Dubai open 2008, round 2

Ahmed Adly, Wesly So share lead among others

The number 1 seeded in the Dubai chess open 2008, GM Gadir Guseinov, lost in round 2 from FM Moosavian. The surprising result gave wings to the other players who tried to clinch victories in some exciting non draw games on the first boards. 24 are with full 2,0/2, and they are separated by a tiebreak coefficient (Sum of the ratings of the opponents).

Here are the results from round 2 and the pairings for round 3.

Dubai open, results round 2

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

Pairings round 3

GM Ibrahimov Rasul 2 - 2 GM Gelashvili Tamaz
GM Pantsulaia Levan 2 - 2 GM So Wesley
GM Gupta Abhijeet 2 - 2 GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan
GM Kuzubov Yuriy 2 - 2 GM Ibrayev Nurlan
GM Drozdovskij Yuri 2 - 2 IM Ismagambetov Anuar
IM Laxman R R 2 - 2 GM Li Chao B
GM Adly Ahmed 2 - 2 GM Ramesh R B
IM Sadorra Julio Catalino 2 - 2 GM Kotanjian Tigran
GM Kotsur Pavel 2 - 2 IM Tissir Mohamed
FM Salem A R Saleh 2 - 2 GM Neverov Valeriy
Zhou Weiqi 2 - 2 FM Moosavian S Hamed
GM Gagunashvili Merab 2 - 2 FM Othman A Moussa
Sadatnajafi M 2 - 1½ GM Arutinian David
IM Frhat Ali 1½ - 1½ GM Gleizerov Evgeny
IM Nedochetov Mikhail 1½ - 1½ GM Safarli Eltaj
Praveen Kumar C 1½ - 1½ GM Guliev Sarhan
IM El Taher Fouad 1½ - 1½ WGM Ramaswamy Aarthie
Phadke Sohan 1½ - 1½ IM Ashwin Jayaram
WIM Pourkashiyan Atousa 1½ - 1½ IM Guliev Logman
FM Alhuwar Jasem 1½ - 1½ IM Khader Sami
GM Guseinov Gadir 1 - 1 Ramnath Bhuvanesh R
FM Al Mahayri Sabri 1 - 1 GM Negi Parimarjan
Suresh Kumar T J 1 - 1 IM Kalegin Evgenij
IM Sachdev Tania 1 - 1 WIM Ghader Pour Shayesteh