The Open Iraq Championship was held from 14-19 March 2018 in Baghdad.
62 players took part in the tournament.
Before the last round sole leader was GM Azer Mirzoev with 6,5 points. He met Gagunashvili with white and lost.
So after 9 rounds two played had 7 points. The winner is GM Merab Gagunashvili with better tie-break from the second Malek Koniahli.
Six players made 6,5 points, third is GM Konstantin Tarlev .
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full standings 6th Open Iraq Championship
1 Gagunashvili Merab 7
2 Koniahli Malek 7
3 Tarlev Konstantin 6,5
4 Khodashenas Mersad 6,5
5 Mirzoev Azer 6,5
6 Karpatchev Aleksandr 6,5
7 Al-Saffar Araz Basim Mohammed S 6,5
8 Gholami Aryan 6,5
9 Malakhatko Vadim 6
10 Abdulwahhab Ahmed Abdulsattar A 6
11 Poormosavi Seyed Kian 6
12 Noah A .H. Al-Ali 6
13 Alzaim Talal 5,5
14 Zaibi Amir 5,5
15 Al-Ali Hussein Ali Hussein 5,5
16 Salih Akar Ali Salih 5,5
17 Sadek Sameh 5,5
18 Gharagyozyan Artur 5
19 Mohammed Zozek Salah Mohammed 5
20 Taleb Salem Hatam 5
21 Aram Adam 5
22 Lim Zhuo Ren 5
23 Kadhim Mahmood Najeeb 5
24 Taslimi Borsa 5
25 Novikova Margarita 5
26 Moazaz Dhahir Habeeb 5
27 Adil Ali Jalal 5
28 Ahmed Jaza Jamal 5
29 Bayarmaa Bayarjargal 4,5
30 Firas Qassim Abbas 4,5
31 Ismael Namir Mohammed Ismael 4,5
32 Rawand Hamid Abdullah 4,5
33 Hajiyev Shahin 4,5
34 Mohammed Ali Mahdial-Kinani 4,5
35 Mahdavi Reza 4
36 Ameer Dhafer Abdulameer 4
37 Rebaz Nasir Jamal 4
38 Al-Fayyadh Yamama Asif Abdula 4
39 Al-Turaihi Dhari Satea Saeed 4
40 Slami Zoheir 4
41 Hafez Bakr 4
42 Mohammed Ali Adnan 4
43 Nasser Hussein Alwan 4
44 Al-Fayyadh Zainab Asif Abdulah 4
45 Majad Hamid Mozan 4
46 Rabeea Sabah Nori 3,5
47 Hasan Abd Al Jabbar 3,5
48 Jalaluldeen Kareen Kamal J. 3,5
49 Nabaa Sami Abbas 3,5
50 Ali Adnan Younus 3,5
51 A-Ali Sali Abbas Abdulzahra 3,5
52 Nawar Ahmed Mahmood 3,5
53 Al-Ghasra Osama 3,5
54 Obeid Raghad 3
55 Mohammed A. E. Orouq 3
56 Jouni Hassan 3
57 Haitham Ali Namoos 2,5
58 Adhim Hameed Jabar 2,5
59 Younis Ali Hussein 2
60 Mustafa Hamid Jaafar Mafrachi 2
61 Kasib Abdul A.Humadi 1,5
62 Saba Jamal Mohammed 1
