Tags: Chess Player.
Smbat Gariginovich Lputian (sometimes transliterated as Lputyan; Armenian: Սմբատ Լպուտյան; born 14 February 1958 in Yerevan) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster. He was first at tournament in Berlin 1982 shared first at Athens 1983 and at Irkutsk 1983 first at Sarajevo 1985 and at Irkutsk 1986 shared first at Hastings 1986-87 and first at Dortmund 1988. He won the Armenian Championship in 1978 1980 1998 and 2001.
