Reda Saleem (Dubai)
The Dubai Open Chess Championship, currently being held in the Dubai Chess and Culture Club hall, witnessed a match that extended for 5 hours after reaching 129 moves, which ended in a draw between Azerbaijani Junai Muhammadzadeh and Sri Lankan Ranindu Dilshan on table 18, while Azerbaijani Muradli Muhammad maintained his lead in the tournament, after the round. Sixth, with 5 points, after tying on the first table against his Turkish competitor Yagiz Can, and the Turkish score rises to 4 and a half points, along with 6 other players with the same balance of points, and they are the Indian trio Arunyak, Inian, and Sadhwani, in addition to the Serbian Velimir Ivic, And the Iranian Movahed Sina, while the Indians Enyan and Aruniyak Ghosh tied at the second table.
The rest of the results on the first tables resulted in Sadhwani winning over his compatriot Sturman, Serbian Vilmir over Chinese Pang Tao, and Iranian Movahed Sina over Kazakh Rinat Dzombayev.
In the seventh round on the first table, the leader, Muradli, and the Indian, Aruniak, will meet, while the quartet will enter the disengagement matches with an equal score of 4.5 points, as the Indian, Sadhwani, will meet with the Turkish Yagiz Can, the Indian, Enyan, with the Serb, Vilmir, and the Iranian, Movahed, with Vakhidov.
The second category tournament under 2300 points saw the Emirati Ahmed Farid advance to first place, shared with Libyan Youssef Al-Hasadi, with 5.5 points after his victory over his colleague Saif Ahmed, in the sixth round, which is the first time that Farid has advanced to the top spot since the beginning of the tournament, while Al-Hasadi tied with the Kazakh. Tamiroff Bakhit, and the seventh round will witness the summit confrontation between Farid and Al-Hasadi as the end of the tournament, which is held in 9 rounds, is approaching. Indian Bandi Srishti will meet her compatriot Fashal, and Tamiroff Bakhit will meet Manaa Al-Kathiri, looking to catch up with the lead after the quartet moved away by half a point.
International referee Mahdi Abdel Rahim, head of the tournament’s refereeing committee, confirmed that the 18th table match of the tournament extended until 10 p.m., and it is the longest match in the tournaments after it reached 129 moves. According to the International Federation of the Game’s law, the owner of the black pieces must make 50 moves in order to be entitled to request A draw, which happened at the end of the match.
He added: Our player Ahmed Farid advanced to the lead for the first time, shared equally with Libyan Al-Hasadi. He is considered a player who jumped in the tournament, and we are waiting for him to face good results until the finish line, noting that the blind players had a match between them in the sixth round, and there is special treatment for the cases of people of determination, and great interest, In general, the tournament is moving towards the finish line without any objection from any player.
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