{"id":44474,"date":"2026-03-27T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/?p=44474"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:54:09","slug":"haik-martirosyan-wins-19th-agzamov-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/haik-martirosyan-wins-19th-agzamov-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Haik Martirosyan wins 19th Agzamov Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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GM Haik Martirosyan<\/strong> (Armenia) emerged as the winner of the 19th Agzamov Memorial, edging out GM Artem Uskov<\/strong> (FIDE) on tiebreaks. Only 0.5 Buchholz points separated the champion from the runner-up.<\/p>

The 19th Agzamov Memorial, dedicated to the memory of Uzbekistan\u2019s first Grandmaster, took place in Tashkent from March 17\u201326. The event boasting a total prize fund of USD 80,000 featured two 10-round Swiss tournaments \u2013 Open A and Open B \u2013 which together attracted nearly 330 participants, including 20 Grandmasters.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Open A was a fiercely contested event, with the winner decided only in the final round. Artem Uskov, who turned 16 during the event, took the sole lead in Round 5 with 4.5\/5, but in the following round top seed Martirosyan caught up with him. In Round 7, local favorite GM Abdimalik Abdisalimov<\/strong> joined the duo for a three-way tie at the top. In Round 8, Martirosyan scored a crucial victory over Abdisalimov and surged ahead as Uskov drew with IM Bakhrom Bakhrillaev<\/strong> of Uzbekistan.<\/p>

Going into the final round with a half-point lead over four rivals at 6.5\/9, Martirosyan managed only a draw against Nikita Afanasiev (FIDE). Meanwhile, Uskov defeated second-seed GM Abhimanyu Puranik<\/strong> with the black pieces to tie for first place. Still, the title went to Martirosyan due to a hair-thin tiebreak advantage. Both players completed the tournament unbeaten.<\/p>

As many as six players finished a half point behind, sharing third place, with Abdisalimov completing the podium.<\/p>

Final standings \u2013 Open A<\/strong><\/a><\/p>

Sultai Chyngyz (Kyrgyztan) and Umar Isomov (Uzbekistan) tied for the first place in the Open B both scoring an impressive 8.5\/10 with Chyngyz coming out on top thanks to superior Buchholz. \u00a0<\/p>

Final standings \u2013 Open B<\/strong><\/a><\/p>

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GM Haik Martirosyan (Armenia) emerged as the winner of the 19th Agzamov Memorial, edging out GM Artem Uskov (FIDE) on tiebreaks. Only 0.5 Buchholz points separated the champion from the runner-up. The 19th Agzamov Memorial, dedicated to the memory of Uzbekistan\u2019s first Grandmaster, took place in Tashkent from March 17\u201326. The event boasting a total prize fund of USD 80,000 featured two 10-round Swiss tournaments \u2013 Open A and Open B \u2013 which together attracted nearly 330 participants, including 20 Grandmasters. Open A was a fiercely contested event, with the winner decided only in the final round. Artem Uskov, who turned 16 during the event, took the sole lead in Round 5 with 4.5\/5, but in the following round top seed Martirosyan caught up with him. In Round 7, local favorite GM Abdimalik Abdisalimov joined the duo for a three-way tie at the top. In Round 8, Martirosyan scored a crucial victory over Abdisalimov and surged ahead as Uskov drew with IM Bakhrom Bakhrillaev of Uzbekistan. Going into the final round with a half-point lead over four rivals at 6.5\/9, Martirosyan managed only a draw against Nikita Afanasiev (FIDE). Meanwhile, Uskov defeated second-seed GM Abhimanyu Puranik with the black pieces to tie for first place. Still, the title went to Martirosyan due to a hair-thin tiebreak advantage. Both players completed the tournament unbeaten. As many as six players finished a half point behind, sharing third place, with Abdisalimov completing the podium. Final standings \u2013 Open A Sultai Chyngyz (Kyrgyztan) and Umar Isomov (Uzbekistan) tied for the first place in the Open B both scoring an impressive 8.5\/10 with Chyngyz coming out on top thanks to superior Buchholz. \u00a0 Final standings \u2013 Open B Photos: Uzbekistan Chess Federation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[41],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-44474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-tournaments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44474"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44487,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44474\/revisions\/44487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44474"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=44474"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=44474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}