Stepan Avagyan Memorial

Stepan Avagyan Memorial
Tournament information
LocationJermuk, Armenia
Format9-round round-robin tournament
Current champion
Samuel Sevian

The Stepan Avagyan Memorial is an annual, closed chess tournament hosted at the Jermuk Ashkarh Health Center in Jermuk, Armenia, in memory of Stepan Avagyan. It is a 10 player round-robin tournament. The time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30 second increment starting from move one.

Samuel Sevian is the current champion.

Winners

#YearWinner(s)
12020 Manuel Petrosyan (Armenia)
22021 Manuel Petrosyan (Armenia)
32022 Amin Tabatabaei (Iran)
42023 Samuel Sevian (United States)
52024 Arjun Erigaisi (India)
62025 Aravindh Chithambaram (India)
72026 Samuel Sevian (United States)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Stepan Avagyan Memorial 2025". chess.com. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "The Week in Chess 1341". TheWeekInChess.com. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "Arjun Erigaisi wins Stepan Avagyan Memorial 2024 with a round to spare; Achieves 2779.9 live rating". sportstar.thehindu.com. 17 June 2024. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  4. ↑ "Aravindh pips Praggnanandhaa". sportstar.thehindu.com. Retrieved 6 Jun 2025.