The leader of the Armenian chess team, Heik Martirosyan, will play in the 2026 World Chess Championship in Budapest.
This is the premiere total chess tournament, organized by Norway Chess in cooperation with FIDE. The 24 strongest chess players in the world, selected according to various criteria, will compete in three branches at the same time in one tournament.
The tournament system is very complex and confusing, so we will write about each round separately. The first round (Swiss Blitz pre-tournament) starts today. This round will last only one day, and consists of ten blitz games according to the Swiss method. The results of this round are used to determine tiebreakers and arrangement for the playoffs.
The first opponent of Hayek Martirosyan (2,686) in this round will be Nodyrbek Abdosturov (Uzbekistan, 2,819).
The total duration of the World Chess Championship is 11 days, and the prize pool is $650,000, of which the champion will earn $80,000 and the last place will earn $10,000.
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