Levon Babujian
{{short description|Armenian chess Grandmaster|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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|name = Levon Babujian
|image = Levon Babujian 3 Yerevan 2013.jpg
|caption = Levon Babujian, 2013
|birthname = Լեւոն Բաբուջյան
|country = {{ARM}}
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1986|5|8}}
|birth_place = Yerevan, Armenia
|death_date =
|death_place =
|title = Grandmaster (2010)
|worldchampion =
|womensworldchampion =
|peakrating = 2518 (January 2009)
|FideID = 13301993
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Levon Babujian ({{langx|hy|Լեւոն Բաբուջյան }}; born May 8, 1986) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster.
Babujian was born in Yerevan.{{fact|date=October 2024}} He attended the Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture and Sport and is the director of a chess school in the Malatia-Sebastia District of Yerevan.[https://woochess.com/en/teacher/levon-babujian Levon Babujian] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701140311/https://woochess.com/en/teacher/levon-babujian |date=2018-07-01 }} at Woo Chess
In April 2006 Levon Babujian achieved the title of International Master (IM).[https://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=13301993&title=IM&pb=11&reff=0 Application for the International Master title] He is a Grandmaster (GM) since January 2010.[http://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=13301993&title=GM&pb=25 Application for the Grandmaster title]
Tournaments
- 2008 Shared second-third at Vasylyshyn Memorial{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=17030|title=VASYLYSHYN Memorial - 2008|publisher=World Chess Federation (FIDE)|accessdate=8 June 2011}}
- 2009 First at Istanbul{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=45988|title=International Istanbul Chess Festival November 2009 Turkey|publisher=FIDE|accessdate=22 January 2012}}
- 2011 Won the 81st Yerevan City Chess Championship{{cite web|url=http://chess-results.com/tnr50280.aspx?art=4&lan=1|title=81st Yerevan Ch. Final|publisher=Chess-results.com|accessdate=8 June 2011}}
- 2011 Shared second-sixth in the 4th Karen Asrian Memorial in Jermuk{{cite web|url=http://tournaments.chessdom.com/news-2011/karen-asrian-memorial|title=4th Karen Asrian Memorial|publisher=Chessdom.com|accessdate=28 June 2011|archive-date=5 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005014549/http://tournaments.chessdom.com/news-2011/karen-asrian-memorial|url-status=dead}}
- 2012 Third in the Armenian Chess960 Championship.{{cite web|url=http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/90416/Hrant_Melkumyan_becomes_Armenias_Chess_960_champion_of_2012|title=Hrant Melkumyan becomes Armenia's Chess 960 champion of 2012|date=2012-01-28|publisher=PanArmenian.net|accessdate=29 January 2012}}
- 2019 First at the Kazakhstan Cup Final.{{Cite web|title=The Week in Chess 1311|url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic1311.html#5|access-date=2020-07-09|website=theweekinchess.com}}
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Category:Chess players from Yerevan
Category:Armenian chess players
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