Wesley So with performance 3104!

Wesley So defeats Ahmed Adly, leads Dubai Open

GM Wesley So is top of the table of the Dubai chess open 2008 with performance over 3100. The young chess star has defeated the world U20 chess champion GM Ahmed Adly and is leading with full 4,0/4.

With the same points is FM Salem, however, Wesley So has better tiebreak (sum of the ratings of the opponents) and is currently first. In the next round GM Wesley So and FM Salem will face each other in an important game for first place.

The top spots at the Dubai chess open are to be decided, as more than 30 players are with 3,0/4. Among them we find the top seed participants GM Gelashvili, GM Gagunashvili, IM Sachdev , GM Ramesh, GM Negi, etc. Here are the full standings, results, and pairings.

Dubai Open standings

1 GM So Wesley 4,0
2 FM Salem A R Saleh 4,0
3 GM Gelashvili Tamaz 3,5
4 GM Gupta Abhijeet 3,5
5 GM Drozdovskij Yuri 3,5
6 GM Kotanjian Tigran 3,5
7 GM Kotsur Pavel 3,5
8 GM Gagunashvili Merab 3,5
9 Sadatnajafi M 3,0
10 GM Ibrahimov Rasul 3,0
11 GM Ibrayev Nurlan 3,0
12 IM Sadorra Julio Catalino 3,0
13 GM Adly Ahmed 3,0
14 GM Li Chao B 3,0
15 GM Kuzubov Yuriy 3,0
16 GM Pantsulaia Levan 3,0
17 FM Moosavian S Hamed 3,0
18 Zhou Weiqi 3,0
19 IM Ashwin Jayaram 3,0
20 IM Ismagambetov Anuar 3,0
21 GM Neverov Valeriy 3,0
22 GM Ramesh R B 3,0
23 IM Sachdev Tania 3,0
24 GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan 3,0
25 Wang Li 3,0
26 GM Gleizerov Evgeny 3,0
27 GM Arutinian David 3,0
28 IM Frhat Ali 3,0
29 GM Guliev Sarhan 3,0
30 IM Mas Hafizulhelmi 3,0
31 GM Negi Parimarjan 3,0
32 Nasri Amin 3,0
33 FM Soozankar A M 2,5
34 IM Laxman R R 2,5
35 D'cuna Antonio V. 2,5
36 IM Bajarni Ilgar 2,5
37 GM Guseinov Gadir 2,5
38 GM Safarli Eltaj 2,5
39 WGM Smokina Karolina 2,5
40 IM Tissir Mohamed 2,5
41 IM Ravi Lanka 2,5
42 Phadke Sohan 2,5
43 Noroozi Omid 2,5
44 IM Hassan Abdullah 2,5
45 Momeni E 2,5
46 IM Guliev Logman 2,5
47 IM Durarbeyli Vasif 2,5
48 IM El Taher Fouad 2,5

Results round 4

GM Gagunashvili Merab 3 ½ - ½ 3 GM Drozdovskij Yuri
GM So Wesley 3 1 - 0 3 GM Adly Ahmed
GM Gupta Abhijeet 3 ½ - ½ 3 GM Kotsur Pavel
FM Salem A R Saleh 3 1 - 0 3 Zhou Weiqi
GM Gelashvili Tamaz 2½ 1 - 0 2½ GM Safarli Eltaj
IM Ashwin Jayaram 2½ ½ - ½ 2½ GM Kuzubov Yuriy
GM Arutinian David 2½ ½ - ½ 2½ GM Ibrahimov Rasul
GM Li Chao B 2½ ½ - ½ 2½ IM Sadorra Julio Catalino
GM Kotanjian Tigran 2½ 1 - 0 2½ IM Laxman R R
GM Ibrayev Nurlan 2½ ½ - ½ 2 GM Guseinov Gadir
IM Sharma Dinesh K 2 0 - 1 2 GM Pantsulaia Levan
GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan 2 1 - 0 2 WGM Zhang Jilin
GM Neverov Valeriy 2 1 - 0 2 FM Wu Xibin
GM Gleizerov Evgeny 2 1 - 0 2 FM Grover Sahaj
GM Negi Parimarjan 2 1 - 0 2 FM Arvind C J
IM Kalegin Evgenij 2 0 - 1 2 Sadatnajafi M
IM Ismagambetov Anuar 2 1 - 0 2 Praveen Kumar C
GM Guliev Sarhan 2 1 - 0 2 FM Alhuwar Jasem
IM Bajarni Ilgar 2 ½ - ½ 2 IM El Taher Fouad
GM Ramesh R B 2 1 - 0 2 WIM Pourkashiyan Atousa
IM Tissir Mohamed 2 ½ - ½ 2 WGM Smokina Karolina
IM Guliev Logman 2 ½ - ½ 2 FM Soozankar A M
IM Khader Sami 2 ½ - ½ 2 D'cuna Antonio V.
FM Othman A Moussa 2 0 - 1 2 IM Sachdev Tania
WGM Sergeeva Maria 2 0 - 1 2 Wang Li
FM Moosavian S Hamed 2 1 - 0 2 Nikzaban Ehsan
IM Mas Hafizulhelmi 2 1 - 0 2 Tabada Jobannie C
WGM Ramaswamy Aarthie 2 0 - 1 2 IM Frhat Ali
Momeni E 2 ½ - ½ 2 IM Ravi Lanka
Nasri Amin 2 1 - 0 2 Arellano Robert
IM Durarbeyli Vasif 1½ 1 - 0 2 Paul Dargan
Noroozi Omid 1½ 1 - 0 1½ IM Nedochetov Mikhail
IM Hassan Abdullah 1½ 1 - 0 1½ Al Sulaiti Ali
IM El Arousy Abdulhameed 1½ ½ - ½ 1½ CM Haridas K
Ali Obay 1½ 0 - 1 1½ Phadke Sohan
Debashis Das 1 1 - 0 1½ Tejas Ravichandran
WFM Swati Mohota 1 ½ - ½ 1 WGM Mohota Nisha
FM Mohannad Farhan 1 ½ - ½ 1 Gaponenko Leonid

Pairings round 5

GM So Wesley 4 - 4 FM Salem A R Saleh
GM Kotsur Pavel 3½ - 3½ GM Gelashvili Tamaz
GM Drozdovskij Yuri 3½ - 3½ GM Gupta Abhijeet
GM Kotanjian Tigran 3½ - 3½ GM Gagunashvili Merab
GM Pantsulaia Levan 3 - 3 IM Ismagambetov Anuar
GM Guliev Sarhan 3 - 3 GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan
GM Kuzubov Yuriy 3 - 3 GM Ramesh R B
IM Sadorra Julio Catalino 3 - 3 GM Arutinian David
IM Ashwin Jayaram 3 - 3 GM Li Chao B
GM Adly Ahmed 3 - 3 FM Moosavian S Hamed
IM Sachdev Tania 3 - 3 GM Neverov Valeriy
Zhou Weiqi 3 - 3 IM Mas Hafizulhelmi
Wang Li 3 - 3 GM Gleizerov Evgeny
GM Ibrahimov Rasul 3 - 3 Nasri Amin
IM Frhat Ali 3 - 3 GM Negi Parimarjan