| $40,000 Dubai Open Starts Today |
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| Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:00 |
 GM Zviad Izoria of Georgia leads a strong field of 20 GMs, 17 IMs and 40 other titled players in the 8th Dubai Open Championship starting today at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 138 players are competing in the nine round Swiss. At stake in this traditional strongest Open in Asia, now on its 8th year, is a total of US$40,000. For live coverage of top boards, news, photos and games visit www.dubaichess.com or Wiener-Zeitung. .
GM Zviad Izoria of Georgia leads a strong field of 20 GMs, 17 IMs and 40 other titled players in the 8th Dubai Open Championship starting today at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 138 players are competing in the nine round Swiss. At stake in this traditional strongest Open in Asia, now on its 8th year, is a total of US$40,000. For live coverage of top boards, news, photos and games visit www.dubaichess.com or Wiener-Zeitung.
8th Dubai Open 2006 Starting rank list SNo. Name IRtg FED 1 GM Izoria Zviad 2647 GEO 2 GM Sadvakasov Darmen 2619 KAZ 3 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2612 ARM 4 GM Pantsulaia Levan 2611 GEO 5 GM Miroshnichenko Evgenij 2608 UKR 6 GM Kacheishvili Giorgi 2605 GEO 7 GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan 2584 IRI 8 GM Fedorchuk Sergey A 2576 UKR 9 GM Gelashvili Tamaz 2576 GEO 10 GM Neverov Valeriy 2572 UKR 11 GM Petrosian Tigran L 2571 ARM 12 GM Kotsur Pavel 2570 KAZ 13 GM Gagunashvili Merab 2560 GEO 14 GM Anastasian Ashot 2553 ARM 15 IM Krivoshey Sergei 2531 UKR 16 GM Sturua Zurab 2524 GEO 17 GM Ramesh R B 2507 IND 18 GM Odeev Handszar 2492 TKM 19 IM Babaev Rashad 2481 AZE 20 IM El Taher Fouad 2468 EGY 21 IM Abbasov Farid 2467 AZE 22 GM Adly Ahmed 2460 EGY 23 IM Sale Srdjan 2453 CRO 24 GM Taleb Moussa 2452 UAE 25 IM Gupta Abhijeet 2449 IND 26 Negi Parimarjan 2445 IND 27 GM Bistric Faruk 2430 BIH 28 IM Kayumov Sergey 2426 UZB 29 FM Safarli Eltaj 2417 AZE 30 IM Simonenko Sergei 2409 TKM 31 IM Kulicov Oleg 2407 RUS 32 IM Sarsam S A 2399 IRQ 33 IM Sareen Vishal 2386 IND 34 FM Habu Yoshiharu 2382 JPN 35 IM El Arousy Abdul Hameed 2369 EGY 36 IM Prathamesh Sunil Mokal 2366 IND 37 FM Sharbaf Mohsen 2362 IRI 38 FM Othman A Moussa 2360 UAE 39 WGM Sergeeva Maria 2355 KAZ 40 IM Bajarani Ilgar 2352 AZE 41 IM Ghane Shojaat 2352 IRI 42 FM Toufighi Homayoon 2347 IRI 43 IM Nezad Husein Aziz 2345 QAT 44 WGM Velikhanli Firuza 2326 AZE 45 FM Jasim A R Saleh 2324 UAE 46 FM Teichmann Erik O M C 2320 ENG 47 WIM Pourkashiyan Atousa 2311 IRI 48 Sai Srinivas 2309 IND 49 Amanov Mesgen 2305 TKM 50 Semiev Suhrab 2302 TKM 51 IM Himdan Maher 2297 EGY 52 Anilkumar O T 2284 IND 53 Singh Gurpreet Pal 2273 IND 54 Joshi G B 2269 IND 55 FM Somoff Abdo 2256 LIB 56 FM So Wesley 2254 PHI 57 Soozankar A M 2246 IRI 58 WIM Macek Vlasta 2243 CRO 59 FM Abdul Majeed Mohamad 2242 UAE 60 Bente Bjoern 2240 GER 61 Lalith Babu M R 2240 IND 62 WGM Ramaswamy Aarthie 2239 IND 63 WIM Nadig Kruttika 2239 IND 64 FM Aryanejad Hossein 2236 IRI 65 Stellwagen Robin 2232 GER 66 Sethuraman S P 2231 IND 67 Vaidya C N 2229 IND 68 Schmid Stefan 2224 GER 69 Sadatnajafi M 2222 IRI 70 FM Molina Antonio 2220 PHI 71 WGM Paridar Shadi 2210 IRI 72 Soumitra Majumdar 2207 IND 73 FM Baum Bernd Dr 2202 GER 74 WFM Stock Lara 2200 CRO 75 Darini Pouria 2194 IRI 76 Doostkam P 2188 IRI 77 Ihsan Jawad 2172 PLE 78 FM Narayanan Srinath 2170 IND 79 WFM Salman Mahini Mona 2163 IRI 80 Mohannad Al Qasem 2160 JOR 81 Laabi Chian Majid 2145 IRI 82 WIM Ghader Pour Shayesteh 2144 IRI 83 FM Al-Sulaiti Ghanem 2135 QAT 84 Priyadharshan K 2135 IND 85 FM Saeed Ishaq 2133 UAE 86 Alsharhan Faisal 2130 UAE 87 FM Salem A R Saleh 2124 UAE 88 Bashirinia Omid 2122 IRI 89 Monir Arman 2121 BAN 90 Marcial Augusto S 2110 PHI 91 Shantanu Lahiri 2106 IND 92 Ayyad Maher 2104 BRN 93 FM Laith Kasib 2103 IRQ 94 Ali Obay 2103 SUD 95 Baltazar Danny 2094 PHI 96 FM Bajarani Ulvi 2084 AZE 97 WFM Navabi Shirin 2082 IRI 98 Kolyaie Hasan 2080 IRI 99 Jha Shatrughan 2078 IND 100 Zibaei Abdoulla 2073 IRI 101 Prasanna Rao 2055 IND 102 Stojic Dusan 2054 AUS 103 WFM Grishina Alexandra 2052 RUS 104 Kayle Charles 2049 PLE 105 Schnock Stefan 2049 GER 106 Al-Housa Khalil 2044 PLE 107 Khan W A 2036 IND 108 FM Marwan Abdulwahab 2033 UAE 109 Lavasani Javad 2032 IRI 110 Alam Nure 2029 BAN 111 Hoareau Benjamin 2027 SEY 112 Samavat Mehrdad 2026 IRI 113 Dinayet Kazi Rashedul 2020 BAN 114 Yachou Nur 2007 AUS 115 Fardbehbahani B 2006 IRI 116 Albers Andreas 1995 GER 117 FM Grover Sahaj 1987 IND 118 Begum Masuda 1981 BAN 119 Ramnath Bhuvanesh 1978 IND 120 Abdulgalil Husain 1964 BRN 121 Dave Dhyani 1949 IND 122 WFM Saleh Nora Mohd 1925 UAE 123 WFM Al-Hammadi Fatma 1880 UAE 124 Shiven Khosla 1863 IND 125 Chowdhury Mahmuda Haque 1843 BAN 126 Dasgupta Natun 1788 IND 127 Jamila Juma 1697 UAE 128 WFM Abdulaziz Amal 0 UAE 129 WFM Abdulaziz Eman 0 UAE 130 WFM Bukhashem Fayeqa S 0 UAE 131 WFM Mohamed Ebtisam 0 UAE 132 Abdulghani Fatima 0 UAE 133 Malallah Khadija 0 UAE 134 Marbella Antonio 0 PHI 135 Rahmani Behrooz 0 IRI 136 Sultan Haifa 0 UAE 137 Taghikhani Amir Ali 0 IRI 138 Valerio Axel 0 PHI  News 27.02.06 A total of $40,000 in cash prizes are at stake in the strong 8th Dubai Open Championship scheduled 22 April (arrival) to 2 May (departure) 2006 at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Up for grabs is custody of the Sheikh Rashed Bin Hamdan Al Mactoum Cup, the Challenge Trophy in the 9-round Swiss system tournament. Download the Regulations and the Registration Form. Interested players are kindly requested to fill in the registration form, which include passport copy, passport particulars of participants, and return the same to the Dubai Chess & Culture Club not later than 20/3/2006 to the following address or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Dubai Chess & Culture Club P.O.Box: 11354 DUBAI United Arab Emirates For emergency enquiries: Tel: (00971 4) 2966664 Fax: (00971 4) 2968880 |