Smbat Lputian
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Smbat Gariginovich Lputian (sometimes transliterated
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 as Lputyan; ; born February 14, 1958 in Yerevan
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) is an Armenia
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n chess
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 Grandmaster. He was first at tournament in Berlin
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 1982, shared first at Athens
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 1983 and at Irkutsk
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 1983, first at Sarajevo
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 1985 and at Irkutsk 1986, shared first at Hastings
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 1986-87 and first at Dortmund
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 1988. He won the Armenian Championship
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 in 1978, 1980, 1998, and 2001. In 2006, he won a team gold medal (together with Levon Aronian
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, Vladimir Akopian, Karen Asrian
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, Gabriel Sargissian and Artashes Minasian
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) at the 37th Chess Olympiad
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.

Lputian earned the International Master (IM) title in 1982 and the GM title in 1984.

In December 2009, he was awarded the title of "Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia".

On the July 2009 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2574. His handle on the Internet Chess Club
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 is "SM".

He has three children he lives with, but also has one daughter who is now living in the United Kingdom
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 with Smbat's first wife. Ani Lputian born on 19/08/92, during the height of Smbat's career.

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