GMKaren H. Grigoryan

Karen H. Grigoryan was born in Yerevan in 1995. He won Armenia's under-fourteen championship in 2008. In 2010 he became European under-sixteen champion and won the Gasparyan Memorial Young Masters tournament. He won Armenia's senior championship in 2011 while still a teenager. His next international successes included the Albena Open in 2012 and Sitges in 2013. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title in 2013. In 2017 he won the Yerevan Open, Penang Open and Jolimark tournament in Hong Kong. At Portugal's Cidade de Famalicão tournament in 2019, he won all nine games. He also won the Elgoibar tournament that year. In 2021 he won the Seville Open after sharing the highest score with Salvador del Rio de Angelis.