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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
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
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.
LinksA selection of games are being broadcast shown as a live stream on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download a free Playchess client there. You can also use ChessBase 11 or any of our Fritz compatible chess programs. |