Karen Grigoryan Biography

Their mother was a professor of philology, and after leaving the family of the father, who returned from Moscow to Yerevan, gave the children their surname - Grigoryan. Karen and Levon went to the chess section at seven years old, soon getting into the group to the strong master Leo Aronin. The brothers quickly showed their talent in chess, both performed the title of master of sports of the USSR at 19.

Having moved to Armenia, they repeatedly became champions of the republic. Karen won the championships, years.

Further fate Grigoryanov parted. Levon left for Uzbekistan, where he also won the republican championships, but contacted the camel players with a bad company. Shortly after the All -Union qualifying year, the USSR chess circles flew around the sad news - Levon was thrown out of the window of a Tashkent apartment. Karen confidently went to rise: he participated in the Cup of the USSR of the year, made his way to the finals of the union and years.

A participant in the zonal tournament, the champion of Moscow and the winner of the open championship of Azerbaijan, after a successful performance at the international tournament in Yerevan, Karen Grigoryan was awarded the title of an international master. Repeatedly won traditional blitzitches for the prizes of the newspaper "Evening Moscow", was considered one of the best in the USSR specialists in a lightning -fast game.

Alas, in the years, Grigoryan began mental problems. Severe failures in several semifinals of the USSR championships aggravated the problem. Karen did not play for several years, struggling with an ailment, then he went to the start of the GMA tournament in Belgorod, where he scored catastrophic 3.5 out of 9 ... Karen Grigoryan committed suicide on October 30, throwing himself from the highest bridge of Yerevan.

Karen grew up easily, subtly -sensing art boy. It is difficult to say how his fate would have developed if he had followed in the footsteps of his parents, but at the age of seven, Karen was given to chess. It is curious that for some time he was engaged in Leo Aronin, also burdened with serious mental problems. She was postponed in a position where he actually led to the victory of the whites.

However, Aronin, having all day for analysis, moved to a pedestrian endgame, in which he allowed the opponent to escape with a sketch way. Karen recalled that, coming to Aronin, every time he saw him behind this position, thoughtfully rearranging the figures with a bright versatile talent, Karen Grigoryan was considered at one time the chess hope of Armenia. In the X years, he constantly played in the championships of the Soviet Union.

Like Vitolins, he was, as it were, not from this world, maybe not as gloomy as Alvis, but also strange, unusual, not like everyone else. One of Karen's favorite questions was: “What do you think, which tournament is stronger - notingham of the year or the GO championship of the GO? In that championship, by the way, one of the most representative in the history of their holding, he performed perfectly.

By current standards, Karen was, of course, a strong grandmaster. Having won two parties in the country's championship or an international tournament in a row, he considered himself a genius and easily built a chain: “Yesterday I won Talya in the same year; Of course, Tal is no longer a world champion, but he has a positive account with Fisher. What do you think of my chances in the match with Fisher?

The friendship of Grigoryan and Vitolins was not friendship in the generally accepted sense of the word. Fenced off from the whole world, they simply understood each other or, or rather, trusted each other. It was an intuitive sense of a loved one who, after talking with you, would not retell to someone else his content with irony or grin. And of course, in their world chess, which they both loved selflessly, played the most important role.

Both Alvis and Karen were remarkable masters of the blitz. If in tournament chess they were strong, dangerous, albeit uneven players, then in a lightning -fast game there were few equal ”g.” G.