Samvel Ter-Sahakyan ( hy, Սամվել Տեր-Սահակյան; born 19 September 1993) is an Armenian
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
grandmaster.
He won the 2003 Under 10 and 2009 Under 18 European Youth Chess Championship. He completed the Grandmaster requirements on 18 September 2008 during the
European U16 championship, when his rating reached 2500, the title confirmed by FIDE in 2009. At the 2008
World U18 championship, Ter-Sahakyan scored 8 points of 11to finish fourth on tiebreak. He won the 2011 World U18 Chess Championship.
He was second in the 2011
Armenian Chess Championship This is a list of all the winners of the Armenian Chess Championship. The first championship was played in 1934, when Armenia was a part of the Transcaucasian SFSR. Championships were held sporadically in the Armenian SSR until 1945, when they beca ...
, behind
Robert Hovhannisyan
Robert Hovhannisyan ( hy, Ռոբերտ Հովհաննիսյան; born 23 March 1991) is an Armenian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2010.
In January 2011, Hovhannisyan won the 71st Armenian Chess Championship. In J ...
. In 2012, he finished 3rd in the 74th Armenian championship with a score of 6/10 (+3 -1 = 6).
In 2015, Ter-Sahakyan won the Students section of the Moscow Open with 6/9, half a point ahead of Daniil Dubov and finished third on tiebreak with 7/9 at the Karen Asrian Memorial.
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Living people
1993 births
People from Vanadzor
Armenian chess players
Chess grandmasters
World Youth Chess Champions