The 28th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival is going to take place 17-25 August, 2022, in the United Arab Emirates. The tournament will be a 9 rounds Swiss System with a time control of 90 min for each player and 30 seconds’ increment. 30 minutes tolerance will be applied. The organizing committee shall provide free accommodation in a five-star hotel for players rated 2600+ and women with standard Elo of 2400+. All details about the 28th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival / Live games from Abu Dhabi 2022
Top seeded players include Wang Hao, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Alexandr Predke, Arjun Erigaisi, Amin Bassem, Ray Robson, Jorden Van Foreest, Saleh Salem, David Anton, Amin Tabatabaei, Sandro Mareco, Nihal Sarin, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Ahijeet Gupta, Javokhir Sindarov, Aryan Chopra, Sethuraman, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Raunak Sadhwani, Nodirbek Yakubboev, Alexander Indjic, etc.
28th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival participants
| 1 | GM | Wang Hao | CHN | 2735 |
| 2 | GM | Tomashevsky Evgeny | RUS | 2702 |
| 3 | GM | Predke Alexandr | FID | 2692 |
| 4 | GM | Erigaisi Arjun | IND | 2689 |
| 5 | GM | Amin Bassem | EGY | 2687 |
| 6 | GM | Robson Ray | USA | 2682 |
| 7 | GM | Van Foreest Jorden | NED | 2680 |
| 8 | GM | Salem A.R. Saleh | UAE | 2679 |
| 9 | GM | Anton Guijarro David | ESP | 2668 |
| 10 | GM | Tabatabaei M. Amin | IRI | 2664 |
| 11 | GM | Mareco Sandro | ARG | 2657 |
| 12 | GM | Nihal Sarin | IND | 2651 |
| 13 | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | GER | 2644 |
| 14 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2631 |
| 15 | GM | Sindarov Javokhir | UZB | 2629 |
| 16 | GM | Aryan Chopra | IND | 2627 |
| 17 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | IND | 2625 |
| 18 | GM | Ter-Sahakyan Samvel | ARM | 2625 |
| 19 | GM | Sadhwani Raunak | IND | 2622 |
| 20 | GM | Yakubboev Nodirbek | UZB | 2620 |
| 21 | GM | Indjic Aleksandar | SRB | 2613 |
| 22 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | IND | 2613 |
| 23 | GM | Hakobyan Aram | ARM | 2612 |
| 24 | GM | Petrosyan Manuel | ARM | 2610 |
| 25 | GM | Hovhannisyan Robert | ARM | 2599 |
| 26 | GM | Adhiban B. | IND | 2598 |
| 27 | GM | Jobava Baadur | GEO | 2585 |
| 28 | GM | Kuybokarov Temur | AUS | 2583 |
| 29 | GM | Mendonca Leon Luke | IND | 2571 |
| 30 | GM | Harsha Bharathakoti | IND | 2557 |
| 31 | GM | Iniyan P | IND | 2556 |
| 32 | GM | Muradli Mahammad | AZE | 2552 |
| 33 | GM | Vokhidov Shamsiddin | UZB | 2552 |
| 34 | GM | Harutyunyan Tigran K. | ARM | 2524 |
| 35 | GM | Gagare Shardul | IND | 2521 |
| 36 | GM | Sengupta Deep | IND | 2520 |
| 37 | IM | Davtyan Artur | ARM | 2520 |
| 38 | GM | Arjun Kalyan | IND | 2513 |
| 39 | GM | Zanan Evgeny | ISR | 2510 |
| 40 | GM | Grover Sahaj | IND | 2505 |
| 41 | IM | Aditya Mittal | IND | 2496 |
| 42 | IM | Neelash Saha | IND | 2474 |
| 43 | IM | Vignesh N R | IND | 2467 |
| 44 | IM | Shyaamnikhil P | IND | 2465 |
| 45 | CM | Prraneeth Vuppala | IND | 2464 |
| 46 | IM | Haldorsen Benjamin | NOR | 2461 |
| 47 | GM | Chanda Sandipan | IND | 2458 |
| 48 | IM | Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh | IND | 2457 |
| 49 | IM | Rathanvel V S | IND | 2455 |
| 50 | Sattarov Bobir | UZB | 2450 | |
| 51 | IM | Tahbaz Arash | IRI | 2449 |
| 52 | IM | Das Arghyadip | IND | 2446 |
| 53 | IM | Srihari L R | IND | 2436 |
| 54 | GM | Vishnu Prasanna. V | IND | 2432 |
| 55 | FM | Samant Aditya S | IND | 2430 |
| 56 | FM | Milikow Yoav | ISR | 2429 |
| 57 | GM | Rahman Ziaur | BAN | 2427 |
| 58 | IM | Siddharth Jagadeesh | SGP | 2426 |
| 59 | CM | Kushagra Mohan | IND | 2426 |
| 60 | IM | Nitish Belurkar | IND | 2416 |
| 61 | FM | Madaminov Mukhiddin | UZB | 2408 |
| 62 | IM | Dushyant Sharma | IND | 2406 |
| 63 | IM | Lavrov Maxim | RUS | 2405 |
| 64 | IM | Pranesh M | IND | 2404 |
| 65 | FM | Poormosavi Seyed Kian | IRI | 2404 |
| 66 | IM | Mohammad Fahad Rahman | BAN | 2401 |
| 67 | FM | Nazari Arad | IRI | 2389 |
| 68 | IM | Song Julien | FRA | 2384 |
| 69 | GM | Laxman R.R. | IND | 2381 |
| 70 | IM | Sammed Jaykumar Shete | IND | 2381 |
| 71 | IM | Aziz Husain | QAT | 2377 |
| 72 | IM | Sukandar Irine Kharisma | INA | 2373 |
| 73 | IM | Vetokhin Savva | RUS | 2371 |
| 74 | WGM | Vantika Agrawal | IND | 2371 |
| 75 | IM | Ajay Krishna S | IND | 2367 |
| 76 | IM | Saeed Ishaq | UAE | 2366 |
| 77 | IM | Rosen Eric | USA | 2360 |
| 78 | FM | Rohith Krishna S | IND | 2358 |
| 79 | CM | Mamedov Edgar | KAZ | 2358 |
| 80 | IM | Mullick Raahil | IND | 2352 |
| 81 | FM | Talibov Shiroghlan | AZE | 2351 |
| 82 | IM | Vardaan Nagpal | IND | 2346 |
| 83 | Panda Sambit | IND | 2346 | |
| 84 | FM | Pavlov Mark | RUS | 2341 |
| 85 | IM | Karavade Eesha | IND | 2339 |
| 86 | FM | Ranaldi Lucas | NOR | 2339 |
| 87 | FM | Tanmay Chopra | IND | 2337 |
| 88 | FM | Manafov Vugar | AZE | 2330 |
| 89 | IM | Viani Antonio Dcunha | IND | 2327 |
| 90 | FM | Karthik Rajaa | IND | 2327 |
| 91 | FM | Risting Eivind Olav | NOR | 2325 |
| 92 | WIM | Sharma Isha | IND | 2325 |
| 93 | IM | Raahul V S | IND | 2323 |
| 94 | IM | Avinash Ramesh | IND | 2322 |
| 95 | FM | Zia Tahsin Tajwar | BAN | 2321 |
| 96 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | IND | 2319 |
| 97 | WGM | Tsatsalashvili Keti | GEO | 2319 |
| 98 | FM | Ibadov Dashgyn | FID | 2317 |
| 99 | FM | Jain Kashish Manoj | IND | 2315 |
| 100 | FM | Wagh Suyog | IND | 2315 |
| 101 | WGM | Nandhidhaa P V | IND | 2312 |
| 102 | IM | Girinath P.D.S. | IND | 2311 |
| 103 | FM | Zujev Oleg | LTU | 2305 |
| 104 | FM | Musyuk Lior | ISR | 2302 |
| 105 | WGM | Yakubbaeva Nilufar | UZB | 2299 |
| 106 | Ritviz Parab | IND | 2299 | |
| 107 | FM | Ram Aravind L N | IND | 2298 |
| 108 | FM | Mustafayev Farid | AZE | 2294 |
| 109 | IM | Al Hosani Omran | UAE | 2293 |
| 110 | FM | Sharan Rao | IND | 2292 |
| 111 | FM | Vatsal Singhania | IND | 2289 |
| 112 | Ashraf Artin | IRI | 2289 | |
| 113 | Rakhmatullaev Almas | UZB | 2288 | |
| 114 | WGM | Stojanovic Andjelija | SRB | 2287 |
| 115 | FM | Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan | SRI | 2286 |
| 116 | WIM | Sahithi Varshini M | IND | 2286 |
| 117 | Sanket Chakravarty | IND | 2275 | |
| 118 | FM | Atakishiyev Elmar | AZE | 2271 |
| 119 | WIM | Chitlange Sakshi | IND | 2263 |
| 120 | Laddha Shubh Jayesh | USA | 2262 | |
| 121 | FM | Tolentino Rustum | PHI | 2259 |
| 122 | Ojas Kulkarni | IND | 2254 | |
| 123 | FM | Mahdavi Reza | IRI | 2253 |
| 124 | FM | Jubin Jimmy | IND | 2252 |
| 125 | CM | Soham Kamotra | IND | 2251 |
| 126 | FM | Osunfuyi Abimbola | NGR | 2245 |
| 127 | FM | Aradhya Garg | IND | 2240 |
| 128 | WIM | Pujari Rucha | IND | 2229 |
| 129 | Gandhi Anish | IND | 2228 | |
| 130 | Abdullayev Elshad | AZE | 2223 | |
| 131 | FM | Mahitosh Dey | IND | 2220 |
| 132 | Vaibhav Jayant Raut | IND | 2217 | |
| 133 | IM | Manish Anto Cristiano F | IND | 2215 |
| 134 | CM | Aaditya Dhingra | IND | 2214 |
| 135 | Panjer Sidney | GER | 2213 | |
| 136 | FM | De Silva L M S T | SRI | 2212 |
| 137 | FM | Mehdi Hasan Parag | BAN | 2211 |
| 138 | Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri | IND | 2210 | |
| 139 | FM | Abdilkhair Abilmansur | KAZ | 2205 |
| 140 | FM | Phadke Sohan | IND | 2193 |
| 141 | WFM | Yash Jyoti Bir | IND | 2191 |
| 142 | IM | Okeke Isaac Chukwudalu | NGR | 2185 |
| 143 | WGM | Suleimanova Ava | UKR | 2183 |
| 144 | Aniruddh Chatterjee | IND | 2174 | |
| 145 | FM | Ayush Sharma | IND | 2158 |
| 146 | WFM | Ricken Katharina | NED | 2157 |
| 147 | Aditya Varun Gampa | IND | 2127 | |
| 148 | Abdulrahman Mohammad Al Taher | UAE | 2053 | |
| 149 | Hamad Bader | UAE | 2029 | |
