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14th
Dubai Open Chess ChampionshipThis event took place from April 15th-23rd at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club, which is the most modern and biggest dedicated chess club in the world. Its players constitute the ‘backbone” of the UAE national team, and as a matter of fact those players have achieved outstanding successes on all levels.
In round eight Sandipan Chanda defeated his compatriot Parimarjan Negi to join Latvian GM Normunds Miezis in the lead, with 6.5/8 points. Wins by Baadur Jobaba, Loek van Wely, Robert Hovhannisyan, Tigran Petrossian and Surya Ganguly allowed these players to join Abhijeet Gupta, Yuriy Kuzubov, Vladimir Akopian, Ni Hua, Evgenij Miroshnichenko, Zaven Andriasian and Mikheil Mchedlishvili in the follow-up group, half a point behind the leaders.
In round nine Ganguly and van Wely lost their games, against Jobava and Mchedlishvili respectively. Chinese GM Ni Hua defeated Yuriy Kuzubov from Ukraine, and after the dust had cleared we found five players with 7.0/9 points in first place. Ni Hua had the best tiebreak and a performance of 2770, compared to his co-leaders Jobava at 2766, Mchedlishvili at 2731, Chanda at 2727 and Miezis at 2709. Other tiebreak criteria sorted the official final table as follows:
Rk. |
Title |
Name | FED | RtgI | Pts. |
TB1 |
TB3 |
TB4 |
1 |
GM |
Ni Hua | CHN | 2637 | 7.0 |
20791 |
54.5 |
42.5 |
2 |
GM |
Jobava Baadur | GEO | 2706 | 7.0 |
20693 |
52.5 |
40.5 |
3 |
GM |
Mchedlishvili Mikheil | GEO | 2626 | 7.0 |
20457 |
50.0 |
39.5 |
4 |
GM |
Miezis Normunds | LAT | 2557 | 7.0 |
20334 |
53.5 |
42.5 |
5 |
GM |
Sandipan Chanda | IND | 2595 | 7.0 |
20274 |
52.0 |
41.0 |
6 |
GM |
Akopian Vladimir | ARM | 2684 | 6.5 |
20513 |
51.0 |
42.0 |
7 |
GM |
Petrosian Tigran L | ARM | 2643 | 6.5 |
20488 |
51.5 |
40.5 |
8 |
GM |
Miroshnichenko Evgenij | UKR | 2624 | 6.5 |
20292 |
50.5 |
40.0 |
9 |
GM |
Andriasian Zaven | ARM | 2616 | 6.5 |
20215 |
52.0 |
40.5 |
10 |
GM |
Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2643 | 6.5 |
19938 |
49.5 |
39.0 |
11 |
GM |
Hovhannisyan Robert | ARM | 2600 | 6.5 |
19875 |
48.5 |
38.0 |
12 |
GM |
Volkov Sergey | RUS | 2623 | 6.5 |
19689 |
46.5 |
36.5 |
13 |
GM |
Zhou Weiqi | CHN | 2628 | 6.5 |
19666 |
50.5 |
39.0 |
14 |
IM |
Shyam Sundar M | IND | 2474 | 6.5 |
19316 |
46.0 |
36.0 |
15 |
GM |
Sokolov Ivan | NED | 2653 | 6.5 |
19160 |
49.5 |
38.0 |
16 |
GM |
Kuzubov Yuriy | UKR | 2615 | 6.0 |
20123 |
51.5 |
40.0 |
17 |
GM |
Baklan Vladimir | UKR | 2612 | 6.0 |
20037 |
48.5 |
37.5 |
18 |
IM |
Shyam Nikil P | IND | 2490 | 6.0 |
19997 |
51.0 |
40.5 |
19 |
GM |
Negi Parimarjan | IND | 2639 | 6.0 |
19941 |
52.0 |
40.5 |
20 |
GM |
Iordachescu Viorel | MDA | 2644 | 6.0 |
19859 |
48.5 |
38.0 |
21 |
IM |
Grigoryan Karen H | ARM | 2510 | 6.0 |
19692 |
49.5 |
38.5 |
22 |
GM |
Ganguly Surya Shekhar | IND | 2633 | 6.0 |
19661 |
48.0 |
36.5 |
23 |
GM |
Van Wely Loek | NED | 2691 | 6.0 |
19560 |
49.5 |
38.0 |
24 |
GM |
Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 2643 | 6.0 |
19399 |
46.5 |
36.5 |
25 |
FM |
Atabayev Maksat | TKM | 2367 | 6.0 |
19339 |
45.5 |
35.5 |
26 |
GM |
Ghaem Maghami Ehsan | IRI | 2581 | 6.0 |
19268 |
47.5 |
36.5 |
27 |
WGM |
Sergeyeva Mariya | KAZ | 2327 | 6.0 |
18578 |
42.0 |
32.5 |
28 |
GM |
Evdokimov Alexander | RUS | 2555 | 6.0 |
18535 |
41.5 |
32.0 |
29 |
GM |
Harutjunyan Gevorg | ARM | 2455 | 6.0 |
18463 |
42.5 |
32.5 |
30 |
Baghdasaryan Vahe | ARM | 2406 | 6.0 |
18411 |
42.0 |
33.0 |
Final round decider: Normunds Miezis vs Sandipan Chanda, both with 6½/8
– draw
An important all-India summit in round eight: White won and went into the
lead
An important game from round nine, which was won by Georgian GM Mchedlishvili
Arbiters watch the game GM Amin Bassem, Egypt, vs Ebrahim Ahmadinia, Iran
GM Vladimir Baklan, 2612, vs IM Tania Sachdev, 2414 in round nine (White
won)
WIM Maria Blanco Acevedo of Venezuela, rated 2120, finished at 4.0/9
WCM Ana-Maria Ursu of Moldova, rated 1887, finished at 3.0/9 points
Chess on his mind: Armenian GM Avetik Grigoryan, 2600, finished with 5.0/9
points
Flamboyant: Iranian player Ali Abedi, rated 2197, who finished on 5.0/9
Following the live broadcast of key games on a flatscreen in the club halls
14th Dubai Open Round 6 and 7 with winners interviews
Dubai Open penultimate round interviews with joint leaders
LinksA selection of games are being broadcast shown as a live stream on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download a free Playchess client there. You can also use ChessBase 11 or any of our Fritz compatible chess programs. |
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