The Abu Dhabi Chess Festival, held from August 15 to August 24, 2025, in the vibrant city of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, is a prestigious international chess event that brings together players from around the world to compete in a dynamic 9-round Swiss tournament. The tournament is with a time control of 90 minutes with a 30-second increment per move and features GM Sanan Sjugirov (HUN, 2636), GM Arkadij Naiditsch (BUL, 2604), GM Aleksey Grebnev (FID, 2595), GM Brandon Jacobson (USA, 2594), GM Pa Iniyan (IND, 2586), GM Denis Lazavik (BLR, 2584), GM Andrew Hong (USA, 2580), GM Jingyao Tin (SGP, 2579), GM Bartosz Socko (POL, 2574), GM Ido Gorshtein (ISR, 2571), GM Subramaniyam H Bharath (IND, 2562), GM Mittal Aditya (IND, 2560), GM Sina Movahed (IRI, 2558), GM Venkataraman Karthik (IND, 2556), GM Chongsheng Zeng (CHN, 2553), GM Titas Stremavicius (LTU, 2549), GM Denis Makhnev (KAZ, 2540), GM Haowen Xue (CHN, 2535), GM Adham Fawzy (EGY, 2502), GM Igor Miladinovic (SRB, 2501) and a total of 200 players in the main section. Scroll down for the full participants list.
Live games will be daily on Chessdom in cooperation with Lichess.
Abu Dhabi chess participants
| 1 | GM | Sjugirov, Sanan | HUN | 2636 |
| 2 | GM | Naiditsch, Arkadij | BUL | 2604 |
| 3 | GM | Grebnev, Aleksey | FID | 2595 |
| 4 | GM | Jacobson, Brandon | USA | 2594 |
| 5 | GM | Iniyan, Pa | IND | 2586 |
| 6 | GM | Lazavik, Denis | BLR | 2584 |
| 7 | GM | Hong, Andrew | USA | 2580 |
| 8 | GM | Tin, Jingyao | SGP | 2579 |
| 9 | GM | Socko, Bartosz | POL | 2574 |
| 10 | GM | Gorshtein, Ido | ISR | 2571 |
| 11 | GM | Bharath, Subramaniyam H | IND | 2562 |
| 12 | GM | Aditya, Mittal | IND | 2560 |
| 13 | GM | Movahed, Sina | IRI | 2558 |
| 14 | GM | Karthik, Venkataraman | IND | 2556 |
| 15 | GM | Zeng, Chongsheng | CHN | 2553 |
| 16 | GM | Stremavicius, Titas | LTU | 2549 |
| 17 | GM | Makhnev, Denis | KAZ | 2540 |
| 18 | GM | Xue, Haowen | CHN | 2535 |
| 19 | GM | Fawzy, Adham | EGY | 2502 |
| 20 | GM | Miladinovic, Igor | SRB | 2501 |
| 21 | GM | Wan, Yunguo | CHN | 2501 |
| 22 | GM | Suleymenov, Alisher | KAZ | 2500 |
| 23 | IM | Aswath, S | IND | 2500 |
| 24 | IM | Materia, Marco | FRA | 2500 |
| 25 | IM | Rohith, Krishna S | IND | 2500 |
| 26 | GM | Hardaway, Brewington | USA | 2499 |
| 27 | IM | Seemann, Jakub | POL | 2495 |
| 28 | IM | Urazayev, Arystanbek | KAZ | 2490 |
| 29 | IM | Khubukshanov, Erdem | FID | 2489 |
| 30 | IM | Raczek, Krzysztof | POL | 2487 |
| 31 | IM | Nitish, Belurkar | IND | 2486 |
| 32 | IM | Rathanvel, V S | IND | 2486 |
| 33 | IM | Agmanov, Zhandos | KAZ | 2485 |
| 34 | GM | Chanda, Sandipan | IND | 2482 |
| 35 | GM | Srihari, L R | IND | 2482 |
| 36 | IM | Bazakutsa, Svyatoslav | UKR | 2481 |
| 37 | IM | Bronstein, Or | ISR | 2479 |
| 38 | IM | Md, Imran | IND | 2478 |
| 39 | IM | Stribuk, Artiom | FID | 2474 |
| 40 | IM | Tsaruk, Maksim | FID | 2470 |
| 41 | IM | Jubin, Jimmy | IND | 2464 |
| 42 | IM | Dau, Khuong Duy | VIE | 2462 |
| 43 | GM | Prraneeth, Vuppala | IND | 2458 |
| 44 | GM | Siddharth, Jagadeesh | SGP | 2458 |
| 45 | IM | Gan-Erdene, Sugar | MGL | 2458 |
| 46 | GM | Golizadeh, Asghar | IRI | 2457 |
| 47 | IM | Pham, Tran Gia Phuc | VIE | 2456 |
| 48 | IM | Pingin, Artem | RUS | 2456 |
| 49 | IM | Narayanan, Samrug | USA | 2453 |
| 50 | IM | Anuj, Shrivatri | IND | 2452 |
| 51 | IM | Borgaonkar, Akshay | IND | 2452 |
| 52 | IM | Mayank, Chakraborty | IND | 2452 |
| 53 | IM | Aizenberg, Benny | ISR | 2450 |
| 54 | IM | Ilinca, Felix-Antonio | ROU | 2446 |
| 55 | Vignesh, Advaith Vemula | IND | 2441 | |
| 56 | IM | Kuru, Atilla | TUR | 2435 |
| 57 | IM | Audi, Ameya | IND | 2428 |
| 58 | IM | Mohamed, Anees M | IND | 2428 |
| 59 | FM | Ashraf, Artin | IRI | 2428 |
| 60 | IM | Chinguun, Sumiya | MGL | 2427 |
| 61 | FM | Bhagat, Kush | IND | 2423 |
| 62 | IM | Concio, Michael Jr. | PHI | 2421 |
| 63 | IM | Talibov, Shiroghlan | AZE | 2420 |
| 64 | IM | Manafov, Vugar | AZE | 2419 |
| 65 | FM | Daaevik, Wadhawan | IND | 2419 |
| 66 | IM | Ravi, Teja S. | IND | 2417 |
| 67 | IM | Sahib, Singh | IND | 2416 |
| 68 | IM | Bai, Adelard | TPE | 2415 |
| 69 | IM | Piliposyan, Robert | ARM | 2415 |
| 70 | IM | Goutham, Krishna H | IND | 2414 |
| 71 | IM | Song, Yuxin | CHN | 2414 |
| 72 | IM | Amilal, Munkhdalai | MGL | 2410 |
| 73 | IM | Liyanage, Ranindu Dilshan | SRI | 2410 |
| 74 | IM | Vidyarthi, Vyom | USA | 2410 |
| 75 | IM | Sibashvili, Giorgi | GEO | 2409 |
| 76 | IM | Agasarov, Benik | ARM | 2408 |
| 77 | IM | Jain, Kashish Manoj | IND | 2408 |
| 78 | IM | Kushagra, Mohan | IND | 2408 |
| 79 | FM | Suleimen, Ergali | KAZ | 2408 |
| 80 | IM | Soham, Kamotra | IND | 2407 |
| 81 | IM | Makkar, Rajat | FRA | 2406 |
| 82 | IM | Sahakyan, Aleks | ARM | 2405 |
| 83 | FM | Chan, Kim Yew | MAS | 2405 |
| 84 | IM | Nazari, Arad | IRI | 2401 |
| 85 | IM | Shahil, Dey | IND | 2401 |
| 86 | IM | Dixit, Nikhil | IND | 2400 |
| 87 | FM | Wagh, Suyog | IND | 2400 |
| 88 | FM | Yeganegi, Barad | IRI | 2400 |
| 89 | IM | Aakash Sharadchandra, Dalvi | IND | 2396 |
| 90 | IM | Tudor, Henry Edward | ROU | 2396 |
| 91 | IM | Chen, Ryo | USA | 2395 |
| 92 | IM | Aaditya, Dhingra | IND | 2394 |
| 93 | FM | Aditya, Vikram Paul | IND | 2394 |
| 94 | IM | Arfan, Aditya Bagus | INA | 2391 |
| 95 | Lad, Mandar Pradip | IND | 2390 | |
| 96 | IM | Budhidharma, Nayaka | INA | 2389 |
| 97 | FM | Yadegar, Radin | IRI | 2388 |
| 98 | IM | Aradhya, Garg | IND | 2386 |
| 99 | IM | Tokhirjonova, Gulrukhbegim | UZB | 2386 |
| 100 | FM | Manvelyan, Mikayel | ARM | 2386 |
| 101 | FM | Ebrahimi Herab, Hamidreza | IRI | 2385 |
| 102 | IM | Panda, Sambit | IND | 2379 |
| 103 | FM | Ajay, Santhosh Parvathareddy | IND | 2379 |
| 104 | IM | Raahul, V S | IND | 2378 |
| 105 | IM | Dushyant, Sharma | IND | 2376 |
| 106 | FM | Vivaan, Vishal Shah | IND | 2376 |
| 107 | IM | Akhmedinov, Satbek | KAZ | 2375 |
| 108 | IM | Vantika, Agrawal | IND | 2375 |
| 109 | FM | Yang, Zilong | CHN | 2375 |
| 110 | FM | Harshad, S | IND | 2374 |
| 111 | FM | Pashikyan, Rudolf | ARM | 2373 |
| 112 | IM | Gasparyan, Erik R. | ARM | 2372 |
| 113 | FM | Rosh, Jain | IND | 2372 |
| 114 | FM | Bukreev, Stanislav | RUS | 2370 |
| 115 | GM | Krush, Irina | USA | 2367 |
| 116 | FM | Swarna, Nihal | IND | 2366 |
| 117 | IM | Ameir, Moheb | EGY | 2364 |
| 118 | IM | Viani, Antonio Dcunha | IND | 2364 |
| 119 | FM | Xie, Felix | NZL | 2364 |
| 120 | FM | Galaktionov, Artem | RUS | 2360 |
| 121 | FM | Paszewski, Mateusz | POL | 2360 |
| 122 | FM | Novozhilov, Semen | RUS | 2358 |
| 123 | FM | Akhilbay, Imangali | KAZ | 2357 |
| 124 | FM | Reyan, Md. | IND | 2357 |
| 125 | IM | Ritviz, Parab | IND | 2356 |
| 126 | IM | Manish, Anto Cristiano F | IND | 2353 |
| 127 | IM | Senthil, Maran K | IND | 2351 |
| 128 | FM | John, Veny Akkarakaran | IND | 2351 |
| 129 | FM | Zielonka, Adam | POL | 2351 |
| 130 | FM | Otsuka, Shou | JPN | 2350 |
| 131 | FM | Ang, Ern Jie Anderson | MAS | 2348 |
| 132 | FM | Jinan, Jomon | IND | 2347 |
| 133 | FM | George Samir, David | EGY | 2345 |
| 134 | IM | Moksh, Amit Doshi | IND | 2344 |
| 135 | IM | Mammadova, Gulnar | AZE | 2342 |
| 136 | FM | Garv, Gaur | IND | 2342 |
| 137 | FM | Namitbir, Singh Walia | IND | 2340 |
| 138 | AFM | Akshat, Sureka | IND | 2337 |
| 139 | FM | Aansh, Nandan Nerurkar | IND | 2335 |
| 140 | FM | Sharipov, Davron | UZB | 2333 |
| 141 | IM | Setyaki, Azarya Jodi | INA | 2331 |
| 142 | FM | Abdulraheem, Abdulrahman Akintoye | NGR | 2330 |
| 143 | FM | Jval, Saurin Patel | IND | 2330 |
| 144 | IM | Sanket, Chakravarty | IND | 2329 |
| 145 | FM | Citak, Selim | TUR | 2328 |
| 146 | FM | Arakelyan, Manvel | ARM | 2326 |
| 147 | FM | Negrean, Andrei | ROU | 2325 |
| 148 | FM | Vaibhav, Jayant Raut | IND | 2324 |
| 149 | FM | Winkelman, Albert | AUS | 2324 |
| 150 | FM | Sklokin, Sergey | FID | 2323 |
| 151 | Nithin, Babu | IND | 2321 | |
| 152 | IM | Saydaliev, Akobirkhon | UZB | 2319 |
| 153 | FM | Priansh, Das | IND | 2317 |
| 154 | FM | Suleymanli, Suleyman | AZE | 2316 |
| 155 | IM | Salcedo, Richilieu Iii | PHI | 2315 |
| 156 | FM | Ilkhomi, Jaloliddin | TJK | 2315 |
| 157 | IM | Nugumanov, Bakhtiyar | KAZ | 2314 |
| 158 | FM | Putrenko, Kirill | FID | 2314 |
| 159 | IM | Ramoutar, Alan-Safar | TTO | 2313 |
| 160 | FM | Karimov, Alisher | TJK | 2312 |
| 161 | FM | Lim, Zhuo Ren | MAS | 2311 |
| 162 | IM | Tissir, Mohamed | MAR | 2309 |
| 163 | FM | Dhananjay, S | IND | 2308 |
| 164 | FM | Lyutsinger, Iren | FID | 2308 |
| 165 | FM | Noy, Eyal | ISR | 2308 |
| 166 | FM | Tregubenko, Nikolay | FID | 2308 |
| 167 | FM | Jai, Sankar Subramanian | IND | 2306 |
| 168 | FM | Nayak, Rajesh | IND | 2305 |
| 169 | FM | Baradaran Tamadon, Arian | IRI | 2304 |
| 170 | FM | Sherali, Pattnaik | IND | 2304 |
| 171 | IM | Al Hosani, Omran | UAE | 2303 |
| 172 | FM | Orujov, Farid | AZE | 2303 |
| 173 | FM | Fandi, Mazen. | SYR | 2302 |
| 174 | FM | Mahitosh, Dey | IND | 2301 |
| 175 | FM | Potawad, Anirudhha | IND | 2301 |
| 176 | FM | Wong, Yinn Long | MAS | 2300 |
| 177 | WIM | Tejaswini, G | IND | 2298 |
| 178 | WGM | Frayna, Janelle Mae | PHI | 2297 |
| 179 | FM | Jin, Hongtao | CHN | 2293 |
| 180 | FM | Singh, Ojasva | IND | 2290 |
| 181 | IM | Aziz, Husain | QAT | 2286 |
| 182 | FM | Moosavifar, Seyed Abolfazl | IRI | 2283 |
| 183 | FM | Advaitt, Srikant Koduri | IND | 2281 |
| 184 | FM | Dhruva, Thota | IND | 2276 |
| 185 | FM | Sriansh, Das | IND | 2275 |
| 186 | FM | Ashraf, Shereif | EGY | 2261 |
| 187 | FM | Tamer Waguih, Farid | EGY | 2261 |
| 188 | WGM | Zhapova, Yana | FID | 2259 |
| 189 | FM | Bagwe, Gaurang | IND | 2259 |
| 190 | IM | Karavade, Eesha | IND | 2247 |
| 191 | FM | Abdulrahman Mohammad, Al Taher | UAE | 2244 |
| 192 | FM | Chubakov, Sultan | KGZ | 2242 |
| 193 | FM | Khoder, Akram | LBN | 2237 |
| 194 | FM | Jaiveer, Mahendru | IND | 2228 |
| 195 | CM | Jain, Kushagra | IND | 2224 |
| 196 | CM | Ghoreishi Amiri, Seyed Kian | IRI | 2216 |
| 197 | WFM | Sivanandan, Bodhana | ENG | 2216 |
| 198 | WIM | Wang, Chuqiao | CHN | 2214 |
| 199 | Sharon, Rafael | ZAM | 2200 | |
| 200 | FM | Ammar, Sedrani | UAE | 2187 |
| 201 | WGM | Rouda Essa, Alserkal | UAE | 2127 |
