Dubai Open chess championship

Wesley So and Parimarjan Negi victorious in round 1

132 players from 25 nations play in the Dubai open chess championship that started this weekend in Dubai. The field is quite strong with 23 GMs, 19 IMs, 6 WGMs, and a total of 74 titled players.

There were not many surprises in round 1. There were only a few surprises (see results below) and the race will continue today with 61 players sharing the lead. The surprise is probably that only 6 games finished draw, a very low number having in mind the strength of the field.

The top youngsters of the competition, Wesley So and Parimarjan Negi, won their games convincingly. Wesley So will meet FM Wu Xibin, while Negi will play with FM Othman A Moussa.

The top encounter of round 2 will be between the strong GM Gelashvili and the strongly progressing WGM and IM Sachdev Tania.

Dubai Open, results round 1

GM Guseinov Gadir 1 - 0 Natarajan C
WGM Smokina Karolina 0 - 1 GM Gelashvili Tamaz
GM Pantsulaia Levan 1 - 0 FM Bajarani Ulvi
WIM Meera Sai 0 - 1 GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan
GM Kuzubov Yuriy 1 - 0 FM Mohamed Hossein
FM Soozankar A M ½ - ½ GM Arutinian David
GM Drozdovskij Yuri 1 - 0 FM Narayanan Srinath
Schmid Stefan 0 - 1 GM Li Chao B
GM Adly Ahmed 1 - 0 Ramnath Bhuvanesh R
FM Al Mahayri Sabri 0 - 1 GM Kotanjian Tigran
GM Kotsur Pavel 1 - 0 Suresh Kumar T J
Doostkom P 0 - 1 GM Neverov Valeriy
Zhou Weiqi 1 - 0 WIM Ghader Pour Shayesteh
FM Saed Ishaq 0 - 1 GM Gleizerov Evgeny
GM Gagunashvili Merab 1 - 0 Mari Ooriad Pouya
Al Sulaiti Ali 0 - 1 GM So Wesley
GM Ibrahimov Rasul 1 - 0 Saud Moha Ed
Darwish Mohamed ½ - ½ GM Safarli Eltaj
GM Gupta Abhijeet + - - Mehdi Samer
FM Molina Antonio 0 - 1 GM Negi Parimarjan
GM Rausis Igor 1 - 0 Chaichi Navid
WGM Partac Elena ½ - ½ IM Kalegin Evgenij
GM Ibrayev Nurlan 1 - 0 Gaponenko Leonid
CM Haridas K 0 - 1 IM Ismagambetov Anuar
IM Laxman R R 1 - 0 WFM Swati Mohota
Rice Chris B 0 - 1 GM Guliev Sarhan
IM El Taher Fouad ½ - ½ FM Marwan Abdulwahab
Mroweh Husein 0 - 1 GM Ramesh R B
IM Sadorra Julio Catalino 1 - 0 Shiven Khosla
Ali Obay 0 - 1 IM Ashwin Jayaram
IM Tissir Mohamed 1 - 0 Nikzaban Ehsan
Anuprita Patil 0 - 1 IM Guliev Logman
FM Salem A R Saleh 1 - 0 Kayle Charles
Tabada Jobannie C 0 - 1 IM Khader Sami
IM Sachdev Tania 1 - 0 WFM Hakimifard Ghazal
Yousif Ammar Mohd - - + D'cuna Antonio V.
Wang Li 1 - 0 Tejas Ravichandran
Yap Ernesto M 0 - 1 FM Moosavian S Hamed
WGM Mohota Nisha 0 - 1 Al-Housa Khalil
Arellano Robert 0 - 1 IM Mas Hafizulhelmi
IM Frhat Ali ½ - ½ Khalil Ibrahim
Poleschikov Alexey 0 - 1 IM Durarbeyli Vasif
IM Ravi Lanka 1 - 0 Qu Yanqiao
Omar Noaman 0 - 1 Nasri Amin
WGM Zhang Jilin 1 - 0 Mohamed, Sheer
Abdulkarim Ali 0 - 1 IM Sharma Dinesh K
IM Nedochetov Mikhail 1 - 0 Mohamed Eissa
Bukhalaf Khalaf 0 - 1 IM Hassan Abdullah
FM Wu Xibin 1 - 0 Taghikhani Amir Ali
Salem Amna 0 - 1 IM Bajarni Ilgar
FM Othman A Moussa 1 - 0 Jamila Juma
Safar Reem 0 - 1 WGM Sergeeva Maria
FM Grover Sahaj 1 - 0 WFM Bukhashem Fayeqa S
Khadija Malalla 0 - 1 IM El Arousy Abdulhameed
WGM Ramaswamy Aarthie 1 - 0 WFM Abdulaziz Amal
WFM Abdulaziz Eman 0 - 1 Debashis Das
FM Arvind C J 1 - 0 Abdulaziz Ali
Abdullah Abdulaziz 0 - 1 Sadatnajafi M
Praveen Kumar C 1 - 0 Abdullah Ali
Ahmed Fayez 0 - 1 FM Mohannad Farhan
Phadke Sohan 1 - 0 Al Zarooni Ayesha Eisa
Al Zarooni Kulood Eisa 0 - 1 FM Somoff Abdo
FM Alhuwar Jasem ½ - ½ Johny P I
Nouman Amna 0 - 1 Noroozi Omid
WIM Pourkashiyan Atousa 1 - 0 Paul Dargan
Saleh Naif 0 - 1 Momeni E