Andranik Margaryan 15th Memorial with GM norm
2024-11-13The Chess Academy of Armenia is organizing an International Chess Tournament “Andranik Margaryan 15th Memorial” from 8th to 16th of January, 2025. The tournament is a 10-player GM norm Round Robin event held in 9 rounds.
Time control: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves + 15 minutes for the whole game (with 30 seconds increment starting from move one).
The total prize fund of the tournament is 3700 USD. (387 AMD ≈ 1 USD).
1st place - $ 1500
2nd place - $ 1000
3rd place - $ 700
4th place - $ 500
Our partner "Chessify" company has established special prizes for the participants of the tournament.
1st place - bundle /$200/
2nd place - bundle /100$/
3rd place - bundle /$100/
4th place - bundle /100$/
In case of a tie the monetary prizes are distributed equally. Tiebreaks will be carried out according to the following rules:
a) Sonneborn-Berger,
b) number of games played with the black pieces,
c) personal games,
d) number of victories.
Schedule:
Opening Ceremony - 8 January, 13:00
1st round - 8 January, 15:00
2nd round - 9 January, 15:00
3rd round - 10 January, 15:00
4th round - 11 January, 15:00
5th round - 12 January, 15:00
6th round- 13 January, 15:00
7th round - 14 January, 15:00
8th round - 15 January, 15:00
9th round - 16 January, 11:00
Closing ceremony - 16 January, 17:00
Tournament venue: Chess Academy of Armenia (34 Shevchenko Str., Yerevan, Republic of Armenia).
Participation fee. /for International Masters/
Chess players with rating 2501 and above - 100 USD
Chess players with rating 2450 - 2500 - 150 USD
Chess players with rating 2400 - 2450 - 250 USD
Chess players with rating 2350 - 2400 - 300 USD
Chess players with rating 2300 - 2350 - 400 USD
Accommodation with full board in Academy Guest House: per person per day - 40 USD
*Accommodation with full board for GMs’ is free of charge.
Tournament coordinator։ Mery Tashchyan
E-mail: tournaments@chessacademy.am
Tel.: +374 10 448473, +374 55 630640