| Country: | United States |
| Birth Place: | Irvine, California |
| Grandmaster (2024) | |
| Peakrating: | 2501 (December 2024) |
| Fideid: | 30908604 |
Kirk Vagho Ghazarian is an American chess grandmaster.
In June 2020, he finished second at the Pan-Armenian Chess Tournament.[1]
In January 2023, he was named to the All-America Chess Team.[2]
In February 2023, he finished tied for second place at the Rochefort Chess Festival Masters 2023, and secured the runner-up position ahead of Harsha Bharathakoti, Momchil Nikolov, and Peio Duboue due to better tiebreaks.[3]
He qualified to play at the Chess World Cup 2023, but was unable to attend the event and was replaced by Gianmarco Leiva.[4]
In January 2024, he earned his final GM norm by defeating Miklos Galyas at the NYC Chess Norms event.[5] He was awarded the Grandmaster title in December 2024, after his rating surpassed 2500.