GMMamikon Gharibyan

Mamikon Gharibyan was born in Gyumri in 2004 and began playing chess at six. He won Armenia’s under-8 championship in 2012 and its under-10 championship in 2014. Between those victories, he won the 2013 Nona Gaprindashvili Cup youth tournament. He became European under-10 champion in Batumi in 2014. Two years later he won the European under-12 title in Prague. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title in 2023.