Vugar Gashimov wins Abu Dhabi

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The Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival was held from August 12th to 21st 2006.

Abu Dhabi (Arabic أبو ظبي‎, literally "Father of Gazelle") is the largest of the seven United Arab Emirates, with a population is about one million.

The head of the chess federation, Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Al-Nehyan, was recently elected President of the Asian Chess Federation. His appointee as Treasurer, appointed Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh of Iran, sent us this information on the Festival.

In the main section, the Masters Tournament, we counted 20 GMs, 13 IMs and two WGMs. The prizes were: 1st US $4000, 2nd $3000, 3rd $2000, 4th $1500, 5th $1000, 6th to 15th $900-200. The final standings (5.5 points or more) was as follows:

Rk.	Title	Name	Rtg	FED	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	GM	Gashimov Vugar	2644	AZE	6,5	51,5	40,0
2	GM	Anastasian Ashot	2566	ARM	6,5	49,0	38,5
3	GM	Potkin Vladimir	2556	RUS	6,0	50,0	39,0
4	GM	Miroshnichenko Evgenij	2616	UKR	6,0	47,5	38,0
5	GM	Kengis Edvins	2539	LAT	6,0	47,5	38,0
6	GM	Grigoriants Sergey	2579	RUS	6,0	47,5	37,0
7	GM	Goloshchapov Alexander	2558	UKR	6,0	47,0	37,0
8	GM	Azarov Sergei	2579	BLR	6,0	44,5	35,0
9	GM	GhaemMaghami Ehsan	2594	IRI	6,0	42,5	33,0
10	GM	Neverov Valeriy	2556	UKR	6,0	42,5	32,5
11	GM	Mamedov Rauf	2561	AZE	5,5	50,0	39,5
12	GM	Ibrahimov Rasul	2528	AZE	5,5	49,5	39,0
13	GM	Fedorov Alexei	2617	BLR	5,5	48,5	38,5
14	IM	Abbasov Farid	2443	AZE	5,5	48,0	38,0
15	GM	Sturua Zurab	2509	GEO	5,5	46,5	37,0
16	GM	Rausis Igors	2510	BAN	5,5	46,5	37,0
17	IM	Allahverdiev Anar	2435	AZE	5,5	45,5	35,5
18	IM	Amin Bassem	2453	EGY	5,5	43,5	35,0
19	WGM	Ushenina Anna	2410	UKR	5,5	42,5	34,0
20	FM	Alavi Sayed Javad	2314	IRI	5,5	41,0	32,0