The 22nd edition of the Dubai Chess Open is currently ongoing at the Dubai Chess & Culture Club and eight rounds have been already played. More than 180 players from 35 countries fight for the total prize fund of 50.000$, and with only one round to go, Indian grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram emerged as the sole leader of the event.
Chithambaram scores impressive 7/8 points and he is followed by Alexandr Predke and Praggnanandhaa who tie for the second place with 6.5 points, each. Aravindh Chithambaram will take white pieces against Pragg in the last round, while GM Alexandr Predke meets GM Ahmed Adly. Scroll down for the R9 pairings and rankings after eight rounds
Dubai Chess Open 2022 – LIVE games
Rankings after 8 played rounds – Dubai Chess Open 2022:
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
| 1 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | IND | 2614 | 7 | 0 | 34 | 28 |
| 2 | GM | Predke Alexandr | FID | 2692 | 6.5 | 0.5 | 39 | 33 |
| 3 | GM | Praggnanandhaa R | IND | 2661 | 6.5 | 0.5 | 37 | 31 |
| 4 | GM | Erigaisi Arjun | IND | 2689 | 6 | 0 | 40 | 33 |
| 5 | GM | Hakobyan Aram | ARM | 2612 | 6 | 0 | 39 | 32 |
| 6 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2631 | 6 | 0 | 38 | 32 |
| 7 | GM | Indjic Aleksandar | SRB | 2613 | 6 | 0 | 37 | 31 |
| 8 | FM | Poormosavi Seyed Kian | IRI | 2404 | 6 | 0 | 37 | 30 |
| 9 | GM | Harsha Bharathakoti | IND | 2557 | 6 | 0 | 35 | 29 |
| 10 | IM | Sammed Jaykumar Shete | IND | 2381 | 6 | 0 | 34 | 28 |
| 11 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | IND | 2625 | 6 | 0 | 34 | 28 |
| 12 | GM | Adly Ahmed | EGY | 2582 | 6 | 0 | 33 | 27 |
| 13 | GM | Chanda Sandipan | IND | 2458 | 6 | 0 | 32 | 26 |
| 14 | IM | Das Arghyadip | IND | 2446 | 6 | 0 | 31 | 25 |
| 15 | GM | Tabatabaei M. Amin | IRI | 2664 | 5.5 | 0 | 37 | 31 |
| 16 | GM | Sadhwani Raunak | IND | 2622 | 5.5 | 0 | 36 | 30 |
| 17 | GM | Muradli Mahammad | AZE | 2552 | 5.5 | 0 | 35 | 29 |
| 18 | GM | Ter-Sahakyan Samvel | ARM | 2625 | 5.5 | 0 | 34 | 28 |
| 19 | FM | Ayush Sharma | IND | 2158 | 5.5 | 0 | 34 | 28 |
| 20 | GM | Rahman Ziaur | BAN | 2427 | 5.5 | 0 | 34 | 28 |
| 21 | Sanket Chakravarty | IND | 2275 | 5.5 | 0 | 34 | 28 | |
| 22 | IM | Vignesh N R | IND | 2467 | 5.5 | 0 | 34 | 27 |
| 23 | GM | Arjun Kalyan | IND | 2513 | 5.5 | 0 | 32 | 26 |
| 24 | IM | Aditya Mittal | IND | 2496 | 5.5 | 0 | 31 | 26 |
| 25 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | IND | 2319 | 5.5 | 0 | 30 | 25 |
| 26 | IM | Siddharth Jagadeesh | SGP | 2426 | 5.5 | 0 | 30 | 24 |
| 27 | GM | Jumabayev Rinat | KAZ | 2615 | 5 | 0 | 41 | 34 |
| 28 | GM | Akopian Vladimir | USA | 2616 | 5 | 0 | 40 | 34 |
| 29 | IM | Nigmatov Ortik | UZB | 2437 | 5 | 0 | 38 | 31 |
| 30 | IM | Shyaamnikhil P | IND | 2465 | 5 | 0 | 37 | 31 |
| 31 | IM | Nitish Belurkar | IND | 2416 | 5 | 0 | 37 | 31 |
| 32 | FM | Samant Aditya S | IND | 2430 | 5 | 0 | 36 | 30 |
| 33 | GM | Grover Sahaj | IND | 2505 | 5 | 0 | 36 | 30 |
| 34 | GM | Iniyan P | IND | 2556 | 5 | 0 | 35 | 29 |
| 35 | GM | Raja Rithvik R | IND | 2491 | 5 | 0 | 35 | 29 |
| 36 | GM | Gagare Shardul | IND | 2521 | 5 | 0 | 35 | 28 |
| 37 | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | GER | 2644 | 5 | 0 | 34 | 29 |
| 38 | IM | Rathanvel V S | IND | 2455 | 5 | 0 | 34 | 28 |
| 39 | GM | Thejkumar M. S. | IND | 2430 | 5 | 0 | 34 | 28 |
| 40 | Suyarov Mukhammadzokhid | UZB | 2169 | 5 | 0 | 33 | 27 | |
| 41 | FM | Nazari Arad | IRI | 2389 | 5 | 0 | 32 | 25 |
| 42 | WGM | Vantika Agrawal | IND | 2371 | 5 | 0 | 31 | 26 |
| 43 | Panda Sambit | IND | 2346 | 5 | 0 | 31 | 25 | |
| 44 | FM | De Silva L M S T | SRI | 2212 | 5 | 0 | 30 | 25 |
| 45 | IM | Mullick Raahil | IND | 2352 | 5 | 0 | 30 | 25 |
| 46 | IM | Ajay Krishna S | IND | 2367 | 5 | 0 | 30 | 24 |
| 47 | Ashraf Artin | IRI | 2289 | 5 | 0 | 29 | 24 | |
| 48 | GM | Laxman R.R. | IND | 2381 | 5 | 0 | 27 | 22 |
| 49 | FM | Mahdavi Reza | IRI | 2253 | 4.5 | 0 | 36 | 29 |
| 50 | FM | Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan | SRI | 2286 | 4.5 | 0 | 35 | 29 |
| 51 | Ritviz Parab | IND | 2299 | 4.5 | 0 | 35 | 29 | |
| 52 | FM | Wagh Suyog | IND | 2315 | 4.5 | 0 | 35 | 29 |
| 53 | IM | Srihari L R | IND | 2436 | 4.5 | 0 | 35 | 29 |
| 54 | FM | Madaminov Mukhiddin | UZB | 2408 | 4.5 | 0 | 34 | 29 |
| 55 | Laddha Shubh Jayesh | USA | 2262 | 4.5 | 0 | 34 | 27 | |
| 56 | GM | Suleymanli Aydin | AZE | 2547 | 4.5 | 0 | 32 | 26 |
| 57 | Raghav Srivathsav V | IND | 2084 | 4.5 | 0 | 31 | 25 | |
| 58 | IM | Mohammad Fahad Rahman | BAN | 2401 | 4.5 | 0 | 31 | 25 |
| 59 | WIM | Kamalidenova Meruert | KAZ | 2384 | 4.5 | 0 | 31 | 25 |
| 60 | IM | Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh | IND | 2457 | 4.5 | 0 | 30 | 25 |
| 61 | CM | Kushagra Mohan | IND | 2426 | 4.5 | 0 | 30 | 25 |
| 62 | IM | Al Qudaimi Basheer | YEM | 2424 | 4.5 | 0 | 30 | 24 |
| 63 | Shaik Sumer Arsh | IND | 2123 | 4.5 | 0 | 30 | 25 | |
| 64 | CM | Prraneeth Vuppala | IND | 2464 | 4.5 | 0 | 30 | 24 |
| 65 | IM | Manish Anto Cristiano F | IND | 2215 | 4.5 | 0 | 30 | 24 |
| 66 | FM | Rohith Krishna S | IND | 2358 | 4.5 | 0 | 30 | 24 |
| 67 | FM | Karthik Rajaa | IND | 2327 | 4.5 | 0 | 30 | 24 |
| 68 | Rakhmatullaev Almas | UZB | 2288 | 4.5 | 0 | 30 | 24 | |
| 69 | IM | Avinash Ramesh | IND | 2322 | 4.5 | 0 | 29 | 24 |
| 70 | IM | Haldorsen Benjamin | NOR | 2461 | 4.5 | 0 | 28 | 24 |
| 71 | Joel Paul Ganta | IND | 1785 | 4.5 | 0 | 26 | 21 | |
| 72 | Vaibhav Jayant Raut | IND | 2217 | 4 | 0 | 37 | 30 | |
| 73 | IM | Viani Antonio Dcunha | IND | 2327 | 4 | 0 | 36 | 29 |
| 74 | IM | Song Julien | FRA | 2384 | 4 | 0 | 35 | 29 |
| 75 | FM | Sharan Rao | IND | 2292 | 4 | 0 | 35 | 29 |
| 76 | IM | Raahul V S | IND | 2323 | 4 | 0 | 34 | 28 |
| 77 | FM | Ram Aravind L N | IND | 2298 | 4 | 0 | 34 | 28 |
| 78 | WIM | Priyanka K | IND | 2052 | 4 | 0 | 33 | 27 |
| 79 | FM | Tanmay Chopra | IND | 2337 | 4 | 0 | 33 | 27 |
| 80 | IM | Tissir Mohamed | MAR | 2366 | 4 | 0 | 32 | 26 |
| 81 | GM | Mareco Sandro | ARG | 2657 | 4 | 0 | 32 | 26 |
| 82 | IM | Dimakiling Oliver | PHI | 2442 | 4 | 0 | 31 | 25 |
| 83 | Rohit S | IND | 1937 | 4 | 0 | 31 | 26 | |
| 84 | FM | Aradhya Garg | IND | 2240 | 4 | 0 | 31 | 26 |
| 85 | IM | Al Hosani Omran | UAE | 2293 | 4 | 0 | 31 | 25 |
| 86 | FM | Zujev Oleg | LTU | 2305 | 4 | 0 | 31 | 25 |
| 87 | CM | Aaditya Dhingra | IND | 2214 | 4 | 0 | 29 | 24 |
| 88 | FM | Harshal Shahi | IND | 2136 | 4 | 0 | 29 | 24 |
| 89 | GM | Kuybokarov Temur | AUS | 2583 | 4 | 0 | 28 | 23 |
| 90 | Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri | IND | 2210 | 4 | 0 | 28 | 22 | |
| 91 | Devnani Kush | IND | 2095 | 4 | 0 | 28 | 23 | |
| 92 | Ojas Kulkarni | IND | 2254 | 4 | 0 | 27 | 22 | |
| 93 | Gandhi Anish | IND | 2228 | 4 | 0 | 27 | 21 | |
| 94 | Shoshin Kirill | RUS | 2205 | 4 | 0 | 27 | 21 | |
| 95 | Aniruddh Chatterjee | IND | 2174 | 4 | 0 | 27 | 22 | |
| 96 | Alhejab Meshal | KUW | 1732 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 22 | |
| 97 | IM | Saeed Ishaq | UAE | 2366 | 4 | 0 | 25 | 19 |
| 98 | Ashutosh Kumar | IND | 1888 | 4 | 0 | 24 | 20 | |
| 99 | FM | Ahmed Fareed | UAE | 1920 | 4 | 0 | 24 | 20 |
| 100 | IM | Tahbaz Arash | IRI | 2449 | 3.5 | 0 | 34 | 28 |
| 101 | FM | Jain Kashish Manoj | IND | 2315 | 3.5 | 0 | 33 | 27 |
| 102 | Prasannaa.S | IND | 2185 | 3.5 | 0 | 32 | 26 | |
| 103 | IM | Dushyant Sharma | IND | 2406 | 3.5 | 0 | 32 | 25 |
| 104 | FM | Mehdi Hasan Parag | BAN | 2211 | 3.5 | 0 | 31 | 24 |
| 105 | Ahmad Al Romaithi | UAE | 1799 | 3.5 | 0 | 30 | 25 | |
| 106 | FM | Al Maashani Amer | OMA | 1947 | 3.5 | 0 | 30 | 25 |
| 107 | IM | Aziz Husain | QAT | 2377 | 3.5 | 0 | 30 | 23 |
| 108 | Rami Talab | SYR | 1585 | 3.5 | 0 | 28 | 22 | |
| 109 | Raji Sayel Abu Azizah | PLE | 2014 | 3.5 | 0 | 28 | 22 | |
| 110 | Ishvi Aggarwal | IND | 1854 | 3.5 | 0 | 26 | 22 | |
| 111 | Liashkevich Lizaveta | BLR | 1842 | 3.5 | 0 | 26 | 20 | |
| 112 | Ali Abdulaziz | UAE | 1930 | 3.5 | 0 | 25 | 20 | |
| 113 | Al Ansi Amin | OMA | 1806 | 3.5 | 0 | 25 | 20 | |
| 114 | Mustafayev Nihad | AZE | 1982 | 3.5 | 0 | 22 | 18 | |
| 115 | Aditya Varun Gampa | IND | 2127 | 3 | 0 | 33 | 28 | |
| 116 | Sharon Rafael | IND | 2095 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 25 | |
| 117 | Mokhtari Moghadam Taha | IRI | 1929 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 24 | |
| 118 | FM | Louis Thibault | FRA | 2151 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 25 |
| 119 | AIM | Md Imran | IND | 2063 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 24 |
| 120 | Kuziev Miraziz | UZB | 2036 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 24 | |
| 121 | FM | Zia Tahsin Tajwar | BAN | 2321 | 3 | 0 | 29 | 23 |
| 122 | Salem Ahmed Salem | UAE | 2056 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 22 | |
| 123 | Sabirova Shakhnoza | UZB | 1957 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 22 | |
| 124 | Manmay Chopra | IND | 2027 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 22 | |
| 125 | Aarav Sinha | IND | 1909 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 21 | |
| 126 | FM | Rahman Md. Taibur | BAN | 2202 | 3 | 0 | 25 | 21 |
| 127 | Eman Sawan | PLE | 1847 | 3 | 0 | 25 | 20 | |
| 128 | Zayed Sultan Al Taher | UAE | 1827 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 19 | |
| 129 | Eyenghe Sunny | NGR | 2078 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 19 | |
| 130 | Laddha Yash Jayesh | USA | 2002 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 19 | |
| 131 | Sadbhav Rautela | IND | 1775 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 17 | |
| 132 | Kumthekar Shubham | IND | 1800 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 17 | |
| 133 | Arnab Jena | IND | 1387 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 17 | |
| 134 | AGM | Vishal Choudary B | IND | 2077 | 2.5 | 0 | 29 | 23 |
| 135 | Hamad Bader | UAE | 2029 | 2.5 | 0 | 29 | 24 | |
| 136 | Abhyudaya Rajpurohit | IND | 2078 | 2.5 | 0 | 28 | 23 | |
| 137 | IM | Sultan Ibrahim | UAE | 2108 | 2.5 | 0 | 28 | 22 |
| 138 | FM | Pavlov Mark | RUS | 2341 | 2.5 | 0 | 27 | 22 |
| 139 | Abid Ali Mujawar | IND | 1824 | 2.5 | 0 | 26 | 21 | |
| 140 | WIM | Sharma Isha | IND | 2325 | 2.5 | 0 | 26 | 21 |
| 141 | Mohammad Abdulrahman Alawadhi | UAE | 1374 | 2.5 | 0 | 26 | 21 | |
| 142 | Al Namas Kanan | JOR | 1466 | 2.5 | 0 | 25 | 20 | |
| 143 | Ahmed Waqqas Alawlaqi | UAE | 1250 | 2.5 | 0 | 24 | 18 | |
| 144 | Al Zaabi Talal | UAE | 1546 | 2.5 | 0 | 22 | 18 | |
| 145 | Faisal Ali | UAE | 1836 | 2.5 | 0 | 20 | 17 | |
| 146 | Darsith Manoj Nair | IND | 1437 | 2.5 | 0 | 17 | 13 | |
| 147 | Anood Ahmad | UAE | 1246 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 21 | |
| 148 | FM | Salem Ghuloom | UAE | 2195 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 20 |
| 149 | WCM | Bashaer Khalil | UAE | 1566 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 21 |
| 150 | Abdulrahim Salem | UAE | 1811 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 19 | |
| 151 | FM | Milikow Yoav | ISR | 2429 | 1.5 | 0 | 29 | 24 |
| 152 | Khalifa Essa Albalooshi | UAE | 1749 | 1.5 | 0 | 27 | 22 | |
| 153 | Dehghan Ibrahim | FID | 1542 | 1.5 | 0 | 27 | 22 | |
| 154 | Al-Blooshi Hamad Essa | UAE | 1272 | 1.5 | 0 | 25 | 20 | |
| 155 | Yahya Shuaib Al Kaff | UAE | 1389 | 1.5 | 0 | 23 | 19 | |
| 156 | Khalil Reem | UAE | 1390 | 1.5 | 0 | 20 | 16 | |
| 157 | Kewalramani Abhir | FID | 1598 | 1.5 | 0 | 20 | 16 | |
| 158 | Ahlam Rashed | UAE | 1372 | 1.5 | 0 | 20 | 15 | |
| 159 | Abdel Wahab Ahmed Alaa El Din | EGY | 1424 | 0.5 | 0 | 28 | 24 | |
| 160 | FM | Tolentino Rustum | PHI | 2259 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 24 |
| FM | Mahitosh Dey | IND | 2220 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 24 | |
| 162 | GM | Vokhidov Shamsiddin | UZB | 2552 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 24 |
| CM | Khalifah Khaled | UAE | 1968 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 24 | |
| 164 | Mahmoud Haitham | SUD | 1953 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 25 | |
| 165 | FM | Elmejbri Ali A. | LBA | 1891 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 24 |
| 166 | Aborezika Mohamed | LBA | 1935 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 24 | |
| Alsaiti Mohamed Abdalgader | LBA | 1609 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 24 | ||
| 168 | IM | Padmini Rout | IND | 2391 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 24 |
| Veisi Bardia | IRI | 2246 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 24 | ||
| CM | Mohamed Saeed Laily | UAE | 2030 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 24 | |
| Abdulla Mahmood Abdulla Mohammad | UAE | 1390 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 24 | ||
| 172 | Yasmin Ali | UAE | 1490 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 23 |
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Round 9 pairings – Dubai Chess Open 2022:
| Bo. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | FED | Rtg | ||
| 1 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | IND | 2614 | 7 | 6½ | GM | Praggnanandhaa R | IND | 2661 | |
| 2 | GM | Predke Alexandr | FID | 2692 | 6½ | 6 | GM | Adly Ahmed | EGY | 2582 | |
| 3 | GM | Harsha Bharathakoti | IND | 2557 | 6 | 6 | GM | Erigaisi Arjun | IND | 2689 | |
| 4 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2631 | 6 | 6 | GM | Chanda Sandipan | IND | 2458 | |
| 5 | IM | Das Arghyadip | IND | 2446 | 6 | 6 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | IND | 2625 | |
| 6 | FM | Poormosavi Seyed Kian | IRI | 2404 | 6 | 6 | GM | Indjic Aleksandar | SRB | 2613 | |
| 7 | GM | Hakobyan Aram | ARM | 2612 | 6 | 6 | IM | Sammed Jaykumar Shete | IND | 2381 | |
| 8 | GM | Tabatabaei M. Amin | IRI | 2664 | 5½ | 5½ | IM | Siddharth Jagadeesh | SGP | 2426 | |
| 9 | GM | Ter-Sahakyan Samvel | ARM | 2625 | 5½ | 5½ | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | IND | 2319 | |
| 10 | IM | Vignesh N R | IND | 2467 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Sadhwani Raunak | IND | 2622 | |
| 11 | GM | Rahman Ziaur | BAN | 2427 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Muradli Mahammad | AZE | 2552 | |
| 12 | GM | Arjun Kalyan | IND | 2513 | 5½ | 5½ | Sanket Chakravarty | IND | 2275 | ||
| 13 | IM | Aditya Mittal | IND | 2496 | 5½ | 5½ | FM | Ayush Sharma | IND | 2158 | |
| 14 | FM | Samant Aditya S | IND | 2430 | 5 | 5 | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | GER | 2644 | |
| 15 | GM | Akopian Vladimir | USA | 2616 | 5 | 5 | IM | Nitish Belurkar | IND | 2416 | |
| 16 | GM | Jumabayev Rinat | KAZ | 2615 | 5 | 5 | FM | Nazari Arad | IRI | 2389 | |
| 17 | GM | Iniyan P | IND | 2556 | 5 | 5 | GM | Laxman R.R. | IND | 2381 | |
| 18 | GM | Gagare Shardul | IND | 2521 | 5 | 5 | IM | Mullick Raahil | IND | 2352 | |
| 19 | GM | Grover Sahaj | IND | 2505 | 5 | 5 | IM | Ajay Krishna S | IND | 2367 | |
| 20 | GM | Raja Rithvik R | IND | 2491 | 5 | 5 | Ashraf Artin | IRI | 2289 | ||
| 21 | IM | Shyaamnikhil P | IND | 2465 | 5 | 5 | FM | De Silva L M S T | SRI | 2212 | |
| 22 | IM | Rathanvel V S | IND | 2455 | 5 | 5 | Suyarov Mukhammadzokhid | UZB | 2169 | ||
| 23 | WGM | Vantika Agrawal | IND | 2371 | 5 | 5 | IM | Nigmatov Ortik | UZB | 2437 | |
| 24 | Panda Sambit | IND | 2346 | 5 | 5 | GM | Thejkumar M. S. | IND | 2430 | ||
| 25 | Laddha Shubh Jayesh | USA | 2262 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Suleymanli Aydin | AZE | 2547 | ||
| 26 | IM | Haldorsen Benjamin | NOR | 2461 | 4½ | 4½ | Rakhmatullaev Almas | UZB | 2288 | ||
| 27 | IM | Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh | IND | 2457 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Avinash Ramesh | IND | 2322 | |
| 28 | IM | Srihari L R | IND | 2436 | 4½ | 4½ | Ritviz Parab | IND | 2299 | ||
| 29 | CM | Kushagra Mohan | IND | 2426 | 4½ | 4½ | FM | Wagh Suyog | IND | 2315 | |
| 30 | FM | Mahdavi Reza | IRI | 2253 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Al Qudaimi Basheer | YEM | 2424 | |
| 31 | FM | Madaminov Mukhiddin | UZB | 2408 | 4½ | 4½ | FM | Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan | SRI | 2286 | |
| 32 | IM | Mohammad Fahad Rahman | BAN | 2401 | 4½ | 4½ | Raghav Srivathsav V | IND | 2084 | ||
| 33 | WIM | Kamalidenova Meruert | KAZ | 2384 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Manish Anto Cristiano F | IND | 2215 | |
| 34 | FM | Rohith Krishna S | IND | 2358 | 4½ | 4½ | Shaik Sumer Arsh | IND | 2123 | ||
| 35 | FM | Karthik Rajaa | IND | 2327 | 4½ | 4½ | Joel Paul Ganta | IND | 1785 | ||
| 36 | Gandhi Anish | IND | 2228 | 4 | 4 | GM | Mareco Sandro | ARG | 2657 | ||
| 37 | IM | Dimakiling Oliver | PHI | 2442 | 4 | 4 | CM | Aaditya Dhingra | IND | 2214 | |
| 38 | Vaibhav Jayant Raut | IND | 2217 | 4 | 4 | IM | Saeed Ishaq | UAE | 2366 | ||
| 39 | IM | Tissir Mohamed | MAR | 2366 | 4 | 4 | Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri | IND | 2210 | ||
| 40 | Shoshin Kirill | RUS | 2205 | 4 | 4 | IM | Viani Antonio Dcunha | IND | 2327 | ||
| 41 | WIM | Priyanka K | IND | 2052 | 4 | 4 | IM | Raahul V S | IND | 2323 | |
| 42 | FM | Zujev Oleg | LTU | 2305 | 4 | 4 | Aniruddh Chatterjee | IND | 2174 | ||
| 43 | FM | Ram Aravind L N | IND | 2298 | 4 | 4 | FM | Harshal Shahi | IND | 2136 | |
| 44 | FM | Ahmed Fareed | UAE | 1920 | 4 | 4 | IM | Al Hosani Omran | UAE | 2293 | |
| 45 | FM | Sharan Rao | IND | 2292 | 4 | 4 | Devnani Kush | IND | 2095 | ||
| 46 | Ashutosh Kumar | IND | 1888 | 4 | 4 | Ojas Kulkarni | IND | 2254 | |||
| 47 | FM | Aradhya Garg | IND | 2240 | 4 | 4 | Rohit S | IND | 1937 | ||
| 48 | IM | Dushyant Sharma | IND | 2406 | 3½ | 4 | Alhejab Meshal | KUW | 1732 | ||
| 49 | FM | Al Maashani Amer | OMA | 1947 | 3½ | 3½ | IM | Aziz Husain | QAT | 2377 | |
| 50 | FM | Jain Kashish Manoj | IND | 2315 | 3½ | 3½ | Ali Abdulaziz | UAE | 1930 | ||
| 51 | FM | Mehdi Hasan Parag | BAN | 2211 | 3½ | 3½ | Ishvi Aggarwal | IND | 1854 | ||
| 52 | Prasannaa.S | IND | 2185 | 3½ | 3½ | Liashkevich Lizaveta | BLR | 1842 | |||
| 53 | Raji Sayel Abu Azizah | PLE | 2014 | 3½ | 3½ | Rami Talab | SYR | 1585 | |||
| 54 | Ahmad Al Romaithi | UAE | 1799 | 3½ | 3½ | Mustafayev Nihad | AZE | 1982 | |||
| 55 | Sharon Rafael | IND | 2095 | 3 | 3½ | Al Ansi Amin | OMA | 1806 | |||
| 56 | FM | Zia Tahsin Tajwar | BAN | 2321 | 3 | 3 | Sabirova Shakhnoza | UZB | 1957 | ||
| 57 | Mokhtari Moghadam Taha | IRI | 1929 | 3 | 3 | FM | Rahman Md. Taibur | BAN | 2202 | ||
| 58 | Eyenghe Sunny | NGR | 2078 | 3 | 3 | Eman Sawan | PLE | 1847 | |||
| 59 | AIM | Md Imran | IND | 2063 | 3 | 3 | Zayed Sultan Al Taher | UAE | 1827 | ||
| 60 | Aarav Sinha | IND | 1909 | 3 | 3 | Salem Ahmed Salem | UAE | 2056 | |||
| 61 | Kumthekar Shubham | IND | 1800 | 3 | 3 | Kuziev Miraziz | UZB | 2036 | |||
| 62 | Manmay Chopra | IND | 2027 | 3 | 3 | Sadbhav Rautela | IND | 1775 | |||
| 63 | Arnab Jena | IND | 1387 | 3 | 3 | Laddha Yash Jayesh | USA | 2002 | |||
| 64 | IM | Sultan Ibrahim | UAE | 2108 | 2½ | 2½ | Al Namas Kanan | JOR | 1466 | ||
| 65 | Al Zaabi Talal | UAE | 1546 | 2½ | 2½ | Abhyudaya Rajpurohit | IND | 2078 | |||
| 66 | AGM | Vishal Choudary B | IND | 2077 | 2½ | 2½ | Ahmed Waqqas Alawlaqi | UAE | 1250 | ||
| 67 | Mohammad Abdulrahman Alawadhi | UAE | 1374 | 2½ | 2½ | Faisal Ali | UAE | 1836 | |||
| 68 | Darsith Manoj Nair | IND | 1437 | 2½ | 2½ | Abid Ali Mujawar | IND | 1824 | |||
| 69 | FM | Salem Ghuloom | UAE | 2195 | 2 | 2 | WCM | Bashaer Khalil | UAE | 1566 | |
| 70 | Abdulrahim Salem | UAE | 1811 | 2 | 2 | Anood Ahmad | UAE | 1246 | |||
| 71 | Al-Blooshi Hamad Essa | UAE | 1272 | 1½ | 1½ | Kewalramani Abhir | FID | 1598 | |||
| 72 | Ahlam Rashed | UAE | 1372 | 1½ | 1½ | Dehghan Ibrahim | FID | 1542 | |||
| 73 | Khalil Reem | UAE | 1390 | 1½ | 1 | bye |
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