A strong Category 17 tournament
Three out of the ten participants are the winners of the previous four editions. Samuel Sevian (USA) won the fourth edition in 2023, M Amin Tabatabaei (IRI) was the winner of the third edition in 2022, Manuel Petrosyan clinched the inaugural and second event in 2020 and 2021 respectively.
Players
World no.8 - Arjun Erigaisi, Iran no.2 and World no.31 - M Amin Tabatabaei, defending champion, USA no.6 and World no.38 - Samuel Sevian, Romania no.2 and World no.43 - Bogdan-Daniel Deac, Armenia no.1 and World no.55 - Haik M Martirosyan, Germany no.3 and World no.93 - Matthias Bluebaum, Armenia no.5 - Shant Sargsyan, Volodar Murzin, Armenia no.8 - Manuel Petrosyan and Armenia no.9 - Robert Hovhannisyan.
Time Control
90 minutes for the first 40 moves + 30 minutes for the rest of the game (with 30 seconds increment starting from move one).
Prizes
The total prize fund is 7450000 AMD (≈ US$ 18400). The top three prizes are 3100000 AMD (≈ US$ 7976), 1 850 000 AMD (≈ US$ 4760) and 1500000 (≈ US$ 3859). There are also Chessify prizes for all ten participants. The top three Chessify prizes are - bundles worth $350, $300 and $250 each.
Schedule
| Sunday | 9 June at 19:00 | Opening Ceremony |
| Monday | 10 June at 15:00 | Round 1 |
| Tuesday | 11 June at 15:00 | Round 2 |
| Wednesday | 12 June at 15:00 | Round 3 |
| Thursday | 13 June at 15:00 | Round 4 |
| Friday | 14 June at 15:00 | Round 5 |
| Saturday | 15 June at 15:00 | Round 6 |
| Sunday | 16 June at 15:00 | Round 7 |
| Monday | 17 June at 15:00 | Round 8 |
| Tuesday | 18 June at 11:00 | Round 9 |
| Tuesday | 18 June at 17:00 | Closing Ceremony |
