
The event lasts from April 3rd to 13th, 2005. The rate of play in the nine-round
Swiss tournament is one hour 30 minutes for the whole game with an incremental
time of 30 seconds per move. The venue is the Dubai Chess & Culture Club.
Personally invited Grandmasters with an Elo above 2600 receive free accommodation
in single rooms in a three star hotel (those with a rating between 2550 and
2599 have to share the room with another Grandmaster).
The official
web site is nicely designed and has the very cool Flash animation
shown below. The contents (at the time of writing) were not quite up-to-date,
and some of the links do not work correctly (go to the start page to access
sub-pages like the individual round results – they do not work from the
sub-pages).
Impressions of Dubai
By Andreas Albers

The skyline of Dubai city

The players' hotel

With a pool on the top of the building

View from the hotel room

On the shuttle bus: chief arbiter Casto Abundo bones up on the FIDE rules of
chess

The Dubai Chess & Culture Club, where the event is being held

Players arrive at the venue

Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktum, patrons of the event

Members of the Chinese group

A colourful group of young ladies at the opening ceremony

Top seed Motylev Alexander (Russia, 2680) opens the tournament

IM Tea Bosboom-Lanchava (2359, Holland), held Motylev to a draw

The tournament in progress

The arbiters' table

GM Ghaem Maghami, Iran's top player
Links
Official
web site (with live games and results)