Stepan Avagyan Memorial 2023

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The Chess Academy of Armenia is organizing an International Chess Tournament Stepan Avagyan Memorial from 2-12 of May, 2023 in Jermuk, Armenia. The 16 category FIDE event will be played as a 10-player GM norm round-robin tournament with a total prize fund of 10.000 USD. The time control of the event will be: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves + 30 minutes for the rest of the game (with 30 seconds increment starting from move one).

GM Sevian Samuel is the top seed of the tournament, followed by GM Andrey Esipenko and GM Amin Tabatabaei on the starting rank list. The field includes GM Haik Martirosyan, GM Narayanan S.L., GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen, GM Nodirbek Yakubboev, GM Frederik Svane, GM Robert Hovhannisyan and GM Artur Davtyan.

Tournament schedule:

  2 May – Opening Ceremony          19:00
  3 May – Round 1                            15:00
  4 May – Round 2                            15:00
  5 May – Round 3                            15:00
  6 May – Round 4                            15:00
  7 May – Round 5                            15:00
  8 May – Round 6                            15:00
  9 May – Round 7                            15:00
  10 May – Round 8                          15:00
11 May – Round 9                           11:00
  11 May – Closing Ceremony           17:00            

Starting list of players:

No.		Name	FED	RtgI
1	GM	Sevian Samuel	USA	2684
3	GM	Esipenko Andrey	FID	2679
4	GM	Tabatabaei M. Amin	IRI	2677
2	GM	Martirosyan Haik M.	ARM	2675
5	GM	Narayanan.S.L	IND	2661
6	GM	Nguyen Thai Dai Van	CZE	2649
7	GM	Yakubboev Nodirbek	UZB	2630
8	GM	Svane Frederik	GER	2600
9	GM	Hovhannisyan Robert	ARM	2596
10	IM	Davtyan Artur	ARM	2506