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🏆 Dubai Open (2008)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Wesley So, Chao Li, Yuriy Kuzubov, Eltaj Safarli, Igors Rausis, A R Saleh Salem, Parimarjan Negi, Gadir Guseinov, Abhijeet Gupta, Weiqi Zhou, Ahmed Adly, Vasif Durarbayli, Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, Levan Pantsulaia, Yuri Drozdovskij, Merab Gagunashvili, Tamaz Gelashvili, Julio Catalino Sadorra, Evgeny Gleizerov, Pavel Kotsur, David Arutinian, Tigran Kotanjian, Valeriy Neverov, Rasul Ibrahimov, Anuar Ismagambetov, Ulvi Bajarani, Srinath Narayanan, Sarhan Guliev, Sahaj Grover, Debashis Das, Nurlan Ibraev, Jayaram Ashwin, Evgenij Kalegin, Fouad El Taher, Mohamed Tissir, Ramachandran Ramesh, Rajaram R Laxman, Sami Khader, Logman Guliev, Tania Sachdev, Ishaq Saeed, Viani D'cunha Antonio, Ramnath Bhuvanesh, Lanka Ravi, Ali Farahat, C Praveen Kumar, Nisha Mohota, Omid Noroozi, S Hamed Moosavian, Li Wang, Dinesh Sharma, Xibin Wu, Khosla Shiven, Amohammad M Soozankar, Mikhail Nedochetov, Abdul Hameed El Arousy, Mariya Sergeyeva, Atousa Pourkashiyan, A Moussa Othman, Ilgar Bajarani, Amin Nasri, Hassan Abdullah, Hafizulhelmi Mas, Jasem Al-Huwar, Farhan Mohannad, Abdo Somoff, Aarthie Ramaswamy, C J Arvind, Antonio Molina, Sohan Phadke, Pouyan Doostkam, Karolina Smokina, C Natarajan, E Momeni, Pouya Mari Ooriad, Stefan Schmid, Jilin Zhang, Shayesteh Ghader Pour, Jobannie C Tabada, Elena Partac, Hossein Mohamed, Kumar T J Suresh, Sai Meera, Paul A G Dargan, Mohamed Saud, Mohamed Darwish, Sabri M Al Mohayri, Navid Chaichi Mellatshahi, Mohota Swati, Chris B Rice, Ehsan Nikzaban, Husein Mroweh, Obay Ali, Abdulwahab Marwan, Charles Kayle, P I Johny, Khalil Al-Housa, Noorullah Omar, Ahmad Al-Sulaiti, SeyedMohammad SadatNajafi

 page 1 of 10; games 1-25 of 249  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. G Guseinov vs C Natarajan 1-0192008Dubai OpenC00 French Defense
2. K Smokina vs T Gelashvili 0-1842008Dubai OpenE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
3. L Pantsulaia vs U Bajarani  1-0342008Dubai OpenA09 Reti Opening
4. S Meera vs E Ghaem Maghami 0-1212008Dubai OpenB93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4
5. Kuzubov vs H Mohamed 1-0222008Dubai OpenA67 Benoni, Taimanov Variation
6. A M Soozankar vs D Arutinian  ½-½142008Dubai OpenB32 Sicilian
7. Y Drozdovskij vs S Narayanan  1-0202008Dubai OpenE61 King's Indian
8. S Schmid vs C Li  0-1302008Dubai OpenD78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6
9. A Adly vs R Bhuvanesh  1-0442008Dubai OpenA48 King's Indian
10. S M Al Mohayri vs T Kotanjian  0-1552008Dubai OpenB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
11. P Kotsur vs K T Suresh 1-0432008Dubai OpenB55 Sicilian, Prins Variation, Venice Attack
12. P Doostkam vs V Neverov  0-1232008Dubai OpenA21 English
13. W Zhou vs S Ghader Pour  1-0452008Dubai OpenE50 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Nf3, without ...d5
14. I Saeed vs Gleizerov  ½-½382008Dubai OpenA90 Dutch
15. M Gagunashvili vs P Mari Ooriad 0-1272008Dubai OpenD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
16. A Al-Sulaiti vs So 0-1232008Dubai OpenB30 Sicilian
17. R Ibrahimov vs M Saud  1-0322008Dubai OpenA15 English
18. M Darwish vs E Safarli  ½-½482008Dubai OpenB97 Sicilian, Najdorf
19. A Molina vs Negi  0-1332008Dubai OpenD97 Grunfeld, Russian
20. I Rausis vs N Chaichi Mellatshahi  1-0452008Dubai OpenA14 English
21. E Partac vs E Kalegin  ½-½332008Dubai OpenB23 Sicilian, Closed
22. R R Laxman vs M Swati 1-0162008Dubai OpenD10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
23. C Rice vs S Guliev  0-1262008Dubai OpenA10 English
24. F El Taher vs A Marwan  ½-½252008Dubai OpenB41 Sicilian, Kan
25. H Mroweh vs R Ramesh  0-1342008Dubai OpenA46 Queen's Pawn Game
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Kibitzer's Corner
Apr-16-08  kasp: Congratulations to Wesley So.
Apr-16-08  BOYETSANTOS: Congrats Wesley So for winning 2008 Dubai Open! You make Filipino proud.
Apr-16-08  sallom89: i wonder what was Ahmed adly score, and grats to Wesley.
Apr-17-08  safar: Ahmed Adly scored 6/9, an excellent score!
Apr-17-08  sallom89: ouch! thats close, the guy plays awesome chess i just hope he does better in his coming tournament.

thanks for providing the information.

Apr-17-08  s4life: Neverov got 7.5/9 shouldn't he have won this thing?
Apr-17-08  unsound: Neverov scored 6.5/9. His game against Salem is marked as a win in this database--but a glance at the final position will tell you he lost: A R Salem vs V Neverov, 2008
May-05-08  rjsolcruz: I wonder how many GM scalps did GM Wesley got in this event?
May-06-08  BOYETSANTOS: Congrats again to Philippine youngest grandmaster Wesley So for winning the Battle of GMs.
Mar-13-17  iking: 9 years ago, Even Wesley so could only wish what he got today .... 2822 Elo rating and #2 in the world.

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