Tigran Vardani Petrosian (Armenian: Տիգրան Վարդանի Պետրոսյան; Russian: Тигран Вартанович Петросян; 17 June 1929 – 13 August 1984) was a Soviet-Armenian...

Tigran Levoni Petrosian (Armenian: Տիգրան Լևոնի Պետրոսյան; born 17 September 1984) is an Armenian chess player who holds the title of grandmaster, which...

he has been inactive for at least five years. Arshak Petrosian is not related to Tigran Petrosian, also Armenian, who was World Chess Champion from 1963...

played three world championship matches: he lost to Tigran Petrosian in 1966; defeated Petrosian in 1969 to become world champion; then lost to Bobby...

Championship was played between Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky in Moscow from April 9 to June 9, 1966. Petrosian won. An interzonal tournament was...

At the World Chess Championship 1963, Tigran Petrosian narrowly qualified to challenge Mikhail Botvinnik for the World Chess Championship, and then won...

Tigran Petrosian Chess House (Armenian: Տիգրան Պետրոսյանի անվան Շախմատի Տուն), officially the Central House of Chess-player named after Tigran Petrosian...

played between Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky in Moscow from April 14 to June 17, 1969. This was the second consecutive time Petrosian and Spassky played...

Botvinnik played his last world championship match against Tigran Petrosian, in a 22-game series. Petrosian, almost 20 years younger, wore out the 52 year old...

Larsen by 6–0 scores. After winning another qualifying match against Tigran Petrosian, Fischer won the title match against Boris Spassky of the USSR, in...

winning with 20/28 points, ahead of Paul Keres with 18½, followed by Tigran Petrosian, Vasily Smyslov, the sixteen-year-old Bobby Fischer, Svetozar Gligorić...

Havana 1892 Ernst Gruenfeld vs. Alexander Alekhine, Karlsbad 1923 Tigran Petrosian vs. David Bronstein, Amsterdam 1956 Miguel Najdorf vs. Bobby Fischer...

85kg category Tigran Nagdalian (died 2002), Armenian journalist Tigran Ouzlian (born 1968), Greek-Armenian amateur boxer Tigran Petrosian (1929–1984),...

German in 1929, was purchased by a pre-teen and future World Champion Tigran Petrosian and was to have a great influence on his development as a chess player...

is the Petrosian Variation, so named for the 1963–69 world champion Tigran Petrosian, who often essayed the line in the 1960s, with Vladimir Kramnik playing...

Player Country Age 1950 David Bronstein  Soviet Union 26 years 1952 Tigran Petrosian  Soviet Union 23 years 1955 Boris Spassky  Soviet Union 18 years 1958...

Staunton, and José Capablanca felt that the exchange was worth two pawns. Tigran Petrosian thought that one pawn was the right value. Wilhelm Steinitz said that...

been a long list of famous winners, including Max Euwe, Bent Larsen, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres, Lajos Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail...

Manouk Petrosian (1676–1749), Armenian scholar and theologian Tigran Petrosian (1929–1984), Soviet-Armenian chess grandmaster and world champion Tigran L....

against his contemporaries and future GM stars such as Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, and Boris Spassky, following in the path laid out by Mikhail Botvinnik...

1963. The return match clause was not in place for the 1963 cycle. Tigran Petrosian won the 1962 Candidates and then defeated Botvinnik in 1963 to become...

1963 Tigran Petrosian 12½‍–‍9½ Mikhail Botvinnik 1966 Tigran Petrosian (2) 12½‍–‍11½ Boris Spassky 1969 Boris Spassky 12½‍–‍10½ Tigran Petrosian 1972...

first place with 5½/7 at the Tashir Chess Tournament in memory of Tigran Petrosian in Moscow. This enabled him to cross the 2800 Elo rating mark. In July...

2550 Viktor Korchnoi, 2535 Boris Spassky, 2480 Vasily Smyslov, 2413 Tigran Petrosian, 2363 These "Divinsky numbers" are not on the same scale as Elo ratings...

b5 and then Karpov accepted the draw. Petrosian vs. Fischer, 1958 In the 1958 game between Tigran Petrosian and Bobby Fischer, Fischer offered a draw...

years and IM Albert Kapengut for twelve. In 1980–83, he attended the Tigran Petrosian School. Early successes included winning the Sokolsky Memorial in 1983...

Match final, Fischer beat former World Champion Tigran Petrosian in the first game before Petrosian snapped the streak by winning the second match game...

knockout matches. Spassky as the loser of the last championship match and Petrosian as loser of the previous candidates final were seeded directly into the...

Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Paul Keres, David Bronstein, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian  Yugoslavia 29 Svetozar Gligorić, Aleksandar Matanović, Borislav Ivkov...

matches in 1966 and 1969. He lost the world championship match to Tigran Petrosian in 1966. In the 1969 cycle, he won matches against Efim Geller, Bent...