Three lead in the 13th Dubai Open

13th Dubai Open Chess Championship

The Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup is taking place from April 9th to 19th, 2011 in the Dubai Chess and Culture Club. It is a nine round Swiss, with time controls of one hour and 30 minutes for the whole game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move.

The games start at 17:30h local time. There is a rest day with a blitz tournament on Friday, April 15, and two rounds to be played on Saturday, April 16, starting at 10:00 a.m. and 06:00 p.m. local time. The closing ceremony takes place on Tuesday, April 19, one day after the final (ninth) round, at 19:00h.

Top rankings after five rounds

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	IND	2682	4.5
2	GM	Negi Parimarjan	IND	2618	4.5
3	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	GEO	2629	4.5
4	IM	Shyam Sundar M	IND	2457	4.0
5	GM	Volkov Sergey	RUS	2621	4.0
6	GM	Miroshnichenko Evgenij	UKR	2670	4.0
7	GM	Balogh Csaba	HUN	2601	4.0
8	GM	Amin Bassem	EGY	2596	4.0
9	GM	Laxman R R	IND	2462	4.0
10	WIM	Schneider Veronika	HUN	2247	4.0
11	GM	Fedorov Alexei	BLR	2596	4.0
12	GM	Guliev Sarhan	AZE	2497	4.0
13	GM	Kazhgaleyev Murtas	KAZ	2618	4.0
14	GM	Kayumov Dmitry D	UZB	2463	4.0
15	GM	Guseinov Gadir	AZE	2584	4.0
16	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	IND	2580	4.0
17	GM	Adhiban B	IND	2543	4.0
18	GM	Kotanjian Tigran	ARM	2527	4.0
19	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	BLR	2638	4.0
20	GM	Hammer Jon Ludvig	NOR	2606	4.0
21	GM	Petrosian Davit G	ARM	2480	3.5
22	IM	Narayanan Srinath	IND	2310	3.5
23	FM	Mansour Sameer	JOR	2301	3.5
24	WFM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ	2208	3.5
25	GM	Andriasian Zaven	ARM	2645	3.5
26	IM	Huschenbeth Niclas	GER	2465	3.5
27	FM	Grigoryan Karen H	ARM	2463	3.5
28	GM	Halkias Stelios	GRE	2579	3.5
29	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	GEO	2595	3.5
30	GM	Kuzubov Yuriy	UKR	2627	3.5
31	GM	Berg Emanuel	SWE	2612	3.5
32	GM	Akopian Vladimir	ARM	2675	3.5
33	GM	Salem A R Saleh	UAE	2511	3.5
34	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	IND	2643	3.5
35	GM	Carlsson Pontus	SWE	2496	3.5
36	GM	Minasian Artashes	ARM	2558	3.5
37	IM	Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi	IND	2459	3.5
38	GM	Anastasian Ashot	ARM	2556	3.5
39	GM	Arutinian David	GEO	2575	3.5
40	GM	Simantsev Mikhail	UKR	2556	3.5
41	GM	Al-Sayed Mohammed	QAT	2485	3.5

Full standings with 150 players here

Top seed GM Krishnan Sasikiran of India, rated 2682, is in the lead with 4.5/5

Equal first with 4.5/5 is GM Parimarjan Negi, India, rated 2618

GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili, Georgia, rated 2629, has also chalked up 4.5/5

Videos with games and interviews

Links

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