The Al Ain Chess Club is organizing the 4th Al Ain Chess Classic from 22-31st December 2015.
The 9-round Swiss tournament will take place at the Al Ain Rotana Hili Hotel.
Top prizes are $13,000 / $10,000 / $7,000 / $4,500 / $3,000 / $2,000 etc (20 regular prizes)
There are also special prizes for women, juniors, regional players and elo sections. The total prize fund is $ 57,000.
Curently 191 players from 40 countries are registered to take part in the event. Among them are 72 Grandmasters and 26 International Masters. Full list below.
Participants (top 100 seeds):
1 GM Kryvoruchko Yuriy UKR 2711
2 GM Wang Hao CHN 2707
3 GM Kovalenko Igor LAT 2680
4 GM Areshchenko Alexander UKR 2677
5 GM Shirov Alexei LAT 2676
6 GM Amin Bassem EGY 2665
7 GM Zhigalko Sergei BLR 2655
8 GM Motylev Alexander RUS 2653
9 GM Efimenko Zahar UKR 2647
10 GM Guseinov Gadir AZE 2646
11 GM Anton Guijarro David ESP 2640
12 GM Kuzubov Yuriy UKR 2640
13 GM Rakhmanov Aleksandr RUS 2640
14 GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil GEO 2635
15 GM Edouard Romain FRA 2627
16 GM Hovhannisyan Robert ARM 2624
17 GM Kravtsiv Martyn UKR 2623
18 GM Vovk Andrey UKR 2617
19 GM Oleksiyenko Mykhaylo UKR 2616
20 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2613
21 GM Onischuk Vladimir UKR 2612
22 GM Volkov Sergey RUS 2612
23 GM Pashikian Arman ARM 2606
24 GM Iordachescu Viorel MDA 2600
25 GM Adly Ahmed EGY 2598
26 GM Pantsulaia Levan GEO 2598
27 GM Azarov Sergei BLR 2595
28 GM Andriasian Zaven ARM 2594
29 GM Sumets Andrey UKR 2591
30 GM Parligras Mircea-Emilian ROU 2586
31 GM Wagner Dennis GER 2586
32 GM Gabuzyan Hovhannes ARM 2585
33 GM Kovchan Alexander UKR 2583
34 GM Kulaots Kaido EST 2574
35 GM Sengupta Deep IND 2563
36 GM Lalith Babu M.R. IND 2553
37 GM Vaibhav Suri IND 2552
38 GM Bajarani Ulvi AZE 2551
39 IM Ghosh Diptayan IND 2550
40 GM Malakhatko Vadim BEL 2531
41 GM Zeng Chongsheng CHN 2530
42 GM Gopal G.N. IND 2525
43 GM Ehlvest Jaan USA 2524
44 GM Kveinys Aloyzas LTU 2520
45 GM Arun Prasad S. IND 2519
46 GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 2516
47 GM Libiszewski Fabien FRA 2515
48 GM Horvath Adam HUN 2514
49 GM Vishnu Prasanna. V IND 2514
50 GM Kanep Meelis EST 2509
51 GM Kunte Abhijit IND 2507
52 GM Riff Jean-Noel FRA 2507
53 GM Debashis Das IND 2505
54 GM Arencibia Rodriguez Walter CUB 2501
55 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 2496
56 GM Ankit R. Rajpara IND 2489
57 GM Hayrapetyan Hovik ARM 2489
58 GM Gasanov Eldar UKR 2485
59 IM Mosadeghpour Masoud IRI 2479
60 IM Swayams Mishra IND 2477
61 GM Mollah Abdullah Al Rakib BAN 2472
62 IM Petrosyan Tigran S. ARM 2469
63 GM Mammadov Zaur AZE 2467
64 IM Petrosyan Manuel ARM 2466
65 GM Babujian Levon ARM 2465
66 GM Bakre Tejas IND 2462
67 GM Czebe Attila HUN 2459
68 GM Hossain Enamul BAN 2450
69 IM Harutyunian Tigran K. ARM 2448
70 FM Mousavi Seyed Khalil IRI 2434
71 IM Baghdasaryan Vahe ARM 2432
72 IM Khurtsidze Nino GEO 2432
73 GM Sriram Jha IND 2416
74 IM Das Sayantan IND 2411
75 Mu Ke CHN 2403
76 IM Ladva Ottomar EST 2401
77 IM Hesham Abdelrahman EGY 2398
78 IM Prathamesh Sunil Mokal IND 2393
79 IM Anurag Mhamal IND 2390
80 IM Visakh N R IND 2388
81 GM Lazarev Vladimir FRA 2383
82 IM Akshat Khamparia IND 2366
83 FM Kokol Peter SLO 2363
84 Harsha Bharathakoti IND 2362
85 WGM Hejazipour Mitra IRI 2357
86 IM Abdulov Orkhan AZE 2356
87 IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman IND 2351
88 IM L’ami Alina ROU 2347
89 WGM Mammadzada Gunay AZE 2341
90 FM Bashirli Nail AZE 2338
91 IM Zozulia Anna BEL 2335
92 FM Arvola Benjamin NOR 2328
93 IM Morchiashvili Bachana GEO 2326
94 IM Hambardzumian Yuri ARM 2324
95 WGM Mammadova Gulnar AZE 2323
96 CM Asadli Vugar AZE 2323
97 FM Gadimbayli Abdulla AZE 2320
98 Aradhya Garg IND 2316
99 Pirverdiyev Agil AZE 2311
100 Danielyan Vahe ARM 2307