15th Dubai Open Chess Championship Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup 6th to 16th April 2013, Dubai, UAE • Bulletin 4 Top seed GM Vladimir Akopian of Armenia (right) drew with GM Vladimir Burmakin of Russia in round 4 action. Volkov, Rakhmanov, Sargissian and Ehlvest lead with perfect 4-pts Four Grandmasters share the lead with hind. With 3.5 points each are top seed patriot Babu Lallith in 39 moves. GM Eh- perfect scores after four rounds of the 15th GM Vladimir Akopian and GM Tigran L. san Ghaem Maghami of Iran outplayed Dubai Open Chess Championship. Rus- Petrosyan, both of Armenia, Vladimir IM Shardul Gagare of India in 57 moves sian GMs Sergey Volkov and Aleksandr Burmakin of Rusia, Romain Edouard of of a Rook and pawn endgame arising from Rakhmanov, Armenian Gabriel Sargissian France, Levan Pantsulaia of Georgia, another English Opening. GM Oleksienko and Jaan Ehlvest of the USA are tied at 4 Yuriy Kryvoruchko and Mikhailo Oleks- derailed the Sicilian defense of 14-year- points each in the 9-round Swiss System ienko, both of Ukraine, Ehsan Ghaem old giant killer Aravindh Chithambaram tournament. Maghami of Iran and Pavelo Kotsur of of India in 41 moves. Kotsur used the Si- Sargissian essayed the Queen’s Indian Kazakhstan, IM Diptayan Ghosh of India cilian defense to beat Madina Davlet- defense to beat GM Rinat Jymabayev of and WGM Ju Wenjun of China. bayeva of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan in 66 moves. Volkov, playing In the lead pack, Burmakin and Akopi- Top games can be seen live on the in- Black, turned back the English opening of an drew a minor piece endgame in 34 ternet at the Dubai Chess Club website Mikheil Mchedlishvili of Georgia in 47 moves. Pantsulaia and Romain exchanged www.dubaichess.ae. moves. Rakhmanov, also with the Black Queen’s on the 12th move of their English The tournament is a 9 round Swiss pieces used the Old Indian Defense to Opening and drew a Rook and Pawn end- among 190 players from 34 countries. At penetrate with Queen and Rook and game in 64 moves. stake is the Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al checkmate GM Surya Ganguly of India on In decisive games, Kryvoruchko Maktoum Cup and a total of $50,000 in the 46th move. Jaan Ehlvest, formerly of crushed the Sicilian defense of Moham- cash prizes. Estonia and now playing under the U.S. med Al-Sayed of Qatar in 42 moves. Pet- Friday is a rest day for the regular tour- flag, used the English Opening to beat lo- rosian used the Queen’s Gambit Declined nament but there will be a blitz tourna- cal hero GM Saleh A. R. Salem of the to beat GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh ment at 5 pm in the Dubai Chess Club. UAE in 41 moves. in 54 moves. Diptayan Ghosh of India The tournament resumes with two Eleven players follow half a point be- turned back the English Opening of com- rounds on Saturday at 10 am and 6 pm. 15th Dubai Open Chess Championship Round 4 on 2013/04/10 Bo. Name IRtg FED Pts Res. Pts Name IRtg FED 1 GM Burmakin Vladimir 2580 RUS 3 ½ ½ 3 GM Akopian Vladimir 2704 ARM 2 GM Pantsulaia Levan 2556 GEO 3 ½ ½ 3 GM Edouard Romain 2670 FRA 3 GM Jumabayev Rinat 2549 KAZ 3 0 - 1 3 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2666 ARM 4 GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil 2640 GEO 3 0 - 1 3 GM Volkov Sergey 2593 RUS 5 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2623 IND 3 0 - 1 3 GM Rakhmanov Aleksandr 2591 RUS 6 GM Ehlvest Jaan 2611 USA 3 1 - 0 3 GM Salem A.R. Saleh 2530 UAE 7 GM Laznicka Viktor 2674 CZE 2½ ½ ½ 3 WGM Ju Wenjun 2521 CHN 8 GM Kryvoruchko Yuriy 2668 UKR 2½ 1 - 0 2½ GM Al-Sayed Mohammed 2517 QAT 9 GM Petrosian Tigran L. 2663 ARM 2½ 1 - 0 2½ GM Rahman Ziaur 2511 BAN 10 GM Darini Pouria 2505 IRI 2½ ½ ½ 2½ GM Istratescu Andrei 2648 FRA 11 IM Khotenashvili Bela 2492 GEO 2½ ½ ½ 2½ GM Amin Bassem 2641 EGY 12 IM Debashis Das 2477 IND 2½ ½ ½ 2½ GM Kuzubov Yuriy 2619 UKR 13 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade 2475 IND 2½ ½ ½ 2½ GM Parligras Mircea-Emilian 2602 ROU 14 GM Lalith Babu M.R. 2565 IND 2½ 0 - 1 2½ IM Ghosh Diptayan 2451 IND 15 IM Gagare Shardul 2397 IND 2½ 0 - 1 2½ GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan 2561 IRI 16 GM Oleksienko Mikhailo 2554 UKR 2½ 1 - 0 2½ FM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. 2333 IND 17 WIM Davletbayeva Madina 2248 KAZ 2½ 0 - 1 2½ GM Kotsur Pavel 2552 KAZ 18 GM Sokolov Ivan 2643 NED 2 1 - 0 2½ FM Visweswaran K. 2159 IND 19 GM Gupta Abhijeet 2591 IND 2 ½ ½ 2 WGM Saduakassova Dinara 2336 KAZ 20 Krishna C.R.G. 2334 IND 2 0 - 1 2 GM Adhiban B. 2555 IND 21 IM Galojan Lilit 2323 ARM 2 0 - 1 2 GM Michalik Peter 2535 SVK 22 GM Carlsson Pontus 2520 SWE 2 ½ ½ 2 WGM Pourkashiyan Atousa 2303 IRI 23 IM Akshayraj Kore 2512 IND 2 1 - 0 2 FM Das Sayantan 2299 IND 24 GM Shyam Sundar M. 2505 IND 2 ½ ½ 2 WIM Olsarova Karolina 2264 CZE 25 IM Praveen Kumar C. 2312 IND 2 0 - 1 2 IM Hayrapetyan Hovik 2503 ARM 26 FM Kowsarinia Amir 2301 IRI 2 0 - 1 2 IM Shoker Samy 2480 EGY 27 WIM Khademalsharieh Sarasadat 2267 IRI 2 1 - 0 2 IM Paehtz Elisabeth 2479 GER 28 Hemant Sharma (del) 2253 IND 2 1 - 0 2 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. 2477 IND 29 IM Vishnu Prasanna. V 2470 IND 2 1 - 0 2 FM Chahrani Ibrahim 2244 LBA 30 FM Mohannad Farhan 2231 JOR 2 0 - 1 2 GM Grover Sahaj 2467 IND 31 IM Narayanan Srinath 2440 IND 2 1 - 0 2 Raes Abdul Kader 2241 SYR 32 Navalgund Niranjan 2219 IND 2 ½ ½ 2 Karthikeyan Murali 2432 IND 33 IM Ankit R. Rajpara 2421 IND 2 ½ ½ 2 WGM Makropoulou Marina 2227 GRE 34 IM Tania Sachdev 2409 IND 2 1 - 0 2 Ilhomzoda Ikrom 2212 TJK 35 Nyazi Nehad 2203 EGY 2 0 - 1 2 IM Nezad Husein Aziz 2400 QAT 36 Sobh Amrou 2177 EGY 2 0 - 1 2 IM Karavade Eesha 2389 IND 37 IM Khukhashvili Sopiko 2386 GEO 2 1 - 0 2 Phadke Sohan 2187 IND 38 CM Nadir Samir 2135 SUD 2 0 - 1 2 Sagar Shah 2376 IND 39 IM Isaev Jamshed 2355 TJK 2 - - + 2 FM Somoff Abdo 2155 LIB 40 Kohtz Andreas 2068 GER 2 0 - 1 2 FM De Ramos Julius 2350 PHI 41 IM Purtseladze Maka 2347 GEO 2 - - + 2 Pabalan Rocky 2138 PHI 42 Tawfeik Moustafa 2081 EGY 2 1 - 0 2 WGM Hoolt Sarah 2338 GER 43 GM Harika Dronavalli 2509 IND 1½ 1 - 0 2 Basencyan Mark 2133 ARM 44 Osman Abdelgadir 2157 SUD 1½ 0 - 1 1½ GM Wen Yang 2631 CHN 45 GM Iordachescu Viorel 2599 MDA 1½ 1 - 0 1½ Nimmy A.G. 2152 IND 46 Wenzel Birger 2109 GER 1½ 0 - 1 1½ GM Shanava Konstantine 2578 GEO 47 IM Ezat Mohamed 2461 EGY 1½ 1 - 0 1½ Michelle Catherina P 2123 IND 48 WFM Raghavi N. 2096 IND 1½ ½ ½ 1½ IM Yap Kim Steven 2418 PHI 15th Dubai Open Chess Championship Round 4 on 2013/04/10 Bo. Name IRtg FED Pts Res. Pts Name IRtg FED 49 Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan 2418 IND 1½ 0 - 1 1½ CM Ahmed Holi Ali Moawia 2066 SUD 50 Mohammed Tarig Elther 1993 SUD 1½ 0 - 1 1½ IM Houska Jovanka 2417 ENG 51 Salah Romany 2085 EGY 1½ 0 - 1 1½ IM Kanter Eduard 2408 RUS 52 FM Anurag Mhamal 2401 IND 1½ 1 - 0 1½ Abdel Rabb Raouf 2036 YEM 53 IM Prathamesh Sunil Mokal 2389 IND 1½ 1 - 0 1½ Elnaami Hashem A.K. 1854 LBA 54 WIM Olsarova Tereza 2260 CZE 1½ 1 - 0 1½ Adarsh Saji 1737 IND 55 IM Gameel Mohamed 2250 YEM 1½ 1 - 0 1½ FM Harshal Shahi 1955 IND 56 Tabada Jobannie C. 2199 PHI 1½ 0 - 1 1 FM Vandenbussche Thibaut 2387 BEL 57 Abdulla Abdulwahab 1773 UAE 1 1 - 0 1 WGM Mona Khaled 2147 EGY 58 Abdulla Ali 1746 UAE 1 ½ ½ 1 WFM Schmidt Jade 2113 GER 59 Murad Abdulla 1741 UAE 1 0 - 1 1 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado 2093 IND 60 WFM Nekrasova Elena 2089 LIB 1 ½ ½ 1 Hamdan Marshool 1756 UAE 61 Mehdi Samer 2089 IRI 1 - - + 1 Ahmed Fareed 1725 UAE 62 Waleed Mohamed 1724 EGY 1 0 - 1 1 WIM Blanco Acevedo Maria C. 2080 VEN 63 Sameir Ramez 2078 EGY 1 1 - 0 1 Sasikumar Anusweud 1721 IND 64 Montaser Kamil 1700 SUD 1 0 - 1 1 Elnemr Mohamed 2073 EGY 65 Takrory Hosam 2044 PLE 1 1 - 0 1 Ambareesh. P 1697 IND 66 FM Ram Aravind L N 2035 IND 1 1 - 0 1 Humaid Abdulla Ali 1668 UAE 67 Khaled Ahmed Y. 1652 UAE 1 + - - 1 Rice Chris B 2032 ENG 68 Majed Ali Abdouli 1627 UAE 1 0 - 1 1 FM Elmejbri Ali A. 2008 LBA 69 Mahmoud Haitham 2005 SUD 1 1 - 0 1 Ali Abdulaziz 1660 UAE 70 Santosh Sanath 1597 IND 1 0 - 1 1 Madhurima Shekhar 1991 IND 71 Ahmed Fayez 1946 UAE 1 0 - 1 1 Abdulaziz Abdulla 1610 UAE 72 Sudharsan Surya. K 1780 IND 1 0 - 1 1 Magdy Kassem 1943 EGY 73 Rafee Mohd Hayel 1909 SYR 1 1 - 0 1 Al-Hammadi Fatima Hussein 1565 UAE 74 Rashid Mosallam 1388 UAE 1 ½ ½ 1 Walid Anwar 1893 UAE 75 Sultan Ibrahim 1886 UAE 1 1 - 0 1 Nandu Gagarin 1429 IND 76 Al Sori Mohamed 1830 LBA 1 0 - 1 1 FM Yaaqoub Rashid 2203 SUD 77 Alnami Salaheddin 1825 LBA 1 0 - 1 1 Abdalsalam Abubukr 2002 SUD 78 Faranka Khaled 1823 LBA 1 1 - 0 1 Al Hosani Omran 0 UAE 79 Dimarucut Francis Erwin 2120 PHI 1 1 - 0 1 Vojdani Siavosh 1819 IRI 80 CM Saleh Naif 1811 UAE 1 + - - 1 Bennett John M 2048 ENG 81 WFM Nouman Amna 1809 UAE 1 ½ ½ 1 Altaher Salman Tarek 1482 UAE 82 Bashaer Khalil 1545 UAE ½ 0 - 1 ½ Albers Andreas 1999 GER 83 Al-Zaabi Sultan 1447 UAE ½ 0 - 1 ½ Esa A H Almarazeeq 1781 UAE 84 Sultan Marshool 1736 UAE ½ 1 - 0 ½ Salem Ahmed Salem 1548 UAE 85 Keen Cosima C 1712 ENG ½ 1 - 0 ½ Jehad Aysha 1586 UAE 86 Al Amoudy Khalifa 1411 UAE ½ 1 - 0 ½ Abdullah Al Hamed 1691 UAE 87 Aagney L.