Dubai (Etihad)
The curtain will fall on the 22nd edition of the Dubai Open Chess Championship, organized by the Dubai Chess and Culture Club since 1999, on Sunday evening. The ninth and final round of the competition will be held in the morning, which was limited to 4 players with the competition near the finish line.
In the top of the seventh round matches, which brought together the first-ranked Russian Alexander Pridki and the second-ranked Indian Arjun Erigesi, the reservation prevailed over the course of the match throughout the match periods, ending in a draw, and they shared the point that kept them at the top of the standings with 6 points.
On the second table, veteran American Vladimir Akopian, champion of the first edition in 1999, failed to maintain his unbeaten record in the tournament, when he lost to the talented Indian boy Rameshababu Prajananda in an even match in most of its course.
The third table, which brought together Kazakh Rinat Gumbayev and India’s Aravind Chitambaram, witnessed a match in which Aravind showed his strong preparation as Rinat suffered his second loss in a row to reduce his chances of winning the title.
On the fourth table, the Indian Grover Sahag failed to catch up with the leaders, when he lost from his compatriot Sithurman, so the latter raised his score to 5.5 points, reducing the difference to half a point from the leaders, and joined Sithurman with the same balance of points. They defeated their opponents, while Iranian third seed Amin Tabatabai was left out of the competition after a draw against India’s Harsha Baratakute.
In the Arab world, the Egyptian Ahmed Adly defeated the Indian International Federation professor Ayosh Sharma, and the Moroccan Mohamed Tayseer beat the Russian Shushin Kirill to raise his score to 4 points, and the positive results of the Arab players continued with the victory of the Yemeni Bashir Al-Qadimi over the Indian Rajbohirt and the Qatari Hussein Aziz over the Nigerian Aing Sunny.
In the results of the national players, Imran Al Hosani tied with the Indian Sihari, raising his score to 4 points, Ahmed Al Rumaithi tied with the Indian Ujas Kulkarni, and Ali Abdulaziz beat the Indian Sharma Isha despite the classification difference of more than 400 points between them, and the international professor Saeed Ishaq continued in the series of victories and achieved A second straight victory by defeating the Indian Ashvi Aggarwal.
At the end of the seventh round, 4 players participated in the lead, namely, the Russian Alexander Pridke, and from India, Arjun Erigesi, Arvind Chitambaram and Rameshbo Prajananda with 6 points each, followed by 4 players with 5.5 points, namely the Egyptian Ahmed Adly, the Armenian Aram Hagopian and the Indians Gupta and Seturman.
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