Dubai Open

Dubai

The Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup took place from April 9th to 19th, 2011 in the Dubai Chess and Culture Club. Indian GM Abhijeet Gupta finished a half point ahead of four others to become undisputed champion of the 13th edition.

Rk.	Ti.	Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	IND	2580	7.5
2	GM	Negi Parimarjan	IND	2618	7.0
3	GM	Balogh Csaba	HUN	2601	7.0
4	GM	Kazhgaleyev Murtas	KAZ	2618	7.0
5	GM	Hammer Jon Ludvig	NOR	2606	7.0
6	GM	Miroshnichenko Evgenij	UKR	2670	6.5
7	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	GEO	2629	6.5
8	GM	Amin Bassem	EGY	2596	6.5
9	GM	Fedorov Alexei	BLR	2596	6.5
10	GM	Berg Emanuel	SWE	2612	6.5
11	GM	Akopian Vladimir	ARM	2675	6.5
12	WIM	Schneider Veronika	HUN	2247	6.5
13	IM	Huschenbeth Niclas	GER	2465	6.5
14	GM	Kotanjian Tigran	ARM	2527	6.5
15	GM	Guseinov Gadir	AZE	2584	6.5
16	GM	Arutinian David	GEO	2575	6.5
17	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	IND	2682	6.0
18	GM	Kuzubov Yuriy	UKR	2627	6.0
19	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	GEO	2595	6.0
20	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	IND	2643	6.0

Here are the Final standings of the top twenty:

Note the presence of WIM Veronika Schneider amongst all the illustrious names. Above her astonishing twelfth place, ten different nationalities finished in the top 11.

The rate of play was the 'accelerated-classical' one of 90 minutes for all the moves, plus a 30 second increment.

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