Armenia’s top grandmaster Haik Martirosyan drew 1-1 with Azerbaijani grandmaster Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the first round of the group stage at the Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot 2026, currently underway in Budapest, Hungary.
Martirosyan lost the first game with the white pieces but won the second game with the black pieces against the Azerbaijani grandmaster.
Haik Martirosyan is in Group C, where his opponents are Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Anish Giri, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Abhimanyu Mishra.
Martirosyan had previously defeated Mamedyarov on November 10 in the blitz chess tournament.
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