Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Sergei Movsesian (Armenian: Սերգեյ Մովսիսյան; born November 3, 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR) is an Armenian-born chess Grandmaster who played for the Czech Republic for most of his career. Later he represented Slovakia for better conditions and citizenship certification there, but as of late 2010, Movsesian announced that he plays for his home country of Armenia. He was a member of the gold-medal winning Armenian team at the World Team Chess Championship in Ningbo 2011.In 1999, Movsesian reached the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Chess Championship in Las Vegas, but lost to Vladimir Akopian, 1.5–2.5.He won international tournaments in Sarajevo (2002 and 2007); 2007 Czech Coal Carlsbad tournament in Karlovy Vary; Mikhail Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg in 2007; and B-tournament of the Corus Chess Tournament in 2008. In 2013 he tied for 1st–8th with Alexander Moiseenko, Evgeny Romanov, Alexander Beliavsky, Constantin Lupulescu, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Hrant Melkumyan, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alexey Dreev and Evgeny Alekseev in the European Individual Chess Championship.Movsesian is married to Woman Grandmaster Júlia Kočetková.He speaks eight languages fluently.. }
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- Sergei_Movsesian abstract "Sergei Movsesian (Armenian: Սերգեյ Մովսիսյան; born November 3, 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR) is an Armenian-born chess Grandmaster who played for the Czech Republic for most of his career. Later he represented Slovakia for better conditions and citizenship certification there, but as of late 2010, Movsesian announced that he plays for his home country of Armenia. He was a member of the gold-medal winning Armenian team at the World Team Chess Championship in Ningbo 2011.In 1999, Movsesian reached the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Chess Championship in Las Vegas, but lost to Vladimir Akopian, 1.5–2.5.He won international tournaments in Sarajevo (2002 and 2007); 2007 Czech Coal Carlsbad tournament in Karlovy Vary; Mikhail Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg in 2007; and B-tournament of the Corus Chess Tournament in 2008. In 2013 he tied for 1st–8th with Alexander Moiseenko, Evgeny Romanov, Alexander Beliavsky, Constantin Lupulescu, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Hrant Melkumyan, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alexey Dreev and Evgeny Alekseev in the European Individual Chess Championship.Movsesian is married to Woman Grandmaster Júlia Kočetková.He speaks eight languages fluently.".