This article is about the chess player and world champion. For the chess grandmaster born in 1984 who is named after him, see Tigran L. Petrosian.
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vartanovich and the family name is Petrosian.
Tigran Petrosian
Petrosian in 1962
Full name
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian
Country
Soviet Union
Born
(1929-06-17)17 June 1929 Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Died
13 August 1984(1984-08-13) (aged 55) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title
Grandmaster (1952)
World Champion
1963–1969
Peak rating
2645 (July 1972)
Peak ranking
No. 3 (July 1972)
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (Armenian: Տիգրան Վարդանի Պետրոսյան; Russian: Тигран Вартанович Петросян; 17 June 1929 – 13 August 1984) was a Soviet-Armenian chess grandmaster[1] and the ninth World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his almost-impenetrable defensive playing style, which emphasized safety above all else.[2][3] Petrosian is often credited with popularizing chess in Armenia.[4][5]
Petrosian was a candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions (1953, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1980). He won the World Championship in 1963 (against Mikhail Botvinnik), successfully defended it in 1966 (against Boris Spassky), and lost it to Spassky in 1969. Thus he was the defending World Champion or a World Championship Candidate in ten consecutive three-year cycles. He won the Soviet Championship four times (1959, 1961, 1969, and 1975).
^Cite error: The named reference 1973CLR was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Vasiliev 1974, p. 27.
^Kasparov 2004, pp. 7, 16, 62, 80.
^Parkinson, Joe (3 December 2012). "Winning Move: Chess Reigns as Kingly Pursuit in Armenia". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
^"In Armenia chess is king and grandmasters are stars". The Independent. 13 May 2010. Archived from the original on 15 September 2014.
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (Armenian: Տիգրան Վարդանի Պետրոսյան; Russian: Тигран Вартанович Петросян; 17 June 1929 – 13 August 1984) was a Soviet-Armenian...
TigranPetrosian Chess House (Armenian: Տիգրան Պետրոսյանի անվան Շախմատի Տուն), officially the Central House of Chess-player named after Tigran Petrosian...
Larsen by 6–0 scores. After winning another qualifying match against TigranPetrosian, Fischer won the title match against Boris Spassky of the USSR, in...
played three world championship matches: he lost to TigranPetrosian in 1966; defeated Petrosian in 1969 to become world champion; then lost to Bobby...
Botvinnik played his last world championship match against TigranPetrosian, in a 22-game series. Petrosian, almost 20 years younger, wore out the 52 year old...
winning with 20/28 points, ahead of Paul Keres with 18½, followed by TigranPetrosian, Vasily Smyslov, the sixteen-year-old Bobby Fischer, Svetozar Gligorić...
2550 Viktor Korchnoi, 2535 Boris Spassky, 2480 Vasily Smyslov, 2413 TigranPetrosian, 2363 These "Divinsky numbers" are not on the same scale as Elo ratings...
Championship was played between TigranPetrosian and Boris Spassky in Moscow from April 9 to June 9, 1966. Petrosian won. An interzonal tournament was...
he has been inactive for at least five years. Arshak Petrosian is not related to TigranPetrosian, also Armenian, who was World Chess Champion from 1963...
At the World Chess Championship 1963, TigranPetrosian narrowly qualified to challenge Mikhail Botvinnik for the World Chess Championship, and then won...
1963. The return match clause was not in place for the 1963 cycle. TigranPetrosian won the 1962 Candidates and then defeated Botvinnik in 1963 to become...
played between TigranPetrosian and Boris Spassky in Moscow from April 14 to June 17, 1969. This was the second consecutive time Petrosian and Spassky played...
Isaac Boleslavsky, Alexander Kotov, Salo Flohr, fellow finals debutant TigranPetrosian, Viacheslav Ragozin, and Grigory Levenfish. Despite this showing, he...
matches in 1966 and 1969. He lost the world championship match to TigranPetrosian in 1966. In the 1969 cycle, he won matches against Efim Geller, Bent...
widespread recognition during the 1960s, when Soviet Armenian grandmaster TigranPetrosian became the World Chess Champion. A country of about three million people...
Manouk Petrosian (1676–1749), Armenian scholar and theologian TigranPetrosian (1929–1984), Soviet-Armenian chess grandmaster and world champion Tigran L....
been a long list of famous winners, including Max Euwe, Bent Larsen, TigranPetrosian, Paul Keres, Lajos Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail...
German in 1929, was purchased by a pre-teen and future World Champion TigranPetrosian and was to have a great influence on his development as a chess player...
and the weakness of his own c-pawn. Petrosian vs Krogius, 1959 In this position, World Champion TigranPetrosian has just played 12. b4, initiating the...
Swiss system. Six titles: Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal Four titles: TigranPetrosian, Viktor Korchnoi, Alexander Beliavsky Three titles: Paul Keres, Leonid...
Player Country Age 1950 David Bronstein Soviet Union 26 years 1952 TigranPetrosian Soviet Union 23 years 1955 Boris Spassky Soviet Union 18 years 1958...
Championship in 1999, 2007, and 2008, and the Dubai 2001 and 2004 TigranPetrosian Memorial tournaments. In 2006, Asrian competed on third board for the...
Match final, Fischer beat former World Champion TigranPetrosian in the first game before Petrosian snapped the streak by winning the second match game...
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