21st Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival

21st Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival
Aug 19, 2014

The 21st Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival Masters Tournament will take place from 20-29th August at the Abu Dhabi Chess & Culture Club in United Arab Emirates.

The Festival is supported by the Abu Dhabi Sport Council and consists of following sections:

– Masters Tournament for foreign players rated above 2000 elo and all Abu Dhabi players
– Open Tournament for players rated under 2000 elo
– Junior Tournament under 16-years (Swiss system 7 rounds, with qualification and knock-out final)
– Blitz tournament (Swiss system of 11 rounds, 3 min + 2 sec increment)
– Simultaneous exhibitions
– Media and journalists tournament
– Homeland protectors’ tournament (Participation is limited to members of the military and police)

The total prize fund is 30,000 USD.

Masters Tournament Participants (top seeds):

1 GM Wang Hao CHN 2730
2 GM Kryvoruchko Yuriy UKR 2707
3 GM Areshchenko Alexander UKR 2701
4 GM Istratescu Andrei FRA 2670
5 GM Kuzubov Yuriy UKR 2656
6 GM Efimenko Zahar UKR 2648
7 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2634
8 GM Sumets Andrey UKR 2634
9 GM Pashikian Arman ARM 2631
10 GM Amin Bassem EGY 2629
11 GM Petrosian Tigran L. ARM 2629
12 GM Rakhmanov Aleksandr RUS 2626
13 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 2619
14 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi IND 2602
15 GM Iordachescu Viorel MDA 2593
16 GM Salem A.R. Saleh UAE 2591
17 GM Burmakin Vladimir RUS 2590
18 GM Volkov Sergey RUS 2575
19 GM Parligras Mircea-Emilian ROU 2574
20 GM Babula Vlastimil CZE 2570
21 GM Lalith Babu M.R. IND 2560
22 GM Gopal G.N. IND 2544
23 GM Abasov Nijat AZE 2536
24 GM Horvath Adam HUN 2536
25 GM Rasulov Vugar AZE 2521
26 GM Vaibhav Suri IND 2521
27 GM Ankit R. Rajpara IND 2511
28 IM Barnaure Vlad-Victor ROU 2510
29 GM Grover Sahaj IND 2488
30 GM Bajarani Ulvi AZE 2486
31 GM Debashis Das IND 2484
32 GM Dao Thien Hai VIE 2482
33 IM Karthikeyan Murali IND 2477
34 GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 2476
35 IM Shyam Nikil P. IND 2469
36 GM Shyam Sundar M. IND 2468
37 IM Ghosh Diptayan IND 2468
38 GM Berescu Alin-Mile ROU 2458
39 IM Gagare Shardul IND 2440
40 GM Raetsky Alexander RUS 2431