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Dubai Open: Five players share first with 7.0/9

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.

Dubai Open: Normunds Miezis leads with 6.0/7 points

4/22/2012 – "Who?" we hear you exclaim. Normunds is a 40-year-old Latvian grandmaster who has won his country's championship twice and played in seven Olympiads. His current rating is a modest 2557, but he has been playing at a 2761 level in this UAE tournament. With two rounds to go nine GMs are in hot pursuit. We bring you results, games, photos and a video report of the blitz tournament.

Dubai Open: Ni Hua and Akopian lead

4/20/2012 – In the fifth round Chinese GM Ni Hua, who came in with a perfect 4.0/4 score, drew his game against Georgian GM Baadur Jobava, while Vladimir Akopian of Armenia, who had 3½ points, soundly defeated Zaven Andriasian of Armenia ot join Ni Hua in the lead. There are 18 players half a point behind the two, and 21 with a score of 3.5/5. Report after round five with interesting new faces.

4th Dubai Open Chess Championship under way

4/18/2012 – This tournament, with many foreign GMs, is taking place in the United Arab Emirates. After three rounds six players have perfect scores. In place seven we find Indian IM Tania Sachdev with 2.5/3. The tournament site says she beat GM Ivan Sokolov with black in round two, but the game is not available. We show you some stunning Google image search technology in this giant pictorial report.
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