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

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Samvel Ter-Sahakyan
Karlsruhe 2019
Country	Armenia
Born	(1993-09-19) 19 September 1993 (age 30) Vanadzor, Armenia
Title	Grandmaster (2009)
FIDE rating	2650 (May 2024)
Peak rating	2650 (May 2024)
Ranking	No. 87 (May 2024)
Peak ranking	No. 87 (May 2024)

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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]