13th Dubai Open Chess ChampionshipThe Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup is taking place from April 9th to 19th, 2011 in the Dubai Chess and Culture Club. It is a nine round Swiss, with time controls of one hour and 30 minutes for the whole game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move. The games start at 17:30h local time. There is a rest day with a blitz tournament on Friday, April 15, and two rounds to be played on Saturday, April 16, starting at 10:00 a.m. and 06:00 p.m. local time. The closing ceremony takes place on Tuesday, April 19, one day after the final (ninth) round, at 19:00h. |
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The Dubai Chess and Culture Club 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. The number of registered players is 107 and a board of nine members, in addition to a technical team consisting of management and coaches runs the club. Here are some pictures:
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The Club has organized many international and local events among which are the following: Youth Blitz World Chess championship 1985, Blitz Chess Tournament for participants in Dubai Olympiad 1986, Dubai Open Chess Championship and Credit Swiss Chess Masters Tournament 1994, and the Asian Cities Team Chess Championship (Dubai Cup) 1996. In addition its technical team took part in the organization of all international events held in UAE.
Since its launching, the Dubai Chess & Culture Club has played a leading role in the chess activity in UAE, achieving for the country many successes on the international, continental and Arab levels. The Club has also played an imminent role through its administrative members who contributed in promoting chess and leading the chess activity along with their chess colleagues through out UAE.
The total prize fund is US $45,000 and is awarded as follows:
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If two or more players share the same place, the money will be equally shared. The trophy will be awarded on the basis of average rating of the eight strongest opponents. There is a special US $2300 prize for ladies, and a special US $6000 prize for local players.
The playing hall for the Dubai Open
Start of round one: top seed GM Krishnan Sasikiran of India, rated 2682 vs
IM Feldman Vladimir, Australia, 2270. "Sasi" wan in 72 moves
| Rk. | Ti. |
Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. |
| 1 | GM |
Guliev Sarhan | AZE | 2497 | 3.0 |
| 2 | GM |
Petrosian Davit G | ARM | 2480 | 3.0 |
| 3 | IM |
Lalith Babu M R | IND | 2491 | 3.0 |
| 4 | GM |
Volkov Sergey | RUS | 2621 | 3.0 |
| 5 | GM |
Negi Parimarjan | IND | 2618 | 3.0 |
| 6 | IM |
Shyam Sundar M | IND | 2457 | 2.5 |
| 7 | IM |
Anwesh Upadhyaya | IND | 2432 | 2.5 |
| 8 | FM |
Koohestani Sh | IRI | 2345 | 2.5 |
| 9 | FM |
Atabayev Yusup | TKM | 2319 | 2.5 |
| 10 | WFM |
Saduakassova Dinara | KAZ | 2208 | 2.5 |
| 11 | CM |
Sanal Vahap | TUR | 2200 | 2.5 |
| 12 | IM |
Narayanan Srinath | IND | 2310 | 2.5 |
| 13 | FM |
Mansour Sameer | JOR | 2301 | 2.5 |
| 14 | GM |
Sasikiran Krishnan | IND | 2682 | 2.5 |
| 15 | GM |
Miroshnichenko Evgenij | UKR | 2670 | 2.5 |
| 16 | IM |
Huschenbeth Niclas | GER | 2465 | 2.5 |
| 17 | FM |
Grigoryan Karen H | ARM | 2463 | 2.5 |
| 18 | GM |
Balogh Csaba | HUN | 2601 | 2.5 |
| 19 | GM |
Gagunashvili Merab | GEO | 2599 | 2.5 |
| 20 | GM |
Pantsulaia Levan | GEO | 2595 | 2.5 |
| 21 | GM |
Amin Bassem | EGY | 2596 | 2.5 |
| 22 | GM |
Mchedlishvili Mikheil | GEO | 2629 | 2.5 |
| 23 | GM |
Mamedov Nidjat | AZE | 2580 | 2.5 |
| 24 | GM |
Guseinov Gadir | AZE | 2584 | 2.5 |
| 25 | GM |
Fedorov Alexei | BLR | 2596 | 2.5 |
| 26 | GM |
Halkias Stelios | GRE | 2579 | 2.5 |
| 27 | GM |
Minasian Artashes | ARM | 2558 | 2.5 |
| 28 | GM |
Ter-Sahakyan Samvel | ARM | 2575 | 2.5 |
| 29 | GM |
Adhiban B | IND | 2543 | 2.5 |
| 30 | GM |
Laxman R R | IND | 2462 | 2.5 |
| 31 | GM |
Salem A R Saleh | UAE | 2511 | 2.5 |
| 32 | GM |
Kotanjian Tigran | ARM | 2527 | 2.5 |
| 33 | GM |
Anastasian Ashot | ARM | 2556 | 2.5 |
| 34 | GM |
Iskusnyh Sergei | RUS | 2481 | 2.5 |
Top seed GM Krishnan Sasikiran of India, rated 2682
GM Vladimir Akopian, Armenia, rated 2675
GM Parimarjan Negi, India, rated 2618
GM Levan Pantsulaia, Georgia, rated 2595
GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili, Georgia, rated 2629
GM Gadir Guseinov, Azerbaijan, rated 2584
Former child prodigy
Salem Abdul Rahman Saleh, UAE, now a GM rated 2511
IM Tania Sachdev, India, rated 2407
WGM Elmira Mirzoeva, RUS, rated 2272
Omar Noaman, UAE, rated 2253
WFM Dinara Saduakassova, Kazakhstan, rated 2208 (she is fifteen)
FM Amir Kowsarinia, Iran, rated 2168
Ahmed Fayez, UAE, rated 1911
WFM Kholoud Essa Al-Zarouni, UAE, 1864
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