The 2016 Asian Continental Chess Championships – Open and Women’s – will take place from 25th May to 5th June at the Uzbekistan Hotel in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Eligible to participate are players from FIDE Zones 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7.
The tournament will be conducted as a Swiss System competition of 9 rounds and will be played according to FIDE regulations.
The top five players from the 2016 Asian (Open) Championship qualify for the 2017 World Cup. The 2016 Asian Women’s champion qualifies for the Women’s World Championship.
Total prize fund is $75,000, including Open, Women and Blitz.
Top prizes in the Open are $11,000, $9,000, $7,000, $5,000, $3,000 etc
Top prizes in Women’s section are $5,000, $4,000, $3,000, $2,000 etc
$6,000 in cash prizes for Blitz, $4000 for open and $2000 for women.
Participants, men (top 50):
1 GM Le Quang Liem VIE 2718
2 GM Kasimdzhanov Rustam UZB 2703
3 GM Wei Yi CHN 2694
4 GM Ni Hua CHN 2682
5 GM Adhiban B. IND 2665
6 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi IND 2658
7 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 2654
8 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2654
9 GM Sethuraman S.P. IND 2647
10 GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son VIE 2636
11 GM Salem A.R. Saleh UAE 2625
12 GM Lu Shanglei CHN 2614
13 GM Wen Yang CHN 2611
14 GM Kazhgaleyev Murtas KAZ 2582
15 GM Lalith Babu M R IND 2579
16 GM Vakhidov Jahongir UZB 2578
17 GM Bai Jinshi CHN 2567
18 GM Gao Rui CHN 2556
19 GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan IRI 2551
20 GM Sengupta Deep IND 2543
21 Xu Yinglun CHN 2531
22 GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. IND 2528
23 GM Megaranto Susanto INA 2527
24 GM Karthikeyan Murali IND 2518
25 GM Gundavaa Bayarsaikhan MGL 2499
26 GM Batchuluun Tsegmed MGL 2489
27 Firouzja Alireza IRI 2485
28 IM Mosadeghpour Masoud IRI 2481
29 GM Mollah Abdullah Al Rakib BAN 2479
30 FM Igonin Temur UZB 2474
31 GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 2465
32 GM Nguyen Huynh Minh Huy VIE 2458
33 GM Kostenko Petr KAZ 2457
34 IM Munkhgal Gombosuren MGL 2445
35 IM Wang Yiye CHN 2442
36 IM Firman Syah Farid INA 2432
37 IM Mohammad Minhaz Uddin BAN 2430
38 IM Tin Jingyao SIN 2427
39 Yakubboev Nodirbek UZB 2422
40 GM Hossain Enamul BAN 2419
41 FM Liu Yan CHN 2411
42 FM Xu Yi CHN 2396
43 IM Cuhendi Sean Winshand INA 2395
44 FM Bilguun Sumiya MGL 2395
45 IM Abdyjapar Asyl KGZ 2388
46 CM Sindarov Javokhir UZB 2384
47 FM Abdusattorov Nodirbek UZB 2382
48 FM Fayzullaev Akmal UZB 2379
49 IM Omar Noaman UAE 2377
50 IM Alikulov Elbek UZB 2375