lilit Mkrtchian is currently leading the European Women's Championship in St. Petersburg."

I hope the prize money is big enough that she can buy some vowels.

Mar-19-09  khursh: Congratulations to Lilit Mkrtchian on winning X European Women's Championship in St. Petersburg !!! /shared with Tatiana Kosintseva /

Is there any tiebreak system [and which] to decide the winner?

Mar-19-09  khursh: A spectacular win in last round.

[Event "10th European Individual Women's Chess Champ"] [Site "St. Peterburg"]
[Date "2009/3/19"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Mkrtchian, Lilit"]
[Black "Romanko, Marina"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Board "03"]
[Input "DGT3648"]
[Owner "Association of chess federations, Moscow"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Qb6 8. Qd3 Qxb2 9. Rb1 Qa3 10. f5 Qa5 11. Bxf6 gxf6 12. fxe6 fxe6 13. Qc4 Kd8 14. Rb3 Qe5 15. Be2 Bh6 16. Rf1 Re8 17. Nf3 Qc5 18. Qd3 Ke7 19. e5 f5 20. Na4 Qa5+ 21. Kf2 dxe5 22. Qc4 e4 23. Nd4 Nc6


click for larger view

24. Qxc6 ! Qd2 25. Qc5+ Kf6 26. Nb6 Rb8 27. Nc4 Qg5
28. Qe5+ 1-0

Mar-19-09  percyblakeney: <Is there any tiebreak system [and which] to decide the winner?>

Yep:

<IM Lilit Mkrtchian of Armenia and IM Tatiana Kosintseva of Russia will decide the new European Women Chess Champion after a rapid tiebreak match that should follow later tonight or tomorrow. IM Ekaterina Kovalevskaya entered the last round as sole leader, but then played too passively with Black pieces and Kosintseva knew how to punish this complacency. Lilit Mkrtchian bravely attacked WGM Marina Romanko's Naidorf Sicilian with the sharpest Poisoned Pawn variation. Black King remained stuck in the center and then Romanko blundered a tactical shot while trying to complete the queenside development.>

http://reports.chessdom.com/news-20...

Mar-19-09  khursh: Thanks <percyblakeney>
Mar-20-09  wanabe2000: http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp...
Mar-20-09  hovik2003: Lilit, you are fantastic, I love you!!
Mar-27-09  Udit Narayan: wow fantastic photos there!!!
Mar-31-09  spasskey69: i asked an Armenia lady I know how to pronouice her name: it is MMM-Kart-chian
Jun-18-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: I think Alex Trebeck would stroke out if you tried to buy a vowel on Jeopardy. <khursh> that game reminds me of this one: Lahno vs A Gasik, 2001 where Black played Qa5 and later saw the Queen trapped.
Sep-15-09  jon01: Mkrtchian seems to be one of the best women players in the world.
Mar-13-10  weisyschwarz: Come on Lilit!! You can rebound! I have confidence in you! You can get a string of wins!!
Feb-26-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: Lilit is hot! If I ever had to play her, I'd go out of my mind.
Aug-09-11  wordfunph: <perfidious: Lilit is hot!>

very hot!!!

Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 3)
search thread:   
< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 3 ·  Later Kibitzing>

NOTE: Create an account today to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! If you already have a username, then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion.

Please observe our posting guidelines:

  1. No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language.
  2. No spamming, advertising, duplicate, or gibberish posts.
  3. No vitriolic or systematic personal attacks against other members.
  4. Nothing in violation of United States law.
  5. No cyberstalking or malicious posting of negative or private information (doxing/doxxing) of members.
  6. No trolling.
  7. The use of "sock puppet" accounts to circumvent disciplinary action taken by moderators, create a false impression of consensus or support, or stage conversations, is prohibited.
  8. Do not degrade Chessgames or any of it's staff/volunteers.

Please try to maintain a semblance of civility at all times.

Blow the Whistle

See something that violates our rules? Blow the whistle and inform a moderator.


NOTE: Please keep all discussion on-topic. This forum is for this specific player only. To discuss chess or this site in general, visit the Kibitzer's Café.

Messages posted by Chessgames members do not necessarily represent the views of Chessgames.com, its employees, or sponsors.
All moderator actions taken are ultimately at the sole discretion of the administration.

Spot an error? Please suggest your correction and help us eliminate database mistakes!
Home | About | Login | Logout | F.A.Q. | Profile | Preferences | Premium Membership | Kibitzer's Café | Biographer's Bistro | New Kibitzing | Chessforums | Tournament Index | Player Directory | Notable Games | World Chess Championships | Opening Explorer | Guess the Move | Game Collections | ChessBookie Game | Chessgames Challenge | Store | Privacy Notice | Contact Us

Copyright 2001-2025, Chessgames Services LLC