The Al Ain Chess Club is holding the $30,000 Al Ain Chess Classic with the unique format of a Swiss tournament bringing in from the knock-out event the Masters from the World Cities Chess Team Championship 2012.
The individual tournament will be a 9-round combined Swiss Al Ain System wherein players eliminated from the first three stages of the World Cities Team Championship, namely Preliminaries, Round-of-16 and Quarterfinal, join the individual event and carry over their points from the team event.
Team members shall be given half a point for each round in which they were not fielded in the World Cities.
Draw offers are not allowed before Black’s 30th move. All moves in 90 minutes with increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.
Al Ain Chess Classic, Participants:
1 GM Komarov Dimitri UKR 2518
2 GM Kotanjian Tigran ARM 2518
3 GM Bakre Tejas IND 2492
4 IM Abdel Razik Khaled EGY 2448
5 GM Raetsky Alexander RUS 2427
6 IM Bajarani Ulvi AZE 2425
7 IM Moosavian S.Hamed IRI 2377
8 FM Agaragimov Djakhangir AZE 2348
9 WGM Manakova Maria SRB 2338
10 CM Arjun Bharat IND 2295
11 WGM Soloviova Liza UKR 2287
12 Mokhtar Ahmed EGY 2282
13 IM Yasseen Aly EGY 2280
14 FM Mohannad Farhan JOR 2263
15 IM El Ghazali Youssef M. EGY 2244
16 Raes A SYR 2235
17 Amer Mohamed EGY 2230
18 FM Soozankar A.M. IRI 2223
19 WIM Enkhtuul Altanulzii MGL 2153
20 WFM Nesterovskaya Anzhelika UKR 2133
21 CM Ihsan Jawad PLE 2126
22 Pabalan Rocky PHI 2121
23 Sohib Okla SYR 2119
24 Amgalanbaatar Ravdanlkhumbuu MGL 2097
25 Sameir Ramez EGY 2068
26 Bennett John M ENG 2066
27 Mihoubi Saad ALG 2012
28 Nassajtorshizi Amirmorteza IRI 1999
29 Bharat Vijay IND 1961
30 Abdulkarim Ali UAE 1956
31 Magdy Kassem EGY 1956
32 Al-Kaabi Abdulla UAE 1954
33 Helawi Majed SYR 1943
34 Asgarova Turan AZE 1932
35 Rafee Mohd Hayel SYR 1897
36 Ghadiri Ebrahim IRI 1890
37 Walid Anwar UAE 1877
38 Luggya Vianney UGA 1867
39 Abdulla Mohamed Saleh UAE 1831
40 Ali Rashid Ghanem UAE 1815
41 Esa A H Almarazeeq UAE 1781
42 CM Kandil Adham EGY 1773
43 Abdulla Abdulwahab UAE 1771
44 Malekpoor Saeid IRI 1750
45 Hamdan Marshool UAE 1748
46 Hassan Malalla Khaled UAE 1663
47 Farouk Hudaifa SYR 1639
48 Mahmoud Ahmed UAE 1634
49 CM Al-Zaruoni Fahad UAE 1627
50 Mohamed Marshool UAE 1619
51 Abdulla Shaeri UAE 1608
52 Talal Al-Hammadi UAE 1604
53 Mosallam Mohammad UAE 1551
54 Ismail P IND 1511
55 Al Amoudy Saif UAE 1509
56 Altaher Saeed Tarek UAE 1498
57 Altaher Salman Tarek UAE 1497
58 Rashid Mosallam UAE 1398
59 Rashid Shaeri UAE 1391
60 Al Amoudy Khalifa UAE 1352
61 Mohammad Saleh UAE 1316
62 IM Karim Ismael MAR 0
63 IM Tissir Mohamed MAR 0
64 Juulius Anuari UGA 0
65 Mohammad Iskandar KSA 0
66 Naif Al Otaibi KSA 0
67 Rafea Dalaa SYR 0
68 Saif Aysha UAE 0
69 IM Hassan Sayed Barakat EGY 2347
70 Mohamed Tarek EGY 2274
71 Zabeib Mohamed EGY 2158
72 Abdalla Sayed EGY 2009
