• Tigran Petrosian Biography

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Chess can convey as much happiness as a good book or work of music can. However, it is necessary to learn to play well and only afterwards will one experience real delight. Tigran Petrosian One must beware of unnecessary excitement.

Tigran Petrosian Some consider that when I play I am excessively cautious, but it seems to me that the question may be a different one. I try to avoid chance.

Those who rely on chance should play cards or roulette. Chess is something quite different. Tigran Petrosian They say my chess games should be more interesting. I could be more interesting - and also lose. Tigran Petrosian It does not really matter, as long as it is an extra one. Tigran Petrosian (on which was his favorite chess piece) I know I am not on form when the best move is not the one that first comes to my mind. Tigran Petrosian In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.

— Lev Polugaevsky It is to Petrosian's advantage that his opponents never know when he is suddenly going to play like Mikhail Tal. Boris Spassky Petrosian was a player who spent more time considering his opponent’s possibilities than his own. – Paul Keres The depth of Tigran’s approach to chess is the direct consequence of his clear mind and his rare insight into general aspects of chess, into subtleties of chess tactics and strategy. Petrosian performed a special kind of art in creating harmonious positions that were full of life, where apparent absence of superficial dynamism was compensated by enormous inner energy. Every subtle change in the position was always taken into consideration in the context of a complex strategy that was not obvious to his opponents. – Garry Kasparov Careful study of Petrosian's games is required to form a clear impression of him. He was, so to speak, a very 'secretive' player.

We can call Petrosian the first defender with a capital D. He was the first person to demonstrate that it is possible to defend virtually every position. Petrosian contributed a defensive element to chess - an element that is being developed more and more today. He showed that chess contains an enormous number of resources, including defensive ones. Vladimir Kramnik Petrosian was a very intensive chess player who was hard to understand.

I don't think he has been presented to the public in the correct way. He is one of the few chess players of whom I have failed to form a clear opinion after going through his games collection. There is something mysterious about Petrosian. He was a brilliant tactician and an excellent strategic player, although his positional understanding was not as good as Smyslov's. However, many people consider him to have been a master of positional play.

He was definitely a player who could cope with every kind of situation, but I don't think that positional play was his cup of tea. Defence and a magnificent tactical vision were his strongest points - that's why he was so good at defence. Only a brilliant tactician can succeed in defence, and he had perfect sight of all the tactical opportunities and nuances for his opponent.

I would even say that attack, rather than defence, is a positional skill. You can attack mostly on the basis of general ideas, whereas in defence you have to be specific. Calculations of lines and verification of specific positional features are more important for defence than for attack. Vladimir Kramnik If we look in chess history for a 'double' of Petrosian, we arrive at Capablanca. Petrosian is not a tiger hat pounces on its prey, but rather a python, that smothers its victim, or a crocodile, waiting for hours for a convenient moment to land a decisive blow. Petrosian is an outstanding strategist. If he should begin to combine a little, he will be impossible to play against.

Max Euwe Among all our grandmasters Petrosian possesses the most distinctive and original talent: he places his pieces so astutely, that all attacks on them prove very difficult. This is a subtle and rare style, to which it is hard to adapt.

Tigran Petrosian Biography

Mikhail Botvinnik Petrosian masterfully created positions that demanded of his opponents and ability to solve independent problems at the board. His opening preperation combined a knowledge of theory and a knowledge of human psychology. Players who cannot take a single step without Chess Informator were ironically called by him 'children of Informator'.

Vasily Smyslov Petrosian, of course, was a phenomenonal chess talent; he played so deeply and interestingly, that he sometimes found ideas for his opponents that never even entered their heads. Petrosian had Capablanca's technique and Schlechter's sense of danger. Mikhail Tal A strong player knows all the rules and laws of the game.

A telented player knows everything that a strong player knows, but he also sees exceptions to the rules. But major chess talents(we call them geniuses) gradulally transform these exceptions into new rules. And so on ad infinitum, since chess is inexhaustible. Tigran Petrosian Petrosian was able to make combinations no worse than Tal, but he restrained his talent and played purely positionally.

Contents. Early years Tigran L.

Petrosian was born on 17 September 1984. His first name was deliberately chosen by his father to match the name of, the first Armenian to become World Champion.

When the late won the world title, Tigran's father dreamt that if he ever had a son he would call him Tigran. The ex-world champ died a month before Tigran L. Petrosian was born. Petrosian learned chess at the age of five.

He received coaching from and before entering a chess academy in 2002, where he was occasionally instructed by GM and IM. Chess career. Petrosian (1st right) with his 2008 Olympiad teammates on a 2009 stamp of Armenia Petrosian achieved his grandmaster title by scoring norms at the in 2002, the Batumi Open in 2003, and the in Moscow in 2004. In the same year he tied for 2nd-3rd with in the in, India.

In 2005, he tied for first in, and; in 2006 tied for first in and; in 2008 tied for first in and. In the same year he won a team gold medal (together with, and ) at the in. In 2011, Petrosian tied for 1st–3rd with and in the Memorial in and won the event on tie-break. In the same year he won the first Armenian Championship, tied for 2nd–4th with and in the third Orissa International GM Open Chess Tournament and came first in the 31st Villa de Open. In January 2012 Petrosian won the and in February 2012 came first in the Armenian Championship.

In January 2013 he won the Armenian Chess Championship for the second time. He also won clear first prize in International 'Grand Europe Open Albena-2013' in Bulgaria. In 2017 he finished clear first in the 45th Annual World Open. Petrosian plays on the (ICC) under the pseudonym 'Tigrano'.

Awards In December 2009, Petrosian was awarded the title of 'Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia'. References. Retrieved 2010-05-25. Savinov, Misha. Retrieved 2009-08-26.

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