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Aram Hakobyan (chess player)Aram Hakobyan Aram Hakobyan was born on April 1 of 2001 in Yerevan. He attended a chess house named after Tigran Petrosyan when he was six years old. As a professional athlete, Aram Hakobyan won five championships in Armenia in various categories (10, 12, 14, 18) His U18 championships were won twice when he was 15-16 years old. In 2013, Aram Hakobyan won the U12 world championship in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. In 2014 and 2015, he won silver and bronze in European Championships. In 2016, he won bronze with the national team at the U16 Olympiad in Slovakia Poprad. Having become an International Master at the age of 15, he completed all the Grandmaster norms to become an International Grandmaster at the age of 16.

Hakobyan won the World Young Stars Tournament at the age of 17. In September 2019, he began his education with a full scholarship at Webster University, in St Louis, majoring in management. At the end of 2019, he won a bronze medal at the World Junior Chess Championship (U20). With the Webster Team, he won the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championship in 2020. By 2021, he had crossed the 2600 mark on the FIDE rating list. He was co-champion of the SPICE cup in 2022. For the second time in a row, he won the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championship in 2022-23.