The fall of the top seeds by loss and draw in the «Dubai Chess International»

Intense competition at the Dubai Open Chess Championship. à From the source

The Dubai Open Chess Championship organized by the Dubai Chess and Culture Club witnessed early excitement after the top seeds stumbled in the second round of the competition, as the second seed in the competition lost to the American Hans Nieman to Azerbaijan's Fugar Asdali, and the Chinese first seed Yu Yangi fell into the trap of a draw in his meeting with Norwegian Evgeny Romanov, and the Indian third seed Arjun Irigaisi tied with Georgian veteran Mikheil Makhedliashvili.

In the rest of the round, Iran's Mohammad Amin Tabatabai beat Georgia's Nikolozi Kasharava, 2019 champion Maxim Matlakov beat Azerbaijan's Misratuddin Iskandarov, and Uzbekistan's Javukhir Sindarov beat India's Lalit Babu.

In the results of the Arab players, the national team star Salem Abdel Rahman beat Armenian Amin Ohanian, the Egyptian Adham Fawzi drew with the Indian Harsha Barakoti, and the Egyptian Abdul Rahman Hisham beat our player Imran Al-Hosani.

In the second category, Ammar Al-Sidrani was able to turn the table in his meeting at the first table with the Syrian Rami Talab, and took advantage of a fatal mistake from his rival in the ends to settle the match point in his favor, and Russian Timofey Pereverziv tied with the second seed Romanian Stefan Emilian Presacaru, and Egyptian Ramez Samir beat the sixth seed Syrian Aram Adam.

In the results of the national players, Salem Abdul Rahim beat Egypt's David George, Ahmed Farid beat Oman's Muslim Al Ameri, Saeed Nami drew with Indonesia's Evie Lindiawati, and Maryam Issa drew with Filipino's Dandel Fernandes.

It is noteworthy that the organizing committee raised the value of the prizes of the championships to $ 52,<> for the first to tenth places in each category.