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In the Masters tournament of the 23rd Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival 131 players fight for a prize-fund of 36,100 dollar. It is no surprise that a large number of strong grandmasters use the opportunity to warm up for the Olympiad in Baku which will begin on 1st September and/or hope to win a share of the prize-fund. Favorites to win the first prize of 13,000 dollars are Russian grandmaster Dmitry Andreikin, with a rating of 2733 currently the world's number 24, and Chinese grandmaster Wang Hao, with a rating of 2712 currently the world's number 33.
Dmitry Andreikin (Photo: Georgios Souleidis, Archive)
The 26-old Andreikin began the tournament with a smooth win against Tania Sachdev from India but in round two drew against ChessBase author IM Srinath Narayan who is also from India. Wang Hao drew in round one against another Indian: IM Teja S. Ravi. Russian grandmaster Vladimir Fedoseev, seeded as number four, had a better start into the tournament. In the first round he provoked his opponent with an unusual retreat in the Alekhine's Defense which brought him a quick win.
Vladimir Fedoseev (Photo: Georgios Souleidis, Archive)
In round Fedoseev won against GM S. Dhopade Swapnil from India and with 2.0/2 now shares first place with 18 players.
| Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Elo | Pts | ||
| 1 | 68 |
|
IM | Girish A. Koushik | IND | 2399 | 2,0 |
| 2 | 4 |
|
GM | Fedoseev Vladimir | RUS | 2670 | 2,0 |
| 3 | 6 |
|
GM | Efimenko Zahar | UKR | 2661 | 2,0 |
| 4 | 16 |
|
GM | Banusz Tamas | HUN | 2616 | 2,0 |
| 5 | 3 |
|
GM | Adhiban B. | IND | 2671 | 2,0 |
| 6 | 5 |
|
GM | Areshchenko Alexander | UKR | 2665 | 2,0 |
| 7 | 7 |
|
GM | Amin Bassem | EGY | 2654 | 2,0 |
| 8 | 19 |
|
GM | Dragun Kamil | POL | 2609 | 2,0 |
| 9 | 9 |
|
GM | Kuzubov Yuriy | UKR | 2639 | 2,0 |
| 10 | 20 |
|
GM | Zubov Alexander | UKR | 2606 | 2,0 |
| 11 | 15 |
|
GM | Salem A.R. Saleh | UAE | 2617 | 2,0 |
| 12 | 24 |
|
GM | Demchenko Anton | RUS | 2600 | 2,0 |
| 13 | 28 |
|
GM | Sengupta Deep | IND | 2571 | 2,0 |
| 14 | 32 |
|
GM | Predke Alexandr | RUS | 2553 | 2,0 |
| 15 | 34 |
|
GM | Mekhitarian Krikor Sevag | BRA | 2550 | 2,0 |
| 16 | 29 |
|
GM | Antipov Mikhail Al. | RUS | 2565 | 2,0 |
| 17 | 38 |
|
IM | Ly Moulthun | AUS | 2501 | 2,0 |
| 18 | 33 |
|
IM | Sadzikowski Daniel | POL | 2551 | 2,0 |
| 19 | 37 |
|
GM | Vishnu Prasanna. V | IND | 2512 | 2,0 |
| 20 | 44 |
|
IM | Narayanan Srinath | IND | 2477 | 1,5 |
| 21 | 56 |
|
IM | Savanovic Aleksandar | BIH | 2440 | 1,5 |
| 22 | 47 |
|
IM | Igonin Temur | UZB | 2466 | 1,5 |
| 23 | 57 |
|
IM | Sarkar Justin | USA | 2434 | 1,5 |
| 24 | 58 |
|
IM | Ameir Moheb | EGY | 2431 | 1,5 |
| 25 | 62 |
|
Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh | IND | 2415 | 1,5 | |
| 26 | 64 |
|
IM | Pascua Haridas | PHI | 2404 | 1,5 |
| 27 | 113 |
|
Dimarucut Francis Erwin | PHI | 2172 | 1,5 | |
| 28 | 1 |
|
GM | Andreikin Dmitry | RUS | 2733 | 1,5 |
| 29 | 18 |
|
GM | Oleksiyenko Mykhaylo | UKR | 2610 | 1,5 |
| 30 | 17 |
|
GM | Ter-Sahakyan Samvel | ARM | 2613 | 1,5 |
| 31 | 21 |
|
GM | Prohaszka Peter | HUN | 2604 | 1,5 |
| 32 | 23 |
|
GM | Savchenko Boris | RUS | 2602 | 1,5 |
| 33 | 25 |
|
GM | Bortnyk Olexandr | UKR | 2588 | 1,5 |
| 34 | 27 |
|
GM | Lalith Babu M R | IND | 2575 | 1,5 |
| 35 | 2 |
|
GM | Wang Hao | CHN | 2712 | 1,5 |
| 36 | 8 |
|
GM | Melkumyan Hrant | ARM | 2650 | 1,5 |
| 37 | 10 |
|
GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2637 | 1,5 |
| 38 | 11 |
|
GM | Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo | VEN | 2626 | 1,5 |
| 55 |
|
IM | Fawzy Adham | EGY | 2440 | 1,5 | |
| 40 | 14 |
|
GM | Oparin Grigoriy | RUS | 2617 | 1,5 |
| 41 | 13 |
|
GM | Kovalyov Anton | CAN | 2617 | 1,5 |
| 42 | 22 |
|
GM | Adly Ahmed | EGY | 2603 | 1,5 |
| 43 | 26 |
|
GM | Azarov Sergei | BLR | 2581 | 1,5 |
| 44 | 42 |
|
IM | Golubov Saveliy | RUS | 2481 | 1,5 |
| 45 | 35 |
|
IM | Ziska Helgi Dam | FAI | 2546 | 1,5 |
| 46 | 60 |
|
IM | Shyaamnikhil P | IND | 2421 | 1,5 |
| 47 | 69 |
|
IM | Tania Sachdev | IND | 2396 | 1,0 |
| 48 | 104 |
|
Hill Alistair | ENG | 2257 | 1,0 | |
| 49 | 46 |
|
IM | Swayams Mishra | IND | 2468 | 1,0 |
| 50 | 71 |
|
GM | Raetsky Alexander | RUS | 2384 | 1,0 |
...131 players
Source: chess-results
A tournament to enjoy (Photo: Tournament page)
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