Gaguik Oganessian

Gaguik Oganessian
Country	Armenia
Born	(1947-04-21)April 21, 1947 Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	June 27, 2015(2015-06-27) (aged 68) Oslo, Norway
Title	FIDE Master (1999)
Peak rating	2200 (July 1999)

Gaguik Hovhannes Oganessian (Armenian: Գագիկ Հովհաննեսի Հովհաննիսյան; 21 April 1947 – 27 June 2015) (Pronunciation 'Gagik Hov(h)anisyan') was an Armenian chess player, chess official, journalist and writer. Born in Yerevan,Armenia) he was awarded the title of FIDE International Organizer in 1996 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. 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.

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.

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."

Also Gaguik Oganessian was traveling especially around Europe and the world, he loved traveling.

Gaguik Ogannesyan died in Oslo, Norway on June 27, 2015.

External links

• Gaguik Oganessian at Public TV Company Archived 2015-05-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Gaguik Oganessian - Articles - New In Chess