The 22nd edition of the Dubai Chess Open is currently ongoing at the Dubai Chess & Culture Club and eight rounds have been already played. More than 180 players from 35 countries fight for the total prize fund of 50.000$, and with only one round to go, Indian grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram emerged as the sole leader of the event.
Chithambaram scores impressive 7/8 points and he is followed by Alexandr Predke and Praggnanandhaa who tie for the second place with 6.5 points, each. Aravindh Chithambaram will take white pieces against Pragg in the last round, while GM Alexandr Predke meets GM Ahmed Adly. Scroll down for the R9 pairings and rankings after eight rounds
Dubai Chess Open 2022 – LIVE games

Rankings after 8 played rounds – Dubai Chess Open 2022:
Rk.
Name
FED
Rtg
Pts.
TB1
TB2
TB3
1
GM
Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.
IND
2614
7
0
34
28
2
GM
Predke Alexandr
FID
2692
6.5
0.5
39
33
3
GM
Praggnanandhaa R
IND
2661
6.5
0.5
37
31
4
GM
Erigaisi Arjun
IND
2689
6
0
40
33
5
GM
Hakobyan Aram
ARM
2612
6
0
39
32
6
GM
Gupta Abhijeet
IND
2631
6
0
38
32
7
GM
Indjic Aleksandar
SRB
2613
6
0
37
31
8
FM
Poormosavi Seyed Kian
IRI
2404
6
0
37
30
9
GM
Harsha Bharathakoti
IND
2557
6
0
35
29
10
IM
Sammed Jaykumar Shete
IND
2381
6
0
34
28
11
GM
Sethuraman S.P.
IND
2625
6
0
34
28
12
GM
Adly Ahmed
EGY
2582
6
0
33
27
13
GM
Chanda Sandipan
IND
2458
6
0
32
26
14
IM
Das Arghyadip
IND
2446
6
0
31
25
15
GM
Tabatabaei M. Amin
IRI
2664
5.5
0
37
31
16
GM
Sadhwani Raunak
IND
2622
5.5
0
36
30
17
GM
Muradli Mahammad
AZE
2552
5.5
0
35
29
18
GM
Ter-Sahakyan Samvel
ARM
2625
5.5
0
34
28
19
FM
Ayush Sharma
IND
2158
5.5
0
34
28
20
GM
Rahman Ziaur
BAN
2427
5.5
0
34
28
21
Sanket Chakravarty
IND
2275
5.5
0
34
28
22
IM
Vignesh N R
IND
2467
5.5
0
34
27
23
GM
Arjun Kalyan
IND
2513
5.5
0
32
26
24
IM
Aditya Mittal
IND
2496
5.5
0
31
26
25
WGM
Divya Deshmukh
IND
2319
5.5
0
30
25
26
IM
Siddharth Jagadeesh
SGP
2426
5.5
0
30
24
27
GM
Jumabayev Rinat
KAZ
2615
5
0
41
34
28
GM
Akopian Vladimir
USA
2616
5
0
40
34
29
IM
Nigmatov Ortik
UZB
2437
5
0
38
31
30
IM
Shyaamnikhil P
IND
2465
5
0
37
31
31
IM
Nitish Belurkar
IND
2416
5
0
37
31
32
FM
Samant Aditya S
IND
2430
5
0
36
30
33
GM
Grover Sahaj
IND
2505
5
0
36
30
34
GM
Iniyan P
IND
2556
5
0
35
29
35
GM
Raja Rithvik R
IND
2491
5
0
35
29
36
GM
Gagare Shardul
IND
2521
5
0
35
28
37
GM
Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter
GER
2644
5
0
34
29
38
IM
Rathanvel V S
IND
2455
5
0
34
28
39
GM
Thejkumar M. S.
IND
2430
5
0
34
28
40
Suyarov Mukhammadzokhid
UZB
2169
5
0
33
27
41
FM
Nazari Arad
IRI
2389
5
0
32
25
42
WGM
Vantika Agrawal
IND
2371
5
0
31
26
43
Panda Sambit
IND
2346
5
0
31
25
44
FM
De Silva L M S T
SRI
2212
5
0
30
25
45
IM
Mullick Raahil
IND
2352
5
0
30
25
46
IM
Ajay Krishna S
IND
2367
5
0
30
24
47
Ashraf Artin
IRI
2289
5
0
29
24
48
GM
Laxman R.R.
IND
2381
5
0
27
22
49
FM
Mahdavi Reza
IRI
2253
4.5
0
36
29
50
FM
Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan
SRI
2286
4.5
0
35
29
51
Ritviz Parab
IND
2299
4.5
0
35
29
52
FM
Wagh Suyog
IND
2315
4.5
0
35
29
53
IM
Srihari L R
IND
2436
4.5
0
35
29
54
FM
Madaminov Mukhiddin
UZB
2408
4.5
0
34
29
55
Laddha Shubh Jayesh
USA
2262
4.5
0
34
27
56
GM
Suleymanli Aydin
AZE
2547
4.5
0
32
26
57
Raghav Srivathsav V
IND
2084
4.5
0
31
25
58
IM
Mohammad Fahad Rahman
BAN
2401
4.5
0
31
25
59
WIM
Kamalidenova Meruert
KAZ
2384
4.5
0
31
25
60
IM
Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh
IND
2457
4.5
0
30
25
61
CM
Kushagra Mohan
IND
2426
4.5
0
30
25
62
IM
Al Qudaimi Basheer
YEM
2424
4.5
0
30
24
63
Shaik Sumer Arsh
IND
2123
4.5
0
30
25
64
CM
Prraneeth Vuppala
IND
2464
4.5
0
30
24
65
IM
Manish Anto Cristiano F
IND
2215
4.5
0
30
24
66
FM
Rohith Krishna S
IND
2358
4.5
0
30
24
67
FM
Karthik Rajaa
IND
2327
4.5
0
30
24
68
Rakhmatullaev Almas
UZB
2288
4.5
0
30
24
69
IM
Avinash Ramesh
IND
2322
4.5
0
29
24
70
IM
Haldorsen Benjamin
NOR
2461
4.5
0
28
24
71
Joel Paul Ganta
IND
1785
4.5
0
26
21
72
Vaibhav Jayant Raut
IND
2217
4
0
37
30
73
IM
Viani Antonio Dcunha
IND
2327
4
0
36
29
74
IM
Song Julien
FRA
2384
4
0
35
29
75
FM
Sharan Rao
IND
2292
4
0
35
29
76
IM
Raahul V S
IND
2323
4
0
34
28
77
FM
Ram Aravind L N
IND
2298
4
0
34
28
78
WIM
Priyanka K
IND
2052
4
0
33
27
79
FM
Tanmay Chopra
IND
2337
4
0
33
27
80
IM
Tissir Mohamed
MAR
2366
4
0
32
26
81
GM
Mareco Sandro
ARG
2657
4
0
32
26
82
IM
Dimakiling Oliver
PHI
2442
4
0
31
25
83
Rohit S
IND
1937
4
0
31
26
84
FM
Aradhya Garg
IND
2240
4
0
31
26
85
IM
Al Hosani Omran
UAE
2293
4
0
31
25
86
FM
Zujev Oleg
LTU
2305
4
0
31
25
87
CM
Aaditya Dhingra
IND
2214
4
0
29
24
88
FM
Harshal Shahi
IND
2136
4
0
29
24
89
GM
Kuybokarov Temur
AUS
2583
4
0
28
23
90
Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri
IND
2210
4
0
28
22
91
Devnani Kush
IND
2095
4
0
28
23
92
Ojas Kulkarni
IND
2254
4
0
27
22
93
Gandhi Anish
IND
2228
4
0
27
21
94
Shoshin Kirill
RUS
2205
4
0
27
21
95
Aniruddh Chatterjee
IND
2174
4
0
27
22
96
Alhejab Meshal
KUW
1732
4
0
26
22
97
IM
Saeed Ishaq
UAE
2366
4
0
25
19
98
Ashutosh Kumar
IND
1888
4
0
24
20
99
FM
Ahmed Fareed
UAE
1920
4
0
24
20
100
IM
Tahbaz Arash
IRI
2449
3.5
0
34
28
101
FM
Jain Kashish Manoj
IND
2315
3.5
0
33
27
102
Prasannaa.S
IND
2185
3.5
0
32
26
103
IM
Dushyant Sharma
IND
2406
3.5
0
32
25
104
FM
Mehdi Hasan Parag
BAN
2211
3.5
0
31
24
105
Ahmad Al Romaithi
UAE
1799
3.5
0
30
25
106
FM
Al Maashani Amer
OMA
1947
3.5
0
30
25
107
IM
Aziz Husain
QAT
2377
3.5
0
30
23
108
Rami Talab
SYR
1585
3.5
0
28
22
109
Raji Sayel Abu Azizah
PLE
2014
3.5
0
28
22
110
Ishvi Aggarwal
IND
1854
3.5
0
26
22
111
Liashkevich Lizaveta
BLR
1842
3.5
0
26
20
112
Ali Abdulaziz
UAE
1930
3.5
0
25
20
113
Al Ansi Amin
OMA
1806
3.5
0
25
20
114
Mustafayev Nihad
AZE
1982
3.5
0
22
18
115
Aditya Varun Gampa
IND
2127
3
0
33
28
116
Sharon Rafael
IND
2095
3
0
30
25
117
Mokhtari Moghadam Taha
IRI
1929
3
0
30
24
118
FM
Louis Thibault
FRA
2151
3
0
30
25
119
AIM
Md Imran
IND
2063
3
0
30
24
120
Kuziev Miraziz
UZB
2036
3
0
30
24
121
FM
Zia Tahsin Tajwar
BAN
2321
3
0
29
23
122
Salem Ahmed Salem
UAE
2056
3
0
27
22
123
Sabirova Shakhnoza
UZB
1957
3
0
27
22
124
Manmay Chopra
IND
2027
3
0
26
22
125
Aarav Sinha
IND
1909
3
0
26
21
126
FM
Rahman Md. Taibur
BAN
2202
3
0
25
21
127
Eman Sawan
PLE
1847
3
0
25
20
128
Zayed Sultan Al Taher
UAE
1827
3
0
24
19
129
Eyenghe Sunny
NGR
2078
3
0
24
19
130
Laddha Yash Jayesh
USA
2002
3
0
24
19
131
Sadbhav Rautela
IND
1775
3
0
23
17
132
Kumthekar Shubham
IND
1800
3
0
22
17
133
Arnab Jena
IND
1387
3
0
21
17
134
AGM
Vishal Choudary B
IND
2077
2.5
0
29
23
135
Hamad Bader
UAE
2029
2.5
0
29
24
136
Abhyudaya Rajpurohit
IND
2078
2.5
0
28
23
137
IM
Sultan Ibrahim
UAE
2108
2.5
0
28
22
138
FM
Pavlov Mark
RUS
2341
2.5
0
27
22
139
Abid Ali Mujawar
IND
1824
2.5
0
26
21
140
WIM
Sharma Isha
IND
2325
2.5
0
26
21
141
Mohammad Abdulrahman Alawadhi
UAE
1374
2.5
0
26
21
142
Al Namas Kanan
JOR
1466
2.5
0
25
20
143
Ahmed Waqqas Alawlaqi
UAE
1250
2.5
0
24
18
144
Al Zaabi Talal
UAE
1546
2.5
0
22
18
145
Faisal Ali
UAE
1836
2.5
0
20
17
146
Darsith Manoj Nair
IND
1437
2.5
0
17
13
147
Anood Ahmad
UAE
1246
2
0
26
21
148
FM
Salem Ghuloom
UAE
2195
2
0
26
20
149
WCM
Bashaer Khalil
UAE
1566
2
0
25
21
150
Abdulrahim Salem
UAE
1811
2
0
23
19
151
FM
Milikow Yoav
ISR
2429
1.5
0
29
24
152
Khalifa Essa Albalooshi
UAE
1749
1.5
0
27
22
153
Dehghan Ibrahim
FID
1542
1.5
0
27
22
154
Al-Blooshi Hamad Essa
UAE
1272
1.5
0
25
20
155
Yahya Shuaib Al Kaff
UAE
1389
1.5
0
23
19
156
Khalil Reem
UAE
1390
1.5
0
20
16
157
Kewalramani Abhir
FID
1598
1.5
0
20
16
158
Ahlam Rashed
UAE
1372
1.5
0
20
15
159
Abdel Wahab Ahmed Alaa El Din
EGY
1424
0.5
0
28
24
160
FM
Tolentino Rustum
PHI
2259
0
0
30
24
FM
Mahitosh Dey
IND
2220
0
0
30
24
162
GM
Vokhidov Shamsiddin
UZB
2552
0
0
30
24
CM
Khalifah Khaled
UAE
1968
0
0
30
24
164
Mahmoud Haitham
SUD
1953
0
0
29
25
165
FM
Elmejbri Ali A.
LBA
1891
0
0
29
24
166
Aborezika Mohamed
LBA
1935
0
0
29
24
Alsaiti Mohamed Abdalgader
LBA
1609
0
0
29
24
168
IM
Padmini Rout
IND
2391
0
0
28
24
Veisi Bardia
IRI
2246
0
0
28
24
CM
Mohamed Saeed Laily
UAE
2030
0
0
28
24
Abdulla Mahmood Abdulla Mohammad
UAE
1390
0
0
28
24
172
Yasmin Ali
UAE
1490
0
0
27
23
.
Round 9 pairings – Dubai Chess Open 2022:
Bo.
Name
FED
Rtg
Pts.
Result
Pts.
Name
FED
Rtg
1
GM
Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.
IND
2614
7
6½
GM
Praggnanandhaa R
IND
2661
2
GM
Predke Alexandr
FID
2692
6½
6
GM
Adly Ahmed
EGY
2582
3
GM
Harsha Bharathakoti
IND
2557
6
6
GM
Erigaisi Arjun
IND
2689
4
GM
Gupta Abhijeet
IND
2631
6
6
GM
Chanda Sandipan
IND
2458
5
IM
Das Arghyadip
IND
2446
6
6
GM
Sethuraman S.P.
IND
2625
6
FM
Poormosavi Seyed Kian
IRI
2404
6
6
GM
Indjic Aleksandar
SRB
2613
7
GM
Hakobyan Aram
ARM
2612
6
6
IM
Sammed Jaykumar Shete
IND
2381
8
GM
Tabatabaei M. Amin
IRI
2664
5½
5½
IM
Siddharth Jagadeesh
SGP
2426
9
GM
Ter-Sahakyan Samvel
ARM
2625
5½
5½
WGM
Divya Deshmukh
IND
2319
10
IM
Vignesh N R
IND
2467
5½
5½
GM
Sadhwani Raunak
IND
2622
11
GM
Rahman Ziaur
BAN
2427
5½
5½
GM
Muradli Mahammad
AZE
2552
12
GM
Arjun Kalyan
IND
2513
5½
5½
Sanket Chakravarty
IND
2275
13
IM
Aditya Mittal
IND
2496
5½
5½
FM
Ayush Sharma
IND
2158
14
FM
Samant Aditya S
IND
2430
5
5
GM
Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter
GER
2644
15
GM
Akopian Vladimir
USA
2616
5
5
IM
Nitish Belurkar
IND
2416
16
GM
Jumabayev Rinat
KAZ
2615
5
5
FM
Nazari Arad
IRI
2389
17
GM
Iniyan P
IND
2556
5
5
GM
Laxman R.R.
IND
2381
18
GM
Gagare Shardul
IND
2521
5
5
IM
Mullick Raahil
IND
2352
19
GM
Grover Sahaj
IND
2505
5
5
IM
Ajay Krishna S
IND
2367
20
GM
Raja Rithvik R
IND
2491
5
5
Ashraf Artin
IRI
2289
21
IM
Shyaamnikhil P
IND
2465
5
5
FM
De Silva L M S T
SRI
2212
22
IM
Rathanvel V S
IND
2455
5
5
Suyarov Mukhammadzokhid
UZB
2169
23
WGM
Vantika Agrawal
IND
2371
5
5
IM
Nigmatov Ortik
UZB
2437
24
Panda Sambit
IND
2346
5
5
GM
Thejkumar M. S.
IND
2430
25
Laddha Shubh Jayesh
USA
2262
4½
4½
GM
Suleymanli Aydin
AZE
2547
26
IM
Haldorsen Benjamin
NOR
2461
4½
4½
Rakhmatullaev Almas
UZB
2288
27
IM
Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh
IND
2457
4½
4½
IM
Avinash Ramesh
IND
2322
28
IM
Srihari L R
IND
2436
4½
4½
Ritviz Parab
IND
2299
29
CM
Kushagra Mohan
IND
2426
4½
4½
FM
Wagh Suyog
IND
2315
30
FM
Mahdavi Reza
IRI
2253
4½
4½
IM
Al Qudaimi Basheer
YEM
2424
31
FM
Madaminov Mukhiddin
UZB
2408
4½
4½
FM
Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan
SRI
2286
32
IM
Mohammad Fahad Rahman
BAN
2401
4½
4½
Raghav Srivathsav V
IND
2084
33
WIM
Kamalidenova Meruert
KAZ
2384
4½
4½
IM
Manish Anto Cristiano F
IND
2215
34
FM
Rohith Krishna S
IND
2358
4½
4½
Shaik Sumer Arsh
IND
2123
35
FM
Karthik Rajaa
IND
2327
4½
4½
Joel Paul Ganta
IND
1785
36
Gandhi Anish
IND
2228
4
4
GM
Mareco Sandro
ARG
2657
37
IM
Dimakiling Oliver
PHI
2442
4
4
CM
Aaditya Dhingra
IND
2214
38
Vaibhav Jayant Raut
IND
2217
4
4
IM
Saeed Ishaq
UAE
2366
39
IM
Tissir Mohamed
MAR
2366
4
4
Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri
IND
2210
40
Shoshin Kirill
RUS
2205
4
4
IM
Viani Antonio Dcunha
IND
2327
41
WIM
Priyanka K
IND
2052
4
4
IM
Raahul V S
IND
2323
42
FM
Zujev Oleg
LTU
2305
4
4
Aniruddh Chatterjee
IND
2174
43
FM
Ram Aravind L N
IND
2298
4
4
FM
Harshal Shahi
IND
2136
44
FM
Ahmed Fareed
UAE
1920
4
4
IM
Al Hosani Omran
UAE
2293
45
FM
Sharan Rao
IND
2292
4
4
Devnani Kush
IND
2095
46
Ashutosh Kumar
IND
1888
4
4
Ojas Kulkarni
IND
2254
47
FM
Aradhya Garg
IND
2240
4
4
Rohit S
IND
1937
48
IM
Dushyant Sharma
IND
2406
3½
4
Alhejab Meshal
KUW
1732
49
FM
Al Maashani Amer
OMA
1947
3½
3½
IM
Aziz Husain
QAT
2377
50
FM
Jain Kashish Manoj
IND
2315
3½
3½
Ali Abdulaziz
UAE
1930
51
FM
Mehdi Hasan Parag
BAN
2211
3½
3½
Ishvi Aggarwal
IND
1854
52
Prasannaa.S
IND
2185
3½
3½
Liashkevich Lizaveta
BLR
1842
53
Raji Sayel Abu Azizah
PLE
2014
3½
3½
Rami Talab
SYR
1585
54
Ahmad Al Romaithi
UAE
1799
3½
3½
Mustafayev Nihad
AZE
1982
55
Sharon Rafael
IND
2095
3
3½
Al Ansi Amin
OMA
1806
56
FM
Zia Tahsin Tajwar
BAN
2321
3
3
Sabirova Shakhnoza
UZB
1957
57
Mokhtari Moghadam Taha
IRI
1929
3
3
FM
Rahman Md. Taibur
BAN
2202
58
Eyenghe Sunny
NGR
2078
3
3
Eman Sawan
PLE
1847
59
AIM
Md Imran
IND
2063
3
3
Zayed Sultan Al Taher
UAE
1827
60
Aarav Sinha
IND
1909
3
3
Salem Ahmed Salem
UAE
2056
61
Kumthekar Shubham
IND
1800
3
3
Kuziev Miraziz
UZB
2036
62
Manmay Chopra
IND
2027
3
3
Sadbhav Rautela
IND
1775
63
Arnab Jena
IND
1387
3
3
Laddha Yash Jayesh
USA
2002
64
IM
Sultan Ibrahim
UAE
2108
2½
2½
Al Namas Kanan
JOR
1466
65
Al Zaabi Talal
UAE
1546
2½
2½
Abhyudaya Rajpurohit
IND
2078
66
AGM
Vishal Choudary B
IND
2077
2½
2½
Ahmed Waqqas Alawlaqi
UAE
1250
67
Mohammad Abdulrahman Alawadhi
UAE
1374
2½
2½
Faisal Ali
UAE
1836
68
Darsith Manoj Nair
IND
1437
2½
2½
Abid Ali Mujawar
IND
1824
69
FM
Salem Ghuloom
UAE
2195
2
2
WCM
Bashaer Khalil
UAE
1566
70
Abdulrahim Salem
UAE
1811
2
2
Anood Ahmad
UAE
1246
71
Al-Blooshi Hamad Essa
UAE
1272
1½
1½
Kewalramani Abhir
FID
1598
72
Ahlam Rashed
UAE
1372
1½
1½
Dehghan Ibrahim
FID
1542
73
Khalil Reem
UAE
1390
1½
1
bye
.
