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Competitors
from 43 countries took part in the 15th Annual Abu Dhabi International Chess
Festival, which was held from 14th to 23rd August 2005 at the Khalidia Palace
Hotel in Abu Dhabi, under the patronage of Lt Gen Shaikh Saif Bin Zayed Al
Nahyan, the Minister of Interior.
The Khalidia Palace Hotel
in Abu Dhabi
We counted 23 GMs and three WGMs, 12 IMs and five WIMs at the top event, the Master Tournament. Including the Open there were 34 grandmasters, 18 IMs, 8 FMs 11 players with an Elo ratings of more than 2,200. The players came from Qatar, Sudan, Bahrain, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Russia, England, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Iran, India, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Turkmenistan, Germany, Philippines, Croatia, Bosnia, Tajikstan, Hungary, Pakistan, Holland, Romania, Serbia and UAE.
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | |
| 1 | GM | ANASTASIAN Ashot | ARM | 2595 | 7.0 | 49.0 |
| 2 | GM | BOCHAROV Dmitry | RUS | 2574 | 6.5 | 46.5 |
| 3 | IM | KAYUMOV Sergey | UZB | 2405 | 6.5 | 43.5 |
| 4 | GM | KOBALIA Mikhail | RUS | 2614 | 6.0 | 52.0 |
| 5 | GM | GOLOSHCHAPOV Alexander | UKR | 2519 | 6.0 | 52.0 |
| 6 | GM | ALEKSANDROV Aleksej | BLR | 2630 | 6.0 | 51.0 |
| 7 | GM | MAMEDYAROV Shakhriyar | AZE | 2646 | 6.0 | 50.5 |
| 8 | GM | FEDOROV Alexei | BLR | 2611 | 6.0 | 49.0 |
| 9 | GM | POTKIN Vladimir | RUS | 2534 | 6.0 | 46.5 |
| 10 | GM | KOTSUR Pavel | KAZ | 2595 | 6.0 | 45.5 |
| 11 | IM | IBRAHIMOV Rasul | AZE | 2525 | 6.0 | 43.0 |
| 12 | GM | RAUSIS Igors | BAN | 2498 | 6.0 | 43.0 |
| 13 | GM | GANGULY Surya Shekhar | IND | 2596 | 6.0 | 42.5 |
| 14 | GM | CHERNYSHOV Konstantin | RUS | 2548 | 5.5 | 49.5 |
| 15 | GM | VOLKOV Sergey | RUS | 2622 | 5.5 | 48.5 |
| 16 | GM | IULDACHEV Saidali | UZB | 2541 | 5.5 | 48.0 |
| 17 | GM | GUSEINOV Gadir | AZE | 2585 | 5.5 | 47.0 |
| 18 | GM | GHAEM MAGHAMI Ehsan | IRI | 2603 | 5.5 | 46.0 |
| 19 | GM | GRIGORIANTS Sergey | RUS | 2562 | 5.5 | 45.5 |
| 20 | IM | PRASAD Devaki V | IND | 2359 | 5.5 | 44.0 |
| 21 | WIM | KARAVADE Eesha | IND | 2370 | 5.5 | 39.0 |
Panorama view of the tournament venue (click to enlarge)
A sea view from the tournament site
Arabic style seating area
Chief arbiter Sultan Taher
Tournament winner Ashot Anastasian, Armenia, Elo 2595
The winner receives his trophy
All the winners collected for a group photo
Sheikhs following the games in progress
Equal second: GM Dmitry Bocharov, 2574, Russia
Equal second: IM Sergey Kayumov, 2405, Uzbekistan
WIM Eesha Karavade, 2370, India
FM Salem Ghuloom, 2318, UAE
WGM Shadi Paridar, 2263, Iran
Top seed Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, 2646, Azerbaijan
The whole Mamedyarov family
The Emirates
Palace in Abu Dhabi (which incidentally is a seven star hotel, not a private
residence, as rumors
on the Internet would have you believe)
The hotel courtyard by night
More pictures are available on the photo page of the tournament site. The images are excellently captioned and even sorted according to the players' ratings. There is a lot of additional information on the Official web site. Information provided by Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh.
