YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 6, ARMENPRESS: The youngest US GM Samvel Sevian and Varuzhan Hakobyan will take part in the U.S. Chess Championship. The Armenian chess players will fight for the best chess player title of the United States with the GM Gata Kamsky, GM Hikaru Nakamura, GM Wesley So, GM Ray Robson, GM Alex Onischuk, GM Daniel Naroditsky, GM Sam Shankland, GM Timur Gareev, GM Kayden Troff and GM Conrad Holt.

Armenpress reports, citing the Chessdom website that the recent and undeniable chess swell felt around the nation rises to serve one epic event: the fight for the American throne.

In April, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis will bring together one of the strongest fields ever to compete for the national title, 12 of America’s top Grandmasters who combine for a 2732 rating average. The current US champion is Gata Kamsky.

The 2015 U.S. Championship will be held in St. Louis from March 31 through April 14, simultaneously alongside 12 of the nation’s top females in the 2015 U.S. Women’s Championship.

Half of this year’s championship field features players ranked among the top 100 in the world, including two in the top 10. The 2015 U.S. title fight will feature the first highly anticipated clash between world No. 10 and longtime U.S. No. 1 GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Wesley So, the U.S. Chess Federation’s most-recent acquisition who is currently peaked as the world’s No. 7 player.

Neither globetrotter will be able to look past an incredible cross-section of American chess, beginning with five-time U.S. Champion GM Gata Kamsky, who seeks his third-straight national title and fifth in the past six years.

Also representing the top players in the world is GM Sam Shankland, America’s star gold-medalist from the 2014 Chess Olympiad; two-time collegiate champion GM Ray Robson; and GM Alex Onischuk.