5/6/2024 – The Dubai Police Global Challenge Masters kicked off on Saturday with 135 participants, including three 2700+ rated players. After two rounds, 11 players are tied for first place with 2/2 points. Surprisingly, this group only includes two players belonging to the top-20 in the starting rank. The tournament is a 9-round Swiss open with a classical time control. | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy
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Eleven players on 2 out of 2
The Masters Tournament in the Dubai Police Global Chess Challenge is a 9-round Swiss open with a classical time control. A total of 135 participants from 28 different countries made their way to the most populous emirate in the UAE. Heading the field rating-wise are Yu Yangyi, Amin Tabatabaei and Vladislav Artemiev, who are all rated 2700 or above. Closely behind, 20 players in the 2600-2700 rating band are also participating.
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After two rounds, 11 players are sharing first place with a perfect score. Notably, only 2 players belonging to the top-20 in the starting rank are included in this group: Aravindh Chithambaram (8th seed, Elo 2670) and Saleh Salem (17th, 2629). Meanwhile, the lowest-rated players in this group are Ilamparthi A R (64th, 2440) and Jan Malek (59th, 2461).
This mix of players atop the standings shows that the two first rounds have featured a number of upsets, with some of the top seeds — Yu Yangyi, Narayanan S L and Hans Niemann, among others — only managing a couple of draws against much lower-rated opposition at the outset of the event.
Women’s world champion Ju Wenjun travelled from Malmö to Dubai to play in this tournament — she requested a ½-point bye in the first round
The biggest surprise in the first round was given by IM Ravi Teja from India, who defeated ninth seed Nodibek Yakubboev from Uzbekistan. Last year, Yakubboev gained notoriety by winning the strong Qatar Masters, where he outscored the likes of Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and Anish Giri.
Ravi, in fact, managed to checkmate the Uzbek grandmaster.
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Ravi Teja | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy
The tournament is taking place on May 4-12, with no rest days in the schedule.
Carlos Alberto ColodroCarlos Colodro is a Hispanic Philologist from Bolivia. He works as a freelance translator and writer since 2012. A lot of his work is done in chess-related texts, as the game is one of his biggest interests, along with literature and music.
YOUR PERSONAL CHESS COACH - Whether you’re taking your first steps into the world of club chess, or already playing at a tournament level: with FRITZ, you can train more efficiently, intelligently and with a more personalised approach than ever before.
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