Brewington Hardaway wins convincingly Abu Dhabi blitz

The American Grandmaster Brewington Hardaway is the winner of the 2025 Abu Dhabi blitz tournament. Brewington Hardaway won the 11 rounds Swiss a full point ahead of his closest competitor in a field of 320 players. He collected 10,0/11 and remained undefeated throughout the event.

Six players finished with 9,0/11, with the silver medal going to Benny Aizenberg and the bronze is for Marco Materia.

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Abu Dhabi Blitz final standings

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	GM	Hardaway, Brewington	USA	2533	10
2	IM	Aizenberg, Benny	ISR	2340	9
3	IM	Materia, Marco	FRA	2503	9
4	GM	Zeng, Chongsheng	CHN	2481	9
5	FM	Ashraf, Artin	IRI	2351	9
6	GM	Iniyan, Pa	IND	2436	9
7	FM	Hamidov, Allahverdi	AZE	2128	9
8	IM	Manafov, Vugar	AZE	2392	8.5
9	GM	Bharath, Subramaniyam H	IND	2521	8.5
10	GM	Haddouche, Mohamed	ALG	2443	8.5
11		Yu, Shuxiao	CHN	2100	8.5
12	GM	Movahed, Sina	IRI	2463	8.5
13	GM	Lazavik, Denis	BLR	2617	8
14	GM	Wan, Yunguo	CHN	2515	8
15	IM	Gan-Erdene, Sugar	MGL	2444	8
16	GM	Grebnev, Aleksey	FID	2479	8
17	IM	Chen, Ryo	USA	2188	8
18	IM	Anuj, Shrivatri	IND	2335	8
19	IM	Rohith, Krishna S	IND	2357	8
20	IM	Chasin, Nico	USA	2449	8
21	IM	Aswath, S	IND	2420	8
22	GM	Golizadeh, Asghar	IRI	2414	8
23	IM	Narayanan, Samrug	USA	2271	8
24	FM	Novozhilov, Semen	RUS	2322	8
25	GM	Tukhaev, Adam	UKR	2461	8
26	FM	Pashikyan, Rudolf	ARM	2262	8
27	FM	Galaktionov, Artem	RUS	2341	7.5
28	IM	Stribuk, Artiom	FID	2392	7.5
29	FM	Suleymanli, Suleyman	AZE	2298	7.5
30	IM	Amilal, Munkhdalai	MGL	2407	7.5
31	IM	Ilinca, Felix-Antonio	ROU	2417	7.5
32	IM	Khubukshanov, Erdem	FID	2429	7.5
33	FM	Noy, Eyal	ISR	2304	7.5
34	IM	Borgaonkar, Akshay	IND	2222	7.5
35	IM	Dimakiling, Oliver	PHI	2428	7.5
36	GM	Srihari, L R	IND	2349	7.5
37		Kurbanov, Abdulaziz	UZB	1824	7.5
38	FM	Tulendinov, Dinmukhammed	KAZ	2110	7.5
39	IM	Senthil, Maran K	IND	2165	7.5
40	GM	Xue, Haowen	CHN	2416	7
41	FM	Yang, Zilong	CHN	2092	7
42	GM	Hong, Andrew	USA	2511	7
43	GM	Jacobson, Brandon	USA	2501	7
44	GM	Andriasian, Zaven	ARM	2578	7
45	IM	Liyanage, Ranindu Dilshan	SRI	2276	7
46	FM	Vaibhav, Jayant Raut	IND	2129	7
47	IM	Vidyarthi, Vyom	USA	2306	7
48	IM	Nazari, Arad	IRI	2220	7
49	IM	Concio, Michael Jr.	PHI	2448	7
50	IM	Tissir, Mohamed	MAR	2317	7
51	FM	Putrenko, Kirill	FID	2211	7
52	AIM	Muhammad, Shayan Noushad Ibrahim	IND	2140	7
53	IM	Ravi, Teja S.	IND	2413	7
54	IM	Sahakyan, Aleks	ARM	2277	7
55	FM	Lyutsinger, Iren	FID	2116	7
56	FM	Manvelyan, Mikayel	ARM	2350	7
57	IM	Pimentel, Joel	PHI	2228	7
58	IM	Manish, Anto Cristiano F	IND	2272	7
59		Sharon, Rafael	ZAM	2182	7
60	IM	Mohamed, Anees M	IND	2250	7
61	AGM	Syed, Abdul Khader	IND	2277	7
62	GM	Zubarev, Alexander	UKR	2337	7
63	IM	Budhidharma, Nayaka	INA	2310	7
64	CM	Ghoreishi Amiri, Seyed Kian	IRI	2257	7
65	IM	Arfan, Aditya Bagus	INA	2283	7
66	FM	Storey, Charles H	ENG	2160	7
67	FM	Ajay, Santhosh Parvathareddy	IND	2174	7
68		Zhang, Hongya	CHN	1888	7
69	ACM	Balanandan, Ayyappan	IND	2034	7
70	IM	Raczek, Krzysztof	POL	2402	6.5
71	FM	Dhananjay, S	IND	2081	6.5
72	GM	Sjugirov, Sanan	HUN	2620	6.5
73	GM	Prraneeth, Vuppala	IND	2344	6.5
74	FM	Bagwe, Gaurang	IND	2056	6.5
75	IM	Jain, Kashish Manoj	IND	2257	6.5
76	IM	Kuru, Atilla	TUR	2178	6.5
77	FM	Jinan, Jomon	IND	2128	6.5
78	CM	Plotnikov, Boris	RUS	1939	6.5
79		Kasparov, Aram	UZB	2017	6.5
80	FM	Aditya, Vikram Paul	IND	2264	6.5
81	IM	Shahil, Dey	IND	2103	6.5
82	GM	Baghdasaryan, Vahe	ARM	2147	6.5
83	IM	Sibashvili, Giorgi	GEO	2448	6.5
84		Tokhyan, Feliks	ARM	1954	6.5
85	IM	Seemann, Jakub	POL	2402	6.5
86	WIM	Zhao, Yunqing	CHN	1951	6.5
87		Soud, Jaber	UAE	1985	6.5
88	FM	Faisal, Abdulla Kashwani	UAE	2105	6.5
89	FM	Tamer Waguih, Farid	EGY	2118	6.5
90		Kasimov, Rauf	UZB	2090	6.5
91		Abdulazizov, Asilbek	UZB	1723	6.5
92	CM	Jain, Kushagra	IND	1856	6.5
93	FM	Mahitosh, Dey	IND	2163	6.5
94	AIM	Shashish, Subbiah	IND	2009	6.5
95	FM	Orujov, Farid	AZE	2083	6.5
96	FM	Swarna, Nihal	IND	2075	6
97	IM	Dixit, Nikhil	IND	2283	6
98	FM	Shermuhammadov, Samandar	UZB	2125	6
99	GM	Fawzy, Adham	EGY	2507	6
100		Teng, Jiarong	CHN	2079	6
101	CM	Suslov, Dmitrii	FID	2102	6
102		Faramarzi Garousi, Maartia	IRI	1858	6
103	FM	Ammar, Sedrani	UAE	2134	6
104	FM	Vivaan, Vishal Shah	IND	2211	6
105	FM	Reyan, Md.	IND	1945	6
106	IM	Aradhya, Garg	IND	2389	6
107	CM	Simutowe, Musatwe	ZAM	2099	6
108	AIM	Premshankar, B U	IND	1988	6
109	CM	Vandan, Alankar Sawai	IND	1982	6
110	FM	Advaitt, Srikant Koduri	IND	2153	6
111		Manukian, Artak	ARM	1958	6
112	FM	Salim Mohammed, Salim Al Amri	OMA	1978	6
113	AGM	Fernandez, Dandel	PHI	2067	6
114		Devnani, Kush	IND	2045	6
115	FM	Othman, A. Moussa	UAE	2043	6
116		Abhinav, Benny	IND	2004	6
117	CM	Abdsattar, Alisher	KAZ	2138	6
118	IM	Sahib, Singh	IND	2147	6
119	CM	Vihaan, Dumir	IND	1963	6
120		Vidur, Rajagopal	IND	1767	6
121	FM	Akshat, Sureka	IND	1943	6
122		Shen, Houlin	CHN	1659	6
123	FM	Yasser, Mark	EGY	2104	6
124	IM	Sultan, Ibrahim	UAE	2026	6
125		Mohamed, Moussa	UAE	1726	6
126		Grigoriev, Alexander D	FID	1733	6
127		Khachikyan, Haik	ARM	1913	6
128	CM	Mukund, Hemant Agarwal	IND	1864	6
129	CM	Al-Kuwari, Hamad	QAT	1645	6
130	AIM	Alsaqer, Meshal	KUW	1825	6
131		Vaibhav, Krishnan K P	IND	1784	6
132		Adwaith, Praveen	IND	1868	6
133		Trzcinska, Weronika	POL	1642	6
134	AIM	Muhammad, Saifan Noushad Ibrahim	IND	1898	6
135	CM	Shirliyev, Allayar	TKM	2224	5.5
136	FM	Bukreev, Stanislav	RUS	2320	5.5
137	FM	Alrehaili, Ahmed Abdullah S	KSA	2083	5.5
138		Mohamed, Yousuf Al-Ali	UAE	1777	5.5
139	FM	Moazaz, Dhahir Habeeb	IRQ	2010	5.5
140	FM	Paszewski, Mateusz	POL	2265	5.5
141		Zhang, Jingran	CHN	1871	5.5
142	FM	Unwana, Eugene Ekpoikong	NGR	2006	5.5
143	GM	Miladinovic, Igor	SRB	2510	5.5
144	AFM	Vivaan, Rana	IND	2003	5.5
145	AIM	Rombaua, Mariel Joseph	PHI	1887	5.5
146		Saksham, Upadhyay	IND	1842	5.5
147	WCM	Anishka, Vikram	IND	1912	5.5
148	FM	Abdulrahman Mohammad, Al Taher	UAE	2043	5.5
149		Thaarak, Charen Saravankumar	IND	1867	5.5
150		Bassetti, Danilo	ITA	1984	5.5
151		Krithik, Muthukumar	IND	1800	5.5
152		Zhu, Chenxi	CHN	1689	5.5
153		Rudolph, Alexander	GER	1836	5.5
154		Sharma, Taksh	IND	1888	5.5
155	AFM	Adriel, Job	IND	1759	5.5
156		Zayed, Ali Al-Hamed	UAE	1968	5.5
157	AFM	Mendoza, John-John	PHI	1805	5.5
158		Alviz, Joshua Ezekiel	PHI	1678	5.5
159		Plekhanov, Daniil	RUS	1695	5.5
160	FM	Alahakoon, Isuru	SRI	1915	5.5
161		Sada, Sarmad Eg	USA	1794	5.5
162		Alshnaiber, Yazeed	KSA	1895	5.5
163	IM	Rian, Moubarak	MAR	1958	5.5
164		Etti, Ubong Joseph	NGR	1773	5.5
165		Eidi, Eisa	KUW	1513	5.5
166		Aragon Fragoso, Maximiliano	MEX	1884	5
167	CM	Al Busaidi, Hamood	OMA	2030	5
168		Elawadly, Mohamed	EGY	1863	5
169		Basil, Daoud	JOR	1929	5
170	FM	Jai, Sankar Subramanian	IND	1876	5
171		Bai, Moxuan	CHN	1736	5
172	AIM	Sinan, Shafeek	IND	1903	5
173		Gogte, Soumil	IND	1619	5
174		Davidlang, Nongbet	IND	1835	5
175		Abdulrahim, Salem	UAE	1815	5
176	WFM	Al Mansouri, Moza	UAE	1684	5
177	AIM	Sai, Hridhay S	IND	1860	5
178		Chiu, David Zion	HKG	1794	5
179		Al Amri, Mahad	OMA	1794	5
180	AFM	Rishabh, Adityan	IND	1723	5
181		Ghaith, Saeed Alnuaimi	UAE	1796	5
182		Bhavanya, Panchumarthi	IND	1814	5
183	AIM	Sampreet, Sudheer	IND	1666	5
184		Mithilesh, Ranjithkumar	IND	1914	5
185		Saud, Bader Huwair Alzarooni	UAE	1625	5
186		Khalaf, Ali	KUW	1744	5
187		Hamdan Edrees, Alhamed	UAE	1857	5
188		Yeshwant, Saravanan	IND	1821	5
189		Altrairi, Bader Abdulrahman S	KSA	1734	5
190		Aljundi, Ammar	SYR	1649	5
191		Rithik, Heman Odhrani	IND	1656	5
192		Al-Janahi, Ibrahim	QAT	1519	5
193		Fan, Jinxuan	CHN	1709	5
194		Mokhtar, Omar.	SYR	1736	5
195		Garayev, Omar	AZE	1580	5
196	ACM	Advay, Dingari	IND	1637	5
197		Abdulla, Ateeq Alremaeithi	UAE	1699	5
198		Mohammed, Saeed Alshamsi	UAE	1728	5
199		Mosallam, Mohammad	UAE	1690	5
200		Anoud, Eisa Mohamed	UAE	1953	5
201		Yeiyo, Nathnael Workneh	ETH	0	5
202		Bask, Kristoffer	SWE	1728	5
203		Al-Kuwari, Turki	QAT	1637	5
204		Mirzhanov, Arlan	KAZ	1905	4.5
205		Chibale, Herris	ZAM	1864	4.5
206	AIM	Prithvi, Raj Prajeesh	IND	1988	4.5
207		Sharifi, Khusrav	TJK	1827	4.5
208		Kitapbayev, Yerkin	KAZ	1574	4.5
209		Humaidan Mohamed, Alzaabi	UAE	1827	4.5
210		Dhaheri, Soltan	UAE	1817	4.5
211	CM	Hashem, Khaled	KUW	1878	4.5
212		Archibong, Ubong S	SCO	2035	4.5
213		Sharifi, Mansur	TJK	1615	4.5
214	CM	Al-Blooshi, Hamad Essa	UAE	1898	4.5
215		Suranchiyev, Abylay	KAZ	1782	4.5
216		Beifus, Daniel	ENG	1672	4.5
217		Alrefae, Ahmad	KUW	1664	4.5
218	CM	Al-Marzouqi, Abdulla M	UAE	1939	4.5
219		Ramesh Nair, Advait	IND	1576	4.5
220		Malikov, Daler	UZB	1738	4.5
221		Al Shamsi, Hamad Naseer	UAE	1798	4.5
222		Nookala, Nikhil Sriram	IND	1882	4.5
223		Garayev, Tunar	AZE	1674	4.5
224		Ahoud, Eisa Mohamed	UAE	1667	4.5
225		Saeed, M Nami	UAE	1638	4.5
226		Khizhnyakov, Mikhail Mak	FID	1551	4.5
227		Adarsh, S	IND	1646	4.5
228		Chiu, Silas Nathaniel	HKG	1818	4
229	FM	Khouri, Ibrahim Mohamed	UAE	2131	4
230		Mohammad Abdulrahman, Alawadhi	UAE	1882	4
231		Hussain, Hashem	KUW	1758	4
232		Zayed, Sultan Al Taher	UAE	1838	4
233		Ibrahim, Osama Abdelhamid	SUD	1690	4
234		Komekbayev, Ramazan	KAZ	1662	4
235		Aamer Saeed, Alyileili	UAE	1668	4
236		Antonyan, Mikhail	ARM	1782	4
237		Mohamed Farag, Ahmed	EGY	1654	4
238		Nova, Ayer Juyal	IND	1412	4
239		Abdulazizov, Asadbek	UZB	1472	4
240		Khalid, Habib	PAK	1622	4
241		Astillero, Jake	PHI	1546	4
242		Nzekwe, Victor Ezefili	NGR	0	4
243		Riskin, Grigory	FID	1612	4
244		Ahmad, Saif	QAT	1509	4
245		Ibrahim, Abuhussein	JOR	1545	4
246		Hamad, Essam	UAE	1950	4
247		Zhunussov, Alibek	KAZ	0	4
248		Materia, Mario	FRA	1743	4
249		Bushkar, Chembatheyil Muhammad	IND	1553	4
250		Benigni, Stefano	ITA	1582	4
251		Willy, Varghese	IND	1567	4
252		Anas Ali, Al-Mansoori	UAE	1565	4
253		Abhishek, Desai	IND	1529	4
254		Chaudhary, Afzaal Ahmad Haqqani	PAK	1665	3.5
255		Aldhwaiyan, Nawaf Mohammed	KSA	1712	3.5
256		Arora, Advay	IND	1561	3.5
257		Ananthnarayan,	IND	2039	3.5
258	AIM	Goel, Vivan	IND	1705	3.5
259	ACM	Aaryan, Anand Bakshi	IND	1668	3.5
260		Hani, Hejazi	JOR	1588	3.5
261		Rishi, Raghavendran Kotikalakoti	IND	1499	3.5
262		Huseynkhanov, Mahir	AZE	1455	3.5
263		Beifus, Wayne	ENG	1468	3.5
264		Al-Mansouri, Fahad	QAT	1509	3
265		Sarfudeen, Parapurayil	IND	1503	3
266		Belachheb, Abdelali	MAR	1741	3
267		Grigoryan, Davit S.	ARM	1767	3
268		Mohsen, Hussain	EGY	1591	3
269		Abdulla, Musabbeh Alkaabi	UAE	1602	3
270	GM	Stremavicius, Titas	LTU	2394	3
271		Sadek, Mohamed	FID	0	3
272		Abdulla, Younes Alkhemeiri	UAE	1671	3
273		Tanush, Jain	IND	0	3
274		Almutairi, Musaad H	KSA	1645	3
275		Murali, Muthukrishnan	IND	0	3
276		Yash, Dave	IND	0	3
277		Sayed Deghidy, Mohamed	EGY	1427	3
278		Al-Qassabi, Mohammed	QAT	1528	2.5
279	IM	El Adnani, Mokhliss	MAR	2302	2.5
280		Mosawi, Ahmad	KUW	1406	2.5
281		Arora, Saksham	IND	1617	2.5
282		Faramarzi, Farzad	IRI	1407	2.5
283		Mohamed, Hasan Alfardan	UAE	1426	2
284		Udiavar, Pradeep Pai	IND	1504	2
285		Saeed, Abdulla Almarzooqi	UAE	0	2
286		George Wifky,	EGY	0	2
287		Vessey, Michael	ENG	0	2
288		Khalilov, Ikromjon	UZB	1913	1.5
289	GM	Darini, Pouria	IRI	2463	1.5
290		Sumer, Yalcin Faik	TUR	1466	1
291	CM	Khalifah, Khaled	UAE	1931	1
292		Donauer, Daniel	SUI	1812	1
293		Mrabti, Yahya	FRA	1857	0
294		Elahi, Saif Jah	KSA	0	0
295		Srinika, Kannan	IND	0	0
296	CM	Mohamed, Saeed Laily	UAE	1960	0
297		Abdulazizova, Asmirakhon	UZB	1527	0
298		Prafulla, Soman	IND	1534	0
299		Javet, Nelson	SUI	1567	0
300		Hamad, Bader	UAE	1878	0
301	CM	Eisa Mohmood, Alkhoori	UAE	1776	0
302		Abdulrahman, Shehab Khanji	UAE	1677	0
303		Rashid, Husain Alhammadi	UAE	1854	0
304	CM	Al Ibrahim, Abdulrahman	KUW	1840	0
305	WIM	Aakanksha, Hagawane	IND	2080	0
306		Rahimov, Murad	AZE	1474	0
307		Alvarado, Brian Edward	USA	0	0
308	FM	Priansh, Das	IND	1764	0
309		Alazemi, Aisha	KUW	1524	0
310		Galdeev, Lev	RUS	1762	0
311		Joshi, Kiran	IND	1427	0
312		Abdulazizova, Asmina	UZB	0	0
313	IM	Davtyan, Artur	ARM	2387	0
314		Yan, Jiajun	CHN	0	0
315	IM	Talibov, Shiroghlan	AZE	2308	0
316	IM	El Taher, Fouad	EGY	2337	0
317	FM	Sharipov, Davron	UZB	2195	0
318	FM	Chubakov, Sultan	KGZ	2126	0
319		Ahmad, Al Romaithi	UAE	1960	0
320		Jumma, Al Mmouhairi	UAE	1958	0