The 21st Fajr International Chess Tournament will take place on 20th – 28th February at Mashhad, northwestern of Iran.
The “Khorasan-Razavi” Chess Association is organizing this tournament on behalf of the I.R. Iranian Chess Federation.
It will be a 11 round Swiss tournament with a time control of 90 minutes for the whole game with 30 seconds increment from the first move.
The total fund prize amounts to USD 10,000 and will be distributed as follows: 1st – 2,500; 2nd – 2,000; 3rd – 1,700; 4th – 1,000, etc.
A total of 174 players from five different countries will participate. There will be 19 titled players, including 4 GMs and 9 IMs. The first seed is GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami.
Ehsan Ghaem Maghami
Participants:
| 1 | GM | Ghaem Maghami Ehsan | IRI | 2568 |
| 2 | GM | Darini Pouria | IRI | 2514 |
| 3 | IM | Benidze Davit | GEO | 2507 |
| 4 | IM | Azaladze Shota | GEO | 2466 |
| 5 | GM | Toufighi Homayoon | IRI | 2451 |
| 6 | GM | Mahjoob Morteza | IRI | 2433 |
| 7 | IM | Darban Morteza | IRI | 2394 |
| 8 | IM | Morchiashvili Bachana | GEO | 2384 |
| 9 | FM | Pourramezanali Amirreza | IRI | 2376 |
| 10 | IM | Roghani Arash | IRI | 2366 |
| 11 | IM | Ahmadinia Ebrahim | IRI | 2361 |
| 12 | IM | Shalamberidze Akaki | GEO | 2360 |
| 13 | Manukyan Sargis V. | ARM | 2360 | |
| 14 | FM | Koohestani Sh. | IRI | 2358 |
| 15 | Noroozi Omid | IRI | 2347 | |
| 16 | IM | Grabliauskas Virginijus | LTU | 2332 |
| 17 | IM | Al-Ali Hussein Ali Hussein | IRQ | 2317 |
| 18 | Asgari Morteza | IRI | 2310 | |
| 19 | FM | Kowsarinia Amir | IRI | 2301 |
| 20 | Asgarizadeh Ahmad | IRI | 2281 | |
| 21 | Khalesi Vahid | IRI | 2278 | |
| 22 | Amini Amer | IRI | 2232 | |
| 23 | Hosseinzadeh Nima | IRI | 2228 | |
| 24 | FM | Soozankar A.M. | IRI | 2221 |
| 25 | Galehdari Bardia | IRI | 2214 | |
| 26 | Sedaghati Mehrdad | IRI | 2205 | |
| 27 | FM | Lorparizangeneh Shahin | IRI | 2197 |
| 28 | Valizadeh Ali | IRI | 2180 | |
| 29 | Arabi Saeid | IRI | 2179 | |
| 30 | Dehghani Hamid | IRI | 2176 | |
| 31 | Mahdavirad Mehdi | IRI | 2176 | |
| 32 | Bakhtiari Kish Mazdak | IRI | 2172 | |
| 33 | Hosseini Attar S.Jamal | IRI | 2172 | |
| 34 | Khamisi S Jafar | IRI | 2168 | |
| 35 | Pilvaieh Ali | IRI | 2151 | |
| 36 | Garsiforoush M. | IRI | 2143 | |
| 37 | Mosadeghpour Masoud | IRI | 2140 | |
| 38 | Moosavi Ali | IRI | 2124 | |
| 39 | Vassalam M.T. | IRI | 2124 | |
| 40 | Asnaashari Soheyl | IRI | 2123 | |
| 41 | Kardo Ako Mohammad | IRQ | 2114 | |
| 42 | Shah Moradi Mohammad | IRI | 2104 | |
| 43 | Asnaashari Soroush | IRI | 2096 | |
| 44 | Khodashenas Mersad | IRI | 2090 | |
| 45 | Kalantari B | IRI | 2088 | |
| 46 | FM | Gholami Aryan | IRI | 2081 |
| 47 | Abedi Abolfazl | IRI | 2078 | |
| 48 | Sedghi Babak | IRI | 2073 | |
| 49 | Babayan Armine | ARM | 2062 | |
| 50 | Tabasi Mehdi | IRI | 2037 | |
| 51 | Khojasteh M. | IRI | 2036 | |
| 52 | Zare Mohamad | IRI | 2030 | |
| 53 | Asadi Ali | IRI | 2028 | |
| 54 | Godarz Kasra | IRI | 1993 | |
| 55 | Rastegar Sina | IRI | 1966 | |
| 56 | Rawand Hamid Abdullah | IRQ | 1957 | |
| 57 | Nameei Koushan | IRI | 1949 | |
| 58 | Yousefian M.Ali | IRI | 1939 | |
| 59 | Bagheri Maziar | IRI | 1926 | |
| 60 | Fallah Mohammad Mahdi | IRI | 1919 | |
| 61 | Pourmoshrefi Hossein | IRI | 1914 | |
| 62 | Shegarfian Saeed | IRI | 1903 | |
| 63 | Yoosefi Saeed | IRI | 1899 | |
| 64 | Farkhondeh Mehran | IRI | 1895 | |
| 65 | Karimi Hossein | IRI | 1891 | |
| 66 | Taghavi Amir Abbas | IRI | 1887 | |
| 67 | Taraz Shahrokh | IRI | 1885 | |
| 68 | Iranfar Amir | IRI | 1866 | |
| 69 | Vojdani Siavosh | IRI | 1846 | |
| 70 | Vatandoost Ali | IRI | 1834 | |
| 71 | Tatari Alireza | IRI | 1814 | |
| 72 | Hamedinia Majid | IRI | 1800 | |
| 73 | Mashhadban Mahdi | IRI | 1782 | |
| 74 | Parvanehlooee Heshmatolla | IRI | 1760 | |
| 75 | Kazemi Akbar | IRI | 1742 | |
| 76 | Naghavi Ali | IRI | 1735 | |
| 77 | Safaei Maliheh | IRI | 1719 | |
| 78 | Laala Ghalenow Ali Reza | IRI | 1718 | |
| 79 | Akbari Mostafa | IRI | 1717 | |
| 80 | Akbari Hossein | IRI | 1711 | |
| 81 | Pourmoradi Mostafa | IRI | 1705 | |
| 82 | Yazdan Mohammadhossein | IRI | 1705 | |
| 83 | Ghodsian Mahdi | IRI | 1704 | |
| 84 | Torshizi Ghorbani Mohammad Ho | IRI | 1703 | |
| 85 | Toufani Kourosh | IRI | 1672 | |
| 86 | Badie Ashkan | IRI | 1667 | |
| 87 | Ghesmati Aryan | IRI | 1642 | |
| 88 | Hamedi Nia Vesal | IRI | 1639 | |
| 89 | Tavousi Abbas | IRI | 1636 | |
| 90 | Rahemi Parsa | IRI | 1627 | |
| 91 | Darabi Zadeh Parviz | IRI | 1615 | |
| 92 | Pakgohar Mahdi | IRI | 1590 | |
| 93 | Ghanad Aliakbar | IRI | 1411 | |
| 94 | Javaheri Shahrad | IRI | 1357 | |
| 95 | Ahmadi Parsa | IRI | 0 | |
| 96 | Akbarzadeh Sina | IRI | 0 | |
| 97 | Alizadeh Mahdi | IRI | 0 | |
| 98 | Alizadeh Rasa | IRI | 0 | |
| 99 | Allaghi Omidreza | IRI | 0 | |
| 100 | Amini Amir Hossein | IRI | 0 | |
| 101 | Amiri Mehr Ashkan | IRI | 0 | |
| 102 | Arbabi Mohammadtaghi | IRI | 0 | |
| 103 | Asgarizadeh Alinaghi | IRI | 0 | |
| 104 | Azizi Mohammad Mehdi | IRI | 0 | |
| 105 | Baghdaran Mahdi | IRI | 0 | |
| 106 | Bagherian Mobin | IRI | 0 | |
| 107 | Bakhtyari Shayan | IRI | 0 | |
| 108 | Barati Behnam | IRI | 0 | |
| 109 | Bayatmokhtari Mani | IRI | 0 | |
| 110 | Bazrafshan Ashkan | IRI | 0 | |
| 111 | Bazrafshan Omid | IRI | 0 | |
| 112 | Binaei Tavallaei Mahdi | IRI | 0 | |
| 113 | Cheshmeh Sangi Ahmad | IRI | 0 | |
| 114 | Eidivandi Amin | IRI | 0 | |
| 115 | Ekramitalab Farshid | IRI | 0 | |
| 116 | Faal Mohammad Reza | IRI | 0 | |
| 117 | Farahmandrad Amirarmin | IRI | 0 | |
| 118 | Fartaj Mostafa | IRI | 0 | |
| 119 | Forootan Seid Mohammadreza | IRI | 0 | |
| 120 | Gerayeli Kiarash | IRI | 0 | |
| 121 | Ghafarian Mahdi | IRI | 0 | |
| 122 | Ghayoor Mirzaee Seid Jalal | IRI | 0 | |
| 123 | Gholamiorimi Ali Mohammad | IRI | 0 | |
| 124 | Golmakani Reyhaneh | IRI | 0 | |
| 125 | Haji Hosseinzadeh Mitra | IRI | 0 | |
| 126 | Hallaj Maryam | IRI | 0 | |
| 127 | Hatefi Matin | IRI | 0 | |
| 128 | Hedayat Masoud | IRI | 0 | |
| 129 | Heydari Hashem | IRI | 0 | |
| 130 | Hosseini Mohammad Ebrahim | IRI | 0 | |
| 131 | Jamali Amir | IRI | 0 | |
| 132 | Kharaji Ali | IRI | 0 | |
| 133 | Khosroopanaeh Amirsam | IRI | 0 | |
| 134 | Kianian M | IRI | 0 | |
| 135 | Lashkaryan Javad | IRI | 0 | |
| 136 | Mahmoodi Mahdi | IRI | 0 | |
| 137 | Mahsoom Mahdi | IRI | 0 | |
| 138 | Mazhari Ali | IRI | 0 | |
| 139 | Memariani Rouhollah | IRI | 0 | |
| 140 | Miri Alireza | IRI | 0 | |
| 141 | Mohammed Khaleeel Majeed | IRQ | 0 | |
| 142 | Moovahedi Benyamin | IRI | 0 | |
| 143 | Mozafari Arian | IRI | 0 | |
| 144 | Nami Amin | IRI | 0 | |
| 145 | Nik Khou Noozhan | IRI | 0 | |
| 146 | Nikzad Behzad | IRI | 0 | |
| 147 | Noshad Ayriana | IRI | 0 | |
| 148 | Ojaghi Mehrad | IRI | 0 | |
| 149 | Oloomi Ehsan | IRI | 0 | |
| 150 | Paeinmahaleh Ali | IRI | 0 | |
| 151 | Pak Niyat Ali | IRI | 0 | |
| 152 | Qahhar Mohammed Ismael | IRQ | 0 | |
| 153 | Rezaei Mahmood | IRI | 0 | |
| 154 | Sahebi Mostafa | IRI | 0 | |
| 155 | Saleh Abadi Farzan | IRI | 0 | |
| 156 | Salehi Sadegh | IRI | 0 | |
| 157 | Saliani Faraz | IRI | 0 | |
| 158 | Sargolzaei Hamed | IRI | 0 | |
| 159 | Seidi Hallaj Seideh Hasti | IRI | 0 | |
| 160 | Shahbani Amir | IRI | 0 | |
| 161 | Shahedi Danyal | IRI | 0 | |
| 162 | Shahrookh Hiva | IRI | 0 | |
| 163 | Shenavari Gholamreza | IRI | 0 | |
| 164 | Shokofteh Radin | IRI | 0 | |
| 165 | Tanavar Mohammadreza | IRI | 0 | |
| 166 | Tavakoli Mahmoud | IRI | 0 | |
| 167 | Tavasolian Amirsaleh | IRI | 0 | |
| 168 | Tayebi Amin | IRI | 0 | |
| 169 | Toosimoghadam Parham | IRI | 0 | |
| 170 | Toosimoghadam Parsa | IRI | 0 | |
| 171 | Torkian Ehsan | IRI | 0 | |
| 172 | Zamani Shahin | IRI | 0 | |
| 173 | Zare Nima | IRI | 0 | |
| 174 | Zolfaghari Yousef | IRI | 0 |
