Starting rank (top 75 seeds) http://chess-results.com/tnr269348.aspx No. Name FideID FED Rtg 1 GM Korobov Anton 14105730 UKR 2694 2 GM Areshchenko Alexander 14109530 UKR 2682 3 GM Safarli Eltaj 13402129 AZE 2680 4 GM Anton Guijarro David 2285525 ESP 2676 5 GM Jones Gawain C B 409561 ENG 2676 6 GM Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo 3901211 VEN 2673 7 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 5029465 IND 2673 8 GM Rakhmanov Aleksandr 4173708 RUS 2670 9 GM Sargissian Gabriel 13300881 ARM 2666 10 GM Mareco Sandro 112275 ARG 2664 11 GM Amin Bassem 10601457 EGY 2660 12 GM Zhigalko Sergei 13502956 BLR 2652 13 GM Oleksiyenko Mykhaylo 4152417 UKR 2643 14 GM Salgado Lopez Ivan 2257327 ESP 2641 15 GM Zhang Zhong 8600694 SGP 2641 16 GM Gupta Abhijeet 5010608 IND 2627 17 GM Yilmaz Mustafa 6302718 TUR 2614 18 GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil 13600966 GEO 2602 19 GM Bok Benjamin 1017063 NED 2596 20 GM Tari Aryan 1510045 NOR 2596 21 GM Adly Ahmed 10601619 EGY 2593 22 GM Lalith Babu M R 5024595 IND 2593 23 GM Pantsulaia Levan 13602071 GEO 2589 24 GM Vazquez Igarza Renier 3503054 ESP 2583 25 GM Antipov Mikhail Al. 4107012 RUS 2581 26 GM Karthikeyan Murali 5074452 IND 2578 27 GM Idani Pouya 12510130 IRI 2576 28 GM Sandipan Chanda 5004225 IND 2573 29 GM Indjic Aleksandar 911925 SRB 2569 30 GM Fier Alexandr 2107139 BRA 2568 31 IM Santos Latasa Jaime 2293307 ESP 2565 32 GM Can Emre 6302181 TUR 2561 33 GM Pichot Alan 110973 ARG 2556 34 GM Schroeder Jan-Christian 24662259 GER 2543 35 GM Mastrovasilis Athanasios 4201990 GRE 2537 36 GM Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan 5058422 IND 2526 37 IM Karthikeyan P. 5018226 IND 2507 38 IM Stany G.A. 5029104 IND 2495 39 IM Kuybokarov Temur 14203049 UZB 2491 40 IM Salomon Johan 1509500 NOR 2488 41 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. 5011132 IND 2483 42 GM Grivas Efstratios 4200039 GRE 2482 43 GM Debashis Das 5024854 IND 2480 44 IM Santos Ruiz Miguel 22291482 ESP 2480 45 GM Grover Sahaj 5021103 IND 2473 46 IM Visakh N R 25012223 IND 2464 47 IM Praggnanandhaa R 25059530 IND 2455 48 IM Pascua Haridas 5203953 PHI 2440 49 IM Shyaamnikhil P 5024218 IND 2440 50 IM Nitin S. 5018277 IND 2432 51 IM Tania Sachdev 5007844 IND 2429 52 IM Viani Antonio Dcunha 5027330 IND 2410 53 IM Dimakiling Oliver 5202248 PHI 2405 54 IM Vignesh N R 25012215 IND 2405 55 GM Laxman R.R. 5005361 IND 2403 56 IM D`costa Lorin A R 409219 ENG 2387 57 IM Padmini Rout 5029295 IND 2387 58 IM Kanter Eduard 4103963 RUS 2383 59 IM Rathnakaran K. 5005507 IND 2383 60 IM Yap Kim Steven 5202809 PHI 2379 61 Iniyan P 25002767 IND 2378 62 GM Lazarev Vladimir 4113250 FRA 2376 63 IM Roy Prantik 5035120 IND 2372 64 IM Bashirli Nail 13406809 AZE 2369 65 GM Solomon Kenny 14300192 RSA 2365 66 IM Tissir Mohamed 9000240 MAR 2364 67 IM Siva Mahadevan 25043153 IND 2363 68 FM Thakur Akash 5008514 IND 2363 69 WGM Charkhalashvili Inga 13601431 GEO 2362 70 FM Ahmadzada Ahmad 13413007 AZE 2343 71 Sidhant Mohapatra 5028698 IND 2341 72 Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad 25005812 IND 2337 73 GM Hesham Abdelrahman 10600183 EGY 2336 74 Kulkarni Rakesh 5037077 IND 2325 75 IM Rajesh V A V 5029317 IND 2324 Chess Admin March 23, 2017 Daily News, General News Leave a comment Tags: Dubai, Dubai Open