Tigran Vaanovic Nalbandian is an Armenian chess grandmaster.

He is a graduate of the Henrik Kasparian chess school, alongside other Armenian grandmasters Levon Aronian, Gabriel Sargissian, Vladimir Akopian, and Hrant Melkumyan.

[1] He has 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.

[2][3] In July 2010, he won the Dortmund Open with a score of 7/9.

[4][5] In September 2019, he became head of a new chess school that opened in the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Yerevan.