Stepan Avagyan Memorial

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Stepan Avagyan Memorial
Tournament information
Location Jermuk, Armenia
Format9-round round-robin tournament
Current champion
Aravindh Chithambaram

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.

Aravindh Chithambaram is the current champion.

Winners

#YearWinner(s)
12020Flag of Armenia.svg  Manuel Petrosyan  (Armenia) [2]
22021Flag of Armenia.svg  Manuel Petrosyan  (Armenia)
32022Flag of Iran.svg  Amin Tabatabaei  (Iran)
42023Flag of the United States.svg  Sam Sevian  (United States)
5 2024 Flag of India.svg  Arjun Erigaisi  (India) [3]
6 2025 Flag of India.svg  Aravindh Chithambaram  (India) [4]

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.
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