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2475 -lrb- july 1997 -rrb- armenia baku , azerbaijan ssr , soviet union 300px international master 13300393 19 september 1972 ashot nadanian chess singapore.jpg ashot nadanian
 ashot nadanian
ashot nadanian

ashot nadanian -lrb- sometimes transliterated as nadanyan ; ; born september 19 , 1972 -rrb- is an armenian chess international master -lrb- 1997 -rrb- , chess theoretician and chess coach .
his highest achievements have been in opening theory and coaching .
two opening variations are named after him : the nadanian variation in the grünfeld defence and the nadanian attack in the queen 's pawn opening .
he began coaching at the age of 22 and has brought up three grandmasters .
he has coached the national teams of kuwait and singapore and was awarded the titles honoured coach of armenia in 1998 and fide trainer in 2007 .
since 2011 , he has been a permanent second of levon aronian .
although a strong player who competed in the 1996 chess olympiad and narrowly failed to qualify for the 1999 fide world chess championship , he has never fulfilled his potential .
according to valery chekhov , nadanian `` possesses enormous chess potential , but he was not able to find enough time to work professionally on his chess . ''
levon aronian said that due to the situation in armenia , nadanian `` was not able to display even one-tenth of his playing talent . ''
due to his imaginative attacking style , nadanian has been described as a `` brilliant eccentric '' , the `` armenian tal '' and `` kasparov 's half-brother '' .
the sixth chapter of tibor karolyi 's 2009 book `` genius in the background '' is devoted to nadanian .
