Samvel Ter-Sahakyan Explained

Samvel Ter-Sahakyan
Country:	Armenia
Birth Date:	19 September 1993
Birth Place:	Vanadzor, Armenia
Grandmaster (2009)
Peakrating:	2650 (May 2024)
Peakranking:	No. 87 (May 2024)
Fideid:	13302531

Samvel Rrubeni Ter-Sahakyan (Armenian: Սամվել Ռուբենի Տեր-Սահակյան; born 19 September 1993) is an Armenian chess grandmaster.

Career

He won the 2003 Under 10 and 2009 Under 18 European Youth Chess Championship.^[1] 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.^{[2] [3]} At the 2008 World U18 championship, Ter-Sahakyan scored 8 points of 11to finish fourth on tiebreak.^[4] He won the 2011 World U18 Chess Championship.^[5]

He was second in the 2011 Armenian Chess Championship, behind Robert Hovhannisyan. In 2012, he finished 3rd in the 74th Armenian championship with a score of 6/10 (+3 -1 = 6).^[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.^{[7] [8] [9]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Samvel Ter-Sahakyan European Champion. news.am. 2016-03-16.
2. Web site: World's Youngest To Attain Chess Grandmaster Status. chessaccount. 2016-03-16.
3. Web site: FIDE Title Applications. FIDE. 16 March 2016.
4. Web site: News October, 2008. Chess in Armenia Magazine.
5. Web site: Lori Governor receives world chess champion Samvel Ter-Sahakyan. 8 December 2011. ArmenPress.
6. Web site: The Week in Chess 898. theweekinchess.com. 2016-03-16.
7. Web site: Moscow Open 2015 The Week in Chess. theweekinchess.com. 2016-03-16.
8. Web site: Samvel Ter-Sahakyan: I Take the Victory in the Moscow Open To Be a Great Success. open2015.moscowchess.org. 2016-03-16.
9. Web site: The Week in Chess 1077. theweekinchess.com. 2016-03-16.