The Dubai Chess Open 2013, one of the traditional events in the chess calendar, has started at the Chess and Culture Club in Dubai. A total of 39 GMs and 100 titled players are participating. Among them top seeded are GM Vladimir Akopian, GM Viktor Laznicka, GM Romain Edouard, GM Yuriy Kryvoruchko, GM Gabriel Sargissian, GM Tigran Petrosian, GM Andrei Istratescu, GM Ivan Sokolov, GM Amin Bassem, GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili, GM Yang Wen, GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly, GM Yuriy Kuzubov, GM Jaan Ehlvest, and GM Mircea-Emilian Parligras, all above 2600 ELO.
In the first round there were no major surprises, as all 2600+ players won their games. In the 2500+ field GMs Iordachescu, Gupta, and Adhiban were held to draws. Scroll down for the full results of round 1.
Here is a long video by the renowned producer Vijay Kumar, including interview with with Narayanan Srinath who won the Asian Junior Championship.
Results round 1
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | Result | Name | Rtg | ||
| 1 | GM | Akopian Vladimir | 2704 | 1 – 0 | CM | Nadir Samir | 2135 |
| 2 | Basencyan Mark | 2133 | 0 – 1 | GM | Laznicka Viktor | 2674 | |
| 3 | GM | Edouard Romain | 2670 | 1 – 0 | WFM | Pujari Rucha | 2132 |
| 4 | Michelle Catherina P | 2123 | 0 – 1 | GM | Kryvoruchko Yuriy | 2668 | |
| 5 | GM | Sargissian Gabriel | 2666 | 1 – 0 | WFM | Schmidt Jade | 2113 |
| 6 | Wenzel Birger | 2109 | 0 – 1 | GM | Petrosian Tigran L. | 2663 | |
| 7 | GM | Istratescu Andrei | 2648 | 1 – 0 | WFM | Raghavi N. | 2096 |
| 8 | WIM | Ivana Maria Furtado | 2093 | 0 – 1 | GM | Sokolov Ivan | 2643 |
| 9 | GM | Amin Bassem | 2641 | 1 – 0 | WFM | Nekrasova Elena | 2089 |
| 10 | Mehdi Samer | 2089 | 0 – 1 | GM | Mchedlishvili Mikheil | 2640 | |
| 11 | GM | Wen Yang | 2631 | 1 – 0 | Salah Romany | 2085 | |
| 12 | WIM | Blanco Acevedo Maria C. | 2080 | 0 – 1 | GM | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | 2623 |
| 13 | GM | Kuzubov Yuriy | 2619 | 1 – 0 | Sameir Ramez | 2078 | |
| 14 | Elnemr Mohamed | 2073 | 0 – 1 | GM | Ehlvest Jaan | 2611 | |
| 15 | GM | Parligras Mircea-Emilian | 2602 | 1 – 0 | Kohtz Andreas | 2068 | |
| 16 | CM | Ahmed Holi Ali Moawia | 2066 | ½ – ½ | GM | Iordachescu Viorel | 2599 |
| 17 | GM | Volkov Sergey | 2593 | 1 – 0 | Takrory Hosam | 2044 | |
| 18 | Abdel Rabb Raouf | 2036 | ½ – ½ | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | 2591 | |
| 19 | GM | Rakhmanov Aleksandr | 2591 | 1 – 0 | FM | Ram Aravind L N | 2035 |
| 20 | Rice Chris B | 2032 | 0 – 1 | GM | Burmakin Vladimir | 2580 | |
| 21 | GM | Shanava Konstantine | 2578 | 1 – 0 | Klyszcz Michael | 2029 | |
| 22 | FM | Elmejbri Ali A. | 2008 | 0 – 1 | GM | Lalith Babu M.R. | 2565 |
| 23 | GM | Ghaem Maghami Ehsan | 2561 | 1 – 0 | Mahmoud Haitham | 2005 | |
| 24 | Albers Andreas | 1999 | 0 – 1 | GM | Pantsulaia Levan | 2556 | |
| 25 | GM | Adhiban B. | 2555 | ½ – ½ | Mohammed Tarig Elther | 1993 | |
| 26 | Madhurima Shekhar | 1991 | 0 – 1 | GM | Oleksienko Mikhailo | 2554 | |
| 27 | GM | Kotsur Pavel | 2552 | 1 – 0 | Ahmed Fayez | 1946 | |
| 28 | Magdy Kassem | 1943 | 0 – 1 | GM | Jumabayev Rinat | 2549 | |
| 29 | GM | Michalik Peter | 2535 | 1 – 0 | Rafee Mohd Hayel | 1909 | |
| 30 | Walid Anwar | 1893 | 0 – 1 | GM | Salem A.R. Saleh | 2530 | |
| 31 | WGM | Ju Wenjun | 2521 | 1 – 0 | Sultan Ibrahim | 1886 | |
| 32 | Elnaami Hashem A.K. | 1854 | 0 – 1 | GM | Carlsson Pontus | 2520 | |
| 33 | GM | Al-Sayed Mohammed | 2517 | 1 – 0 | Al Sori Mohamed | 1830 | |
| 34 | Alnami Salaheddin | 1825 | 0 – 1 | IM | Akshayraj Kore | 2512 | |
| 35 | GM | Rahman Ziaur | 2511 | 1 – 0 | Faranka Khaled | 1823 | |
| 36 | Vojdani Siavosh | 1819 | 0 – 1 | GM | Harika Dronavalli | 2509 | |
| 37 | GM | Darini Pouria | 2505 | 1 – 0 | CM | Saleh Naif | 1811 |
| 38 | WFM | Nouman Amna | 1809 | 0 – 1 | GM | Shyam Sundar M. | 2505 |
| 39 | IM | Hayrapetyan Hovik | 2503 | + – – | Mayed Al-Rashedi | 1785 | |
| 40 | Esa A H Almarazeeq | 1781 | 0 – 1 | IM | Khotenashvili Bela | 2492 | |
| 41 | IM | Shoker Samy | 2480 | 1 – 0 | Abdulla Abdulwahab | 1773 | |
| 42 | Hamdan Marshool | 1756 | 0 – 1 | IM | Paehtz Elisabeth | 2479 | |
| 43 | GM | Deepan Chakkravarthy J. | 2477 | 1 – 0 | Abdulla Ali | 1746 | |
| 44 | Ali Rashid Ghanem | 1741 | 0 – 1 | IM | Debashis Das | 2477 | |
| 45 | IM | Swapnil S. Dhopade | 2475 | 1 – 0 | Murad Abdulla | 1741 | |
| 46 | Adarsh Saji | 1737 | 0 – 1 | IM | Vishnu Prasanna. V | 2470 | |
| 47 | GM | Grover Sahaj | 2467 | 1 – 0 | Sultan Marshool | 1736 | |
| 48 | Ahmed Fareed | 1725 | 0 – 1 | IM | Ezat Mohamed | 2461 | |
| 49 | IM | Ghosh Diptayan | 2451 | 1 – 0 | Waleed Mohamed | 1724 | |
| 50 | Sasikumar Anusweud | 1721 | 0 – 1 | IM | Narayanan Srinath | 2440 | |
| 51 | Karthikeyan Murali | 2432 | 1 – 0 | Keen Cosima C | 1712 | ||
| 52 | Montaser Kamil | 1700 | 0 – 1 | IM | Ankit R. Rajpara | 2421 | |
| 53 | IM | Yap Kim Steven | 2418 | 1 – 0 | Ambareesh. P | 1697 | |
| 54 | Abdullah Al Hamed | 1691 | 0 – 1 | Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan | 2418 | ||
| 55 | IM | Houska Jovanka | 2417 | 1 – 0 | Humaid Abdulla Ali | 1668 | |
| 56 | Ali Abdulaziz | 1660 | 0 – 1 | IM | Tania Sachdev | 2409 | |
| 57 | IM | Kanter Eduard | 2408 | 1 – 0 | Khaled Ahmed Y. | 1652 | |
| 58 | Saif Idrees | 1633 | 0 – 1 | FM | Anurag Mhamal | 2401 | |
| 59 | IM | Nezad Husein Aziz | 2400 | 1 – 0 | Majed Ali Abdouli | 1627 | |
| 60 | Hassweh Mwaffaq | 1886 | 0 – 1 | IM | Gagare Shardul | 2397 | |
| 61 | IM | Karavade Eesha | 2389 | 1 – 0 | Niranjan R | 1614 | |
| 62 | Abdulaziz Abdulla | 1610 | 0 – 1 | IM | Prathamesh Sunil Mokal | 2389 | |
| 63 | FM | Vandenbussche Thibaut | 2387 | 1 – 0 | Abdulla Shaeri | 1609 | |
| 64 | Mohamed Marshool | 1604 | 0 – 1 | IM | Khukhashvili Sopiko | 2386 | |
| 65 | Sagar Shah | 2376 | 1 – 0 | Talal Al-Hammadi | 1603 | ||
| 66 | WCM | Al-Maghbali Shama | 1599 | – – + | IM | Isaev Jamshed | 2355 |
| 67 | FM | De Ramos Julius | 2350 | 1 – 0 | Santosh Sanath | 1597 | |
| 68 | Timi Thomas Mulavana | 1590 | 0 – 1 | IM | Purtseladze Maka | 2347 | |
| 69 | WGM | Hoolt Sarah | 2338 | 1 – 0 | Jehad Aysha | 1586 | |
| 70 | Surya K. Sudarsam | 1780 | 0 – 1 | WGM | Saduakassova Dinara | 2336 | |
| 71 | Krishna C.R.G. | 2334 | 1 – 0 | Al-Hammadi Fatima Hussein | 1565 | ||
| 72 | Faisal Ali | 1557 | 0 – 1 | FM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | 2333 | |
| 73 | IM | Galojan Lilit | 2323 | 1 – 0 | Harikrishnan Samyuktha | 1554 | |
| 74 | Salem Ahmed Salem | 1548 | 0 – 1 | IM | Praveen Kumar C. | 2312 | |
| 75 | WGM | Pourkashiyan Atousa | 2303 | 1 – 0 | Bashaer Khalil | 1545 | |
| 76 | Sultan Fareed | 1538 | 0 – 1 | FM | Kowsarinia Amir | 2301 | |
| 77 | FM | Das Sayantan | 2299 | 1 – 0 | Naidu Harish | 1476 | |
| 78 | Al Taher Saeed | 1465 | 0 – 1 | WIM | Khademalsharieh Sarasadat | 2267 | |
| 79 | WIM | Olsarova Karolina | 2264 | 1 – 0 | Al-Zaabi Sultan | 1447 | |
| 80 | Nandu Gagarin | 1429 | 0 – 1 | WIM | Olsarova Tereza | 2260 | |
| 81 | Hemant Sharma (del) | 2253 | 1 – 0 | Al Amoudy Khalifa | 1411 | ||
| 82 | Majed Mosallam | 1403 | 0 – 1 | IM | Gameel Mohamed | 2250 | |
| 83 | WIM | Davletbayeva Madina | 2248 | 1 – 0 | Rashid Mosallam | 1388 | |
| 84 | WCM | Kalbani Wadema | 1379 | – – + | FM | Chahrani Ibrahim | 2244 |
| 85 | Raes Abdul Kader | 2241 | 1 – 0 | Hamda Sarhan | 1349 | ||
| 86 | Al-Harmoudi Mariam | 1307 | 0 – 1 | FM | Mohannad Farhan | 2231 | |
| 87 | WGM | Makropoulou Marina | 2227 | 1 – 0 | Aagney L. Narasimhan | 1288 | |
| 88 | Soud Mosallam | 1242 | 0 – 1 | Navalgund Niranjan | 2219 | ||
| 89 | Ilhomzoda Ikrom | 2212 | 1 – 0 | FM | Yaaqoub Rashid | 2203 | |
| 90 | Abdalsalam Abubukr | 2002 | 0 – 1 | Nyazi Nehad | 2203 | ||
| 91 | Phadke Sohan | 2187 | 1 – 0 | Tawfeik Moustafa | 2081 | ||
| 92 | Al Hosani Omran | 0 | 0 – 1 | Sobh Amrou | 2177 | ||
| 93 | FM | Visweswaran K. | 2159 | 1 – 0 | Hamad Ahmed | 0 | |
| 94 | Bennett John M | 2048 | 0 – 1 | Osman Abdelgadir | 2157 | ||
| 95 | FM | Somoff Abdo | 2155 | 0 – 1 | Dimarucut Francis Erwin | 2120 | |
| 96 | Pabalan Rocky | 2138 | 1 – 0 | Nimmy A.G. | 2152 | ||
| 97 | WGM | Mona Khaled | 2147 | 0 – 1 | Tabada Jobannie C. | 2199 | |
| 98 | FM | Harshal Shahi | 1955 | 1 – 0 | Altaher Salman Tarek | 1482 |
