The 56th Iranian Chess Championship for Men took place from 11-21 May in Kerman, simultaneously with the 33rd Iranian Women’s Chess Championship. The event was played as a 14-player round-robin tournament with the time control of 90 minutes for the whole game plus 30 seconds increment for each move.
After 13 played rounds, 19-year-old Amirreza Pour Agha Bala emerged as the sole winner of the event, scoring 11/13 points. Pour Agha Bala started slow with 4/6, but then won seven consecutive games to be crowned as the Iranian Chess Champion for 2023!
The top-seeded GM Bardiya Daneshvar came second with the score of 10.5 points, while GM Seyed Khalil Mousavi won bronze medal with 8.5 points.
Final rankings – 56th Iranian Chess Championship for Men:
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Club/City | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
| 1 | Pour Agha Bala, Amirreza | IRI | 2501 | Az.Sharghi | 11 | 0 | 62.5 | 6 | |
| 2 | GM | Daneshvar, Bardiya | IRI | 2540 | Tehran | 10.5 | 0 | 62.3 | 6 |
| 3 | GM | Mousavi, Seyed Khalil | IRI | 2509 | Gilan | 8.5 | 0 | 50 | 4.5 |
| 4 | IM | Tahbaz, Arash | IRI | 2461 | Gilan | 7.5 | 0 | 49 | 5 |
| 5 | GM | Darini, Pouria | IRI | 2401 | Kerman | 7 | 0.5 | 38.3 | 3 |
| 6 | IM | Daghli, Arash | IRI | 2438 | Gilan | 7 | 0.5 | 35.3 | 3 |
| 7 | FM | Movahed, Sina | IRI | 2359 | Khuzestan | 6.5 | 1.5 | 33.8 | 2.5 |
| 8 | FM | Atakhan, Abtin | IRI | 2422 | Tehran | 6.5 | 1 | 36.3 | 3 |
| 9 | IM | Gholami Orimi, Mahdi | IRI | 2420 | Mazandaran | 6.5 | 0.5 | 36 | 3 |
| 10 | Tahmasebi, Hamidreza | IRI | 2171 | Fars | 5 | 0 | 24.5 | 1.5 | |
| 11 | Khaledi, Omid | IRI | 2118 | Tehran | 4.5 | 1.5 | 25 | 2.5 | |
| 12 | FM | Ashraf, Artin | IRI | 2314 | Fars | 4.5 | 1 | 23 | 2.5 |
| 13 | Omidi, Arya | IRI | 2350 | Gilan | 4.5 | 0.5 | 25.5 | 2.5 | |
| 14 | CM | Zahmati, Sobhan | IRI | 2123 | Kh.Razavi | 1.5 | 0 | 9.25 | 1 |
