The 22nd edition of the Dubai Chess Open kicks off tomorrow at the Dubai Chess & Culture Club and will be played from 27 August – 5 September. The tournament will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with time control 90 minutes for the whole game + 30 seconds of increment per each move, starting from the move one. More than 180 players from 35 countries will fight for the total prize fund of 50.000$, including 35 grandmasters, 32 international masters, 3 women grandmasters, 3 women international masters and the total of 110 titled players. The Winner of the event will pocket a money prize of 13.000$. Dubai Chess Open 2022 all information
The top seeds are: GM Alexandr Predke, GM Arjun Erigaisi, GM Amin Tabatabaei, GM Praggnanandhaa, GM Sandro Mareco, GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, GM Abhijeet Gupta, GM Sethuraman, GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan etc. Scroll down for starting rank list of players

Starting rank list of players – 22nd Dubai Chess Open 2022:
Rk
Name
FED
Rtg
1
GM
Predke Alexandr
FID
2692
2
GM
Erigaisi Arjun
IND
2689
3
GM
Tabatabaei M. Amin
IRI
2664
4
GM
Praggnanandhaa R
IND
2661
5
GM
Mareco Sandro
ARG
2657
6
GM
Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter
GER
2644
7
GM
Gupta Abhijeet
IND
2631
8
GM
Sethuraman S.P.
IND
2625
9
GM
Ter-Sahakyan Samvel
ARM
2625
10
GM
Sadhwani Raunak
IND
2622
11
GM
Akopian Vladimir
USA
2616
12
GM
Jumabayev Rinat
KAZ
2615
13
GM
Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.
IND
2614
14
GM
Indjic Aleksandar
SRB
2613
15
GM
Hakobyan Aram
ARM
2612
16
GM
Adhiban B.
IND
2598
17
GM
Kuybokarov Temur
AUS
2583
18
GM
Adly Ahmed
EGY
2582
19
GM
Mendonca Leon Luke
IND
2571
20
GM
Harsha Bharathakoti
IND
2557
21
GM
Iniyan P
IND
2556
22
GM
Muradli Mahammad
AZE
2552
23
GM
Vokhidov Shamsiddin
UZB
2552
24
GM
Suleymanli Aydin
AZE
2547
25
GM
Gagare Shardul
IND
2521
26
GM
Arjun Kalyan
IND
2513
27
GM
Grover Sahaj
IND
2505
28
IM
Aditya Mittal
IND
2496
29
GM
Raja Rithvik R
IND
2491
30
GM
Bharath Subramaniyam H
IND
2490
31
GM
Venkatesh M.R.
IND
2481
32
IM
Vignesh N R
IND
2467
33
IM
Shyaamnikhil P
IND
2465
34
CM
Prraneeth Vuppala
IND
2464
35
IM
Haldorsen Benjamin
NOR
2461
36
GM
Chanda Sandipan
IND
2458
37
IM
Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh
IND
2457
38
IM
Rathanvel V S
IND
2455
39
IM
Tahbaz Arash
IRI
2449
40
IM
Das Arghyadip
IND
2446
41
IM
Dimakiling Oliver
PHI
2442
42
IM
Nigmatov Ortik
UZB
2437
43
IM
Srihari L R
IND
2436
44
GM
Vishnu Prasanna. V
IND
2432
45
GM
Thejkumar M. S.
IND
2430
46
FM
Samant Aditya S
IND
2430
47
FM
Milikow Yoav
ISR
2429
48
GM
Rahman Ziaur
BAN
2427
49
IM
Siddharth Jagadeesh
SGP
2426
50
CM
Kushagra Mohan
IND
2426
51
IM
Al Qudaimi Basheer
YEM
2424
52
IM
Nitish Belurkar
IND
2416
53
FM
Madaminov Mukhiddin
UZB
2408
54
IM
Dushyant Sharma
IND
2406
55
FM
Poormosavi Seyed Kian
IRI
2404
56
IM
Mohammad Fahad Rahman
BAN
2401
57
IM
Shahil Dey
IND
2395
58
IM
Padmini Rout
IND
2391
59
FM
Nazari Arad
IRI
2389
60
IM
Song Julien
FRA
2384
61
WIM
Kamalidenova Meruert
KAZ
2384
62
GM
Laxman R.R.
IND
2381
63
IM
Sammed Jaykumar Shete
IND
2381
64
IM
Aziz Husain
QAT
2377
65
WGM
Vantika Agrawal
IND
2371
66
IM
Ajay Krishna S
IND
2367
67
IM
Saeed Ishaq
UAE
2366
68
IM
Tissir Mohamed
MAR
2366
69
FM
Rohith Krishna S
IND
2358
70
IM
Mullick Raahil
IND
2352
71
Panda Sambit
IND
2346
72
FM
Pavlov Mark
RUS
2341
73
FM
Tanmay Chopra
IND
2337
74
IM
Viani Antonio Dcunha
IND
2327
75
FM
Karthik Rajaa
IND
2327
76
WIM
Sharma Isha
IND
2325
77
IM
Raahul V S
IND
2323
78
IM
Avinash Ramesh
IND
2322
79
FM
Zia Tahsin Tajwar
BAN
2321
80
WGM
Divya Deshmukh
IND
2319
81
FM
Jain Kashish Manoj
IND
2315
82
FM
Wagh Suyog
IND
2315
83
WGM
Nandhidhaa P V
IND
2312
84
FM
Zujev Oleg
LTU
2305
85
Ritviz Parab
IND
2299
86
FM
Ram Aravind L N
IND
2298
87
IM
Al Hosani Omran
UAE
2293
88
FM
Sharan Rao
IND
2292
89
Ashraf Artin
IRI
2289
90
Rakhmatullaev Almas
UZB
2288
91
FM
Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan
SRI
2286
92
Sanket Chakravarty
IND
2275
93
Laddha Shubh Jayesh
USA
2262
94
FM
Tolentino Rustum
PHI
2259
95
Ojas Kulkarni
IND
2254
96
FM
Mahdavi Reza
IRI
2253
97
Veisi Bardia
IRI
2246
98
FM
Aradhya Garg
IND
2240
99
Gandhi Anish
IND
2228
100
IM
Sai Agni Jeevitesh J
IND
2226
101
FM
Mahitosh Dey
IND
2220
102
Vaibhav Jayant Raut
IND
2217
103
IM
Manish Anto Cristiano F
IND
2215
104
CM
Aaditya Dhingra
IND
2214
105
FM
De Silva L M S T
SRI
2212
106
FM
Mehdi Hasan Parag
BAN
2211
107
Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri
IND
2210
108
Shoshin Kirill
RUS
2205
109
FM
Rahman Md. Taibur
BAN
2202
110
FM
Salem Ghuloom
UAE
2195
111
Prasannaa.S
IND
2185
112
Aniruddh Chatterjee
IND
2174
113
Suyarov Mukhammadzokhid
UZB
2169
114
FM
Ayush Sharma
IND
2158
115
Arhan Chethan Anand
IND
2155
116
FM
Louis Thibault
FRA
2151
117
FM
Harshal Shahi
IND
2136
118
Aditya Varun Gampa
IND
2127
119
Shaik Sumer Arsh
IND
2123
120
IM
Sultan Ibrahim
UAE
2108
121
Devnani Kush
IND
2095
122
Sharon Rafael
IND
2095
123
FM
Unwana Eugene Ekpoikong
NGR
2086
124
Raghav Srivathsav V
IND
2084
125
Abhyudaya Rajpurohit
IND
2078
126
Eyenghe Sunny
NGR
2078
127
AGM
Vishal Choudary B
IND
2077
128
AIM
Md Imran
IND
2063
129
Salem Ahmed Salem
UAE
2056
130
Abdulrahman Mohammad Al Taher
UAE
2053
131
WIM
Priyanka K
IND
2052
132
Kuziev Miraziz
UZB
2036
133
CM
Mohamed Saeed Laily
UAE
2030
134
Hamad Bader
UAE
2029
135
Manmay Chopra
IND
2027
136
Raji Sayel Abu Azizah
PLE
2014
137
Laddha Yash Jayesh
USA
2002
138
Mustafayev Nihad
AZE
1982
139
CM
Khalifah Khaled
UAE
1968
140
Sabirova Shakhnoza
UZB
1957
141
Mahmoud Haitham
SUD
1953
142
FM
Al Maashani Amer
OMA
1947
143
Rohit S
IND
1937
144
Aborezika Mohamed
LBA
1935
145
Ali Abdulaziz
UAE
1930
146
Mokhtari Moghadam Taha
IRI
1929
147
FM
Ahmed Fareed
UAE
1920
148
Aarav Sinha
IND
1909
149
FM
Elmejbri Ali A.
LBA
1891
150
Ashutosh Kumar
IND
1888
151
Ishvi Aggarwal
IND
1854
152
Eman Sawan
PLE
1847
153
Liashkevich Lizaveta
BLR
1842
154
Faisal Ali
UAE
1836
155
Zayed Sultan Al Taher
UAE
1827
156
Abid Ali Mujawar
IND
1824
157
Abdulrahim Salem
UAE
1811
158
Al Ansi Amin
OMA
1806
159
Kumthekar Shubham
IND
1800
160
Ahmad Al Romaithi
UAE
1799
161
Joel Paul Ganta
IND
1785
162
Sadbhav Rautela
IND
1775
163
Khalifa Essa Albalooshi
UAE
1749
164
Alhejab Meshal
KUW
1732
165
Muratova Anel
KAZ
1655
166
Alsaiti Mohamed Abdalgader
LBA
1609
167
Kewalramani Abhir
FID
1598
168
Rami Talab
SYR
1585
169
WCM
Bashaer Khalil
UAE
1566
170
Yasmin Ali
UAE
1490
171
Al Namas Kanan
JOR
1466
172
Noman Shaima
UAE
1445
173
Darsith Manoj Nair
IND
1437
174
Abdulla Mahmood Abdulla Mohammad
UAE
1390
175
Khalil Reem
UAE
1390
176
Yahya Shuaib Al Kaff
UAE
1389
177
Arnab Jena
IND
1387
178
Mohammad Abdulrahman Alawadhi
UAE
1374
179
Ahlam Rashed
UAE
1372
180
Al-Blooshi Hamad Essa
UAE
1272
181
Ahmed Waqqas Alawlaqi
UAE
1250
