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Melikset Khachiyan
Title:
Grandmaster
Rating:
2544
Federation:
USA
Age:
51
Bio:
Khachiyan was born in 1970, Baku, Azerbajan ( part of former Soviet Union). From age 10, he was one of the top junior players in Azerbajan, winning multiple youth titles. Khachiyan moved to US in 2001, and recieved his GM title in 2005. He has been the coach of US Women Team since 2010. In 2018, he was selected to represent USA on FIDE Trainer Commission. Khachiyan trained L.Aronian, E.Danielian, T.L.Petrosian, A.Pashikian, T.Gharamian, V.Akobian and many others. He is the Coach/Captain of US Women Team since 2010. Had prepared over 40 US National Master, several IMs,and GMs. Top US Students: GMs S.Zierk, K.Troff, IM C.Hilby, C.Yoo, A.Hong, and WIM S.Liao. His current top students include IM A.Wang, WIM A.Eswaran, WCM A.Nguyen. From 2018, Khachiyan was selected to represent USA on FIDE Trainer Commision https://trainers.fide.com/commission/. He recently received an important international trainer award :https://trainers.fide.com/2021/05/10/winners-of-the-fide-trainer-awards-…
