Ashot Nadanian - Chess Career

Chess Career

Nadanian played in the Soviet Union Junior Chess Championships of 1987, 1988 and 1989, in the Armenian Chess Championships of 1997, 1998 and 1999 (7th–8th places), in the 32nd Chess Olympiad in Yerevan 1996, in the 13th European Chess Club Cup 1997, in the Zonal tournament in Panormo 1998, where he shared 7th–11th places out of 72 participants and in the first European Individual Chess Championship in Saint-Vincent 2000.

His other performances:

  • Częstochowa Open, Poland, 1992: 1st–2nd;
  • Tbilisi Open, Georgia, 1996: 1st;
  • Pasanauri Open, Georgia, 1997: 1st–2nd;
  • New York Open Championship (Tournament B), USA, 1998: 4th–7th;
  • Aeroflot Open (Tournament A), Moscow, Russia, 2002: 35th;
  • Estrin Memorial, Moscow, Russia, 2002: 5th;
  • Aeroflot Open (Tournament B), Moscow, Russia, 2004: 5th–15th;
  • Goldberg Memorial, Moscow, Russia, 2004: 2nd–3rd;
  • IGB Dato Arthur Tan Malaysia Open, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2006: 6th–10th;
  • ASEAN Masters Circuit GMB, Tarakan, Indonesia, 2008: 2nd–3rd;
  • IGB Dato Arthur Tan Malaysia Open, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2008: 3rd–7th;
  • Korea Open chess tournament, Seoul, South Korea, 2008: 6th–10th;
  • Singapore Rapid Chess Championship, Singapore, 2010: 2nd;
  • Yerevan City Chess Championship, Armenia, 2011: 2nd–4th;
  • Karen Asrian Memorial, Jermuk, Armenia, 2011: 7th–13th;
  • Andranik Margaryan Memorial, Yerevan, Armenia, 2012: 2nd–4th;
  • Armenian Rapid Chess Championship, Yerevan, Armenia, 2012: 7th–10th.

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