The 20th Dubai Open Chess Tournament was held in the Dubai Chess & Culture Club from 2-10 April.
158 players took part in the tournament.
After 7 rounds GM Ganguly was leading with 6,5, points clear from the rest. But in round 8 he lost against GM Iturrizaga.
In the last round GM Diego Flores won against GM Ganguly and the other games at the top boards were drawn, so he is winner with 7,5 points out of 9.
GM Eduardo Iturrizaga had best tie-break and takes second place, third is GM P.S.Sethuraman and GM Ahmed Adly, all of them with 7 points.
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final standings Dubai 2018
1 Flores Diego 7,5
2 Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo 7
3 Sethuraman S.P. 7
4 Adly Ahmed 7
5 Ganguly Surya Shekhar 6,5
6 Jones Gawain C B 6,5
7 Kryvoruchko Yuriy 6,5
8 Kovalev Vladislav 6,5
9 Safarli Eltaj 6,5
10 Can Emre 6,5
11 Efimenko Zahar 6,5
12 Zubov Alexander 6
13 Vishnu Prasanna. V 6
14 Harsha Bharathakoti 6
15 Tahbaz Arash 6
16 Yilmaz Mustafa 6
17 Gupta Abhijeet 6
18 Venkatesh M.R. 6
19 Rakhmanov Aleksandr 6
20 Anton Guijarro David 6
21 Ghaem Maghami Ehsan 6
22 Debashis Das 6
23 Akopian Vladimir 6
Volkov Sergey 6
25 Maghsoodloo Parham 6
26 Mareco Sandro 6
27 Gagare Shardul 6
28 Krysa Leandro 6
29 Karthikeyan P. 6
30 Narayanan.S.L 5,5
31 Saravana Krishnan P. 5,5
32 Tabatabaei M.Amin 5,5
33 Sundararajan Kidambi 5,5
34 Deepan Chakkravarthy J. 5,5
35 Erigaisi Arjun 5,5
36 Amin Bassem 5,5
37 Iniyan P 5,5
38 Sharma Dinesh K. 5,5
39 Oleksiyenko Mykhaylo 5,5
Christiansen Johan-Sebastian 5,5
Chakravarthi Reddy M 5,5
42 Khademalsharieh Sarasadat 5,5
43 Kiriakov Petr 5,5
44 Arjun Kalyan 5,5
45 Tissir Mohamed 5,5
46 Pantsulaia Levan 5,5
47 Darini Pouria 5,5
48 Sindarov Javokhir 5,5
49 Tania Sachdev 5,5
50 Karthik Kumar Pradeep 5,5
51 Laxman R.R. 5
52 Santiago Yago De Moura 5
53 Muthaiah Al 5
54 Viani Antonio Dcunha 5
55 Zhu Yilun 5
56 Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari 5
57 Ashwath R. 5
58 Mahitosh Dey 5
59 Jishitha D 5
60 Bhambure Shantanu 5
61 Mendonca Leon Luke 5
62 Hakobyan Eduard 5
63 Karthik Venkataraman 4,5
64 Haria Ravi 4,5
65 Sadhwani Raunak 4,5
66 Bubalovic Davorin 4,5
67 Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad 4,5
68 Pranav V 4,5
69 Sekar B 4,5
70 Song Yuxin 4,5
71 Sidhant Mohapatra 4,5
72 Kulkarni Bhakti 4,5
73 Charkhalashvili Inga 4,5
74 Dimakiling Oliver 4,5
75 Padmini Rout 4,5
Balasubramaniam H 4,5
77 Abou El Zein Eid Mahmoud 4,5
78 Hejazipour Mitra 4,5
Risting Eivind Olav 4,5
Aradhya Garg 4,5
81 Ajay Karthikeyan 4,5
82 Ramaraju N 4,5
83 Ranaldi Lucas 4,5
84 Phadke Sohan 4,5
85 Surendran N 4,5
86 Blagojevic Tijana 4,5
87 Kavinda Akila 4,5
88 Moksh Amit Doshi 4,5
89 San Juan Dennis 4,5
90 Barretto Franz 4,5
91 Mullick Raahil 4,5
92 Srija Seshadri 4,5
93 Afshari Mohammadreza 4,5
94 Urazayev Arystanbek 4
95 Priyanka Nutakki 4
96 Omar Noaman 4
97 Nandhidhaa Pv 4
98 Nyazi Nehad 4
99 Mohannad Farhan 4
100 Senthil Maran K 4
101 Sultan Ibrahim 4
102 Bharath Subramaniyam H 4
103 Rajdeep Sarkar 4
104 Othman A. Moussa 4
105 Ma Lin 4
Mohamed Anees M 4
107 Boshra Alshaeby 4
108 Maroroa Sue 4
109 Pruthu Deshpande 4
110 Wang Shanshan 4
111 Sun Chao 4
112 Ahmad Al Romaithi 4
113 Nitin Shankar Madhu 4
Shokry Abdel Rahman 4
115 Berezin Viktor 4
116 Zarkovic Mila 4
117 Hamad Essam 4
118 Drljevic Ljilja 3,5
119 Kurbanov Djakhongir 3,5
120 Nikhil Magizhnan 3,5
121 Shanya Mishra 3,5
122 Llopis De Aysa Manuel 3,5
Berezina Irina 3,5
124 Makropoulou Marina 3,5
125 Minko Dmitry 3,5
126 Alattar Ghayda M. 3,5
127 Gagare Shalmali 3,5
128 Alem Ali Hussain 3,5
129 Nejadshirazi Mohammad Reza 3
130 Nikolova Adriana 3
131 Ali Abdulaziz 3
132 Dimarucut Francis Erwin 3
133 Mosallam Mohammad 3
134 Salem Ahmed Salem 3
135 Siddharth Gopakumar 3
136 Ahmed Fareed 3
137 Bommini Mounika Akshaya 3
138 Thrish Karthik 3
139 Minko Olga 3
140 Garvit Kumar Kalra 3
141 Mahajan Ayush 3
142 Saif Ahmed 3
143 Razan Alshaeby 3
144 Kozelov Roman 2,5
145 Molina Antonio 2,5
146 Christenson Flemming 2
147 Vigneshwaran S 2
148 Goh Zi Han 2
149 Devnani Kush 2
150 Sidharth Balaji Sridharan 2
151 Mohammed Fawwaaz 2
152 Raya Alnaimat 2
153 Aditya Varun Gampa 2
154 Arora Honi 2
155 Kaldybayev O 1,5
156 Singh Gurmeher 1
157 Rupacha Padam 1
158 Praggnanandhaa R 0
Saurabh Anand 0
Raahul V S 0
Kumar Gaurav 0
Laith Kasib 0
Sameir Ramez 0
Altaher Saeed Tarek 0
