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| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Jermuk, Armenia |
| Format | 9-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.[1] 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
[edit]# Year Winner(s) 1 2020 
Manuel Petrosyan (Armenia)[2]2 2021 Manuel Petrosyan (Armenia)3 2022 
Amin Tabatabaei (Iran)4 2023 
Samuel Sevian (United States)5 2024 
Arjun Erigaisi (India)[3]6 2025 Aravindh Chithambaram (India)[4]7 2026 Samuel Sevian (United States)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Stepan Avagyan Memorial 2025". chess.com. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ↑ "The Week in Chess 1341". TheWeekInChess.com. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Aravindh pips Praggnanandhaa". sportstar.thehindu.com. Retrieved 6 Jun 2025.