Three lead in the 13th Dubai Open
4/15/2011 – After five rounds of play and before the free day three players share the lead in the Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup, each with 4.5/5 points: Indian GMs Krishnan Sasikiran and Parimarjan Negi, as well as Mikheil Mchedlishvili from Georgia. 17 players follow with 4.0/5. Friday is a free day, on Saturday there will be two rounds, starting at 10:00 a.m. local time. Results, games and videos.
13th Dubai Open Chess ChampionshipThe 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. |
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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 |
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
LinksTop games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download the free PGN reader ChessBase Light, which gives you immediate access. You can also use the program to read, replay and analyse PGN games. New and enhanced: CB Light 2009! |
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