The 28th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival took place from 17-25 August, 2022, in the United Arab Emirates with participation of 148 players from 31 countries.
18-year-old GM Arjun Erigaisi triumphed in the event scoring unbeaten 7.5/9 points. Erigaisi won the last round against GM David Anton Guijarro to emerge as the sole winner of the event. Adding 22.4 ELO to his current rating, Erigaisi leaped to third place on the Junior top 20 live rating list with the live rating of 2724.6. Replay the games here
GM Javokhir Sindarov claimed second place with 7 points, while nine players tied for the third place scoring 6.5 points, each: GM Jorden Van Foreest, GM Ray Robson, GM Nodirbek Yakubboev, GM Nihal Sarin, GM Sethuraman, FM Aditya Samant, GM Murali Karthikeyan, GM Chopra Aryan, and GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan. Scroll down for the final rankings

Final rankings – 28th Abu Dhabi Masters:
Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
1 | GM | Erigaisi Arjun | IND | 2689 | 7.5 | 0 | 46 | 42 |
2 | GM | Sindarov Javokhir | UZB | 2629 | 7 | 0 | 47 | 41 |
3 | GM | Van Foreest Jorden | NED | 2680 | 6.5 | 0 | 50 | 45 |
4 | GM | Robson Ray | USA | 2682 | 6.5 | 0 | 49 | 44 |
5 | GM | Yakubboev Nodirbek | UZB | 2620 | 6.5 | 0 | 49 | 44 |
6 | GM | Nihal Sarin | IND | 2651 | 6.5 | 0 | 46 | 42 |
7 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | IND | 2625 | 6.5 | 0 | 46 | 41 |
8 | FM | Samant Aditya S | IND | 2430 | 6.5 | 0 | 45 | 41 |
9 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | IND | 2613 | 6.5 | 0 | 45 | 40 |
10 | GM | Aryan Chopra | IND | 2627 | 6.5 | 0 | 43 | 38 |
11 | GM | Ter-Sahakyan Samvel | ARM | 2625 | 6.5 | 0 | 42 | 38 |
12 | GM | Anton Guijarro David | ESP | 2668 | 6 | 0 | 48 | 43 |
13 | GM | Tomashevsky Evgeny | RUS | 2702 | 6 | 0 | 47 | 42 |
14 | GM | Indjic Aleksandar | SRB | 2613 | 6 | 0 | 46 | 41 |
15 | GM | Arjun Kalyan | IND | 2513 | 6 | 0 | 45 | 41 |
16 | GM | Salem A.R. Saleh | UAE | 2679 | 6 | 0 | 45 | 40 |
17 | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | GER | 2644 | 6 | 0 | 45 | 40 |
18 | GM | Tabatabaei M. Amin | IRI | 2664 | 6 | 0 | 44 | 39 |
19 | GM | Adhiban B. | IND | 2598 | 6 | 0 | 42 | 38 |
20 | GM | Vokhidov Shamsiddin | UZB | 2552 | 6 | 0 | 42 | 38 |
21 | IM | Shyaamnikhil P | IND | 2465 | 6 | 0 | 41 | 37 |
22 | GM | Petrosyan Manuel | ARM | 2610 | 6 | 0 | 41 | 37 |
23 | GM | Harutyunyan Tigran K. | ARM | 2524 | 5.5 | 0 | 47 | 43 |
24 | GM | Mareco Sandro | ARG | 2657 | 5.5 | 0 | 47 | 42 |
25 | GM | Wang Hao | CHN | 2735 | 5.5 | 0 | 46 | 41 |
26 | GM | Harsha Bharathakoti | IND | 2557 | 5.5 | 0 | 46 | 41 |
27 | GM | Predke Alexandr | FID | 2692 | 5.5 | 0 | 45 | 41 |
28 | GM | Hakobyan Aram | ARM | 2612 | 5.5 | 0 | 45 | 41 |
29 | GM | Amin Bassem | EGY | 2687 | 5.5 | 0 | 44 | 40 |
30 | FM | Nazari Arad | IRI | 2389 | 5.5 | 0 | 43 | 39 |
31 | IM | Haldorsen Benjamin | NOR | 2461 | 5.5 | 0 | 43 | 39 |
32 | IM | Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh | IND | 2457 | 5.5 | 0 | 42 | 37 |
33 | GM | Muradli Mahammad | AZE | 2552 | 5.5 | 0 | 41 | 37 |
34 | IM | Viani Antonio Dcunha | IND | 2327 | 5.5 | 0 | 40 | 37 |
35 | GM | Grover Sahaj | IND | 2505 | 5.5 | 0 | 39 | 35 |
36 | IM | Aditya Mittal | IND | 2496 | 5.5 | 0 | 38 | 35 |
37 | IM | Vignesh N R | IND | 2467 | 5.5 | 0 | 38 | 35 |
38 | GM | Laxman R.R. | IND | 2381 | 5.5 | 0 | 37 | 34 |
39 | GM | Hovhannisyan Robert | ARM | 2599 | 5.5 | 0 | 37 | 33 |
40 | WGM | Yakubbaeva Nilufar | UZB | 2299 | 5.5 | 0 | 35 | 32 |
41 | GM | Sadhwani Raunak | IND | 2622 | 5 | 0 | 47 | 42 |
42 | GM | Chanda Sandipan | IND | 2458 | 5 | 0 | 46 | 41 |
43 | IM | Sukandar Irine Kharisma | INA | 2373 | 5 | 0 | 44 | 39 |
44 | IM | Nitish Belurkar | IND | 2416 | 5 | 0 | 43 | 39 |
45 | GM | Mendonca Leon Luke | IND | 2571 | 5 | 0 | 42 | 38 |
46 | CM | Soham Kamotra | IND | 2251 | 5 | 0 | 42 | 38 |
47 | FM | Madaminov Mukhiddin | UZB | 2408 | 5 | 0 | 42 | 39 |
48 | GM | Kuybokarov Temur | AUS | 2583 | 5 | 0 | 41 | 37 |
49 | IM | Ajay Krishna S | IND | 2367 | 5 | 0 | 41 | 37 |
50 | IM | Rathanvel V S | IND | 2455 | 5 | 0 | 40 | 36 |
51 | FM | De Silva L M S T | SRI | 2212 | 5 | 0 | 40 | 36 |
52 | IM | Siddharth Jagadeesh | SGP | 2426 | 5 | 0 | 39 | 36 |
53 | FM | Jubin Jimmy | IND | 2252 | 5 | 0 | 39 | 36 |
54 | IM | Poormosavi Seyed Kian | IRI | 2404 | 5 | 0 | 38 | 35 |
55 | GM | Jobava Baadur | GEO | 2585 | 5 | 0 | 38 | 34 |
56 | Panda Sambit | IND | 2346 | 5 | 0 | 38 | 34 | |
57 | FM | Mahdavi Reza | IRI | 2253 | 5 | 0 | 38 | 34 |
58 | IM | Raahul V S | IND | 2323 | 5 | 0 | 38 | 34 |
59 | Sattarov Bobir | UZB | 2450 | 5 | 0 | 36 | 33 | |
60 | FM | Musyuk Lior | ISR | 2302 | 5 | 0 | 36 | 32 |
61 | IM | Das Arghyadip | IND | 2446 | 5 | 0 | 35 | 32 |
62 | WGM | Vantika Agrawal | IND | 2371 | 5 | 0 | 35 | 32 |
63 | FM | Aradhya Garg | IND | 2240 | 5 | 0 | 34 | 31 |
64 | GM | Iniyan P | IND | 2556 | 4.5 | 0 | 45 | 40 |
65 | CM | Kushagra Mohan | IND | 2426 | 4.5 | 0 | 42 | 39 |
66 | FM | Rohith Krishna S | IND | 2358 | 4.5 | 0 | 41 | 38 |
67 | CM | Prraneeth Vuppala | IND | 2464 | 4.5 | 0 | 41 | 37 |
68 | IM | Sammed Jaykumar Shete | IND | 2381 | 4.5 | 0 | 41 | 38 |
69 | IM | Davtyan Artur | ARM | 2520 | 4.5 | 0 | 40 | 36 |
70 | FM | Wagh Suyog | IND | 2315 | 4.5 | 0 | 39 | 35 |
71 | WIM | Pujari Rucha | IND | 2229 | 4.5 | 0 | 39 | 35 |
72 | Ashraf Artin | IRI | 2289 | 4.5 | 0 | 38 | 35 | |
73 | IM | Tahbaz Arash | IRI | 2449 | 4.5 | 0 | 38 | 34 |
74 | FM | Manafov Vugar | AZE | 2330 | 4.5 | 0 | 38 | 34 |
75 | GM | Rahman Ziaur | BAN | 2427 | 4.5 | 0 | 37 | 34 |
76 | IM | Mohammad Fahad Rahman | BAN | 2401 | 4.5 | 0 | 37 | 34 |
77 | IM | Mullick Raahil | IND | 2352 | 4.5 | 0 | 37 | 33 |
78 | FM | Zia Tahsin Tajwar | BAN | 2321 | 4.5 | 0 | 36 | 34 |
79 | Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri | IND | 2210 | 4.5 | 0 | 36 | 33 | |
80 | FM | Tolentino Rustum | PHI | 2259 | 4.5 | 0 | 35 | 32 |
81 | FM | Jain Kashish Manoj | IND | 2315 | 4.5 | 0 | 35 | 32 |
82 | FM | Sharan Rao | IND | 2292 | 4.5 | 0 | 34 | 31 |
83 | Rakhmatullaev Almas | UZB | 2288 | 4.5 | 0 | 34 | 31 | |
84 | FM | Milikow Yoav | ISR | 2429 | 4.5 | 0 | 32 | 29 |
85 | IM | Dushyant Sharma | IND | 2406 | 4.5 | 0 | 32 | 29 |
86 | FM | Ayush Sharma | IND | 2158 | 4.5 | 0 | 30 | 27 |
87 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2631 | 4 | 0 | 41 | 36 |
88 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | IND | 2319 | 4 | 0 | 40 | 37 |
89 | FM | Abdilkhair Abilmansur | KAZ | 2205 | 4 | 0 | 39 | 35 |
90 | IM | Aziz Husain | QAT | 2377 | 4 | 0 | 39 | 35 |
91 | IM | Avinash Ramesh | IND | 2322 | 4 | 0 | 38 | 35 |
92 | FM | Ranaldi Lucas | NOR | 2339 | 4 | 0 | 38 | 35 |
93 | GM | Sengupta Deep | IND | 2520 | 4 | 0 | 38 | 35 |
94 | GM | Vishnu Prasanna. V | IND | 2432 | 4 | 0 | 38 | 35 |
95 | IM | Rosen Eric | USA | 2360 | 4 | 0 | 37 | 34 |
96 | GM | Zanan Evgeny | ISR | 2510 | 4 | 0 | 36 | 33 |
97 | FM | Atakishiyev Elmar | AZE | 2271 | 4 | 0 | 36 | 33 |
98 | Laddha Shubh Jayesh | USA | 2262 | 4 | 0 | 36 | 33 | |
99 | FM | Talibov Shiroghlan | AZE | 2351 | 4 | 0 | 35 | 32 |
100 | IM | Manish Anto Cristiano F | IND | 2215 | 4 | 0 | 35 | 32 |
101 | FM | Risting Eivind Olav | NOR | 2325 | 4 | 0 | 35 | 32 |
102 | IM | Vetokhin Savva | RUS | 2371 | 4 | 0 | 35 | 32 |
103 | Ritviz Parab | IND | 2299 | 4 | 0 | 34 | 31 | |
104 | Vaibhav Jayant Raut | IND | 2217 | 4 | 0 | 34 | 31 | |
105 | FM | Mahitosh Dey | IND | 2220 | 4 | 0 | 32 | 29 |
106 | Aditya Varun Gampa | IND | 2127 | 4 | 0 | 31 | 28 | |
107 | WIM | Sharma Isha | IND | 2325 | 4 | 0 | 28 | 27 |
108 | FM | Vatsal Singhania | IND | 2289 | 4 | 0 | 27 | 25 |
109 | GM | Gagare Shardul | IND | 2521 | 3.5 | 0 | 37 | 34 |
110 | Sanket Chakravarty | IND | 2275 | 3.5 | 0 | 36 | 33 | |
111 | FM | Ibadov Dashgyn | FID | 2317 | 3.5 | 0 | 36 | 33 |
112 | FM | Pavlov Mark | RUS | 2341 | 3.5 | 0 | 35 | 32 |
113 | IM | Song Julien | FRA | 2384 | 3.5 | 0 | 35 | 32 |
114 | WIM | Chitlange Sakshi | IND | 2263 | 3.5 | 0 | 35 | 31 |
115 | FM | Mustafayev Farid | AZE | 2294 | 3.5 | 0 | 34 | 32 |
116 | IM | Lavrov Maxim | RUS | 2405 | 3.5 | 0 | 34 | 31 |
117 | FM | Karthik Rajaa | IND | 2327 | 3.5 | 0 | 33 | 31 |
118 | IM | Saeed Ishaq | UAE | 2366 | 3.5 | 0 | 33 | 30 |
119 | Panjer Sidney | GER | 2213 | 3.5 | 0 | 32 | 29 | |
120 | WGM | Stojanovic Andjelija | SRB | 2287 | 3.5 | 0 | 30 | 27 |
121 | FM | Tanmay Chopra | IND | 2337 | 3 | 0 | 40 | 36 |
122 | CM | Mamedov Edgar | KAZ | 2358 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 34 |
123 | FM | Zujev Oleg | LTU | 2305 | 3 | 0 | 37 | 34 |
124 | WGM | Tsatsalashvili Keti | GEO | 2319 | 3 | 0 | 36 | 33 |
125 | FM | Ram Aravind L N | IND | 2298 | 3 | 0 | 35 | 31 |
126 | IM | Al Hosani Omran | UAE | 2293 | 3 | 0 | 34 | 31 |
127 | FM | Mehdi Hasan Parag | BAN | 2211 | 3 | 0 | 33 | 30 |
128 | Gandhi Anish | IND | 2228 | 3 | 0 | 33 | 30 | |
129 | FM | Osunfuyi Abimbola | NGR | 2245 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 30 |
130 | IM | Okeke Isaac Chukwudalu | NGR | 2185 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 30 |
131 | Ojas Kulkarni | IND | 2254 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 29 | |
132 | IM | Vardaan Nagpal | IND | 2346 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 29 |
133 | FM | Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan | SRI | 2286 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 29 |
134 | WGM | Nandhidhaa P V | IND | 2312 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 28 |
135 | CM | Aaditya Dhingra | IND | 2214 | 2.5 | 0 | 34 | 32 |
136 | Abdulrahman Mohammad Al Taher | UAE | 2053 | 2.5 | 0 | 29 | 26 | |
137 | Hamad Bader | UAE | 2029 | 2.5 | 0 | 26 | 24 | |
138 | IM | Pranesh M | IND | 2404 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 32 |
139 | IM | Karavade Eesha | IND | 2339 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 29 |
140 | AGM | Vishal Choudary B | IND | 2077 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 28 |
141 | WFM | Ricken Katharina | NED | 2157 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 27 |
142 | Aniruddh Chatterjee | IND | 2174 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 27 | |
143 | WFM | Yash Jyoti Bir | IND | 2191 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 25 |
144 | WGM | Suleimanova Ava | UKR | 2183 | 1.5 | 0 | 28 | 26 |
145 | FM | Phadke Sohan | IND | 2193 | 1.5 | 0 | 28 | 25 |
146 | IM | Neelash Saha | IND | 2474 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 29 |
147 | IM | Srihari L R | IND | 2436 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 28 |
148 | Abdullayev Elshad | AZE | 2223 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 22 |
