4/24/2012 – Specifically: GMs Ni Hua, Baadur Jobava, Mikheil Mchedlishvili, Normunds Miezis and Sandipan Chanda, from four different countries (China, Georgia, Latvia and India). Their performances ranged from 2770 to 2709, with all standing to gain rating points in the next list. Our final report from this interesting tournament in the UAE provides results, games, pictures and video.
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14th
Dubai Open Chess Championship
Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup
This event took place from April 15th-23rd at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club,
which is the most modern and biggest dedicated chess club in the world. Its
players constitute the ‘backbone” of the UAE national team, and
as a matter of fact those players have achieved outstanding successes on all
levels.
In round eight Sandipan Chanda defeated his compatriot Parimarjan
Negi to join Latvian GM Normunds Miezis in the lead, with 6.5/8 points. Wins
by Baadur Jobaba, Loek van Wely, Robert Hovhannisyan, Tigran Petrossian and
Surya Ganguly allowed these players to join Abhijeet Gupta, Yuriy Kuzubov, Vladimir
Akopian, Ni Hua, Evgenij Miroshnichenko, Zaven Andriasian and Mikheil Mchedlishvili
in the follow-up group, half a point behind the leaders.
In round nine Ganguly and van Wely lost their games, against Jobava and Mchedlishvili
respectively. Chinese GM Ni Hua defeated Yuriy Kuzubov from Ukraine, and after
the dust had cleared we found five players with 7.0/9 points in first place.
Ni Hua had the best tiebreak and a performance of 2770, compared to his co-leaders
Jobava at 2766, Mchedlishvili at 2731, Chanda at 2727 and Miezis at 2709. Other
tiebreak criteria sorted the official final table as follows:
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14th
Dubai Open Chess Championship
