Dubai Open: Ni Hua and Akopian lead

14th Dubai Open Chess Championship

Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup

This event is taking 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.

Chief Arbiter Mahdi Abdulrahim starts the top board game of round five:
Baadur Jobava vs Ni Hua, which ended in a draw after 30 moves.

The tournament hall during round five

Top standings after five rounds

Rk.	Ti.	Name	FED	RtgI	Pts.
1	GM	Ni Hua	CHN	2637	4.5
2	GM	Akopian Vladimir	ARM	2684	4.5
3	GM	Jobava Baadur	GEO	2706	4.0
4	GM	Petrosian Tigran L	ARM	2643	4.0
5	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	GEO	2626	4.0
6	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	GEO	2595	4.0
7	GM	Miroshnichenko Evgenij	UKR	2624	4.0
8	GM	Baklan Vladimir	UKR	2612	4.0
9	GM	Miezis Normunds	LAT	2557	4.0
10	GM	Gopal G N	IND	2572	4.0
11	GM	Sandipan Chanda	IND	2595	4.0
12	GM	Iordachescu Viorel	MDA	2644	4.0
13	GM	Kuzubov Yuriy	UKR	2615	4.0
14	FM	Atabayev Yusup	TKM	2404	4.0
15	GM	Zhou Weiqi	CHN	2628	4.0
16	GM	Negi Parimarjan	IND	2639	4.0
17	GM	Amin Bassem	EGY	2608	4.0
18	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	IND	2643	4.0
19	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	IND	2633	4.0
20	GM	Hovhannisyan Robert	ARM	2600	4.0
21	IM	Vishnu Prasanna V	IND	2406	3.5
22	GM	Andriasian Zaven	ARM	2616	3.5
23		Ankit R Rajpara	IND	2399	3.5
24	IM	Ahmadinia Ebrahim	IRI	2379	3.5
25	GM	Arutinian David	GEO	2553	3.5
26	IM	Shyam Nikil P	IND	2490	3.5
27	IM	Nitin S	IND	2420	3.5
28	GM	Kovchan Alexander	UKR	2598	3.5
29	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	IRI	2581	3.5
30	GM	Volkov Sergey	RUS	2623	3.5
31	GM	Kravtsiv Martyn	UKR	2588	3.5
32	IM	Roy Chowdhury	IND	2405	3.5
33	IM	Shyam Sundar M	IND	2474	3.5
34	GM	Lalith Babu M R	IND	2532	3.5
35	IM	Ezat Mohamed	EGY	2441	3.5
36	GM	Grigoryan Avetik	ARM	2600	3.5
37	IM	Khukhashvili Sopiko	GEO	2408	3.5
38	GM	Evdokimov Alexander	RUS	2555	3.5
39	IM	Grover Sahaj	IND	2517	3.5
40	GM	Harutjunyan Gevorg	ARM	2455	3.5
41	GM	Mahjoob Morteza	IRI	2455	3.5
42		Baghdasaryan Vahe	ARM	2406	3.5

GM Tigran L Petrosian, ARM, 2643, 4.0/5 points

GM Robert Hovhannisyan, ARM, 2600, 4.0/5 points

WIM Lorena Zepeda of El Salvador, rated 2130, with 3.0/5 points

Murali Karthikeyan of India, rated 2306, has 2.5/5 points

Nandhidhaa Venkatachalam of Vishytown Chennai, rated 2160, who has just turned 16

An extraordinary 12-year-old talent Kazakhstan we introduced in this special report

Mozah Al-Moaamari, UAE, rated 1357 with 2.0/5 points

P Ambareesh of India, rated 1588, has scored 1.0/5 points

Video reports by Vijay Kumar

14th Dubai Open Chess Championship round three impressions

Round four report with interviews

In round five GM Akopian thrashed GM Andriasian Zaven to stake his claim for the
joint leadership along with GM Ni Hua, who drew his game against GM Baadur Zobava.

Links

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