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    Tigran Petrosian was a Soviet Armenian chess grandmaster and the World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was known for his defensive playing style that prioritized safety. Petrosian was a candidate for the World Chess Championship eight times between 1953 and 1980, winning the title in 1963 and defending it successfully in 1966 before losing it to Boris Spassky in 1969. He also won the Soviet Championship four times and helped popularize chess in Armenia.

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    Tigran Petrosian was a Soviet Armenian chess grandmaster and the World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was known for his defensive playing style that prioritized safety. Petrosian was a candidate for the World Chess Championship eight times between 1953 and 1980, winning the title in 1963 and defending it successfully in 1966 before losing it to Boris Spassky in 1969. He also won the Soviet Championship four times and helped popularize chess in Armenia.

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    Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (Russian: Тигран Вартанович Петрося

    ан; Armenian: Տիգրան


    Պետրոսյան; June 17, 1929 – August 13, 1984) was a Soviet Armenian Grandmaster, and
    World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his
    almost impenetrable defensive playing style, which emphasised safety above all
    else.[1][2]

    Petrosian was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions
    (1953, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1980).

    He won the World Championship in 1963 (against Mikhail Botvinnik), successfully


    defended it in 1966 (against Boris Spassky), and lost it to Spassky in 1969. Thus
    he was the defending World Champion or a World Championship Candidate in ten
    consecutive three-year cycles. He won the Soviet Championship four times (1959,
    1961, 1969, and 1975).

    Petrosian is widely known for popularizing chess in Armenia.

    Petrosian was born to Armenian parents on June 17, 1929 in Tiflis, Georgian SSR
    (modern-day Georgia).[5] As a young boy, Petrosian was an excellent student and
    enjoyed studying, as did his brother Hmayak and sister Vartoosh. He learned to play
    chess at the age of 8,[6] though his illiterate father Vartan encouraged him to
    continue studying, as he thought chess was unlikely to bring his son any success as
    a career.[7] Petrosian was orphaned during World War II and was forced to sweep
    streets to earn a living.[5] It was about this time that his hearing began to
    deteriorate, a problem that afflicted him throughout his life. In a 1969 interview
    with Time magazine, he recalled:

    I started sweeping streets in the middle of the winter and it was horrible. Of
    course there were no machines then, so we had to do everything by hand. Some of the
    older men helped me out. I was a weak boy. And I was ashamed of being a street
    sweeper—that's natural, I suppose. It wasn't so bad in the early morning when the
    streets were empty, but when it got light and the crowds came out I really hated
    it. I got sick and missed a year in school. We had a babushka, a sister of my
    father, and she really saved me. She gave me bread to eat when I was sick and
    hungry. That's when this trouble with my hearing started. I don't remember how it
    all happened. Things aren't very clear from that time.[8]

    He used his rations to buy Chess Praxis by Danish grandmaster Aron Nimzowitsch, a
    book which Petrosian later stated had the greatest influence on him as a chess
    player.[7] He also purchased The Art of Sacrifice in Chess by Rudolf Spielmann. The
    other player to have had an early effect on Petrosian's chess was José Raúl
    Capablanca.[7] At age 12 he began training at the Tiflis Palace of Pioneers[6][9]
    under the tutelage of Archil Ebralidze. Ebralidze was a supporter of Nimzowitsch
    and Capablanca, and his scientific approach to chess discouraged wild tactics and
    dubious combinations. As a result, Petrosian developed a repertoire of solid
    positional openings, such as the Caro–Kann Defence.[7] After training at the Palace
    of Pioneers for just one year, he defeated visiting Soviet grandmaster Salo Flohr
    at a simultaneous exhibition.[6][9]

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