User:TheShadowCrow/sandbox/Smbat Gariginovich Lputian

Smbat Gariginovich Lputian (Սմբատ Լպուտյան; born 14 February 1958), sometimes transliterated as Lputyan, is an Armenian chess Grandmaster. He has won a gold, silver and bronze medal at the European Team Chess Championship, three bronze medals at the World Team Chess Championship and three bronze medals and one gold medal at the Chess Olympiad playing for Armenia. Sargissian was awarded the Khorenatsi medal in June 2006 and awarded the title of Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia in December 2009.

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

He was first at tournament in Berlin 1982, shared first at Athens 1983 and at Irkutsk 1983, first at Sarajevo 1985 and at Irkutsk 1986, shared first at Hastings 1986-87 and first at Dortmund 1988. He won the Armenian Championship in 1978, 1980, 1998, and 2001.

Lputian had competed on the Armenia national chess team since the independence of the country. The national team, with Lputian, won bronze in 1997, gold in 1999 and silver in 2007 at the European Team Chess Championship. Lputian played on board one for the 1999 victory. At the World Team Chess Championship, Armenia and Lputian won bronze three times in 1997, 2001 and 2005. The Armenian team won bronze in their Chess Olympaid debut at the 30th Chess Olympiad in 1992 and won bronze twice more at the 35th Chess Olympiad and 36th Chess Olympiad with Lputian as a member. In 2006, he won a team gold medal (together with Levon Aronian, Vladimir Akopian, Karen Asrian, Gabriel Sargissian and Artashes Minasian) at the 37th Chess Olympiad. Lputian competed for Armenia at the Olympaid for fourteen years. He stopped after the 2006 Olympiad.

Internet Chess Club
His handle on the Internet Chess Club is "SM".

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