GM Tigran Nalbandian (1975-2025)

[Simon Rogers]

The sad news has been reported that Armenian Grandmaster Tigran Nalbandian died from a heart attack on 28th June, at the age of just 50, in Yerevan, Armenia.
Tigran was born on 5th June 1975 in Yerevan, Armenia, USSR and became a Grandmaster in 2004.
He achieved a peak rating of 2527 in October 2005 and his FIDE rating was 2466 just before his death.
Tigran was a graduate of the famous Henrik Kasparian chess school, alongside other Armenian Grandmasters Levon Aronian, Gabriel Sargissian, Vladimir Akopian and Hrant Melkumyan.
He coached Grandmaster Robert Aghasaryan, and was also the coach of the Armenian team that won the 37th Chess Olympiad in 2006 and 38th Chess Olympiad in 2008.
In July 2010, he won the Dortmund Open with a score of 7/9.
In September 2019, Tigran became the head of a new chess school that opened in the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Yerevan.
RIP