Gaguik Oganessian

Armenian chess player (1947–2015)

Gaguik Ogannesyan (Armenian: Գագիկ Հովհաննիսյան; 21 April 1947 – 27 June 2015) was an Armenian chess player, chess official, journalist and writer. Born in Yerevan,^[1] he was awarded the title of FIDE International Organizer in 1996^[1] and served as president of FIDE Zone 1.5, chairman of FIDE Chess Information, Publication and Statistics Committee (CHIPS), member of the FIDE Executive Board, general secretary of the Armenian Chess Federation.^[2] Hovhannisyan won the 4th World Amateur Chess Championship, held along the 1998/99 Hastings International Chess Congress, and as a result he was awarded the title FIDE Master.^[3]

Gaguik Ogannesyan graduated from the Journalism Department of the Philological Faculty of Yerevan State University in 1968. Three years later, he became associate professor at the same department. In 1972, Gaguik Ogannesyan founded the magazine Chess in Armenia, of which he was also editor-in-chief. He was author of 51 chess books.^[1]

In 2007 then-president of Armenia Robert Kocharian handed him a Governmental Award. In the same year Kirsan Ilyumzhinov rewarded him with FIDE Golden Sign for the "feverish activity in the chess field."^[2]

Gaguik Ogannesyan died in Oslo, June 27 2015.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "In Memoriam – Gagik Hovhannisyan". Chessdom. 2015-06-29. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
^ ^a ^b "Gagik Hovhannisyan is awarded by two Presidents". FIDE. Retrieved 3 May 2010.
^ Crowther, Mark (1999-01-11). "TWIC 218: Hastings 1998-9". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2019-03-13.