Best results: won or shared first at 1990 Belavenets Memorial (RUS), Fahr Open (IRI) and Alushta 2003. Also second at Prodvino zt 1993, fourth at the Armenian championship in 1995.
A participant in the Interzonal of Biel 1993.
One of the coaches of the Armenian national team that won the 2006 Olympiad, he worked for some time with Vladimir Kramnik. Peak rating: 2527 in 2005.
Armenian Grandmaster (2004).