[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Sethuraman, S.P."]
[Black "Abdusattorov, Nodirbek"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2552"]
[BlackElo "2771"]
[ECO "B51"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Canal-Sokolsky (Nimzovich-Rossolimo, Moscow) attack"]
[WhiteFideId "5021596"]
[BlackFideId "14204118"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. O-O a6 5. Bd3 e6 6. c3 Ne7 7. Bc2 Ng6 8. d4
Be7 9. Re1 O-O 10. Nbd2 b6 11. Nf1 Bb7 12. Ng3 Rc8 13. Be3 Nf6 14. Bd3 Rc7 15.
Bg5 Kh8 16. a4 Ng8 17. Bd2 Qa8 18. Qe2 Bd8 19. Ng5 Bxg5 20. Bxg5 f6 21. Bd2 N8e7
22. Qh5 a5 23. f4 cxd4 24. cxd4 e5 25. f5 Nf4 26. Bxf4 exf4 27. Ne2 g6 28. Qh6
gxf5 29. Nxf4 fxe4 30. Ne6 Ng8 31. Nxc7 Nxh6 32. Nxa8 exd3 33. Nxb6 Nf5 34. Rad1
Ba6 35. Nd5 Nxd4 36. Nc7 Bc4 37. Re4 Ne2+ 38. Kf2 Bf7 39. Re7 Nf4 40. Re4 Ne2
41. Rd2 Bg6 42. Re7 Rc8 43. h4 Nc1 44. g4 Nb3 45. Rd1 d2 46. Ke3 Bc2 47. Rxd2
Nxd2 48. Kxd2 Bxa4 49. Nd5 Rf8 50. Ra7 Bb3 51. Rxa5 Kg7 52. Ne3 Rb8 53. Kc3 Be6
54. b4 Rc8+ 55. Kd4 Rb8 56. Kc3 Rc8+ 57. Kd4 Rb8 58. b5 Kg6 59. h5+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "Giri, Anish"]
[Black "Jumabayev, Rinat"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2738"]
[BlackElo "2551"]
[ECO "A20"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[WhiteFideId "24116068"]
[BlackFideId "13702661"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. c4 e5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. O-O Bc5 8. b4
Bd6 9. Qa4 Nd7 10. b5 Nc5 11. Qc2 Nd4 12. Nxd4 exd4 13. Ne4 Nxe4 14. Qxe4+ Qe7
15. Bb2 Qxe4 16. Bxe4 a6 17. a4 axb5 18. axb5 Rxa1 19. Rxa1 Bc5 20. Ra4 Ke7 21.
Bxd4 Bxd4 22. Rxd4 h6 23. f4 Bd7 24. Rb4 Ra8 25. Bxb7 Ra2 26. Re4+ Kf8 27. d3
Bxb5 28. Bd5 Rb2 29. Kf1 Bd7 30. Rc4 Bg4 31. e4 Rxh2 32. f5 Rd2 33. Rxc7 Rxd3
34. Bxf7 Rxg3 35. Bg6 h5 36. Rf7+ Ke8 37. Rxg7+ Kf8 38. Rh7 Re3 39. Kg2 Rxe4 40.
f6 Re2+ 41. Kf1 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.3"]
[White "Aditya, Mittal"]
[Black "Maghsoodloo, Parham"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2547"]
[BlackElo "2706"]
[ECO "B12"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "advance variation"]
[WhiteFideId "35042025"]
[BlackFideId "12539929"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. dxc5 e6 6. Bb5+ Nd7 7. b4 a5 8. c3 Ne7
9. h3 Bxf3 10. Qxf3 Nc6 11. Qf4 axb4 12. cxb4 g5 13. Qd2 Bg7 14. Bb2 Ndxe5 15.
a4 O-O 16. O-O Nc4 17. Bxc4 dxc4 18. Bxg7 Kxg7 19. Ra3 Qxd2 20. Nxd2 Nxb4 21.
Nxc4 Nc2 22. Ra2 Nb4 23. Ra3 Na6 24. Rb1 h6 25. Rxb7 Nxc5 26. Rb5 Ne4 27. a5
Rfc8 28. Rb4 Ra6 29. Ne5 Rc1+ 30. Kh2 Nd2 31. Rb7 Nf1+ 32. Kg1 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.4"]
[White "Sevian, Samuel"]
[Black "Woodward, Andy"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2694"]
[BlackElo "2547"]
[ECO "B94"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, 6.Bg5"]
[WhiteFideId "2040506"]
[BlackFideId "30953499"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 Nbd7 7. a3 h6 8. Bxf6
Nxf6 9. Bc4 g6 10. Qd3 Bg7 11. O-O-O O-O 12. Ba2 Bd7 13. h4 Qa5 14. f4 Rac8 15.
Rhe1 Bg4 16. e5 Nh5 17. Nd5 Kh8 18. e6 fxe6 19. b4 Qa4 20. Nb6 Qe8 21. g3 Rc6
22. Nxc6 Qxc6 23. Bxe6 Bxd1 24. Nd5 Bxc2 25. Qxc2 Qxc2+ 26. Kxc2 Nxg3 27. Nxe7
Kh7 28. Re3 Nf1 29. Re1 Ng3 30. Re3 Nf1 31. Re1 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.5"]
[White "Dai, Changren"]
[Black "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2531"]
[BlackElo "2631"]
[ECO "E71"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "Makagonov system (5.h3)"]
[WhiteFideId "8608156"]
[BlackFideId "9301348"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. h3 O-O 6. Be3 Nbd7 7. g4 a6 8. Nf3 Rb8
9. Qc2 c5 10. Bg2 b5 11. dxc5 Nxc5 12. cxb5 axb5 13. e5 Nfd7 14. exd6 exd6 15.
O-O Bb7 16. Rad1 Qa5 17. Rxd6 Qa8 18. Qd1 Ne5 19. Nd5 Nc4 20. Bxc5 Nxd6 21. Nb6
Qxa2 22. Nd7 Rbd8 23. Qxd6 Rfe8 24. Nf6+ Bxf6 25. Qxf6 Qe6 26. Qxe6 Rxe6 27. b4
Ree8 28. Nd4 Be4 29. Bxe4 Rxe4 30. Nxb5 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.6"]
[White "Vakhidov, Jakhongir"]
[Black "Tabatabaei, M. Amin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2546"]
[BlackElo "2670"]
[ECO "A28"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "four knights, Nimzovich variation"]
[WhiteFideId "14201801"]
[BlackFideId "12521213"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. e4 Bb4 5. d3 d6 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O Bc5 8. h3 a5
9. Nd2 Ne7 10. Nb3 Ng6 11. Kh1 Re8 12. Na4 b6 13. Nc3 Bd7 14. Be3 h6 15. Nxc5
bxc5 16. Qd2 Be6 17. Kh2 Rf8 18. g3 Qd7 19. g4 Qe7 20. Rg1 Nh7 21. Raf1 Qf6 22.
f4 Nxf4 23. Bxf4 exf4 24. Qxf4 Rfb8 25. Qg3 Qd4 26. Nb5 Rxb5 27. cxb5 Bxa2 28.
Bf3 Be6 29. e5 d5 30. Qf2 Qxe5+ 31. Kh1 Rb8 32. Qxc5 Ng5 33. Bg2 Qg3 34. Qf2
Qxd3 35. Kh2 Qxb5 36. Qf4 Qxb2 37. Rb1 Rb4 38. Qxc7 Qa2 39. Ra1 Qe2 40. Qg3 a4
41. Rge1 Qb5 42. Re3 Rb2 43. Qf4 Rxg2+ 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.7"]
[White "Sargsyan, Shant"]
[Black "Raja, Rithvik R"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2666"]
[BlackElo "2545"]
[ECO "D38"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Ragozin variation"]
[WhiteFideId "13306766"]
[BlackFideId "35007394"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Qxf6 7. Qa4+ Nc6 8. e3
O-O 9. Be2 dxc4 10. O-O Bd6 11. Qxc4 Bd7 12. Ne4 Qe7 13. Rac1 Rac8 14. Nc5 Bxc5
15. Qxc5 Qxc5 16. Rxc5 Ne7 17. Ne5 Rfd8 18. Rfc1 c6 19. Ra5 a6 20. Ra3 Rc7 21.
h4 g5 22. hxg5 hxg5 23. Bh5 f6 24. Bf7+ Kg7 25. Nxd7 Kxf7 26. Nc5 Nf5 27. Rb3
Nd6 28. a4 g4 29. e4 f5 30. f3 gxf3 31. gxf3 fxe4 32. fxe4 Rg8+ 33. Kf2 Ke8 34.
e5 Rf7+ 35. Rf3 Rxf3+ 36. Kxf3 Nf5 37. Nxb7 Nxd4+ 38. Ke3 Rg4 39. Nd6+ Kd7 40.
Ne4 Nf5+ 41. Kf3 Rh4 42. Nc5+ Ke7 43. a5 Nd4+ 44. Ke3 Nf5+ 45. Kd3 Rd4+ 46. Kc3
Rd5 47. b4 Nd4 48. Re1 Nb5+ 49. Kc4 Rd4+ 50. Kb3 Rh4 51. Nxa6 Rh3+ 52. Kb2 Rh2+
53. Kc1 Rh4 54. Rg1 Kf7 55. Kd2 c5 56. Rf1+ Ke7 57. bxc5 Ra4 58. Nb8 Na7 59. a6
Rb4 60. Rh1 Rxb8 61. Rh7+ Kd8 62. Rxa7 Rb5 63. Rb7 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.8"]
[White "Kuybokarov, Temur"]
[Black "Sargissian, Gabriel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2542"]
[BlackElo "2641"]
[ECO "C84"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "closed defence"]
[WhiteFideId "14203049"]
[BlackFideId "13300881"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. d3 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. a3 O-O
9. Nc3 Rb8 10. Be3 Na5 11. Ba2 c5 12. b4 Nc6 13. bxc5 dxc5 14. Nd5 Qd6 15. a4
Nxd5 16. Bxd5 Nb4 17. Bb3 Be6 18. Bxe6 Qxe6 19. c3 Nc6 20. axb5 axb5 21. Ra6 Ra8
22. Qa1 Rxa6 23. Qxa6 Nd4 24. Ra1 Nxf3+ 25. gxf3 Qd6 26. Qxd6 Bxd6 27. Ra6 Be7
28. Rc6 Rd8 29. Bxc5 Rxd3 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.9"]
[White "Indjic, Aleksandar"]
[Black "Sychev, Klementy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2637"]
[BlackElo "2542"]
[ECO "D20"]
[Opening "QGA"]
[Variation "3.e4"]
[WhiteFideId "911925"]
[BlackFideId "4114060"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 b5 4. a4 c6 5. Nc3 b4 6. Nb1 Ba6 7. Qc2 Qxd4 8. Nf3
Qb6 9. Be3 Qc7 10. Bxc4 Bxc4 11. Qxc4 e6 12. O-O Nf6 13. Rc1 Be7 14. Nbd2 O-O
15. a5 Rc8 16. Bc5 Bxc5 17. Qxc5 Nbd7 18. Qxb4 c5 19. Qc3 Rab8 20. Ra4 Rb5 21.
b3 h6 22. h3 a6 23. g3 Qd8 24. Re1 Rcb8 25. Ra3 Qc7 26. Nc4 Qc6 27. Qd3 Rb4 28.
Re3 Qc7 29. Qc2 Qb7 30. Ne1 Qc6 31. Kh2 R4b5 32. Ra1 Qc7 33. Nf3 Rb4 34. Rd1 Qb7
35. Rd6 Ne8 36. Rdd3 Nef6 37. Qd1 Nf8 38. Nfd2 Ng6 39. Nd6 Qc7 40. N2c4 Rf8 41.
Rf3 Qc6 42. Qe2 Rbb8 43. e5 Nd5 44. h4 Nb4 45. h5 Ne7 46. Rde3 Qc7 47. Rf4 Nbd5
48. Ref3 Nxf4 49. gxf4 Rb4 50. Rg3 Nf5 51. Nxf5 exf5 52. Qd3 Qe7 53. Qxf5 Qe6
54. Qf6 Qxf6 55. exf6 g6 56. hxg6 fxg6 57. Rxg6+ Kh7 58. Ne5 Rb7 59. f5 h5 60.
Nf3 Kh8 61. Ng5 Rxb3 62. f7 Rb7 63. Rxa6 c4 64. Rh6+ Kg7 65. Rg6+ Kh8 66. a6
Rbxf7 67. Nxf7+ Rxf7 68. Rc6 Ra7 69. f6 Kg8 70. Kg3 c3 71. Kf4 c2 72. Kg5 Rxa6
73. Rc8+ Kf7 74. Rc7+ Ke6 75. Kg6 h4 76. Rxc2 Ke5 77. Rc5+ Kf4 78. Rh5 Kg4 79.
f3+ Kg3 80. Kg7 Ra3 81. Rf5 h3 82. f7 h2 83. f8=Q Ra7+ 84. Kg8 h1=Q 85. Rg5+ Kf2
86. Qc5+ 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.10"]
[White "Zhu, Jiner"]
[Black "Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2541"]
[BlackElo "2632"]
[ECO "C53"]
[Opening "Giuoco Piano"]
[WhiteFideId "8608059"]
[BlackFideId "12401110"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 a5 6. O-O d6 7. Re1 Ba7 8. Nbd2
O-O 9. h3 Be6 10. Bb5 Ne7 11. Nf1 Ng6 12. Ba4 Nh5 13. d4 Nhf4 14. Ng3 exd4 15.
Nxd4 Bxd4 16. cxd4 d5 17. Qf3 Qf6 18. Bd1 Rae8 19. Bd2 Qh4 20. Bc2 Qf6 21. Kh2
c6 22. e5 Qh4 23. Bf5 f6 24. exf6 Qxf6 25. Bxf4 Bxf5 26. Rxe8 Rxe8 27. Bd2 Nh4
28. Qf4 Be4 29. Qxf6 gxf6 30. Bxa5 Bxg2 31. Rg1 Ra8 32. Bc3 Bf3 33. Nf5+ Ng6 34.
Nh4 Be4 35. f3 Bd3 36. Nxg6 hxg6 37. a3 Kf7 38. h4 Re8 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.11"]
[White "Predke, Alexandr"]
[Black "Ferreira, Jorge Viterbo"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2631"]
[BlackElo "2537"]
[ECO "E11"]
[Opening "Bogo-Indian defence"]
[WhiteFideId "24107581"]
[BlackFideId "1910850"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 Bxd2+ 5. Qxd2 O-O 6. e3 d5 7. Be2 Qe7 8.
O-O dxc4 9. Na3 c5 10. dxc5 Qxc5 11. Nxc4 Nc6 12. Rfd1 Bd7 13. a3 Rfd8 14. b4
Qf8 15. Qb2 Ne7 16. Nd6 Rab8 17. Ne5 Be8 18. e4 Nc6 19. Nxc6 Bxc6 20. Qe5 Ne8
21. Nc4 Nf6 22. Nd6 Ne8 23. Nc4 Nf6 24. f3 Ba4 25. Rxd8 Qxd8 26. Nb2 Be8 27. Rd1
Qb6+ 28. Qd4 Qxd4+ 29. Rxd4 Rc8 30. Nc4 Kf8 31. Nd6 Rc2 32. Kf1 b6 33. Bc4 Ba4
34. e5 Ne8 35. Bb5 Bxb5+ 36. Nxb5 a6 37. Nd6 Nxd6 38. Rxd6 Ra2 39. Rxb6 Rxa3 40.
Rb8+ Ke7 41. Rb7+ Kf8 42. Rb8+ Ke7 43. Kf2 Ra2+ 44. Kg3 Rb2 45. Rb6 g6 46. h4 h5
47. Kf4 Rxg2 48. Rxa6 Kf8 49. Rc6 Kg7 50. b5 g5+ 51. hxg5 Rb2 52. Rb6 Kg6 53.
Rb7 Rb4+ 54. Kg3 h4+ 55. Kg2 Rf4 56. Rc7 Kxg5 57. b6 Kg6 58. b7 Rb4 59. Kh3 f6
60. exf6 Kxf6 61. Rh7 Kg6 62. Rd7 e5 63. Re7 Kf6 64. Rh7 Kg6 65. Rd7 Kf6 66. Rc7
Ke6 67. Rh7 Kd6 68. Rh6+ Kd5 69. Rh7 Kc6 70. Re7 Kd6 71. Rh7 Kc6 72. Rxh4 Rxb7 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.12"]
[White "Idani, Pouya"]
[Black "Lobanov, Sergei"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2630"]
[BlackElo "2527"]
[ECO "C78"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "5.O-O"]
[WhiteFideId "12510130"]
[BlackFideId "24183750"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. a4 Rb8 8. c3 d6
9. d4 Bb6 10. Qd3 Bd7 11. axb5 axb5 12. Na3 h6 13. dxe5 Nxe5 14. Nxe5 dxe5 15.
Qg3 Qe7 16. Nc2 Nh5 17. Qf3 Nf6 18. Nb4 O-O 19. Be3 Bxe3 20. Qxe3 Ra8 21. Na6
Rfc8 22. Qc5 Qxc5 23. Nxc5 Be8 24. f3 Kf8 25. Nd3 Nd7 26. Rxa8 Rxa8 27. Bd5 Ra5
28. Bc6 f6 29. Bxd7 Bxd7 30. Nc5 Bc8 31. Rd1 Ke7 32. Kf2 Ra2 33. Rd2 Ra1 34. Ke3
h5 35. Kd3 Kd6 36. b4 Ke7 37. Ke2 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.13"]
[White "Petkov, Momchil"]
[Black "Ivic, Velimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2524"]
[BlackElo "2630"]
[ECO "C48"]
[Opening "Four knights"]
[Variation "Spanish variation"]
[WhiteFideId "2921642"]
[BlackFideId "950122"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bd6 5. d3 O-O 6. Ba4 Re8 7. O-O h6 8. h3
Bf8 9. Nd5 d6 10. Nh2 Be6 11. c4 Nd7 12. f4 Nc5 13. f5 Nxa4 14. Qxa4 Bxd5 15.
cxd5 Nd4 16. Qd1 c6 17. f6 g6 18. Ng4 h5 19. Nh6+ Bxh6 20. Bxh6 cxd5 21. Qd2
dxe4 22. dxe4 Ne6 23. Rad1 Qb6+ 24. Kh1 Rac8 25. Rf3 Rc4 26. Rd3 Rd4 27. Be3
Rxd3 28. Qxd3 Qxb2 29. Rb1 Qxa2 30. Rxb7 Nf4 31. Bxf4 exf4 32. Re7 Rxe7 33. fxe7
Qa1+ 34. Kh2 Qe5 35. Qxd6 Qxd6 36. e8=Q+ Kg7 37. e5 Qe6 38. Qb5 g5 39. Qc5 g4
40. hxg4 hxg4 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.14"]
[White "Mendonca, Leon Luke"]
[Black "Samadov, Read"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2630"]
[BlackElo "2521"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf"]
[WhiteFideId "35028561"]
[BlackFideId "13417444"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Qd3 e6 7. a4 Be7 8. Be2
O-O 9. O-O Bd7 10. Be3 Nc6 11. Nxc6 Bxc6 12. a5 Rc8 13. Rfd1 Qc7 14. Bb6 Qb8 15.
Qe3 Nd7 16. Bd4 Rfd8 17. f3 Bf6 18. Rd2 Qc7 19. Bf1 h6 20. Bxf6 Nxf6 21. b4 d5
22. e5 Nd7 23. f4 Nb8 24. Ra3 Be8 25. Rb3 Qe7 26. b5 axb5 27. Nxb5 Bxb5 28. Rxb5
Rc7 29. Bd3 Nd7 30. Rd1 Nc5 31. Bf1 Na4 32. Ra1 Nc3 33. Rb2 d4 34. Qf3 Nd5 35.
Ra4 Nc3 36. Rab4 Qc5 37. Bd3 Qxa5 38. Rxb7 Na4 39. Rb8 Rcc8 40. Rxc8 Rxc8 41.
Rb1 Nc5 42. Qc6 Qd8 43. Qf3 Qa5 44. Bf1 Qd2 45. Rd1 Qxc2 46. Rxd4 Nb3 47. Rd7
Nd2 48. Qf2 Nxf1 49. Qxc2 Rxc2 50. Kxf1 Rc4 51. g3 g5 52. fxg5 hxg5 53. Rd2 Kg7
54. Re2 Kg6 55. Kg2 Ra4 56. h3 Rb4 57. Re3 Rb2+ 58. Kf3 Kh5 59. Re2 Rb3+ 60. Kg2
Kg6 61. Re1 Ra3 62. Re2 Rb3 63. Re1 Rb2+ 64. Kf3 Kf5 65. Re3 Rb5 66. g4+ Kg6 67.
Kg3 Ra5 68. Kf3 Kg7 69. Kg3 Rb5 70. Kf3 Kf8 71. Kg3 Kg7 72. Kf3 Rb4 73. Kg3 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.15"]
[White "Madaminov, Mukhiddin"]
[Black "Xu, Xiangyu"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2520"]
[BlackElo "2623"]
[ECO "C07"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Tarrasch, open variation"]
[WhiteFideId "14210703"]
[BlackFideId "8608288"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. Ngf3 cxd4 5. exd5 Qxd5 6. Bc4 Qd7 7. O-O Nc6 8.
Nb3 a6 9. a4 Nf6 10. Qe2 Bd6 11. Rd1 Qe7 12. Nbxd4 Nxd4 13. Rxd4 e5 14. Rxd6
Qxd6 15. b3 Be6 16. Ba3 Bxc4 17. Qxc4 Qd5 18. Qc3 Nd7 19. Qe1 O-O-O 20. Rd1 Qe6
21. Ng5 Qg6 22. Be7 Nc5 23. Bxd8 Rxd8 24. Rxd8+ Kxd8 25. Qxe5 Qxc2 26. Nxf7+ Kd7
27. h3 Nxb3 28. Qd5+ Ke7 29. Kh2 Qc7+ 30. Ne5 Nc5 31. f4 Ne6 32. h4 g6 33. h5
gxh5 34. Nd3 Qd7 35. Qf5 Kd8 36. a5 h4 37. Ne5 Qg7 38. Kh1 Qe7 39. Qe4 Ke8 40.
f5 Ng5 41. Qxh4 Qxe5 42. Qxg5 Kf7 43. Qh5+ Kg7 44. Kg1 Kh8 45. g4 Qe1+ 46. Kh2
Qf2+ 47. Kh3 Qe3+ 48. Kh4 Qe1+ 49. Kg5 Qd2+ 50. Kh4 Qe1+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.16"]
[White "Daneshvar, Bardiya"]
[Black "Movahed, Sina"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2621"]
[BlackElo "2518"]
[ECO "D02"]
[Opening "Queen's bishop game"]
[WhiteFideId "12576468"]
[BlackFideId "42520835"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Bf4 c5 4. e3 Nc6 5. Nbd2 e6 6. c3 Be7 7. Ne5 O-O 8. Bd3
Bd7 9. h4 Be8 10. Ndf3 Qb6 11. Qe2 Ne4 12. Nxc6 Qxc6 13. Ne5 Qb6 14. Qc2 f6 15.
Nc4 Qc6 16. f3 Kh8 17. Na5 Qb6 18. fxe4 Qxa5 19. exd5 cxd4 20. d6 Bd8 21. exd4
e5 22. Be3 exd4 23. Bxd4 Bb6 24. Bxb6 axb6 25. O-O Qc5+ 26. Kh1 Bc6 27. Bxh7
Rae8 28. Bg6 Re3 29. Qf5 Rg3 30. Rg1 Kg8 31. Qe6+ Kh8 32. Qf5 Kg8 33. Qe6+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.17"]
[White "Kacharava, Nikolozi"]
[Black "Theodorou, Nikolas"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2516"]
[BlackElo "2611"]
[ECO "B33"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Pelikan, Chelyabinsk variation"]
[WhiteFideId "13611860"]
[BlackFideId "4262875"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8. Na3
b5 9. Nab1 Be7 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. a4 b4 12. Nd5 O-O 13. Bc4 Rb8 14. O-O Bg5 15.
c3 bxc3 16. b3 c2 17. Qxc2 Nd4 18. Qd1 h5 19. Nbc3 g6 20. b4 a5 21. bxa5 Qxa5
22. Nb5 Bg4 23. f3 Be6 24. f4 Bxd5 25. Bxd5 Nxb5 26. axb5 Qb6+ 27. Kh1 exf4 28.
Bc6 Qc5 29. Qd5 Bf6 30. Ra6 Be5 31. b6 Qe3 32. b7 Kg7 33. Qc4 h4 34. Rf3 Qc5 35.
Ra4 Rfc8 36. Qxc5 dxc5 37. Bd5 Rd8 38. g3 hxg3 39. hxg3 g5 40. gxf4 Bxf4 41. Rc4
f5 42. Rxc5 fxe4 43. Bxe4 Rd4 44. Rxf4 gxf4 45. Rc8 Rd8 46. Rc7+ Kf6 47. Kg2 Ke5
48. Kf3 Rf8 49. Rc5+ Kd6 50. Rc6+ Ke5 51. Rc5+ Kd6 52. Rc6+ Ke5 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.18"]
[White "Muradli, Mahammad"]
[Black "Nikitenko, Mihail"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2603"]
[BlackElo "2516"]
[ECO "E10"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[WhiteFideId "13409301"]
[BlackFideId "13506862"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 h6 4. g3 Bb4+ 5. Nbd2 O-O 6. Bg2 d5 7. O-O a5 8. Qc2
a4 9. Rd1 Nc6 10. a3 Be7 11. e3 Bd7 12. Ne5 Na5 13. e4 Nb3 14. Nxb3 axb3 15. Qe2
Nxe4 16. Bxe4 dxe4 17. Qxe4 b5 18. d5 Bd6 19. Nxd7 Qxd7 20. cxb5 e5 21. Qc4 f5
22. Qxb3 f4 23. gxf4 Qg4+ 24. Kh1 exf4 25. f3 Qh3 26. Bd2 Rae8 27. Qd3 Rf5 28.
Rg1 Ree5 29. Qf1 Qxf1 30. Raxf1 Rxd5 31. Bc3 g5 32. a4 Bc5 33. Rg2 Be3 34. Rc2
Kf7 35. Ba5 Rc5 36. Rc3 Rxc3 37. bxc3 Rc5 38. Bb4 Rd5 39. Ra1 h5 40. h3 Kg6 41.
a5 g4 42. fxg4 hxg4 43. hxg4 Kg5 44. c4 Rd7 45. Kg2 Kxg4 46. Re1 Rd4 47. a6 Rxc4
48. Ba5 Rc2+ 49. Kf1 Rf2+ 50. Kg1 Ra2+ 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.19"]
[White "Aswath, S"]
[Black "Tin, Jingyao"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2515"]
[BlackElo "2601"]
[ECO "D11"]
[Opening "QGD Slav"]
[Variation "3.Nf3"]
[WhiteFideId "46694919"]
[BlackFideId "5804418"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 Bg4 5. Ne5 Bf5 6. cxd5 cxd5 7. Nc3 Nc6 8. f3
g6 9. Bg2 Bg7 10. O-O O-O 11. e3 Rc8 12. g4 Bd7 13. Nxd7 Qxd7 14. h3 Na5 15. Qd3
Rfd8 16. b3 Nc6 17. Bb2 h5 18. Qd2 Bh6 19. Qe2 Nb4 20. a3 Nc6 21. b4 Nb8 22.
Rac1 hxg4 23. hxg4 Bg7 24. f4 e6 25. Bf3 Qe7 26. Na4 b6 27. Rc2 Ne8 28. Rfc1
Rxc2 29. Rxc2 Nd6 30. Bc1 Nc4 31. Rc3 Rc8 32. b5 Qd7 33. Nb2 Nxa3 34. Rxa3 Rxc1+
35. Kg2 Qc7 36. Rd3 Bf8 37. Rd1 Rc3 38. Nd3 Nd7 39. Rd2 Qc4 40. f5 Bh6 41. fxe6
fxe6 42. Nf4 Qxe2+ 43. Rxe2 Kf7 44. Kf2 Rb3 45. Ra2 Bxf4 46. exf4 Rxb5 47. Rxa7
Ke7 48. Bd1 Ra5 49. Rb7 Kd6 50. Kg3 Kc6 51. Rxd7 Kxd7 52. Kh4 b5 53. Kg5 Ra2 54.
Kxg6 Rd2 55. Bf3 Rf2 56. Bd1 Rxf4 57. g5 Ke7 58. Kh6 Rxd4 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.20"]
[White "Azarov, Sergei"]
[Black "Aronyak, Ghosh"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2596"]
[BlackElo "2514"]
[ECO "B12"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "advance variation"]
[WhiteFideId "13501470"]
[BlackFideId "25072846"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. g4 Be4 5. f3 Bg6 6. e6 Qd6 7. exf7+ Bxf7 8. Nc3
g6 9. f4 Nf6 10. Bh3 c5 11. Nf3 cxd4 12. Nxd4 Bg7 13. Be3 Nc6 14. g5 Nh5 15.
Ndb5 Qd8 16. Nxd5 O-O 17. Ndc7 Bxb2 18. O-O Qxd1 19. Raxd1 Rad8 20. Ne6 Bxe6 21.
Bxe6+ Kh8 22. Rxd8 Rxd8 23. Rb1 Bg7 24. Bg4 b6 25. Rd1 Rxd1+ 26. Bxd1 a6 27. Nc7
Nd4 28. Kf2 a5 29. Bxh5 gxh5 30. Bxd4 Bxd4+ 31. Kf3 Bg1 32. h3 Kg7 33. Ke4 h6
34. Ne6+ Kf7 35. Kf5 hxg5 36. fxg5 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.21"]
[White "Malek, Jan"]
[Black "Paravyan, David"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2511"]
[BlackElo "2596"]
[ECO "D41"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Semi-Tarrasch with e3"]
[WhiteFideId "21864080"]
[BlackFideId "4194985"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Nf3 c5 6. e3 cxd4 7. exd4 Nxc3 8.
bxc3 Qc7 9. a4 Bd6 10. Bb5+ Nd7 11. O-O O-O 12. a5 Nf6 13. Qe2 Bd7 14. Bd3 b5
15. Bxb5 Qxc3 16. Bd2 Bxb5 17. Qxb5 a6 18. Qb6 Qc7 19. Qxc7 Bxc7 20. Rfc1 Rfc8
21. Kf1 Nd5 22. Rc6 Ne7 23. Rc2 Bd8 24. Rxc8 Rxc8 25. Ke2 f6 26. g4 Kf8 27. Kd3
Rb8 28. Kc4 Rb5 29. Bb4 Kf7 30. Ne1 Nc6 31. Nd3 Nxa5+ 32. Bxa5 Rxa5 33. Rxa5
Bxa5 34. Nc5 Bc7 35. h3 a5 36. Kb5 Ke7 37. Nb7 Kd7 38. h4 a4 39. Kxa4 Kc6 40.
Nc5 Kd5 41. Kb3 Bd6 42. Nb7 Bc7 43. Nc5 Bb6 44. Kb4 e5 45. Kb5 Ba7 46. g5 e4 47.
gxf6 gxf6 48. h5 f5 49. Kb4 f4 50. Nd7 Bxd4 51. Kb3 f3 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.22"]
[White "Pichot, Alan"]
[Black "Visakh, N R"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2587"]
[BlackElo "2507"]
[ECO "C90"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "closed, Pilnik variation"]
[WhiteFideId "110973"]
[BlackFideId "25012223"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. d3 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3 d6
9. Re1 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. Nbd2 Re8 12. Nf1 Nc6 13. h3 Bf8 14. Bg5 h6 15. Bh4 g6
16. Ne3 Bg7 17. Nh2 Ne7 18. Nhg4 Nxg4 19. hxg4 Be6 20. Bb3 Bxb3 21. axb3 f6 22.
Qf3 Qd7 23. Ra3 Rf8 24. Rea1 Qb7 25. b4 Kh7 26. Qd1 Rfd8 27. Qf3 Rf8 28. R1a2
Ra7 29. bxc5 dxc5 30. c4 Nc6 31. Nd5 b4 32. Ra4 b3 33. Ra1 Nd4 34. Qd1 Nc2 35.
Rc1 a5 36. Rxc2 bxc2 37. Qxc2 g5 38. Bg3 Rb8 39. Ra2 Qb3 40. Qxb3 Rxb3 41. f3
Rxd3 42. Bf2 Bf8 43. b4 a4 44. bxc5 a3 45. c6 Ra6 46. c7 Rc6 47. c5 Bxc5 48.
Nxf6+ Kg6 49. Nd5 Kf7 50. Kh2 Bxf2 51. Nb4 Rdc3 52. Nxc6 Rxc6 53. Rxf2 Rxc7 54.
Ra2 Ra7 55. Kg1 Ke6 56. Kf2 Kd6 57. Ke2 Kc5 58. Kd2 Kb4 59. Kc2 Rd7 60. Ra1 Rc7+
61. Kd3 Rc3+ 62. Kd2 Rb3 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.23"]
[White "Ohanyan, Emin"]
[Black "Vescovi, Giovanni"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2503"]
[BlackElo "2584"]
[ECO "C53"]
[Opening "Giuoco Piano"]
[WhiteFideId "13312022"]
[BlackFideId "2100789"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. e5 d5 7. Bb5 Ne4 8. cxd4
Bb6 9. Nc3 O-O 10. Be3 Ne7 11. Qc2 Bf5 12. Bd3 Nxc3 13. bxc3 Qd7 14. a4 c6 15.
O-O Bc7 16. Rab1 b6 17. Nh4 Bxd3 18. Qxd3 c5 19. f4 Qxa4 20. dxc5 Qc6 21. cxb6
Bxb6 22. Bxb6 axb6 23. f5 f6 24. e6 Ra3 25. Qd4 Rxc3 26. Qxb6 Qxb6+ 27. Rxb6 Rc7
28. g4 g6 29. Rfb1 Kg7 30. Rb7 Rfc8 31. Rxc7 Rxc7 32. Rb8 gxf5 33. Nxf5+ Kg6 34.
Nd6 d4 35. Kf2 d3 36. Ke3 Rc5 37. Re8 Re5+ 38. Kxd3 Rxe6 39. Nf5 Kf7 40. Rxe7+
Rxe7 41. Nxe7 Kxe7 42. Ke4 h5 43. gxh5 Kf7 44. Kf5 Kg7 45. h4 Kh6 46. Kxf6 Kxh5
47. Kf5 Kxh4 48. Ke4 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.24"]
[White "Kozak, Adam"]
[Black "Klimkowski, Jan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2578"]
[BlackElo "2503"]
[ECO "D38"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Ragozin variation"]
[WhiteFideId "753246"]
[BlackFideId "21856222"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 c5 8.
cxd5 exd5 9. dxc5 Nxc5 10. e3 Nce4 11. Bb5+ Bd7 12. Bxd7+ Qxd7 13. Bxf6 Nxf6 14.
Ne5 Qb5 15. Rb1 Qa6 16. Qe2 Qxe2+ 17. Kxe2 b6 18. c4 dxc4 19. Rhc1 Rc8 20. Nxc4
Ke7 21. Ne5 Rxc1 22. Rxc1 Ra8 23. f3 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.25"]
[White "Assaubayeva, Bibisara"]
[Black "Gupta, Abhijeet"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2494"]
[BlackElo "2577"]
[ECO "B93"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, 6.f4"]
[WhiteFideId "13708694"]
[BlackFideId "5010608"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. f4 e5 7. Nb3 Nc6 8. f5
Be7 9. Bd3 d5 10. Nxd5 Nxd5 11. exd5 Qxd5 12. Qg4 Nb4 13. O-O Nxd3 14. Qxg7 Rf8
15. cxd3 Bd7 16. f6 Bd6 17. Qxh7 Bc6 18. Qe4 Qb5 19. Qg4 Bd7 20. Qe2 Rg8 21. Be3
Bg4 22. Qe1 Bh3 23. Rf2 Qd5 24. Qe2 O-O-O 25. Nd2 Bg4 26. Qf1 Kb8 27. Ne4 Bc7
28. Rd2 Ba5 29. Nc3 Qc6 30. Rc1 Rg6 31. Rf2 Qd7 32. Bc5 Bxc3 33. Rxc3 Bh3 34.
Qe2 Qd5 35. g3 e4 36. d4 Qxa2 37. Rc1 Qd5 38. Qe3 Ka8 39. Re1 Re8 40. Rf4 Rg4
41. Rxg4 Bxg4 42. b4 Bd7 43. Qf4 Bc6 44. Qe3 Rh8 45. Re2 Bb5 46. Qxe4 Qc4 47.
Re1 Qa2 48. Qg2 Qb3 49. d5 Qd3 50. h4 Bc4 51. d6 Bb5 52. Kh2 Bc6 53. Qe2 Qf5 54.
Rf1 Qg5 55. Qf2 Qd5 56. Re1 Rg8 57. Kh3 Bd7+ 58. Kh2 Bc6 59. Kh3 Qd3 60. Re3 Qd1
61. Re1 Qg4+ 62. Kh2 Rh8 63. Re3 Qd1 64. Re1 Qd5 65. Kh3 Rg8 66. Kh2 Rb8 67. Kh3
b6 68. Bd4 Qxd6 69. Be5 Qd7+ 70. Kh2 Re8 71. Bf4 Rxe1 72. Qxe1 Qd5 73. Qf1 Kb7
74. g4 Qa2+ 75. Kg1 Qe6 76. Qd1 Qe4 77. Qf1 Qh1+ 78. Kf2 Qxh4+ 79. Ke3 Qxf6 80.
Qc4 Qe7+ 81. Kd2 Qd7+ 82. Kc3 Bd5 83. Qd4 Qc6+ 84. Kb2 Qb5 85. Ka3 a5 86. Bd2 a4
87. Be3 Bc6 88. g5 Kc8 89. Qh8+ Kd7 90. Qd4+ Ke6 91. Qf6+ Kd7 92. Qxf7+ Kc8 93.
Qg8+ Be8 94. Qe6+ Bd7 95. Qe4 Bc6 96. Qg4+ Bd7 97. Qe4 Bc6 98. Qg4+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.26"]
[White "Iniyan, Pa"]
[Black "Royal, Shreyas"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2573"]
[BlackElo "2493"]
[ECO "D23"]
[Opening "QGA"]
[Variation "Mannheim variation"]
[WhiteFideId "25002767"]
[BlackFideId "448869"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Qa4+ Nc6 5. Qxc4 e5 6. Nxe5 Nxe5 7. dxe5 Ng4
8. Nc3 c6 9. Qe4 Bc5 10. e3 Qe7 11. f4 O-O 12. Bd3 g6 13. Qf3 Rd8 14. Be2 Qh4+
15. g3 Qh3 16. Bf1 Qh5 17. Ne4 Bb4+ 18. Bd2 Bxd2+ 19. Nxd2 Qf5 20. O-O-O Qe6 21.
Bc4 Qe7 22. h3 b5 23. hxg4 bxc4 24. Ne4 Bxg4 25. Qxg4 f5 26. Qg5 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.27"]
[White "Xiao, Tong(QD)"]
[Black "Bai, Jinshi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2493"]
[BlackElo "2572"]
[ECO "C47"]
[Opening "Four knights"]
[Variation "Scotch, 4...exd4"]
[WhiteFideId "8622388"]
[BlackFideId "8602280"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bb4 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bd3 d5 8.
Bd2 O-O 9. O-O Bxc3 10. Bxc3 dxe4 11. Bxf6 Qxf6 12. Bxe4 Qxb2 13. Bxc6 Rb8 14.
Rb1 Qxb1 15. Qxb1 Rxb1 16. Rxb1 Rd8 17. Bf3 Kf8 18. Rb8 Re8 19. h4 Ba6 20. Rb3
Be2 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.28"]
[White "Samunenkov, Ihor"]
[Black "Mamedov, Edgar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2572"]
[BlackElo "2492"]
[ECO "C88"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "closed, anti-Marshall 8.a4"]
[WhiteFideId "14187086"]
[BlackFideId "13739980"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. a4
Bb7 9. c3 d5 10. exd5 Nxd5 11. d3 b4 12. a5 Bf6 13. Qc2 Qd7 14. Bc4 Nce7 15.
Nfd2 Ng6 16. Ne4 Be7 17. Nbd2 Nh4 18. Nf1 Qg4 19. Neg3 Nxg2 20. Rxe5 Ndf4 21.
Bxf4 Nxf4 22. Ne3 Qd7 23. Ne4 Kh8 24. d4 f5 25. Nc5 Bxc5 26. Rxc5 Qd6 27. Re5
Qg6+ 28. Kf1 Qh5 29. f3 Qxf3+ 30. Qf2 Qh3+ 31. Kg1 Qh6 32. Kf1 Ng6 33. Re6 f4
34. Ng2 Qxh2 35. d5 Qh1+ 36. Qg1 Qh3 37. Kf2 Qg3+ 38. Kf1 Bc8 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.29"]
[White "Huang, Renjie"]
[Black "Amar, Elham"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2491"]
[BlackElo "2569"]
[ECO "B46"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Taimanov variation"]
[WhiteFideId "8610134"]
[BlackFideId "1533533"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 Qc7 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8.
Qd3 Nf6 9. Qg3 Qxg3 10. hxg3 d5 11. g4 Nxe4 12. Nxe4 dxe4 13. Be3 e5 14. O-O-O
a5 15. Rh4 Be7 16. g5 Bf5 17. Bg4 g6 18. Rdh1 h5 19. Bh3 f6 20. Bxf5 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.30"]
[White "Can, Emre"]
[Black "Rohith, Krishna S"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2568"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[ECO "C88"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "closed, anti-Marshall 8.a4"]
[WhiteFideId "6302181"]
[BlackFideId "46617051"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. a4
Bb7 9. d3 d6 10. Bd2 Qd7 11. h3 Nd8 12. axb5 axb5 13. Rxa8 Bxa8 14. Nc3 c5 15.
Nd5 Nxd5 16. exd5 f6 17. c4 Nf7 18. cxb5 Qxb5 19. Qc2 Bb7 20. Bc4 Qd7 21. Ra1
Ra8 22. Ra3 g6 23. Qb3 Kg7 24. Bc3 f5 25. Nd2 Bf6 26. Qa2 Qc8 27. Nb3 f4 28. Nd2
Be7 29. Bb5 h5 30. Kf1 g5 31. Ne4 Kf8 32. Rxa8 Bxa8 33. Bd7 Qxd7 34. Qxa8+ Kg7
35. Qc6 Qd8 36. g4 hxg4 37. hxg4 Kg8 38. Ke2 Kg7 39. Qb7 Bf8 40. Ba5 Qe7 41. Bc7
Qd7 42. f3 Qa4 43. Kd2 Kg8 44. Bd8 Qd4 45. Kc2 c4 46. dxc4 Qxc4+ 47. Kb1 Qd3+
48. Ka2 Nxd8 49. Nf6+ Kh8 50. Qd7 Qa6+ 51. Kb1 Qf1+ 52. Ka2 Qa6+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.31"]
[White "Davtyan, Artur"]
[Black "Karthik, Venkataraman"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2485"]
[BlackElo "2565"]
[ECO "E40"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "4.e3"]
[WhiteFideId "13308327"]
[BlackFideId "25006479"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 e6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 d5 5. a3 Be7 6. Nf3 O-O 7. c5 c6 8. Bd2 Nbd7
9. b4 Qc7 10. Be2 e5 11. O-O Re8 12. Qc2 e4 13. Nh4 Nf8 14. f4 Ng4 15. Bxg4 Bxg4
16. Be1 Qd8 17. Qf2 Bd7 18. f5 b6 19. g4 bxc5 20. bxc5 Bc8 21. Ng2 Ba6 22. Ne2
Rb8 23. Bb4 h6 24. Rfe1 Nh7 25. h4 Bc4 26. Rab1 Bd3 27. Rb2 a5 28. Bc3 Rxb2 29.
Bxb2 Qb8 30. Bc3 Bd8 31. Nef4 Bc7 32. Qd2 Qb5 33. Ra1 Rb8 34. a4 Qa6 35. Kh2 Rb3
36. Kg1 Nf6 37. g5 hxg5 38. hxg5 Nh7 39. Nh3 Qc8 40. Bxa5 Bg3 41. Ngf4 Qxf5 42.
Qg2 Bxf4 43. Nxf4 Nxg5 44. Ra2 Rb1+ 45. Kf2 Ne6 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.32"]
[White "Ahmadzada, Ahmad"]
[Black "Pang, Tao"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2564"]
[BlackElo "2485"]
[ECO "C10"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Rubinstein variation"]
[WhiteFideId "13413007"]
[BlackFideId "8609950"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Nf3 Ngf6 6. Nxf6+ Nxf6 7. g3 b6 8.
Bb5+ Bd7 9. a4 a6 10. Be2 Bc6 11. O-O Bd6 12. Ne5 Bxe5 13. dxe5 Qd5 14. Qxd5
Nxd5 15. a5 b5 16. Bd2 O-O-O 17. Rfd1 Rd7 18. f3 Rhd8 19. Kf2 Ne7 20. Be3 Ng6
21. f4 Be4 22. Rxd7 Rxd7 23. Rc1 Ne7 24. Bc5 Nf5 25. b4 Nd4 26. Bxd4 Rxd4 27. c3
Rd7 28. Rd1 Bd5 29. Ke3 c5 30. bxc5 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.33"]
[White "Isik, Alparslan"]
[Black "Akobian, Varuzhan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2482"]
[BlackElo "2564"]
[ECO "A84"]
[Opening "Dutch defence"]
[WhiteFideId "34506896"]
[BlackFideId "13300580"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 d5 5. Bg2 c6 6. O-O Bd6 7. b3 Qe7 8. Bb2 O-O
9. Qc1 Nbd7 10. Ba3 Bxa3 11. Qxa3 Qxa3 12. Nxa3 b6 13. Rac1 Bb7 14. Ne1 Rfc8 15.
Nd3 Kf8 16. Rc2 Ke7 17. Rfc1 a5 18. Nb1 Rab8 19. Nd2 Ne4 20. Nf3 c5 21. cxd5
exd5 22. dxc5 bxc5 23. Nfe5 Nxe5 24. Nxe5 Kd6 25. Nd3 c4 26. bxc4 Rxc4 27. Rxc4
dxc4 28. Rxc4 Bd5 29. Rc2 Rb1+ 30. Bf1 Rd1 31. Nb2 Ra1 32. f3 Nc5 33. Kf2 Rxa2
34. Nc4+ Bxc4 35. Rxc4 a4 36. Rc3 Rb2 37. Ra3 Kc6 38. Ke1 Kb5 39. Ra1 Kb4 40.
Kd1 a3 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.34"]
[White "Zemlyanskii, Ivan"]
[Black "Injac, Teodora"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2563"]
[BlackElo "2474"]
[ECO "E43"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "Fischer variation"]
[WhiteFideId "24249971"]
[BlackFideId "932400"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 b6 5. Bd3 Bb7 6. Nf3 c5 7. O-O O-O 8. Na4
cxd4 9. exd4 Re8 10. a3 Bf8 11. b4 d6 12. Be3 Nbd7 13. Be2 Ne4 14. Rc1 Rc8 15.
Qb3 Rc7 16. Rfd1 Qa8 17. Ne1 g6 18. f3 Nef6 19. Nc3 a6 20. Nd3 Bg7 21. a4 Nh5
22. Qa2 Qd8 23. Nf2 f5 24. Nh3 h6 25. a5 Kh7 26. axb6 Nxb6 27. c5 Nd5 28. Nxd5
exd5 29. Bf2 dxc5 30. dxc5 Qf6 31. Bd3 d4 32. Qd2 Rd7 33. Ra1 Qc6 34. Ra5 Qd5
35. Rc1 Bc6 36. Bc4 Qe5 37. Rxa6 Qc7 38. b5 Bd5 39. c6 Rd6 40. Bxd5 Rxd5 41. b6
Qd6 42. b7 Rc5 43. Rxc5 Qxc5 44. Ra8 Qxc6 45. b8=Q Qxa8 46. Qxa8 Rxa8 47. g4
fxg4 48. fxg4 Nf6 49. Bxd4 Ra4 50. Bxf6 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.35"]
[White "Siddharth, Jagadeesh"]
[Black "Sankalp, Gupta"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2472"]
[BlackElo "2559"]
[ECO "A15"]
[Opening "English, 1...Nf6 (Anglo-Indian defense)"]
[WhiteFideId "5818320"]
[BlackFideId "5097010"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. g3 e6 3. Bg2 d5 4. Nf3 d4 5. O-O c5 6. e3 Nc6 7. d3 h6 8. Na3 e5 9.
exd4 exd4 10. Bf4 Be7 11. Nb5 O-O 12. Bc7 Qd7 13. Ne5 Nxe5 14. Bxe5 Ng4 15. Bh3
f5 16. Bxg4 fxg4 17. Nc7 Bf6 18. Qe2 Bxe5 19. Qxe5 Rf5 20. Qe8+ Qxe8 21. Nxe8
Rf3 22. Nd6 Rxd3 23. Rfe1 Rf3 24. Re8+ Rf8 25. Rxf8+ Kxf8 26. Re1 Bd7 27. Nxb7
Bf5 28. Nxc5 Rc8 29. Re5 Bb1 30. a3 a5 31. b3 Kf7 32. Kf1 Bc2 33. b4 axb4 34.
axb4 Ra8 35. Ke1 Ra1+ 36. Kd2 Ra2 37. Kc1 Bh7 38. Ne4 Ra4 39. Kd2 Rxb4 40. Kd3
Rb1 41. Kxd4 Rd1+ 42. Kc5 Rc1 43. Nd6+ Kf6 44. Re8 Bd3 45. Rf8+ Ke6 46. Rf4 h5
47. Rd4 Bf1 48. Re4+ Kf6 49. Ne8+ Kf7 50. Nd6+ Kf6 51. Rf4+ Ke6 52. f3 gxf3 53.
Rxf3 g5 54. Re3+ Kf6 55. Rf3+ Ke6 56. h4 gxh4 57. gxh4 Kd7 58. Rf5 Be2 59. Re5
Bf1 60. Rxh5 Rc2 61. Re5 Rh2 62. h5 Rh4 63. Ne4 Kd8 64. Nd6 Kd7 65. Rd5 Ke6 66.
Rg5 Bd3 67. Rg3 Rxh5+ 68. Kc6 Bxc4 69. Nxc4 Rh1 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.36"]
[White "Vetokhin, Savva"]
[Black "Tarhan, Adar"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2558"]
[BlackElo "2472"]
[ECO "E21"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "three knights variation"]
[WhiteFideId "44144474"]
[BlackFideId "34544712"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 O-O 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 c5 7. d5 b5 8. e4 exd5
9. cxd5 Re8 10. e5 Qa5 11. Bd3 Bxc3+ 12. bxc3 Qxc3+ 13. Kf1 Nxd5 14. Rc1 Qa3 15.
Qd2 Ba6 16. Kg1 b4 17. Bxa6 Nxa6 18. h3 Nc3 19. Rc2 Qa4 20. Kh2 d6 21. Re1 dxe5
22. Nxe5 Re6 23. Rcc1 Rae8 24. Qf4 Rxe5 25. Rxe5 Rxe5 26. Qxe5 Qxa2 27. Qe8+ Kh7
28. Re1 Qc4 29. Qc8 Kg6 30. Bg3 b3 31. Be5 Nd5 32. f3 Nb6 33. Qe8 Kh7 34. Re4
Qe6 35. Qf8 f6 36. Bb2 Qg8 37. Qe7 Nd5 38. Qd7 Nac7 39. Rg4 Qf8 40. Kh1 a5 41.
Qa4 Qe7 42. Re4 Qd6 43. Qxb3 Nb4 44. Re1 Qd3 45. Qf7 Ncd5 46. Qe6 c4 47. Re4
Qb1+ 48. Kh2 Qxb2 49. Qf5+ Kg8 50. Qg6 Nc7 51. Re7 Qe5+ 52. Rxe5 fxe5 53. Qf5
Nbd5 54. Qxe5 c3 55. Qd4 Kf7 56. f4 g6 57. Qe4 Kf6 58. g4 a4 59. Qxa4 Ne6 60.
Qc6 Nxf4 61. Qxc3+ Kf7 62. Qe5 Ke7 63. Kg3 Kf7 64. Qh8 h5 65. g5 Ke7 66. Qf6+
Kd6 67. h4 Kd5 68. Qf7 Ke5 69. Qe8 Ke4 70. Qc6+ Ke5 71. Qc3+ Ke4 72. Qe1+ Kd5
73. Kf3 Kd6 74. Qd2+ Ke5 75. Qe3+ Kd5 76. Qe4+ Kd6 77. Ke3 Nd5+ 78. Kd2 Ndf4 79.
Kc3 Nd5+ 80. Kc4 Ndf4 81. Qe1 Nc7 82. Qb4+ Ke5 83. Qb8 Nd5 84. Qh8+ Kf5 85. Qf8+
Kg4 86. Qf7 Kxh4 87. Qxg6 Nf4 88. Qf5 Ncd5 89. Kd4 Kg3 90. g6 Ne7 91. Qg5+ Kf3
92. Qxe7 Nxg6 93. Qe4+ 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.37"]
[White "Divya, Deshmukh"]
[Black "Bharath, Subramaniyam H"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2469"]
[BlackElo "2556"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[WhiteFideId "35006916"]
[BlackFideId "46634827"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bf4 Be7 6. e3 Bf5 7. Qb3 Nc6 8. g4
Nxg4 9. Qxd5 Qxd5 10. Nxd5 Bb4+ 11. Ke2 O-O-O 12. Nxb4 Nxb4 13. Bg3 Rhe8 14. Rc1
Re7 15. Kd2 Nxa2 16. Ra1 Nb4 17. Rxa7 Kb8 18. Ra4 Be4 19. f3 Nxe3 20. fxe4 Nxf1+
21. Kc3 Na6 22. Bh4 f6 23. Nf3 Ne3 24. Nd2 g5 25. Bg3 f5 26. Be5 Nc5 27. Ra5 b6
28. Rb5 Rxe5 29. dxe5 Rd3+ 30. Kb4 Rxd2 31. Rxc5 bxc5+ 32. Kc3 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.38"]
[White "Grebnev, Aleksey"]
[Black "Ilamparthi, A R"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2556"]
[BlackElo "2469"]
[ECO "B31"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Nimzovich-Rossolimo attack (with ...g6, without ...d6)"]
[WhiteFideId "34189030"]
[BlackFideId "45015775"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4. O-O Bg7 5. Re1 e5 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. d3 Qc7 8. a4
a5 9. Be3 b6 10. Nbd2 Nf6 11. Nc4 Nd7 12. Qc1 h6 13. h3 Ba6 14. c3 Nf8 15. b4
Bxc4 16. dxc4 axb4 17. cxb4 cxb4 18. c5 bxc5 19. Bxc5 Ne6 20. Bxb4 c5 21. Bd2 h5
22. Qc4 O-O 23. a5 Ra7 24. Reb1 Rfa8 25. Rb5 Bf6 26. Rab1 Qd7 27. Bc3 Nd4 28.
Rb6 Qe7 29. Nd2 Kg7 30. Nf1 Bh4 31. a6 Rd8 32. Rb7 Rd7 33. Rxa7 Rxa7 34. Rb6 Rd7
35. Qa2 Ra7 36. Ne3 Qd7 37. Nc4 Bd8 38. Rd6 Qe8 39. Ba5 Bxa5 40. Qxa5 Qa8 41.
Qxc5 Qxe4 42. Qxe5+ Qxe5 43. Nxe5 Nb3 44. Nd3 Re7 45. Rb6 Nc1 46. a7 Ne2+ 47.
Kf1 Ng3+ 48. fxg3 Rxa7 49. Rb2 Rd7 50. Ke2 Re7+ 51. Kf3 Rd7 52. Ne5 Ra7 53. Re2
Ra3+ 54. Re3 Ra1 55. g4 hxg4+ 56. Nxg4 Rf1+ 57. Ke2 Ra1 58. Re7 Ra5 59. Kf3 Rb5
60. Nf2 Rf5+ 61. Ke3 Ra5 62. Ne4 Rd5 63. Ra7 Kf8 64. Kf4 Rd4 65. Ke5 Rd1 66. Ng5
Re1+ 67. Kf4 Rf1+ 68. Kg4 f5+ 69. Kg3 Re1 70. Nf3 Re4 71. Nh4 Re6 72. Kf4 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.39"]
[White "Nigmatov, Ortik"]
[Black "Pranav, Anand"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2457"]
[BlackElo "2555"]
[ECO "B51"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Canal-Sokolsky (Nimzovich-Rossolimo, Moscow) attack"]
[WhiteFideId "14202131"]
[BlackFideId "46626786"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nf6 6. O-O a6 7. Bd3 Nc5 8.
Nc3 g6 9. Re1 Bg7 10. Bf1 O-O 11. a4 Bg4 12. f3 e5 13. Nde2 Be6 14. Be3 Qb6 15.
Qd2 Qc6 16. Red1 Rfd8 17. Bg5 Rac8 18. a5 Qe8 19. Nc1 Qf8 20. N1a2 h6 21. Bxf6
Bxf6 22. Nb4 Bg5 23. Qf2 h5 24. h4 Bh6 25. Nbd5 f5 26. exf5 Bxf5 27. b4 Ne6 28.
Bd3 Kh8 29. Na4 Re8 30. Nab6 Rcd8 31. Be4 Qf7 32. Nc4 Rf8 33. Bxf5 gxf5 34. c3
Qg6 35. Qb6 e4 36. fxe4 f4 37. Nxd6 f3 38. Ra2 Qg3 39. Nf5 Rxf5 40. Qxe6 Be3+
41. Nxe3 f2+ 42. Rxf2 Qxf2+ 43. Kh1 Qxh4+ 44. Kg1 Qf2+ 45. Kh1 Rxd1+ 46. Nxd1
Qf1+ 47. Kh2 Qf4+ 48. g3 Qd2+ 49. Kh3 Rf1 50. Qc8+ Kg7 51. Qxb7+ Rf7 52. Qd5 Qe2
53. Qg5+ Kh7 54. Ne3 Qf3 55. Kh2 Qe2+ 56. Kh3 Qf3 57. Kh2 Qe2+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.40"]
[White "Sanal, Vahap"]
[Black "Oro, Faustino"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2555"]
[BlackElo "2454"]
[ECO "A05"]
[Opening "Reti opening"]
[WhiteFideId "6300545"]
[BlackFideId "20000197"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. b3 c5 3. Bb2 Nc6 4. e3 g6 5. Be2 Bg7 6. O-O O-O 7. d3 b6 8. Nbd2
Bb7 9. c4 d5 10. a3 Qd6 11. cxd5 Qxd5 12. Nc4 Rfd8 13. Qc2 Rac8 14. Rac1 Qd7 15.
Rfd1 Nd5 16. h3 Qe8 17. Nce5 Nxe5 18. Nxe5 Nf6 19. Qb1 Bd5 20. Nc4 Qc6 21. Bf1
Nd7 22. Bxg7 Kxg7 23. b4 Qf6 24. Nd2 Ba8 25. Qb3 Bc6 26. Rc2 cxb4 27. axb4 Bd5
28. Qb1 e5 29. Rdc1 Rxc2 30. Rxc2 Qd6 31. Qb2 a5 32. bxa5 bxa5 33. Qb5 Ra8 34.
Nc4 Qc6 35. Qb2 Qf6 36. Qa3 a4 37. Nd6 Qe6 38. Rc7 Rd8 39. Be2 h5 40. Ra7 Bc6
41. Bd1 Kg8 42. Rc7 Qd5 43. e4 Qa5 44. Rxc6 Qe1+ 45. Kh2 Qxd1 46. Nxf7 Kxf7 47.
Qd6 Qb3 48. Qxg6+ Ke7 49. Qg5+ Ke8 50. Rg6 Qf7 51. Rg8+ Nf8 52. Qxe5+ Qe7 53.
Qxh5+ Qf7 54. Qe5+ Qe7 55. Qb5+ Qd7 56. Qa5 Qd6+ 57. Rg3 a3 58. e5 Qd5 59. Qa4+
Rd7 60. f4 a2 61. Rf3 Ne6 62. Rf2 Qxd3 63. Qxa2 Qd5 64. Qc2 Kf8 65. Qg6 Rg7 66.
Qf6+ Kg8 67. Rb2 Nf8 68. Qf5 Rg6 69. Qc2 Qd4 70. Qc1 Qe4 71. Qd2 Ne6 72. Rb4 Qf5
73. g4 Qf8 74. f5 Ng5 75. Qd5+ Kh8 76. Ra4 Rg8 77. Ra6 Qb4 78. Rh6+ Nh7 79. Ra6
Qb2+ 80. Kg3 Qc3+ 81. Kg2 Qc2+ 82. Kf1 Qc1+ 83. Ke2 Qc2+ 84. Ke3 Qc3+ 85. Ke2
Qxh3 86. Ra8 Qxg4+ 87. Kd2 Qf4+ 88. Kc3 Qc1+ 89. Kb4 Qb2+ 90. Kc5 Qc3+ 91. Kb5
Qb2+ 92. Kc5 Qc3+ 93. Kb5 Qb2+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.17"]
[Round "1.41"]
[White "Seemann, Jakub"]
[Black "Gavrilescu, David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2453"]
[BlackElo "2554"]
[ECO "D43"]
[Opening "QGD semi-Slav"]
[WhiteFideId "21874697"]
[BlackFideId "1227190"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 c6 5. Qd3 Be7 6. e4 dxc4 7. Qxc4 b5 8. Qd3
b4 9. Na4 Ba6 10. Qc2 Qa5 11. b3 Bxf1 12. Rxf1 Qh5 13. Bg5 Qg6 14. Bxf6 Bxf6 15.
Rg1 Nd7 16. Rc1 Rc8 17. e5 Be7 18. Qxg6 hxg6 19. Ke2 Nb6 20. Rc2 Kd7 21. Nc5+
Bxc5 22. Rxc5 Nd5 23. h4 Rc7 24. Kd3 Ra8 25. Ra5 Rb8 26. Ng5 Rb5 27. Rxb5 cxb5
28. Nxf7 Rc3+ 29. Kd2 Nf4 30. g3 Rd3+ 31. Kc2 Rc3+ 32. Kd2 Rd3+ 33. Kc2 Rc3+ 34.
Kd2 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.1"]
[White "Karthik, Venkataraman"]
[Black "Giri, Anish"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2565"]
[BlackElo "2738"]
[ECO "D45"]
[Opening "QGD semi-Slav"]
[Variation "Stoltz variation"]
[WhiteFideId "25006479"]
[BlackFideId "24116068"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 c6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Qc2 Bd6 7. Be2 O-O 8. O-O
dxc4 9. Rd1 b5 10. e4 Be7 11. b3 b4 12. Na4 c3 13. a3 a5 14. Nc5 bxa3 15. Bxa3
Nxc5 16. Bxc5 Ba6 17. Bxa6 Rxa6 18. Bxe7 Qxe7 19. Qxc3 Rfa8 20. Qc2 Nd7 21. h3
h6 22. Rdc1 e5 23. Qc3 exd4 24. Nxd4 Qxe4 25. Nxc6 a4 26. Rxa4 Rxa4 27. bxa4
Rxa4 28. Re1 Rc4 29. Rxe4 Rxc3 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Tabatabaei, M. Amin"]
[Black "Zemlyanskii, Ivan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2670"]
[BlackElo "2563"]
[ECO "C55"]
[Opening "Two knights defence (Modern bishop's opening)"]
[WhiteFideId "12521213"]
[BlackFideId "24249971"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. Re1 d6 7. a3 Be6 8. Nc3
Qd7 9. Nd5 Rae8 10. c3 Bd8 11. Bg5 Kh8 12. d4 Bg4 13. Bxf6 Bxf6 14. Nxf6 gxf6
15. Be2 Rg8 16. g3 Ne7 17. Nh4 Be6 18. Qd2 Ng6 19. Ng2 Bg4 20. Kh1 Bxe2 21. Rxe2
f5 22. exf5 Qxf5 23. Rae1 Qf3 24. Qe3 Nh4 25. Rg1 Qxe3 26. Rxe3 Nxg2 27. Kxg2
exd4 28. cxd4 Rxe3 29. fxe3 Rg5 30. Rc1 c6 31. e4 Rb5 32. b4 a5 33. bxa5 Rxa5
34. Rb1 b5 35. Rc1 Ra6 36. Kh3 Kg7 37. Kg4 Kg6 38. h4 c5 39. dxc5 Rc6 40. Rb1
Rxc5 41. Rd1 Rc6 42. Rd5 Ra6 43. Rxb5 Rxa3 44. Rb6 h5+ 45. Kf4 f6 46. Rxd6 Ra4
47. Rb6 Rc4 48. Rb3 Ra4 49. Ke3 Rc4 50. Rb6 Kg7 51. Re6 Kf7 52. Rd6 Kg7 53. Rd4
Rc1 54. Rd3 Kg6 55. Kd4 Ra1 56. Rc3 Ra4+ 57. Kd5 Ra5+ 58. Kd6 Re5 59. Rc4 Kf7
60. Rc7+ Kf8 61. Rc4 Kf7 62. Kd7 Re7+ 63. Kc6 Re5 64. Kd6 Kg6 65. Rd4 Kf7 66.
Rb4 Kg6 67. Rc4 Kf7 68. Rc7+ Kf8 69. Rh7 Rxe4 70. Rxh5 Rg4 71. Ke6 Kg7 72. Ra5
Rxg3 73. Kf5 Rf3+ 74. Kg4 Re3 75. h5 Re5 76. Rxe5 fxe5 77. Kf5 Kh6 78. Kxe5 Kxh5
79. Ke4 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.3"]
[White "Akobian, Varuzhan"]
[Black "Sargsyan, Shant"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2564"]
[BlackElo "2666"]
[ECO "E10"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[WhiteFideId "13300580"]
[BlackFideId "13306766"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Nc3 Nbd7 6. Bg5 Bb4 7. Qa4 c5 8.
dxc5 Qa5 9. Qxa5 Bxa5 10. Bd2 Nxc5 11. e3 O-O 12. Be2 b6 13. O-O Bg4 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.4"]
[White "Bharath, Subramaniyam H"]
[Black "Indjic, Aleksandar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2556"]
[BlackElo "2637"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange, positional line"]
[WhiteFideId "46634827"]
[BlackFideId "911925"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Bg5 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Nc3 Be7 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4 O-O 8. Bd3
c6 9. Bg3 Bd6 10. Bxd6 Qxd6 11. h3 Re8 12. Qc2 Nbd7 13. Nf3 Qe7 14. O-O Ne4 15.
b4 Ndf6 16. Rab1 Bf5 17. Na4 Rac8 18. Ne5 Bh7 19. Rfc1 Nd6 20. Bxh7+ Nxh7 21.
Nc5 Ng5 22. a4 a6 23. Qe2 g6 24. Rc2 Kg7 25. Rbc1 h5 26. h4 Nge4 27. g3 Nf6 28.
Kg2 Ra8 29. Ncd3 Nd7 30. Qf3 Nxe5 31. Nxe5 Qe6 32. Nd3 Re7 33. Qf4 Qd7 34. Nc5
Qd8 35. Qf3 Qb6 36. Nd3 Rae8 37. Rb1 Nc4 38. Re2 Qd8 39. Nf4 b5 40. axb5 axb5
41. g4 hxg4 42. Qxg4 Re4 43. Ra1 Rh8 44. Qg5 Qe7 45. Rh1 Qxb4 46. Ra2 Qe7 47.
Ra6 Qxg5+ 48. hxg5 Rc8 49. Ra7 Rb8 50. Rh6 Rxf4 51. exf4 Nd6 52. Rh1 b4 53. Rb1
b3 54. Ra3 b2 55. Rd3 Nc4 56. Kg3 Rb4 57. Kf3 Ra4 58. Ke2 Ra1 59. Rdd1 Ra8 60.
Rd3 Re8+ 61. Kf3 Kf8 62. Rdd1 Re7 63. Rd3 Ke8 64. Rdd1 Kd7 65. Rd3 Re4 66. f5
gxf5 67. Rbd1 c5 68. Rb3 cxd4 69. Kg2 Ke6 70. Rb8 Ke5 71. Rb7 Rg4+ 72. Kf1 Rxg5
73. Ke2 Rh5 74. Re7+ Kd6 75. Rxf7 d3+ 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.5"]
[White "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Black "Malek, Jan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2631"]
[BlackElo "2511"]
[ECO "C84"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "closed defence"]
[WhiteFideId "9301348"]
[BlackFideId "21864080"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. d3 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. Bd2
O-O 9. h3 h6 10. Re1 Rb8 11. a3 a5 12. Bd5 Nxd5 13. exd5 Nd4 14. Nxd4 exd4 15.
Bxa5 Bf6 16. Nd2 Bb7 17. Qf3 Ra8 18. Nb3 Be5 19. Bd2 Ra6 20. Na5 Ba8 21. b4 Qd7
22. Rac1 Re8 23. Re2 f6 24. Rce1 Qf7 25. Nc6 Bxc6 26. dxc6 Rxa3 27. Qf5 Rd8 28.
h4 d5 29. Bf4 Ra6 30. Bxe5 fxe5 31. Qxe5 Rxc6 32. Qxd4 Rg6 33. Re5 h5 34. g3 c6
35. Re7 Qf3 36. Qe3 Qg4 37. Re6 Rd6 38. Rxd6 Rxd6 39. Qe8+ Kh7 40. Re5 Rh6 41.
Qf7 Rg6 42. Kg2 Qd1 43. Qf5 Kh6 44. Re8 Kh7 45. Re6 Qg4 46. Qxg6+ Qxg6 47. Rxg6
Kxg6 48. Kf3 Kf5 49. d4 g6 50. c3 g5 51. hxg5 Kxg5 52. Kg2 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.6"]
[White "Ivic, Velimir"]
[Black "Vetokhin, Savva"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2630"]
[BlackElo "2558"]
[ECO "C55"]
[Opening "Two knights defence (Modern bishop's opening)"]
[WhiteFideId "950122"]
[BlackFideId "44144474"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. Re1 d6 7. a3 a5 8. h3 h6
9. Nc3 Be6 10. b3 Qd7 11. Bb5 Qc8 12. Bxc6 bxc6 13. d4 Nd7 14. Bb2 Bf6 15. Ne2
a4 16. b4 exd4 17. Bxd4 Ne5 18. Bxe5 dxe5 19. Nc1 Bc4 20. Nd3 Rd8 21. Qc1 Bxd3
22. cxd3 Rxd3 23. Re3 Rxe3 24. Qxe3 Qe6 25. Rd1 Be7 26. Rd3 c5 27. bxc5 c6 28.
Qc1 Rb8 29. Qc2 Rb3 30. Nd2 Rxd3 31. Qxd3 Bxc5 32. Qc2 Bd4 33. Qxa4 Qa2 34. Qxc6
Bxf2+ 35. Kxf2 Qxd2+ 36. Kg1 Qe3+ 37. Kh2 Qxa3 38. Qe8+ Qf8 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.7"]
[White "Tin, Jingyao"]
[Black "Grebnev, Aleksey"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2601"]
[BlackElo "2556"]
[ECO "A07"]
[Opening "Reti"]
[Variation "King's Indian attack (Barcza system)"]
[WhiteFideId "5804418"]
[BlackFideId "34189030"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Nc6 3. d4 Bf5 4. a3 e6 5. Bg2 h6 6. c4 Nf6 7. Nc3 Be7 8. Ne5 O-O
9. Nxc6 bxc6 10. O-O dxc4 11. Qa4 Qxd4 12. Be3 Qe5 13. Bf4 Qc5 14. Be3 Qe5 15.
Qxc6 Rab8 16. Ra2 Nd5 17. Nxd5 exd5 18. Bxd5 Rxb2 19. Qxc4 Rxa2 20. Qxa2 Bxa3
21. Rd1 Bd6 22. Bxa7 Be6 23. Bxe6 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.8"]
[White "Nikitenko, Mihail"]
[Black "Azarov, Sergei"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2516"]
[BlackElo "2596"]
[ECO "C78"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "5.O-O"]
[WhiteFideId "13506862"]
[BlackFideId "13501470"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. c3 d6 8. d4 Bb6
9. Be3 O-O 10. Nbd2 Re8 11. Re1 h6 12. h3 exd4 13. cxd4 Na5 14. Bc2 Bb7 15. Qb1
Nc4 16. Nxc4 bxc4 17. d5 c6 18. Ba4 Rc8 19. Nd2 Bxe3 20. Rxe3 Re7 21. dxc6 Bxc6
22. Qc2 Bxa4 23. Qxa4 d5 24. Qxa6 Re6 25. Qa4 Nxe4 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.9"]
[White "Paravyan, David"]
[Black "Dai, Changren"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2596"]
[BlackElo "2531"]
[ECO "C77"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "Anderssen variation"]
[WhiteFideId "4194985"]
[BlackFideId "8608156"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bh4 d6
9. c3 Ba7 10. Nbd2 g5 11. Bg3 Na5 12. Bc2 Nh5 13. b4 Nc6 14. Bb3 Qf6 15. Bd5 Bd7
16. d4 Nxg3 17. fxg3 g4 18. O-O gxf3 19. Rxf3 Qg5 20. Rxf7 Nxd4 21. cxd4 Bxd4+
22. Kh1 Bxa1 23. Nf3 Qe3 24. Qxa1 O-O-O 25. Qf1 Rhf8 26. Nxe5 Rxf7 27. Nxf7 Re8
28. h3 Qxg3 29. Nxh6 c6 30. Nf5 Qe5 31. Qc1 Kb7 32. Bf7 Rh8 33. Qg5 d5 34. Qg3
Qxg3 35. Nxg3 Rh7 36. Bh5 dxe4 37. Kg1 e3 38. Kf1 Be6 39. Bf3 Bxa2 40. Ke2 Re7
41. Ne4 a5 42. bxa5 b4 43. h4 Ka6 44. h5 b3 45. Nc5+ Kb5 46. Nd3 c5 47. a6 c4
48. Nf4 b2 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.10"]
[White "Visakh, N R"]
[Black "Iniyan, Pa"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2507"]
[BlackElo "2573"]
[ECO "D00"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn, Mason variation, Steinitz counter-gambit"]
[WhiteFideId "25012223"]
[BlackFideId "25002767"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 c5 3. e3 Nc6 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. Nbd2 e6 6. Bb5 cxd4 7. exd4 Bd6 8.
Bxd6 Qxd6 9. c3 Nf6 10. O-O O-O 11. Re1 h6 12. Bd3 Nh5 13. h3 Nf4 14. Bf1 Bf5
15. Nb3 g5 16. Ne5 f6 17. Ng4 Bxg4 18. Qxg4 Rae8 19. Rad1 h5 20. Qg3 h4 21. Qg4
Rf7 22. Nc5 e5 23. Nd3 Ne6 24. dxe5 fxe5 25. c4 d4 26. b4 Nf4 27. Nxf4 Rxf4 28.
Qxg5+ Kf7 29. b5 Na5 30. Be2 Re7 31. c5 Qf6 32. Bh5+ Kf8 33. Qxf6+ Rxf6 34. Bf3
Ke8 35. Re4 Kd7 36. Rde1 Nc4 37. Be2 Na3 38. Bg4+ Kd8 39. Rxe5 Rxe5 40. Rxe5
Nxb5 41. Re4 Ra6 42. Be2 Ra5 43. Bxb5 Rxb5 44. Rxd4+ Kc7 45. Rxh4 Rxc5 46. a4 a5
47. Kf1 b5 48. axb5 Rxb5 49. Rc4+ Kb6 50. g4 Rb1+ 51. Kg2 Rb4 52. Rc1 a4 53. g5
a3 54. Ra1 Ra4 55. g6 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.11"]
[White "Mamedov, Edgar"]
[Black "Sevian, Samuel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2492"]
[BlackElo "2694"]
[ECO "E15"]
[Opening "Queen's Indian"]
[Variation "Nimzovich variation (exaggerated fianchetto)"]
[WhiteFideId "13739980"]
[BlackFideId "2040506"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Nc3 d5 8. cxd5
exd5 9. Bg2 O-O 10. O-O Nbd7 11. Rc1 Re8 12. Ne5 Bb7 13. Rc2 h6 14. Bc1 a6 15.
Bb2 Bd6 16. Nc4 Bb4 17. Nd2 Nf8 18. e3 Ne6 19. Nc4 Rb8 20. Ne5 Bd6 21. Ne2 c5
22. dxc5 bxc5 23. Nf4 Ng5 24. Ng4 Nxg4 25. Qxg4 Bc8 26. Qh4 Bxf4 27. exf4 Nh3+
28. Kh1 Qxh4 29. gxh4 Nxf4 30. Rxc5 Re2 31. Bd4 Nxg2 32. Kxg2 Rxa2 33. Rc3 Bf5
34. Rg3 g6 35. Re1 Be4+ 36. Kg1 Ra3 37. Rc1 Bf5 38. Rc6 h5 39. Rd6 Be6 40. Rc3
Ra1+ 41. Kg2 Rd1 42. Bf6 a5 43. Re3 Rc1 44. Rc3 Rxc3 45. Bxc3 Kh7 46. Bxa5 Rb6
47. b4 Rxb4 48. f3 Rb3 49. Bd8 Kg7 50. Kg3 Rb2 51. Bb6 Re2 52. Bd4+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.12"]
[White "Abdusattorov, Nodirbek"]
[Black "Aditya, Mittal"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2771"]
[BlackElo "2547"]
[ECO "B56"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Venice attack"]
[WhiteFideId "14204118"]
[BlackFideId "35042025"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Bb5+ Nbd7 7. Nde2 Be7 8.
Bg5 O-O 9. Bxd7 Nxd7 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11. Nd5 Qd8 12. Qd2 Nb6 13. Ne3 f5 14. exf5
Bxf5 15. Rd1 Rc8 16. O-O d5 17. c3 Be6 18. f4 Qd6 19. fxe5 Qxe5 20. Nd4 Rf7 21.
Rf3 Rxf3 22. Re1 Rf1+ 23. Rxf1 Re8 24. b3 h6 25. Rf3 Bf7 26. Rg3 Kh7 27. a4 Bg6
28. Qd1 Qf4 29. Qf3 Qxf3 30. Rxf3 Be4 31. Rf4 Kg6 32. h4 h5 33. Rf2 Bd3 34. Nef5
Nd7 35. Nd6 Re1+ 36. Kh2 Nf6 37. Rd2 Re3 38. Nf3 Be2 39. Ng1 Ng4+ 40. Kh1 Nf2+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.13"]
[White "Maghsoodloo, Parham"]
[Black "Sethuraman, S.P."]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2706"]
[BlackElo "2552"]
[ECO "D32"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Tarrasch defence"]
[WhiteFideId "12539929"]
[BlackFideId "5021596"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. dxc5 d4 7. Na4 Bxc5 8.
Nxc5 Qa5+ 9. Bd2 Qxc5 10. Rc1 Qb6 11. e3 Nf6 12. Bc4 dxe3 13. Bxe3 Qb4+ 14. Kf1
Be6 15. Qe2 Bxc4 16. Rxc4 Qe7 17. Nd4 Nd5 18. Nxc6 bxc6 19. Bd4 O-O 20. Qxe7
Nxe7 21. Ke2 Nf5 22. Bc3 Rfe8+ 23. Kd1 Nd6 24. Rxc6 Nb5 25. Ba5 Re5 26. Re1 Rf5
27. f3 Rg5 28. Re4 h5 29. Rc2 Nd6 30. Ra4 Nf5 31. Bb6 a6 32. g3 Rg6 33. Bc5 Rc6
34. b4 Nd6 35. Bd4 Rac8 36. Rxc6 Rxc6 37. Bc5 Nc4 38. Kc2 Kh7 39. Kc3 Nd6 40.
Kd4 Nb5+ 41. Kd3 g5 42. Ra5 Kg6 43. a4 Nc7 44. Be3 Ne6 45. b5 axb5 46. axb5 Rd6+
47. Kc4 f5 48. Ra6 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.14"]
[White "Sargissian, Gabriel"]
[Black "Zhu, Jiner"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2641"]
[BlackElo "2541"]
[ECO "A13"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "Neo-Catalan"]
[WhiteFideId "13300881"]
[BlackFideId "8608059"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 d4 5. d3 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 a5 7. O-O O-O 8. e3 Nc6
9. exd4 Nxd4 10. Nxd4 Qxd4 11. Bc3 Bxc3 12. bxc3 Qd8 13. d4 Rb8 14. Na3 Qe7 15.
Nc2 b6 16. Ne3 Bb7 17. Bxb7 Rxb7 18. Qa4 Rbb8 19. Rfe1 Qe8 20. Qxe8 Rfxe8 21. a4
h5 22. f3 Kf8 23. Kf2 g6 24. Rab1 e5 25. h3 Rbd8 26. Rbd1 exd4 27. cxd4 Rd6 28.
Nc2 Red8 29. g4 hxg4 30. hxg4 Nd7 31. Rb1 Nb8 32. Re4 Na6 33. g5 Nb4 34. Nxb4
axb4 35. d5 c6 36. dxc6 Rxc6 37. Rxb4 f6 38. gxf6 Rxf6 39. Kg3 Rc6 40. Rb5 Ra8
41. Rb4 Rd8 42. Kf2 Rd3 43. Re3 Rd4 44. Rc3 Ke7 45. Ke3 Rh4 46. Kd3 Kd7 47. Rb5
Rf4 48. Ke3 Rfxc4 49. Rxc4 Rxc4 50. Rxb6 Rxa4 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.15"]
[White "Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son"]
[Black "Kuybokarov, Temur"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2632"]
[BlackElo "2542"]
[ECO "D90"]
[Opening "Gruenfeld"]
[Variation "Three knights variation"]
[WhiteFideId "12401110"]
[BlackFideId "14203049"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 d5 5. h4 dxc4 6. e4 c5 7. d5 b5 8. h5 Nxh5
9. Nxb5 Qa5+ 10. Nc3 Nd7 11. Bd2 Rb8 12. Rb1 Qa6 13. Be2 Qd6 14. Qc1 Ne5 15.
Nxe5 Bxe5 16. Bxc4 Ba6 17. Ne2 Bxc4 18. Qxc4 O-O 19. b3 Nf4 20. Nxf4 Bxf4 21.
Bxf4 Qxf4 22. O-O Rfc8 23. a3 a5 24. Rbd1 Rb6 25. Rd3 Qe5 26. Rf3 Qd4 27. Rc1
Rcb8 28. Qxc5 Qxe4 29. Re3 Qf5 30. Rxe7 Rxb3 31. Rce1 Kg7 32. a4 Rb2 33. Qd4+
Qf6 34. Qxf6+ Kxf6 35. Ra7 Rd2 36. Ree7 Rxd5 37. Rxf7+ Kg5 38. Rxh7 Rb4 39. Ra6
Rxa4 40. Rg7 Rd1+ 41. Kh2 Rh4+ 42. Kg3 Rg4+ 43. Kf3 Kh6 44. Raa7 Ra4 45. g3 Rd6
46. Kg2 Ra2 47. Rgf7 g5 48. Kh3 Kg6 49. Rg7+ Kh6 50. Rh7+ Kg6 51. Rhg7+ Kh6 52.
f3 Ra4 53. Rg8 Rad4 54. Rag7 R4d5 55. f4 gxf4 56. g4 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.16"]
[White "Woodward, Andy"]
[Black "Predke, Alexandr"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2547"]
[BlackElo "2631"]
[ECO "A62"]
[Opening "Benoni"]
[Variation "fianchetto variation"]
[WhiteFideId "30953499"]
[BlackFideId "24107581"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 c5 4. d5 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nc3 g6 7. Bg2 Bg7 8. Nf3
O-O 9. O-O Re8 10. Bf4 h6 11. Qc1 g5 12. Bd2 Bf5 13. h4 g4 14. Nh2 h5 15. Bf4
Ne4 16. Bxe4 Bxe4 17. Bg5 Qa5 18. Nxe4 Rxe4 19. Bh6 f6 20. Qc2 Qa4 21. b3 Qe8
22. Bf4 Na6 23. e3 Nb4 24. Qd2 Qb5 25. Rfd1 f5 26. Rab1 Qa6 27. a3 Qxa3 28. Bxd6
b6 29. Bc7 Qa2 30. Qe1 Re7 31. d6 Rd7 32. Qf1 Qa6 33. Qg2 Re8 34. Nf1 Qb5 35.
Nd2 Qc6 36. Qf1 Nd5 37. Qg2 Qa8 38. Rbc1 Nc3 39. Qf1 Nxd1 40. Rxd1 Qd5 41. Qb5
Qf7 42. Nc4 Qe6 43. Qa4 f4 44. exf4 Bd4 45. Ne5 Bxe5 46. Re1 Qf7 47. fxe5 Rf8
48. Qc4 Qxc4 49. bxc4 Rxc7 50. dxc7 Kf7 51. e6+ Ke7 52. Re5 a6 53. Rxh5 Rc8 54.
Kf1 Kd6 55. Rh7 b5 56. e7 b4 57. Ke2 a5 58. Rf7 b3 59. Kd2 Re8 60. Rf8 b2 61.
Kc2 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.17"]
[White "Ferreira, Jorge Viterbo"]
[Black "Idani, Pouya"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2537"]
[BlackElo "2630"]
[ECO "D37"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "classical variation (5.Bf4)"]
[WhiteFideId "1910850"]
[BlackFideId "12510130"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 Be7 5. Nc3 d5 6. Bf4 O-O 7. e3 b6 8. Bd3
c5 9. cxd5 Nxd5 10. Nxd5 exd5 11. O-O c4 12. Bc2 Nc6 13. Ne5 Nxe5 14. Bxe5 g6
15. Qd2 b5 16. e4 f6 17. Bg3 Be6 18. Rfe1 a5 19. Qh6 Rf7 20. h4 Ra6 21. Rad1 Qd7
22. exd5 Bxd5 23. Be4 Bf8 24. Qf4 a4 25. Qf3 Bxe4 26. Rxe4 a3 27. b3 Qd5 28.
bxc4 bxc4 29. Re8 Qxf3 30. gxf3 Rd7 31. Rc8 Rd5 32. Re1 Ra7 33. Ree8 Rf7 34.
Rxc4 Kg7 35. Bf4 Rb5 36. Re2 Rh5 37. Bg3 Rd7 38. Rd2 Kf7 39. Kf1 Rf5 40. Ke2 h5
41. Rd3 Rb5 42. Rd2 Be7 43. Kd3 g5 44. Rdc2 gxh4 45. Bxh4 Rb1 46. Bg3 Rd1+ 47.
Rd2 Rh1 48. Rc7 Rxc7 49. Bxc7 Ke6 50. Ke4 Re1+ 51. Kf4 Bf8 52. Kg3 Kd5 53. Bb6
Bb4 54. Rd3 Bd6+ 55. Kg2 Re2 56. Bc5 Rxa2 57. Bxd6 Kxd6 58. d5 Ra1 59. Kh2 f5
60. Kg2 f4 61. Kh2 h4 62. Kg2 h3+ 63. Kh2 a2 64. Ra3 Kxd5 65. Ra8 Kc4 66. Ra3
Kb4 67. Ra8 Kb3 68. Rb8+ Kc3 69. Ra8 Kd3 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.18"]
[White "Lobanov, Sergei"]
[Black "Mendonca, Leon Luke"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2527"]
[BlackElo "2630"]
[ECO "D31"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "semi-Slav"]
[WhiteFideId "24183750"]
[BlackFideId "35028561"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bf4 Bd6 6. Bxd6 Qxd6 7. Qb3 Ne7 8.
e3 O-O 9. Bd3 Nd7 10. Nf3 Nf6 11. h3 a5 12. Qc2 g6 13. Nh4 b6 14. O-O Bd7 15.
Na4 Rab8 16. a3 Rfc8 17. b4 axb4 18. axb4 c5 19. bxc5 Bxa4 20. cxd6 Bxc2 21.
Bxc2 Rxc2 22. dxe7 Rc7 23. Nf3 Rxe7 24. Rfc1 b5 25. Ne5 Rb6 26. Nc6 Rc7 27. Nb4
Rc4 28. Rcb1 h5 29. Ra7 h4 30. Kh2 Rb8 31. Rb2 Ne4 32. Nxd5 b4 33. Ra4 Kg7 34.
Raxb4 Rbxb4 35. Nxb4 Nxf2 36. Rxf2 Rxb4 37. g3 Rb3 38. Re2 hxg3+ 39. Kxg3 f5 40.
h4 Kf6 41. Kf3 Rb1 42. Rh2 Rf1+ 43. Kg2 Ra1 44. Rh1 Ra8 45. h5 gxh5 46. Rxh5 Ra1
47. Kf3 Rf1+ 48. Ke2 Ra1 49. Rh6+ Ke7 50. Rc6 Rb1 51. Ra6 Kf7 52. Kd2 Rb3 53.
Rc6 Ra3 54. Rc3 Ra6 55. Ke2 Kf6 56. Kf3 Re6 57. Rc8 Kf7 58. Rc4 Re4 59. Rc7+ Kf6
60. Rc6+ Kf7 61. Rh6 Ke7 62. Rh1 Ke6 63. Rf1 Rh4 64. Ke2 Rh2+ 65. Rf2 Rh1 66.
Rf1 Rh2+ 67. Kd3 Rh3 68. Rf2 Rg3 69. Kd2 Rh3 70. Ke2 Rh1 71. Kd3 Rh3 72. Rf1 Rg3
73. Ke2 Rh3 74. Rf3 Rh2+ 75. Kd3 Rh1 76. Rg3 Rd1+ 77. Kc2 Re1 78. Kd2 Rh1 79.
Rg6+ Kf7 80. Rc6 Rh3 81. Rc5 Ke6 82. Ke2 Rg3 83. Kf2 Rh3 84. Re5+ Kf6 85. Kg2
Rh4 86. Kg3 Rg4+ 87. Kf3 Rh4 88. Re8 Kf7 89. Rc8 Re4 90. Rc3 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.19"]
[White "Xu, Xiangyu"]
[Black "Kacharava, Nikolozi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2623"]
[BlackElo "2516"]
[ECO "D30"]
[Opening "Queen's gambit declined"]
[WhiteFideId "8608288"]
[BlackFideId "13611860"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. cxd5 exd5 4. Nc3 c6 5. Bf4 Nf6 6. e3 Bd6 7. Bxd6 Qxd6 8.
Bd3 O-O 9. Nge2 Re8 10. Qc2 a5 11. h3 h6 12. O-O Na6 13. a3 Nc7 14. Rac1 Ne6 15.
Na4 Ng5 16. Nb6 Rb8 17. Nf4 Qd8 18. Nxc8 Rxc8 19. b4 axb4 20. axb4 Nge4 21. b5
Qd6 22. Qb2 Rc7 23. bxc6 bxc6 24. Qb6 Rec8 25. Rc2 c5 26. Qxd6 Nxd6 27. dxc5
Rxc5 28. Rxc5 Rxc5 29. Ra1 Kf8 30. g4 Rc3 31. Bf1 Nde4 32. Ra2 Ke7 33. Kg2 Kd6
34. Ne2 Rc8 35. Nd4 g6 36. Ra7 Nd7 37. h4 Nec5 38. h5 Rb8 39. hxg6 fxg6 40. Bb5
Rb7 41. Ra8 Ne6 42. Ra6+ Nb6 43. Nxe6 Kxe6 44. Be8 g5 45. Bg6 Kd6 46. Bf5 Kc5
47. Ra5+ Kd6 48. Kg3 Nc4 49. Ra8 Ke7 50. Bh7 Nd6 51. Kg2 Rb2 52. Ra6 Rb4 53.
Ra7+ Kf6 54. Ra6 Ke7 55. Bg8 d4 56. exd4 Rxd4 57. f3 Rb4 58. Kf2 Rb8 59. Ba2 Rb4
60. Ke3 Rf4 61. Bd5 Nc4+ 62. Ke2 Nd6 63. Kd3 Nf7 64. Ra7+ Kf8 65. Ke3 Nd6 66.
Rc7 Nf7 67. Rc6 Kg7 68. Be4 Rf6 69. Rc7 Rd6 70. Bc2 Rf6 71. Bb3 Rf4 72. Bd5 Kf8
73. Rd7 Ke8 74. Ra7 Kf8 75. Ra6 Kg7 76. Be4 Rf6 77. Ra5 Nd6 78. Kd4 Nxe4 79.
fxe4 Rf4 80. Ra7+ Kg6 81. Ra6+ Kg7 82. Ra7+ Kg6 83. Ra6+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.20"]
[White "Samadov, Read"]
[Black "Daneshvar, Bardiya"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2521"]
[BlackElo "2621"]
[ECO "D43"]
[Opening "QGD semi-Slav"]
[WhiteFideId "13417444"]
[BlackFideId "12576468"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 c6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 Be7 7. e3 Nbd7 8. Rc1
O-O 9. Bd3 dxc4 10. Bxc4 a6 11. O-O b5 12. Bd3 Bb7 13. a4 Rc8 14. Qe2 Nb6 15. b3
Nfd7 16. Bg3 Ba3 17. Rc2 Qe7 18. Ne5 Bb4 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.21"]
[White "Theodorou, Nikolas"]
[Black "Madaminov, Mukhiddin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2611"]
[BlackElo "2520"]
[ECO "C27"]
[Opening "Vienna game"]
[WhiteFideId "4262875"]
[BlackFideId "14210703"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nxe4 4. Qh5 Nd6 5. Bb3 Be7 6. f4 exf4 7. d4 O-O 8.
Nf3 Nc6 9. Bxf4 g6 10. Qh3 Nf5 11. O-O-O Bf6 12. d5 Ncd4 13. g4 Nxf3 14. gxf5
Nh4 15. d6 Bg5 16. Qg4 Bxf4+ 17. Qxf4 Nxf5 18. h4 cxd6 19. h5 Qf6 20. hxg6 hxg6
21. Qh2 Qg7 22. Rxd6 a5 23. Rxg6 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.22"]
[White "Vescovi, Giovanni"]
[Black "Assaubayeva, Bibisara"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2584"]
[BlackElo "2494"]
[ECO "D02"]
[Opening "Queen's bishop game"]
[WhiteFideId "2100789"]
[BlackFideId "13708694"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Bf4 Bf5 4. e3 e6 5. Bd3 Bxd3 6. Qxd3 Nbd7 7. Nbd2 Bd6 8.
Bg3 Qe7 9. O-O-O Bxg3 10. hxg3 c5 11. dxc5 Nxc5 12. Qb5+ Kf8 13. Kb1 Rc8 14. Ne1
Nfe4 15. Nxe4 Nxe4 16. Nd3 a6 17. Qa5 g6 18. f3 Nxg3 19. Rh3 Nf5 20. e4 Ne3 21.
Re1 d4 22. Reh1 Nc4 23. Qe1 Kg7 24. g4 e5 25. c3 Qg5 26. cxd4 exd4 27. f4 Qxg4
28. Rg3 Qe6 29. Ka1 Ne3 30. Rxe3 dxe3 31. Qxe3 h6 32. a3 Rce8 33. e5 Rd8 34. Nf2
Rd5 35. Ne4 Rhd8 36. Qc1 Qc6 37. Nc3 Rd2 38. Re1 Rh2 39. f5 gxf5 40. Qb1 Qf3 41.
e6 fxe6 42. Rxe6 Rh1 43. Re1 Rxe1 44. Qxe1 Kf7 45. Qh4 Rd6 46. Qc4+ Re6 47. Nd5
Qd1+ 48. Ka2 Rc6 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.23"]
[White "Movahed, Sina"]
[Black "Kozak, Adam"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2518"]
[BlackElo "2578"]
[ECO "C97"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "closed, Chigorin defence"]
[WhiteFideId "42520835"]
[BlackFideId "753246"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3
O-O 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. d5 Nb7 13. Be3 Rb8 14. b4 a5 15. Nbd2
Bd7 16. a3 Ra8 17. Bd3 axb4 18. axb4 g6 19. Nf1 Nh5 20. Qd2 c4 21. Bc2 Rfc8 22.
Ng3 Nxg3 23. fxg3 Nd8 24. Qf2 Qb7 25. Ba7 Rc7 26. Bb6 Rcc8 27. Ra5 Ra6 28. Be3
Rxa5 29. bxa5 Qa6 30. Bb6 Nb7 31. Rf1 Rf8 32. h4 f6 33. h5 Nc5 34. Qe3 Kg7 35.
Bd1 Qc8 36. Be2 Na4 37. Kh2 Qb8 38. Ra1 Bd8 39. Bxd8 Qxd8 40. h6+ Kg8 41. a6 Qb6
42. Qxb6 Nxb6 43. Ra5 Na4 44. a7 Ra8 45. Ra6 Nxc3 46. Rb6 Rxa7 47. Rb8+ Kf7 48.
Rh8 g5 49. Nh4 gxh4 50. Bh5+ Ke7 51. Rxh7+ Kd8 52. gxh4 Nxe4 53. Rg7 Bf5 54.
Rxa7 c3 55. Ra8+ Ke7 56. Ra7+ Kd8 57. Bd1 Nf2 58. Bb3 Ng4+ 59. Kg3 Nxh6 60. Ra6
Ke7 61. Kf3 Bg4+ 62. Ke4 Nf5 63. Ra7+ Kd8 64. Kd3 Nxh4 65. Rg7 f5 66. g3 Nf3 67.
Kxc3 Nd4 68. Ba2 Ne2+ 69. Kb4 Nd4 70. Ka5 e4 71. Rg8+ Ke7 72. Kb4 e3 73. Kc3 e2
74. Kd2 Nc2 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.24"]
[White "Gupta, Abhijeet"]
[Black "Ohanyan, Emin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2577"]
[BlackElo "2503"]
[ECO "D12"]
[Opening "QGD Slav"]
[Variation "4.e3 Bf5"]
[WhiteFideId "5010608"]
[BlackFideId "13312022"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 Bf5 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nh4 Bg6 7. Nxg6 hxg6 8. Bd2
Nbd7 9. Qb3 Qc7 10. h4 g5 11. cxd5 exd5 12. h5 g6 13. e4 Nb6 14. e5 Rxh5 15.
Rxh5 Nxh5 16. Bxg5 Ng7 17. Rc1 Ne6 18. Be3 Qe7 19. Be2 O-O-O 20. a4 Qh4 21. a5
Bh6 22. g3 Qh1+ 23. Kd2 Nxd4 24. Rxh1 Nxb3+ 25. Kc2 Bxe3 26. Kxb3 Bxf2 27. axb6
axb6 28. Bg4+ Kb8 29. Ne2 Re8 30. Rf1 Bc5 31. Rf3 f5 32. Rxf5 Rxe5 33. Rf7 b5
34. Kc2 g5 35. Bf3 Re7 36. Nc1 g4 37. Rf5 Bd6 38. Bd1 Re6 39. Ne2 Re3 40. Rf6
Bxg3 41. Kd2 d4 42. Rf8+ Ka7 43. Nxd4 Re7 44. Kc2 Be5 45. Nf5 Rh7 46. Bxg4 Rh2+
47. Kd3 Rxb2 48. Re8 Rb3+ 49. Kc2 Rb2+ 50. Kc1 Rb4 51. Be2 Bc7 52. Re7 Kb6 53.
Rd7 Rf4 54. Ne7 Rf8 55. Ng6 Rg8 56. Bh5 Rd8 57. Rf7 Bd6 58. Bg4 c5 59. Bf3 c4
60. Rxb7+ Kc5 61. Rf7 Kd4 62. Rf5 b4 63. Kb2 b3 64. Rb5 Bg3 65. Rg5 Be1 66. Ne7
c3+ 67. Kxb3 Rb8+ 68. Kc2 Rb2+ 69. Kd1 Rb1+ 70. Kc2 Rb2+ 71. Kd1 Ke3 72. Bh5 c2+
73. Kc1 Bd2+ 74. Kxb2 c1=Q+ 75. Ka2 Qc4+ 76. Kb2 Bc3+ 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.25"]
[White "Bai, Jinshi"]
[Black "Huang, Renjie"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2572"]
[BlackElo "2491"]
[ECO "D20"]
[Opening "Queen's gambit accepted"]
[WhiteFideId "8602280"]
[BlackFideId "8610134"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 e5 4. Bxc4 exd4 5. exd4 Bd6 6. Nf3 Nf6 7. Qe2+ Qe7 8.
Qxe7+ Bxe7 9. O-O O-O 10. Nc3 Nbd7 11. Re1 Bd6 12. Bg5 Nb6 13. Bb3 a5 14. a3 a4
15. Ba2 Bd7 16. Bxf6 gxf6 17. Ne4 Kg7 18. Rac1 Rfe8 19. Nxd6 cxd6 20. h4 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.26"]
[White "Amar, Elham"]
[Black "Xiao, Tong(QD)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2569"]
[BlackElo "2493"]
[ECO "B41"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Kan variation"]
[WhiteFideId "1533533"]
[BlackFideId "8622388"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. h3 Nf6 6. Bd3 Qc7 7. O-O Bc5 8. Nb3
Ba7 9. c4 O-O 10. Nc3 Nc6 11. Qe2 Ne5 12. Bf4 d6 13. Rac1 Bd7 14. Bg5 Rac8 15.
Bxf6 gxf6 16. Kh1 Kh8 17. f4 Nxd3 18. Qxd3 Qxc4 19. Qxd6 Qc7 20. Nb5 Qxd6 21.
Nxd6 Rxc1 22. Rxc1 Bc6 23. Nc5 Bxc5 24. Rxc5 Kg7 25. Rc2 Rd8 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.27"]
[White "Klimkowski, Jan"]
[Black "Can, Emre"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2503"]
[BlackElo "2568"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange, positional line"]
[WhiteFideId "21856222"]
[BlackFideId "6302181"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Bb4 6. Qb3 c5 7. dxc5 Qa5 8.
Bxf6 gxf6 9. a3 Bxc3+ 10. bxc3 Na6 11. e3 Nxc5 12. Qb4 Qc7 13. Bb5+ Kf8 14. Ne2
Rg8 15. O-O a6 16. Bd3 a5 17. Qb1 b6 18. Bxh7 Rg5 19. Ng3 Be6 20. Bc2 Ke7 21. e4
dxe4 22. Bxe4 Rc8 23. Bf5 Na4 24. Bxe6 fxe6 25. Qh7+ Kf8 26. Qh4 Nxc3 27. f4 Rg6
28. f5 exf5 29. Rxf5 Qc6 30. Rf3 Kg8 31. Raf1 Nd5 32. Nf5 Qc5+ 33. Kh1 Qc2 34.
Qh3 Rg5 35. Nd4 Qc4 36. Qe6+ Kg7 37. Nf5+ Kg6 38. Nd6 Nf4 39. Qxc4 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.28"]
[White "Rohith, Krishna S"]
[Black "Ahmadzada, Ahmad"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2564"]
[ECO "A77"]
[Opening "Benoni"]
[Variation "classical, 9...Re8, 10.Nd2"]
[WhiteFideId "46617051"]
[BlackFideId "13413007"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. d5 d6 5. Nc3 exd5 6. cxd5 g6 7. Nd2 Bg7 8. e4
O-O 9. Be2 Re8 10. O-O Nbd7 11. h3 g5 12. Re1 Ne5 13. Nf1 h6 14. Ng3 a6 15. a4
g4 16. Kh2 Nh7 17. Rh1 Qh4 18. Kg1 gxh3 19. Nh5 Ng4 20. Rxh3 Qxf2+ 21. Kh1 Bxc3
22. Bxg4 Rxe4 23. Be3 Rxe3 24. Rxe3 Qxe3 25. bxc3 Qe4 26. Bf3 Qh4+ 27. Kg1 Bf5
28. Qb3 Ng5 29. Be2 Re8 30. Qc4 Re4 31. Nf6+ Kg7 32. Nxe4 Bxe4 33. Rf1 Qg3 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.29"]
[White "Sankalp, Gupta"]
[Black "Nigmatov, Ortik"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2559"]
[BlackElo "2457"]
[ECO "B53"]
[Opening "Sicilian, Chekhover variation"]
[WhiteFideId "5097010"]
[BlackFideId "14202131"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Qxd4 Nc6 5. Qe3 g6 6. h3 Bg7 7. Be2 Nf6 8. O-O
O-O 9. Rd1 Be6 10. Nc3 Qb6 11. Qxb6 axb6 12. a3 Nd7 13. Nd5 Nc5 14. Nxb6 Ra7 15.
Ng5 Nd4 16. Rd2 h6 17. Nxe6 fxe6 18. f3 Ndb3 19. cxb3 Nxb3 20. Bc4 Nxa1 21.
Bxe6+ Kh7 22. Bc4 Nc2 23. Nd7 Rc8 24. Rxc2 Bd4+ 25. Kf1 Kg7 26. Ke2 b5 27. Nf8
Kxf8 28. Bxh6+ Bg7 29. Bxg7+ Kxg7 30. Bd3 Rxc2+ 31. Bxc2 Kf6 32. Kd2 Ke5 33. Kc3
Rc7+ 34. Kb3 Kd4 35. e5 g5 36. exd6 exd6 37. Bf5 Kc5 38. Kc3 Re7 39. Kd2 Kd4 40.
Bd3 Re3 41. Bf1 b4 42. a4 Re5 43. Be2 b3 44. g3 Rc5 45. Bd3 Ra5 46. Bb5 Ra7 47.
f4 gxf4 48. gxf4 Rf7 49. Be2 Rxf4 50. a5 Rf5 51. a6 Ra5 52. Bd1 Ra2 53. Kc1 Ra1+
54. Kd2 Rb1 55. Bxb3 Rxb2+ 56. Bc2 Ra2 57. h4 Rxa6 58. h5 Ra3 59. h6 Rh3 60. h7
Rh2+ 61. Ke1 Ke3 62. Kf1 d5 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.30"]
[White "Pranav, Anand"]
[Black "Seemann, Jakub"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2555"]
[BlackElo "2453"]
[ECO "B92"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Opovcensky variation"]
[WhiteFideId "46626786"]
[BlackFideId "21874697"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8. h4
Be6 9. f4 b5 10. g4 b4 11. Nd5 Nxd5 12. exd5 Bc8 13. g5 a5 14. Be3 O-O 15. Bd3
exf4 16. Bxf4 Re8 17. O-O Bf8 18. Qf3 Ra7 19. Nd4 g6 20. h5 Qb6 21. Qf2 Ba6 22.
Rae1 Rxe1 23. Rxe1 Bxd3 24. Re8 Nd7 25. cxd3 Nc5 26. Nc6 Qc7 27. Qd4 Ne6 28.
Rxf8+ 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.31"]
[White "Pang, Tao"]
[Black "Sanal, Vahap"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2485"]
[BlackElo "2555"]
[ECO "A17"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "Queens Indian formation"]
[WhiteFideId "8609950"]
[BlackFideId "6300545"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 b6 4. g3 Bb7 5. Bg2 Bb4 6. O-O O-O 7. Qc2 a5 8. b3
Re8 9. Bb2 d5 10. e3 Nbd7 11. d4 Rc8 12. Rfd1 c6 13. a3 Be7 14. e4 dxe4 15. Ng5
e3 16. fxe3 Qc7 17. Rf1 h6 18. Nge4 Nxe4 19. Qxe4 Nf6 20. Qf3 Ba8 21. e4 e5 22.
dxe5 Qxe5 23. Na4 Qe6 24. e5 Nd7 25. Qh5 Bg5 26. Rad1 Nxe5 27. Rfe1 Qg4 28. Qxg4
Nxg4 29. Bf3 Ne3 30. Rd7 Nc2 31. Rxe8+ Rxe8 32. h4 Be3+ 33. Kh2 b5 34. Nc3 bxc4
35. bxc4 c5 36. Nd5 Bd4 37. Bc1 Ne1 38. Ne7+ Rxe7 39. Rd8+ Kh7 40. Bxa8 Re2+ 41.
Kh3 h5 42. g4 Nd3 43. Bf3 Nf2+ 44. Kg3 Rc2 45. Bf4 hxg4 46. Bd5 Rc3+ 47. Kg2 Nd3
48. Be4+ g6 49. Bxd3 Rxd3 50. Be5 Rd2+ 51. Kh1 Rd1+ 52. Kg2 f6 53. Bxf6 Rg1+ 54.
Kh2 g3+ 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.32"]
[White "Gavrilescu, David"]
[Black "Siddharth, Jagadeesh"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2554"]
[BlackElo "2472"]
[ECO "B07"]
[Opening "Pirc defence"]
[WhiteFideId "1227190"]
[BlackFideId "5818320"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e5 4. Nge2 c6 5. a4 Be7 6. g3 exd4 7. Qxd4 d5 8. exd5
cxd5 9. Bg2 Nc6 10. Qd1 O-O 11. O-O Bf5 12. Bg5 Nb4 13. Bxf6 Bxf6 14. Nxd5 Nxd5
15. Bxd5 Bg4 16. f3 Bh3 17. Re1 Qb6+ 18. Kh1 Rad8 19. c4 Bf5 20. g4 Bc8 21. Rb1
Kh8 22. Ng3 Be6 23. Re2 Bg5 24. Qd3 Qa5 25. Re5 Bf6 26. Qxh7+ Kxh7 27. Be4+ g6
28. Rxa5 b6 29. Rxa7 Bxc4 30. b4 Kg7 31. Rc7 Ba2 32. Re1 Rd4 33. a5 bxa5 34.
bxa5 Ra4 35. Ra7 Rh8 36. Ra8 Rxa8 37. Bxa8 Rxa5 38. Be4 Be6 39. Re2 Ra1+ 40. Kg2
Bd4 41. Rc2 Rg1+ 42. Kh3 Be5 43. Ne2 Re1 44. Kg2 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.33"]
[White "Oro, Faustino"]
[Black "Muradli, Mahammad"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2454"]
[BlackElo "2603"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Lipnitzky attack"]
[WhiteFideId "20000197"]
[BlackFideId "13409301"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bc4 e6 7. Qe2 Be7 8. Bb3
b5 9. a3 O-O 10. Be3 Bb7 11. f3 Nc6 12. O-O-O Na5 13. g4 Rc8 14. Kb1 Nd7 15. h4
Ne5 16. Qe1 Nac4 17. Bc1 Qc7 18. Nce2 Na5 19. Ba2 Nxf3 20. Nxf3 Bxe4 21. Ned4 d5
22. Qe2 e5 23. Nf5 Bxc2+ 24. Ka1 Rfe8 25. Qxe5 Qxe5 26. Nxe5 Bxd1 27. Rxd1 Nc4
28. Nxe7+ Rxe7 29. Nf3 Re4 30. Bb1 Ne3 31. Rg1 Nc2+ 32. Ka2 Re2 33. Rd1 Ne3 34.
Rg1 Nc2 35. Rd1 g6 36. Bg5 Ne3 37. Rg1 Nc4 38. Bc1 Rf2 39. Nd4 Nd2 40. Bd3 Ne4
41. Kb1 Nc5 42. Bf1 Re8 43. Bg2 Nd3 44. Bxd5 Nxc1 45. Rxc1 Rf4 46. Nf3 Rd8 47.
Bb7 Rd7 48. Bc8 Rd6 49. Ne5 Rf2 50. Ka2 Rdd2 51. Rb1 Rfe2 52. Nc6 Rd6 53. Bxa6
Re4 54. Bxb5 Rxg4 55. a4 Rxh4 56. a5 Rh5 57. a6 Rxb5 58. a7 Rd8 59. Nxd8 Ra5+
60. Kb3 Rxa7 61. Kb4 h5 62. Kc5 h4 63. b4 g5 64. b5 Kg7 65. b6 Rd7 66. b7 Rxd8
67. b8=Q Rxb8 68. Rxb8 Kg6 69. Kd4 Kf5 70. Ke3 Kg4 71. Kf2 f5 72. Ra8 Kf4 73.
Ra4+ Ke5 74. Ke3 h3 75. Ra6 g4 76. Ra5+ Kf6 77. Kf4 Kg6 78. Rb5 Kh6 79. Rb6+ Kg7
80. Ra6 Kh7 81. Kg5 Kg8 82. Ra8+ Kf7 83. Rh8 Ke6 84. Rh7 Ke5 85. Re7+ Kd6 86.
Re1 Kd5 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.34"]
[White "Aronyak, Ghosh"]
[Black "Pichot, Alan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2514"]
[BlackElo "2587"]
[ECO "E32"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "classical variation"]
[WhiteFideId "25072846"]
[BlackFideId "110973"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d6 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. Qxc3 O-O 7. Bg5 Re8 8. e3
b6 9. Bd3 Bb7 10. f3 Nbd7 11. Ne2 c5 12. O-O Rc8 13. b4 d5 14. dxc5 bxc5 15.
cxd5 exd5 16. Bf5 Ba6 17. Bxf6 gxf6 18. Qd2 d4 19. e4 Bxe2 20. Qxe2 c4 21. Qf2
d3 22. Qh4 Kf8 23. Qh3 Rc7 24. f4 Nb6 25. e5 Qd4+ 26. Kh1 Nd5 27. Rad1 d2 28.
Qxh7 c3 29. Be4 Ke7 30. Qf5 Kd8 31. Rf3 fxe5 32. h3 Ne7 33. Qh7 f5 34. Rd3 fxe4
35. Qxe4 Rd7 36. Rxd4 exd4 37. Kh2 Nc8 38. Qd3 Re1 39. Rxd2 Re3 40. Qc2 cxd2 41.
Qxd2 d3 42. f5 Re2 43. Qg5+ Kc7 44. f6 Nd6 45. Qa5+ Kb8 46. Qd5 d2 47. f7 Rf2
48. f8=Q+ Rxf8 49. Qxd2 Rff7 50. Qd5 Nc8 51. Qb5+ Kc7 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.35"]
[White "Royal, Shreyas"]
[Black "Samunenkov, Ihor"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2493"]
[BlackElo "2572"]
[ECO "E04"]
[Opening "Catalan"]
[Variation "open, 5.Nf3"]
[WhiteFideId "448869"]
[BlackFideId "14187086"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 dxc4 5. Bg2 c5 6. O-O Nc6 7. Ne5 Bd7 8. Na3
cxd4 9. Naxc4 Rc8 10. Qb3 Nxe5 11. Nxe5 Bd6 12. Nxd7 Qxd7 13. Rd1 Be5 14. Qxb7
Qxb7 15. Bxb7 Rc7 16. Bf3 Ke7 17. Bf4 Bxf4 18. gxf4 Rb8 19. b3 Rd8 20. Rd2 d3
21. e3 Rc3 22. Rad1 Rd6 23. b4 Nd5 24. Rxd3 Rxd3 25. Rxd3 Nxb4 26. Rb3 Rb6 27.
a3 Na2 28. Rd3 a5 29. Rd4 Rb5 30. Rc4 Rb1+ 31. Kg2 Rc1 32. Rd4 Rc3 33. Ra4 Rc5
34. Rd4 Nc3 35. a4 f6 36. Bb7 h5 37. Kh3 e5 38. fxe5 fxe5 39. Rh4 g6 40. f3 Nd1
41. f4 Nxe3 42. fxe5 Ng4 43. Kg3 Nxe5 44. Rf4 g5 45. Rf5 h4+ 46. Kh3 Rc3+ 47.
Kg2 Rc2+ 48. Kg1 Rc1+ 49. Kg2 Rc2+ 50. Kg1 Rc5 51. Ba6 g4 52. Rf2 Rc3 53. Re2
Kf6 54. Kf2 Kf5 55. Rd2 Nf3 56. Rd5+ Ke4 57. Bb7 Kf4 58. Rxa5 g3+ 59. hxg3+
hxg3+ 60. Kf1 Rc1+ 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.36"]
[White "Jumabayev, Rinat"]
[Black "Davtyan, Artur"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2551"]
[BlackElo "2485"]
[ECO "C50"]
[Opening "Giuoco Pianissimo"]
[WhiteFideId "13702661"]
[BlackFideId "13308327"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. c3 O-O 6. O-O d5 7. exd5 Nxd5 8. a4
a5 9. Re1 Bg4 10. h3 Bh5 11. Nbd2 Nb6 12. Bb5 Bd6 13. Ne4 Na7 14. d4 Nxb5 15.
axb5 Bxf3 16. Qxf3 exd4 17. Nxd6 Qxd6 18. Rd1 Rfe8 19. Be3 Nc4 20. Rxd4 Qe6 21.
Bf4 c5 22. bxc6 bxc6 23. b3 Nb6 24. Bc7 Nd7 25. c4 h6 26. Rdd1 Ra7 27. Bxa5 Nc5
28. Bb6 Rxa1 29. Rxa1 Ne4 30. Be3 Rb8 31. Bf4 Rd8 32. Re1 Re8 33. Qd3 Qf5 34.
Be3 Re6 35. f3 Qa5 36. Rb1 Nc5 37. Qd2 Qa3 38. Bf2 Rg6 39. h4 Ne6 40. Be3 Qe7
41. Qf2 c5 42. Rd1 Qb7 43. Rd3 h5 44. Qe2 Qb8 45. Qd2 Qg3 46. Qf2 Qe5 47. Rd5
Qc3 48. Rxh5 Qxb3 49. Qe2 Qb1+ 50. Kh2 Qb8+ 51. Kh1 Qd8 52. Qd2 Qe7 53. Qd5 Qa7
54. Qd2 Qa1+ 55. Kh2 Qf1 56. Qa2 Qe1 57. Bf2 Qf1 58. Bxc5 Rxg2+ 59. Qxg2 Qxg2+
60. Kxg2 Nf4+ 61. Kf2 Nxh5 62. Ke3 f6 63. Ke4 Kf7 64. Bd6 Ke6 65. c5 g6 66. Bh2
Ng7 67. c6 Nf5 68. c7 Ne7 69. Kd4 Nf5+ 70. Ke4 Ne7 71. Bg1 Kd7 72. Bd4 Kxc7 73.
Bxf6 Kd6 74. Bxe7+ Kxe7 75. Ke5 Kf7 76. Kf4 Kf6 77. Kg4 Kf7 78. Kg5 Kg7 79. Kg4
Kh6 80. Kg3 Kh5 81. f4 Kh6 82. Kg4 Kh7 83. Kg5 Kg7 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.37"]
[White "Injac, Teodora"]
[Black "Vakhidov, Jakhongir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2474"]
[BlackElo "2546"]
[ECO "D02"]
[Opening "Queen's bishop game"]
[WhiteFideId "932400"]
[BlackFideId "14201801"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Bf4 e6 4. e3 c5 5. Nbd2 Qb6 6. Rb1 Bd7 7. c3 cxd4 8. exd4
Bb5 9. Bxb5+ Qxb5 10. a4 Qa6 11. b4 Nbd7 12. h3 Be7 13. b5 Qa5 14. O-O Rc8 15.
Rc1 Nb6 16. Ne5 Qxa4 17. Qe2 a6 18. Ra1 Qxb5 19. Qf3 a5 20. Rfb1 Qa6 21. Qd3
Qxd3 22. Nxd3 Rxc3 23. Rxb6 Rxd3 24. Rxa5 O-O 25. Rxb7 Nh5 26. Be3 Bd6 27. Rd7
Bf4 28. Nf3 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.38"]
[White "Raja, Rithvik R"]
[Black "Isik, Alparslan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2545"]
[BlackElo "2482"]
[ECO "C50"]
[Opening "Giuoco Pianissimo"]
[Variation "Italian four knights variation"]
[WhiteFideId "35007394"]
[BlackFideId "34506896"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Na4 Bb6 7. a3 O-O 8. h3
Be6 9. Bxe6 fxe6 10. O-O Qe8 11. b4 Nh5 12. c3 Nf4 13. Nxb6 axb6 14. g3 Nh5 15.
Kg2 Qg6 16. Nh4 Qf7 17. Ra2 Ne7 18. Re1 h6 19. Be3 g5 20. Nf3 Qg6 21. Nh2 Rf7
22. Qg4 Kh7 23. a4 Ng8 24. Rea1 Re8 25. Qe2 Ref8 26. f3 Nf4+ 27. Bxf4 exf4 28.
g4 Nf6 29. a5 bxa5 30. Rxa5 Kg7 31. Qa2 Re7 32. Ra8 b6 33. Rxf8 Kxf8 34. Qa8+
Qe8 35. Nf1 Qxa8 36. Rxa8+ Kf7 37. d4 c5 38. dxc5 dxc5 39. bxc5 bxc5 40. Nd2 Rb7
41. Nc4 Rb3 42. Ne5+ Ke7 43. Ra7+ Ke8 44. Rf7 Ng8 45. Rg7 Nf6 46. c4 Rb2+ 47.
Kf1 Rd2 48. Rg6 Ke7 49. Rxh6 Rd1+ 50. Ke2 Rh1 51. h4 gxh4 52. g5 Ne8 53. Ng6+
Kf7 54. Nxf4 Ng7 55. Nd3 h3 56. Kf2 h2 57. f4 Kg8 58. Ne5 Kf8 59. Kg2 Re1 60.
Rxh2 Rxe4 61. Rh8+ Ke7 62. Rh7 Kf8 63. Kf3 Re1 64. Nd7+ Kf7 65. Nxc5 e5 66. Nd3
e4+ 67. Kf2 Ra1 68. Nc5 Kg8 69. g6 Rc1 70. Nxe4 Rxc4 71. Nf6+ Kf8 72. Nd7+ Kg8
73. Nf6+ Kf8 74. Kf3 Rc6 75. Rh8+ Ke7 76. Nd5+ Ke6 77. Rh7 Nf5 78. Ne3 Rc3 79.
g7 Rxe3+ 80. Kf2 Rg3 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.39"]
[White "Sychev, Klementy"]
[Black "Divya, Deshmukh"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2542"]
[BlackElo "2469"]
[ECO "E21"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "three knights variation"]
[WhiteFideId "4114060"]
[BlackFideId "35006916"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 Bb4+ 4. Nc3 b6 5. e3 Bb7 6. Bd3 O-O 7. O-O Bxc3 8.
bxc3 d6 9. Qc2 Re8 10. e4 e5 11. Bg5 Nbd7 12. Nd2 h6 13. Bh4 Nf8 14. f3 Ne6 15.
Bf2 Nf4 16. Rfe1 Nxd3 17. Qxd3 Qd7 18. Qc2 a5 19. Nf1 Nh7 20. Ne3 Nf8 21. Red1
Qc6 22. Rab1 Ba6 23. Qb3 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.40"]
[White "Tarhan, Adar"]
[Black "Petkov, Momchil"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2472"]
[BlackElo "2524"]
[ECO "E92"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "Andersson variation"]
[WhiteFideId "34544712"]
[BlackFideId "2921642"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. dxe5 dxe5 8. Qxd8
Rxd8 9. Bg5 Re8 10. Nd5 Nxd5 11. cxd5 c6 12. Bc4 cxd5 13. Bxd5 Nd7 14. Nd2 Nc5
15. Be3 Nd3+ 16. Ke2 Nf4+ 17. Bxf4 exf4 18. Kf3 Be6 19. Nc4 f5 20. Rac1 fxe4+
21. Bxe4 Rad8 22. b3 b5 23. Na3 Bb2 24. Nxb5 Bxc1 25. Rxc1 Rd2 26. Rc5 Bf5 27.
Bxf5 gxf5 28. Nxa7 Ree2 29. Kxf4 Rxa2 30. Nc6 Rxf2+ 31. Ke5 Rxg2 32. Nd4 Kf7 33.
Nf3 Ra7 34. b4 Rb7 35. b5 Rb2 36. Nd4 Re7+ 37. Kd6 Re4 38. Nxf5 Kf6 39. Ng3 Re6+
40. Kc7 Re7+ 41. Kc6 Re6+ 42. Kc7 Re7+ 43. Kc6 Re6+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.18"]
[Round "2.41"]
[White "Ilamparthi, A R"]
[Black "Aswath, S"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2469"]
[BlackElo "2515"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Byrne (English) attack"]
[WhiteFideId "45015775"]
[BlackFideId "46694919"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nf3 Be7 8. Bc4
O-O 9. O-O Nc6 10. Bg5 Be6 11. Bb3 Nd7 12. Bxe7 Qxe7 13. Nd5 Qd8 14. c3 Ne7 15.
Ne3 Qc7 16. Bxe6 fxe6 17. Ng5 Rf6 18. Qg4 Rg6 19. Qh4 h6 20. Nh3 Nf6 21. Rae1
Rf8 22. Kh1 Qc6 23. f3 Rf7 24. Rd1 d5 25. exd5 exd5 26. Rfe1 b5 27. Qf2 e4 28.
Rf1 Nd7 29. Qe2 exf3 30. Rxf3 Rxf3 31. Qxf3 Rf6 32. Nf4 Kh8 33. Qg3 Nc5 34. Nh5
Rg6 35. Qf3 Qe8 36. h3 Rg5 37. Nf4 Ne4 38. Nexd5 Nf5 39. Nc7 Qe5 40. Nce6 Kh7
41. Rd8 Nfg3+ 42. Kh2 Rf5 43. Rh8+ Kxh8 44. Ng6+ Kg8 45. Nxe5 Nf1+ 46. Kg1 Rxf3
47. gxf3 Ned2 48. Kf2 Nh2 49. Ke2 Ndf1 50. b3 h5 51. c4 bxc4 52. bxc4 Ng3+ 53.
Kf2 h4 54. c5 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Indjic, Aleksandar"]
[Black "Visakh, N R"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2637"]
[BlackElo "2507"]
[ECO "A09"]
[Opening "Reti"]
[Variation "advance variation"]
[WhiteFideId "911925"]
[BlackFideId "25012223"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 d4 3. b4 c5 4. Bb2 Nf6 5. g3 Nc6 6. b5 Na5 7. d3 b6 8. Bg2 Bb7
9. O-O g6 10. Nbd2 a6 11. a4 Bg7 12. Qc2 O-O 13. Rfe1 Qc7 14. e3 e5 15. exd4
exd4 16. Re2 Rae8 17. Rae1 Rxe2 18. Rxe2 Re8 19. Qd1 Qb8 20. Bc1 Rxe2 21. Qxe2
Qe8 22. Qe5 axb5 23. axb5 Qd8 24. Qe2 Qe8 25. Qe5 Qd8 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.2"]
[White "Dai, Changren"]
[Black "Maghsoodloo, Parham"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2531"]
[BlackElo "2706"]
[ECO "D37"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "4.Nf3"]
[WhiteFideId "8608156"]
[BlackFideId "12539929"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Nbd7 5. Bf4 dxc4 6. e3 c5 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8.
Bxc4 a6 9. Ne5 O-O 10. O-O Be7 11. Be2 Nxe5 12. Bxe5 Qa5 13. Qd4 Rd8 14. Qf4 Ne8
15. Ne4 Bd7 16. Bc3 Qc7 17. Qxc7 Nxc7 18. Ba5 Rdc8 19. Bf3 Bc6 20. Rfd1 Ne8 21.
Rac1 Bd5 22. Nc3 Bxf3 23. gxf3 b5 24. Rd7 Kf8 25. a3 Nf6 26. Rb7 Ke8 27. Ne2 Nd7
28. Rxc8+ Rxc8 29. Ra7 Ne5 30. f4 Nd3 31. Bc3 Nxb2 32. Bxb2 Rc2 33. Ra8+ Kd7 34.
Ra7+ Ke8 35. Ra8+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.3"]
[White "Giri, Anish"]
[Black "Pranav, Anand"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2738"]
[BlackElo "2555"]
[ECO "A05"]
[Opening "Reti opening"]
[WhiteFideId "24116068"]
[BlackFideId "46626786"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 e6 4. O-O c5 5. d3 Nc6 6. a4 Be7 7. Bf4 Bd6 8. Bxd6
Qxd6 9. Nbd2 e5 10. e4 d4 11. Kh1 h6 12. Ng1 h5 13. Nc4 Qc7 14. Bh3 Bxh3 15.
Nxh3 h4 16. g4 Qd7 17. Rg1 O-O-O 18. f4 exf4 19. Qf3 Nh7 20. Qxf4 Nf8 21. Raf1
f6 22. Qf5 Ne6 23. Nf4 Nxf4 24. Rxf4 b6 25. g5 Qxf5 26. Rxf5 Ne7 27. Rf3 fxg5
28. Rxg5 g6 29. Rf7 Kd7 30. Rxg6 Rdf8 31. Ne5+ Ke8 32. Rxf8+ Rxf8 33. Rh6 Kd8
34. Kg2 Rg8+ 35. Kh3 Rg1 36. Rf6 Ra1 37. b3 Rc1 38. Rf2 Kc7 39. Kxh4 Kd6 40. Ng4
Nc6 41. Kg5 Nb4 42. h4 Nxc2 43. h5 Ne3 44. h6 Rg1 45. Rf4 Rh1 46. Kg6 Rh4 47.
Nxe3 Rxf4 48. Nf5+ Ke6 49. h7 Rg4+ 50. Kh5 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.4"]
[White "Vetokhin, Savva"]
[Black "Tabatabaei, M. Amin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2558"]
[BlackElo "2670"]
[ECO "E43"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "Fischer variation"]
[WhiteFideId "44144474"]
[BlackFideId "12521213"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 b6 5. Nf3 Bb7 6. Bd3 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 O-O 8.
O-O c5 9. a4 d6 10. Nd2 Nc6 11. Bb2 Rb8 12. e4 e5 13. d5 Ne7 14. Re1 Bc8 15. Nf1
Kh8 16. Bc1 Ng6 17. g3 Bg4 18. f3 Bc8 19. Ne3 Ng8 20. Ra2 N6e7 21. f4 exf4 22.
gxf4 Ng6 23. Ng2 Nh6 24. Qf3 Re8 25. Qg3 Qd7 26. Rae2 Qh3 27. e5 Qxg3 28. hxg3
dxe5 29. Bxg6 hxg6 30. fxe5 Bd7 31. e6 fxe6 32. dxe6 Bxa4 33. Ra2 Bb3 34. Rxa7
Bxc4 35. Bxh6 gxh6 36. Nf4 Kg8 37. Re4 b5 38. Nxg6 Rxe6 39. Rg4 Be2 40. Ne7+ Kh8
41. Ng6+ Kg8 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.5"]
[White "Zhu, Jiner"]
[Black "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2541"]
[BlackElo "2631"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Byrne (English) attack"]
[WhiteFideId "8608059"]
[BlackFideId "9301348"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e6 7. Be2 Be7 8. f4
O-O 9. g4 d5 10. e5 Ne4 11. Nxe4 dxe4 12. O-O Qc7 13. c3 Nd7 14. Nb3 b6 15. Qe1
Bb7 16. Rd1 b5 17. Qf2 Rae8 18. Rd2 f6 19. Rfd1 Bc8 20. Nd4 Nc5 21. exf6 Rxf6
22. Qg3 Nd3 23. Bxd3 exd3 24. Rxd3 Bb7 25. g5 Rf7 26. Nxe6 Qc8 27. Nd4 Bc5 28.
h3 Ba8 29. Kh2 Bd6 30. Nf5 Bxf4 31. Qxf4 Rxf5 32. Rd8 Rxd8 33. Rxd8+ Qxd8 34.
Qxf5 Qd6+ 35. Qf4 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.6"]
[White "Sargsyan, Shant"]
[Black "Woodward, Andy"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2666"]
[BlackElo "2547"]
[ECO "A15"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[WhiteFideId "13306766"]
[BlackFideId "30953499"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. h4 Bg7 6. h5 Nc6 7. d4 Bf5 8. Rh4
Bf6 9. g4 Bxh4 10. gxf5 e6 11. Qb3 Nxd4 12. Nxd4 Bxf2+ 13. Kxf2 Qh4+ 14. Kf3
O-O-O 15. Ndb5 Qxh5+ 16. Kf2 Qh4+ 17. Kf3 Qh5+ 18. Kf2 Qh4+ 19. Kf3 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.7"]
[White "Zemlyanskii, Ivan"]
[Black "Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2563"]
[BlackElo "2632"]
[ECO "C65"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "Berlin defence"]
[WhiteFideId "24249971"]
[BlackFideId "12401110"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. Bxc6 dxc6 6. Nbd2 Be6 7. O-O Nd7 8.
Nb3 Bb6 9. Ng5 Bxb3 10. axb3 f6 11. Nf3 Qe7 12. Be3 O-O 13. Nh4 Qe6 14. Nf5 g6
15. Nh4 a6 16. Bd2 Rf7 17. Kh1 Re8 18. Bc3 Bc5 19. Nf3 Bf8 20. Nd2 Bg7 21. Nc4
f5 22. exf5 gxf5 23. f4 Qg6 24. fxe5 b5 25. Nd2 c5 26. Nf3 b4 27. e6 Rxe6 28.
Bxg7 Qxg7 29. Qd2 Rfe7 30. Rf2 Nf6 31. Nh4 Ng4 32. Nxf5 Nxf2+ 33. Qxf2 Rf6 34.
Qxc5 Rxf5 35. Qxf5 Rf7 36. Qd5 Qf6 37. h3 Kg7 38. Qe4 h6 39. Re1 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.8"]
[White "Idani, Pouya"]
[Black "Nikitenko, Mihail"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2630"]
[BlackElo "2516"]
[ECO "B47"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Taimanov (Bastrikov) variation"]
[WhiteFideId "12510130"]
[BlackFideId "13506862"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Ncb5 Qb8 7. Bd3 Nf6 8.
O-O Be7 9. Qe2 O-O 10. Re1 Ne5 11. f4 Nxd3 12. cxd3 Bc5 13. Be3 d6 14. Nc3 e5
15. Nb3 exf4 16. Bxc5 dxc5 17. e5 Re8 18. Nxc5 Bg4 19. Qf2 Re7 20. e6 Rxe6 21.
h3 Re5 22. Rxe5 Bh5 23. Rd1 Qxe5 24. Re1 Qc7 25. N5e4 Nxe4 26. Rxe4 f3 27. Rc4
Qd8 28. Rc5 Bg6 29. Rd5 Qc7 30. Qxf3 Re8 31. Qf2 h6 32. a3 Re6 33. Rd4 Qe7 34.
Nd5 Re1+ 35. Kh2 Qe5+ 36. Nf4 Rb1 37. Rd5 Rxb2 38. Rxe5 Rxf2 39. Nxg6 fxg6 40.
Re7 Rf7 41. Re8+ Kh7 42. Rd8 g5 43. Rd6 Rc7 44. Kg3 Rf7 45. a4 b6 46. Rd5 Kg6
47. a5 Rf5 48. Rd6+ Rf6 49. Rd5 bxa5 50. Rxa5 a6 51. d4 Kf7 52. Re5 g6 53. Ra5
Ke7 54. h4 gxh4+ 55. Kxh4 Kd7 56. g4 Rd6 57. Kg3 Kc7 58. Ra1 Kb6 59. Rd1 Kc6 60.
Rh1 g5 61. Kf3 Rxd4 62. Rxh6+ Kb5 63. Rf6 Rc4 64. Rg6 Rc5 65. Rg8 Re5 66. Rb8+
Kc4 67. Rc8+ Rc5 68. Ra8 a5 69. Ke3 Re5+ 70. Kd2 Kb4 71. Rb8+ Rb5 72. Rg8 Kb3
73. Rf8 a4 74. Kc1 Rc5+ 75. Kb1 Rc4 76. Rf3+ Kb4 77. Rg3 Kc5 78. Kb2 Kd5 79. Rg1
Ke5 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.9"]
[White "Grebnev, Aleksey"]
[Black "Ivic, Velimir"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2556"]
[BlackElo "2630"]
[ECO "C55"]
[Opening "Two knights defence (Modern bishop's opening)"]
[WhiteFideId "34189030"]
[BlackFideId "950122"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. Nc3 d6 7. a4 Na5 8. Ba2
Nc6 9. Bc4 Na5 10. Ba2 Nc6 11. Re1 Be6 12. Bc4 Nb4 13. a5 c5 14. h3 h6 15. Bd2
Rb8 16. b3 Ne8 17. Nd5 Nxd5 18. exd5 Bf5 19. b4 cxb4 20. Bxb4 Bg6 21. Bd2 Nf6
22. Be3 a6 23. Qd2 Nd7 24. Rab1 Qc7 25. Qb4 Rfc8 26. Ba7 Ra8 27. Be3 Rab8 28.
Ba7 Ra8 29. Be3 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.10"]
[White "Sanal, Vahap"]
[Black "Theodorou, Nikolas"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2555"]
[BlackElo "2611"]
[ECO "D05"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[WhiteFideId "6300545"]
[BlackFideId "4262875"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e3 e6 4. c4 Be7 5. b3 O-O 6. Bb2 c5 7. Nbd2 Nc6 8. Be2
dxc4 9. bxc4 b6 10. O-O Bb7 11. Nb3 cxd4 12. exd4 Qc7 13. a3 Rad8 14. Qc2 Bd6
15. Rfd1 Ne7 16. g3 Nf5 17. Rac1 Ne4 18. c5 Nxf2 19. cxd6 Qxc2 20. Rxc2 Nxd1 21.
Bxd1 Ne3 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.11"]
[White "Ohanyan, Emin"]
[Black "Tin, Jingyao"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2503"]
[BlackElo "2601"]
[ECO "D60"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Orthodox defence"]
[WhiteFideId "13312022"]
[BlackFideId "5804418"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Nbd7 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 O-O 7. Be2 h6 8. Bh4
b6 9. cxd5 Nxd5 10. Nxd5 Bxh4 11. Nxh4 exd5 12. Nf3 Bb7 13. O-O c5 14. b3 Nf6
15. Rc1 Qe7 16. Qc2 Rfc8 17. Qb2 Rc7 18. Rc2 Bc8 19. Bd3 Be6 20. Rfc1 Rac8 21.
Ne5 a5 22. a4 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.12"]
[White "Aditya, Mittal"]
[Black "Sargissian, Gabriel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2547"]
[BlackElo "2641"]
[ECO "C58"]
[Opening "Two knights defence"]
[WhiteFideId "35042025"]
[BlackFideId "13300881"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8.
Bd3 Nd5 9. Nf3 Bd6 10. O-O Nf4 11. Nc3 Nxd3 12. cxd3 O-O 13. b3 Re8 14. Re1 f6
15. Ne4 Bf8 16. Bb2 c5 17. Ba3 Nb7 18. b4 Qxd3 19. Re3 Qd5 20. bxc5 Bf5 21. Nc3
Qf7 22. d4 Na5 23. Nb5 Rab8 24. Nd6 Bxd6 25. cxd6 Nc4 26. Rc3 Nxa3 27. Rxa3 e4
28. Nd2 Qd5 29. Nf1 Qxd6 30. Rxa7 Rb4 31. Ne3 Bg6 32. Rc1 Reb8 33. h4 h5 34. Qc2
Rxd4 35. Qc7 Qxc7 36. Rcxc7 Kh7 37. Rxg7+ Kh6 38. g4 hxg4 39. Nxg4+ Kh5 40.
Nxf6+ Kh6 41. Ng8+ Kh5 42. Ra5+ Kxh4 43. Rxg6 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.13"]
[White "Azarov, Sergei"]
[Black "Klimkowski, Jan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2596"]
[BlackElo "2503"]
[ECO "B95"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, 6...e6"]
[WhiteFideId "13501470"]
[BlackFideId "21856222"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qe2 Be7 8. h4
h6 9. Bd2 b5 10. a3 e5 11. Nf5 Bxf5 12. exf5 Nc6 13. g4 Nd4 14. Qd1 Rc8 15. Bg2
Rc4 16. O-O Qc8 17. Be3 h5 18. g5 Nxf5 19. gxf6 Rg4 20. fxe7 Nxh4 21. Re1 Nxg2
22. Kf1 Nxe1 23. Qxe1 d5 24. f3 Rg6 25. Nxd5 Rd6 26. Nc3 h4 27. Ne4 Rd7 28. Bc5
Rh6 29. b4 f5 30. Ng5 Rd5 31. Qe3 h3 32. Kg1 h2+ 33. Kh1 Qc6 34. Re1 Rh5 35. Ne4
fxe4 36. fxe4 Rxc5 37. bxc5 Rh4 38. Qb3 Kxe7 39. Qg3 Qf6 40. c6 Rf4 41. Qc3 Rf1+
42. Rxf1 Qxf1+ 43. Kxh2 Qf2+ 44. Kh3 Qf1+ 45. Kh2 Qf2+ 46. Kh3 Qf1+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.14"]
[White "Kozak, Adam"]
[Black "Mamedov, Edgar"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2578"]
[BlackElo "2492"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange, positional line"]
[WhiteFideId "753246"]
[BlackFideId "13739980"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4 Bg4 8. Qc2
O-O 9. h3 Be6 10. Nge2 c5 11. dxc5 Nbd7 12. Rd1 Nxc5 13. Bxf6 Bxf6 14. Nxd5 Rc8
15. Nef4 Be5 16. b4 Na6 17. Qe4 Bxd5 18. Qxe5 Nxb4 19. Nxd5 Re8 20. Qf5 Nc2+ 21.
Ke2 Re6 22. Rd2 g6 23. Qd3 Qa5 24. g4 Nb4 25. Nxb4 Qxb4 26. Bg2 Rc3 27. Rb1 Qa5
28. Qd8+ Qxd8 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.15"]
[White "Assaubayeva, Bibisara"]
[Black "Karthik, Venkataraman"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2494"]
[BlackElo "2565"]
[ECO "B14"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "Panov-Botvinnik attack, 5...g6"]
[WhiteFideId "13708694"]
[BlackFideId "25006479"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Bc4 Nb6 8.
Bb3 Bg7 9. Nf3 O-O 10. O-O Nc6 11. d5 Na5 12. h3 Nxb3 13. axb3 Nd7 14. Bf4 Nf6
15. Be5 Bd7 16. Re1 Re8 17. Re3 b5 18. Qd4 a5 19. Rae1 b4 20. Ne4 Nxe4 21. Rxe4
f6 22. Bg3 Bf5 23. R4e2 Qd7 24. Rd2 Qa7 25. Qxa7 Rxa7 26. Nd4 Bh6 27. Rdd1 Rd7
28. d6 Kf7 29. dxe7 Rdxe7 30. Rxe7+ Rxe7 31. Ra1 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.16"]
[White "Ahmadzada, Ahmad"]
[Black "Oro, Faustino"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2564"]
[BlackElo "2454"]
[ECO "B10"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "two knights variation"]
[WhiteFideId "13413007"]
[BlackFideId "20000197"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Qe2 Nxe4 6. Qxe4 Nd7 7. d4 Nf6 8.
Qd3 g6 9. Be2 Bf5 10. Qb3 Qb6 11. c3 Be4 12. O-O Qxb3 13. axb3 Bxf3 14. Bxf3 a6
15. b4 Rd8 16. b5 axb5 17. Ra7 Rd7 18. Bg5 Nd5 19. Ra8+ Rd8 20. Ra7 Rd7 21. Re1
Nb6 22. b3 h5 23. d5 Nxd5 24. c4 bxc4 25. bxc4 Nb4 26. Rb1 f6 27. Rxb4 fxg5 28.
Rbxb7 Rxb7 29. Bxc6+ Kf7 30. Rxb7 Kf6 31. Bd5 Kf5 32. Rb6 Bg7 33. Be6+ Ke5 34.
Bd7 Ra8 35. g3 Bf6 36. c5 Ra1+ 37. Kg2 Rc1 38. Re6+ Kd5 39. c6 Rc2 40. Kf1 g4
41. Re2 Rc1+ 42. Re1 Rc2 43. Be8 Bd4 44. Re2 Rc1+ 45. Kg2 g5 46. Bxh5 Rxc6 47.
Re5+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.17"]
[White "Nigmatov, Ortik"]
[Black "Akobian, Varuzhan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2457"]
[BlackElo "2564"]
[ECO "C07"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Tarrasch, open variation"]
[WhiteFideId "14202131"]
[BlackFideId "13300580"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. Ngf3 cxd4 6. Bc4 Qd6 7. Ne4 Qb4+ 8.
Nfd2 Nc6 9. O-O Nf6 10. c3 Qb6 11. Nxf6+ gxf6 12. Ne4 Be7 13. cxd4 Qxd4 14. Qe2
f5 15. Nc3 a6 16. Rd1 Qg4 17. f3 Qh4 18. Be3 O-O 19. Bb6 Bd8 20. Bc5 b5 21. Bxf8
Kxf8 22. Rd6 Nd4 23. Qe5 Bf6 24. Qc5 Kg7 25. Bf1 Bb7 26. Rd1 Nxf3+ 27. gxf3 Bxf3
28. Bg2 Bxd1 29. Bxa8 Qe1+ 30. Kg2 Bg4 31. Rd3 b4 32. Qxb4 e5 33. Qc5 e4 34. Rg3
h5 35. Qf2 Qc1 36. Qxf5 Qxb2+ 37. Qf2 Bxc3 38. Qxb2 Bxb2 39. h3 f5 40. hxg4 hxg4
41. Rb3 Be5 42. Rb6 e3 43. Re6 Bd4 44. Kg3 a5 45. Bd5 a4 46. Kf4 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.18"]
[White "Vakhidov, Jakhongir"]
[Black "Abdusattorov, Nodirbek"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2546"]
[BlackElo "2771"]
[ECO "A30"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "symmetrical variation"]
[WhiteFideId "14201801"]
[BlackFideId "14204118"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 g6 4. e3 Nf6 5. d4 cxd4 6. exd4 d5 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8.
Qb3 e6 9. Bb5 Bg7 10. Bxc6+ bxc6 11. O-O O-O 12. Re1 Ba6 13. Nxd5 cxd5 14. Bf4
Qb6 15. Qa3 Rfc8 16. Bd6 Bd3 17. Bc5 Qb5 18. Rac1 Be4 19. Ne5 h5 20. Rc3 Rc7 21.
f3 Bf5 22. Rb3 Qe8 23. Qa5 Qd8 24. Rc3 Bh6 25. Re2 Rac8 26. b4 Bg7 27. Re1 Qg5
28. Qa3 f6 29. Nd3 e5 30. Qb3 Kh7 31. Qd1 h4 32. Nf2 Rd7 33. Rce3 Re8 34. a4 Qf4
35. Nd3 Bxd3 36. Qxd3 f5 37. Qb5 Rdd8 38. Qf1 e4 39. Qf2 Rc8 40. fxe4 Qxf2+ 41.
Kxf2 dxe4 42. g4 Red8 43. gxf5 gxf5 44. Rh3 Bxd4+ 45. Bxd4 Rxd4 46. Rxh4+ Kg6
47. Ke3 Rxb4 48. Kf4 e3+ 49. Kg3 Rxh4 50. Kxh4 Rc4+ 51. Kh3 f4 52. Kg4 Rxa4 53.
h4 a5 54. h5+ Kh6 55. Rc1 Re4 56. Kf3 Re6 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.19"]
[White "Sevian, Samuel"]
[Black "Bharath, Subramaniyam H"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2694"]
[BlackElo "2556"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange, positional line"]
[WhiteFideId "2040506"]
[BlackFideId "46634827"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4 O-O 8. Bd3
Re8 9. Nf3 c6 10. Bg3 Nh5 11. Be5 Nd7 12. h3 Nxe5 13. dxe5 g6 14. Qc2 Bf8 15.
Rd1 Qe7 16. a3 Bd7 17. O-O Bg7 18. Qb3 Rab8 19. Qa4 Bxe5 20. Nxe5 Qxe5 21. Qxa7
Nf6 22. Qb6 Bf5 23. Qb4 Be4 24. Bxe4 Nxe4 25. Nxe4 Qxe4 26. Rd4 Qe7 27. Qb6 Qd8
28. Qa7 Re7 29. Rfd1 Qd6 30. Qb6 Rbe8 31. Rxd5 Qxd5 32. Rxd5 cxd5 33. Qd6 Re6
34. Qxd5 b6 35. g4 Rc8 36. Qd3 Rec6 37. Kg2 Rc2 38. Qd4 R8c6 39. Kg3 Re2 40. b3
Rec2 41. a4 R2c3 42. Qe5 R3c5 43. Qe4 Re6 44. Qa8+ Kg7 45. Qd8 Rc2 46. Qd4+ Kg8
47. h4 Rec6 48. Qf4 Kg7 49. Qe5+ Kg8 50. b4 Re6 51. Qf4 Kg7 52. Qd4+ Kg8 53.
Qd8+ Kg7 54. Qd3 Rcc6 55. Qb5 Rc8 56. Qd5 Kg8 57. Qb7 Rce8 58. a5 bxa5 59. bxa5
R6e7 60. Qc6 Re6 61. Qb7 R6e7 62. Qb5 Re5 63. Qa4 Re4 64. Qb3 R4e6 65. Qb7 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.20"]
[White "Mendonca, Leon Luke"]
[Black "Gavrilescu, David"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2630"]
[BlackElo "2554"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Byrne (English) attack"]
[WhiteFideId "35028561"]
[BlackFideId "1227190"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nf3 Be7 8. Nd2
b5 9. a4 b4 10. Nd5 Nxd5 11. exd5 O-O 12. a5 f5 13. Nc4 Nd7 14. f3 Bh4+ 15. g3
f4 16. Bf2 e4 17. fxe4 Bg5 18. Qd3 Nf6 19. Bg2 Ng4 20. Bb6 Qe7 21. O-O Bd7 22.
h3 Ne5 23. Nxe5 Qxe5 24. Bd4 Qe7 25. c4 bxc3 26. bxc3 Rab8 27. c4 Rbc8 28. Rab1
fxg3 29. Rxf8+ Rxf8 30. Qxg3 Bf4 31. Qc3 Qg5 32. Rb7 Rf7 33. Rb8+ Rf8 34. Rxf8+
Kxf8 35. c5 dxc5 36. Qxc5+ Ke8 37. Qc3 Bd2 38. Qf3 Bxa5 39. e5 Qc1+ 40. Qf1
Qxf1+ 41. Bxf1 Bb5 42. e6 Bb4 43. Bxg7 Bc5+ 44. Kg2 Ke7 45. Bxb5 axb5 46. Kf3
Bd6 47. Ke4 Bc7 48. Be5 Bb6 49. Kf5 Bc5 50. d6+ 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.21"]
[White "Xiao, Tong(QD)"]
[Black "Xu, Xiangyu"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2493"]
[BlackElo "2623"]
[ECO "B75"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "dragon, Yugoslav attack"]
[WhiteFideId "8622388"]
[BlackFideId "8608288"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 a6 8. Qd2
h5 9. Bc4 b5 10. Bb3 Bb7 11. a4 bxa4 12. Bxa4+ Nbd7 13. Nc6 Qc7 14. Na5 O-O 15.
Nxb7 Qxb7 16. O-O Rfc8 17. Bxd7 Nxd7 18. Nd5 Kf8 19. Bd4 Bxd4+ 20. Qxd4 Qa7 21.
Qxa7 Rxa7 22. Ne3 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.22"]
[White "Daneshvar, Bardiya"]
[Black "Lobanov, Sergei"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2621"]
[BlackElo "2527"]
[ECO "C55"]
[Opening "Two knights defence (Modern bishop's opening)"]
[WhiteFideId "12576468"]
[BlackFideId "24183750"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. Re1 d6 7. a3 a5 8. h3 Be6
9. Nc3 h6 10. b3 Qd7 11. Bb5 Qd8 12. d4 Nxd4 13. Nxd4 exd4 14. Qxd4 Nd7 15. Bb2
Bf6 16. Qd2 g5 17. Bxd7 Bxd7 18. Nd1 Re8 19. f3 b6 20. Bd4 Be6 21. Nc3 Kg7 22.
Nb5 Rc8 23. Re3 Bd7 24. Nc3 Be6 25. Ne2 Bxd4 26. Nxd4 Qf6 27. Rf1 Kh8 28. f4
gxf4 29. Rg3 Qh4 30. Qxf4 Qxf4 31. Rxf4 Rg8 32. Rxg8+ Rxg8 33. Nxe6 fxe6 34. Rf6
Rg3 35. e5 Kg7 36. Rxe6 dxe5 37. Rc6 a4 38. Rxc7+ Kg8 39. Rc6 Kg7 40. Kf2 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.23"]
[White "Huang, Renjie"]
[Black "Paravyan, David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2491"]
[BlackElo "2596"]
[ECO "C48"]
[Opening "Four knights"]
[Variation "Rubinstein counter-gambit, Henneberger variation"]
[WhiteFideId "8610134"]
[BlackFideId "4194985"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Bb5 Nd4 5. O-O c6 6. Bd3 Nxf3+ 7. Qxf3 d6 8.
Bc4 Be7 9. a4 O-O 10. d3 Kh8 11. a5 Ne8 12. Qe2 f5 13. f4 fxe4 14. dxe4 Nf6 15.
fxe5 Ng4 16. Rxf8+ Qxf8 17. Qf1 Bd7 18. h3 Nxe5 19. Qxf8+ Rxf8 20. Bb3 g5 21.
Be3 a6 22. Rd1 g4 23. Bh6 Rd8 24. h4 Bxh4 25. Rxd6 Be7 26. Rd1 Be8 27. Rf1 Bg6
28. Kh2 Re8 29. Ne2 Bxe4 30. Ng3 Bd5 31. Bxd5 cxd5 32. Nf5 Bf8 33. Be3 Nc6 34.
Kg3 Re4 35. Bd2 Re2 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.24"]
[White "Iniyan, Pa"]
[Black "Samadov, Read"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2573"]
[BlackElo "2521"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange, Saemisch variation"]
[WhiteFideId "25002767"]
[BlackFideId "13417444"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Nbd7 5. cxd5 exd5 6. Bf4 Nb6 7. h3 c6 8. e3
Bf5 9. g4 Be6 10. Bd3 Bd6 11. Qc2 Qb8 12. Ne2 h6 13. Bg3 Bxg3 14. Nxg3 Qd6 15.
Ne5 Nfd7 16. f4 O-O-O 17. a4 f6 18. Ng6 Rhe8 19. a5 Nc4 20. Kf2 Bf7 21. Rhe1 Qc7
22. a6 b6 23. Nh5 Bxg6 24. Bxg6 Re7 25. e4 Nf8 26. exd5 cxd5 27. Rxe7 Qxe7 28.
Re1 Qb4 29. b3 Nxg6 30. bxc4 Ne7 31. c5 Qxd4+ 32. Kg2 Kd7 33. cxb6 axb6 34. Nxg7
Qb4 35. Qe2 Ng6 36. Qe6+ Kc7 37. Qf7+ Kc6 38. Re6+ Rd6 39. Qe8+ Kc7 40. Qxg6
Qd2+ 41. Kg3 Rxe6 42. Qf7+ 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.25"]
[White "Kacharava, Nikolozi"]
[Black "Bai, Jinshi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2516"]
[BlackElo "2572"]
[ECO "B40"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Anderssen variation"]
[WhiteFideId "13611860"]
[BlackFideId "8602280"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. a3 d5 7. exd5 Nxd5 8.
Nxd5 Qxd5 9. Nxc6 Qxc6 10. Be3 Bd7 11. Qd2 Bc5 12. O-O-O O-O-O 13. Qc3 Bxe3+ 14.
Qxe3 Qb6 15. Qf4 f6 16. Qg3 e5 17. Qxg7 Bf5 18. Bd3 e4 19. Bc4 Be6 20. Bxe6+
Qxe6 21. Rxd8+ Rxd8 22. Rd1 Rxd1+ 23. Kxd1 Qf5 24. Ke1 h5 25. Qe7 a6 26. b4 Qf4
27. Qc5+ Kb8 28. Qxh5 f5 29. Ke2 Qe5 30. g4 Qb5+ 31. Ke1 e3 32. Qxf5 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.26"]
[White "Samunenkov, Ihor"]
[Black "Ilamparthi, A R"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2572"]
[BlackElo "2469"]
[ECO "E06"]
[Opening "Catalan"]
[Variation "closed, 5.Nf3"]
[WhiteFideId "14187086"]
[BlackFideId "45015775"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 Be7 5. Bg2 Ne4 6. O-O f5 7. Nc3 c6 8. Qc2 O-O
9. Ne5 Nd7 10. Nd3 a5 11. b3 b6 12. cxd5 cxd5 13. Nxe4 fxe4 14. Qc6 Ra7 15.
Qxe6+ Rf7 16. Nf4 Nf6 17. Qc6 Bd7 18. Qc2 Rc7 19. Qd1 g5 20. Nh3 h6 21. f3 Bd6
22. Nf2 Qe7 23. fxe4 dxe4 24. Bb2 Rc8 25. Rc1 Rcf8 26. Qc2 Bf5 27. e3 Nd5 28.
Qe2 h5 29. a3 g4 30. Rce1 Qe6 31. Kh1 h4 32. gxh4 Rh7 33. Nd1 Rxh4 34. Nc3 Nxc3
35. Bxc3 Qxb3 36. Rc1 Rxh2+ 37. Kg1 Qd5 38. Rb1 Rh5 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.27"]
[White "Siddharth, Jagadeesh"]
[Black "Amar, Elham"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2472"]
[BlackElo "2569"]
[ECO "A13"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[WhiteFideId "5818320"]
[BlackFideId "1533533"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. c4 e6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 Nf6 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. cxd5 exd5 6. O-O Bd6 7. b3 O-O 8. Bb2
Re8 9. d3 h6 10. a3 Bf5 11. b4 a6 12. Nbd2 Qe7 13. Re1 Rad8 14. Nb3 Ne5 15. Qd2
c6 16. Nxe5 Bxe5 17. Bd4 Bc8 18. Qb2 Bxd4 19. Qxd4 Nh7 20. Ra2 Ng5 21. h4 Ne6
22. Qb6 f5 23. f4 d4 24. e4 dxe3 25. Rxe3 Qc7 26. Qa7 Nf8 27. Rae2 Rxe3 28. Qxe3
Qd6 29. Nc5 Nd7 30. Nxd7 Bxd7 31. d4 Be8 32. Qe5 Qd7 33. d5 cxd5 34. Qxd5+ Qxd5
35. Bxd5+ Rxd5 36. Rxe8+ Kf7 37. Rb8 b5 38. Rb6 Rd3 39. Rxa6 Rxg3+ 40. Kf2 Rg4
41. Kf3 Rxh4 42. Ra5 Ke6 43. Kg3 Rg4+ 44. Kf3 g5 45. fxg5 hxg5 46. Rxb5 Rf4+ 47.
Kg2 Rc4 48. a4 Rc2+ 49. Kg3 Rc3+ 50. Kg2 Ra3 51. a5 g4 52. Rc5 Ra2+ 53. Kg3 Kf6
54. Kf4 Rf2+ 55. Kg3 Rf3+ 56. Kg2 Rb3 57. Rc2 Rf3 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.28"]
[White "Predke, Alexandr"]
[Black "Movahed, Sina"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2631"]
[BlackElo "2518"]
[ECO "B40"]
[Opening "Sicilian defence"]
[WhiteFideId "24107581"]
[BlackFideId "42520835"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 Nf6 4. e5 Nd5 5. a3 b6 6. d4 cxd4 7. Nxd4 Nc6 8. Nxc6
dxc6 9. c4 Ne7 10. Qxd8+ Kxd8 11. Bf4 Ng6 12. Bg3 f5 13. exf6 gxf6 14. Nc3 e5
15. O-O-O+ Ke7 16. Bd3 Be6 17. Rhe1 Rd8 18. f3 Bh6+ 19. Kc2 Rd7 20. Be4 Rhd8 21.
Rxd7+ Rxd7 22. Bd3 Kf7 23. b4 Ne7 24. Bf2 Nf5 25. g4 Nd4+ 26. Bxd4 Rxd4 27. Ne2
Rd7 28. Nc3 Bf4 29. h3 h5 30. Rd1 Kg7 31. Ne2 Bg5 32. Ng3 h4 33. Nf5+ Kf8 34. a4
Ke8 35. Be4 Rxd1 36. Kxd1 Kd7 37. Bd3 a5 38. bxa5 bxa5 39. Kc2 e4 40. fxe4 c5
41. Be2 Bf7 42. e5 fxe5 43. Kd3 Bf6 44. Bf3 Be8 45. Ne3 Ke6 46. Bd5+ Kd6 47.
Nf5+ Kc7 48. g5 Bxg5 49. Ng7 Bg6+ 50. Be4 Bf7 51. Bd5 Bg6+ 52. Be4 Bf7 53. Bd5
Bxd5 54. cxd5 Kd6 55. Ne6 Be7 56. Kc4 e4 57. Nxc5 e3 58. Ne4+ Ke5 59. Nc3 Bb4
60. Ne2 Ke4 61. Ng1 Bd6 62. Ne2 Bb8 63. Nc3+ Kf3 64. Kd3 Bd6 65. Ne2 Bc5 66. Nc3
Be7 67. Ne2 Bf8 68. Nd4+ Kf2 69. Ne2 Bc5 70. Nc3 Kf3 71. Ne2 Kg2 72. Nf4+ Kg3
73. Ne6 Bb6 74. Ng5 Bd8 75. Ne6 Bb6 76. Ng5 Kf4 77. Nf7 Kg3 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.29"]
[White "Pichot, Alan"]
[Black "Ferreira, Jorge Viterbo"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2587"]
[BlackElo "2537"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Byrne (English) attack"]
[WhiteFideId "110973"]
[BlackFideId "1910850"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nf3 Qc7 8. a4
Be7 9. Be2 Nbd7 10. Nd2 Nc5 11. Nd5 Nxd5 12. exd5 Bf5 13. a5 O-O 14. O-O Bg6 15.
b4 Nd7 16. c4 f5 17. f3 Qd8 18. Kh1 Bg5 19. Bg1 Nf6 20. c5 Nxd5 21. Nc4 Nc3 22.
Qd3 Nxe2 23. Qxe2 dxc5 24. Bxc5 Be7 25. Nb6 Bxc5 26. bxc5 Qe7 27. Nxa8 Rxa8 28.
c6 bxc6 29. Qc4+ Bf7 30. Qxc6 Qe8 31. Rac1 Qxc6 32. Rxc6 Be8 33. Rc5 Bb5 34. Re1
e4 35. fxe4 fxe4 36. Rxe4 Ra7 37. Rf4 g6 38. h4 h5 39. Rf6 Kg7 40. Rd6 Kh7 41.
Kh2 Re7 42. Rg5 Rg7 43. Kg3 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.30"]
[White "Petkov, Momchil"]
[Black "Vescovi, Giovanni"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2524"]
[BlackElo "2584"]
[ECO "C49"]
[Opening "Four knights"]
[Variation "Nimzovich (Paulsen) variation"]
[WhiteFideId "2921642"]
[BlackFideId "2100789"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. d3 Re8 8.
Ne2 Bd6 9. a4 c5 10. b3 Nd7 11. Nd2 Nf8 12. Nc4 Ne6 13. Kh1 f6 14. Be3 Bf8 15.
f4 exf4 16. Nxf4 Nxf4 17. Bxf4 Be6 18. Ne3 Qd7 19. Qf3 b6 20. Bg3 a6 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.31"]
[White "Madaminov, Mukhiddin"]
[Black "Gupta, Abhijeet"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2520"]
[BlackElo "2577"]
[ECO "C55"]
[Opening "Two knights defence (Modern bishop's opening)"]
[WhiteFideId "14210703"]
[BlackFideId "5010608"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. Nc3 d6 7. a3 Bg4 8. h3
Bxf3 9. Qxf3 Nd4 10. Qd1 c6 11. Ba2 Ne6 12. Ne2 d5 13. Ng3 dxe4 14. dxe4 Qxd1
15. Rxd1 Bc5 16. Kf1 Rfd8 17. Bd2 Kf8 18. f3 Ke8 19. Nf5 Nh5 20. Bb4 Bxb4 21.
axb4 Nd4 22. Nxd4 Rxd4 23. Rxd4 exd4 24. Bb3 Ke7 25. Kf2 Nf4 26. Ra5 f6 27. h4
b6 28. Ra1 a5 29. g3 Ng6 30. f4 Kd6 31. Ke2 c5 32. bxa5 bxa5 33. Kd3 Ne7 34. c3
Rb8 35. Kc4 Nc6 36. Ra2 Re8 37. Kd3 h6 38. h5 Rb8 39. Ba4 Nd8 40. Kc4 Ne6 41.
Bb3 Ra8 42. Kd3 Nc7 43. cxd4 cxd4 44. Kxd4 Rb8 45. Bc4 Kc6 46. e5 fxe5+ 47. fxe5
Rb4 48. b3 Kb6 49. Kc3 Nb5+ 50. Kd3 Na7 51. Ke4 Nc6 52. Kd5 Ne7+ 53. Ke6 Nc6 54.
Kd6 Kb7 55. e6 Nd4 56. e7 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.32"]
[White "Can, Emre"]
[Black "Aronyak, Ghosh"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2568"]
[BlackElo "2514"]
[ECO "B12"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "advance variation"]
[WhiteFideId "6302181"]
[BlackFideId "25072846"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. h4 h5 5. Bd3 Bxd3 6. Qxd3 Qa5+ 7. c3 e6 8. a4 c5
9. dxc5 Qxc5 10. Nf3 Ne7 11. O-O Nf5 12. Na3 Be7 13. b4 Qc8 14. c4 dxc4 15. Nxc4
Nc6 16. b5 Nb4 17. Qe4 Qd7 18. Nd6+ Nxd6 19. exd6 Qxd6 20. Qxb7 Qd5 21. Qc7 Qd8
22. Qxd8+ Bxd8 23. Bb2 Rg8 24. Rfd1 Nd5 25. Rd3 Bf6 26. Rb1 Ke7 27. Ba3+ Kd7 28.
Ng5 Bxg5 29. hxg5 Rgc8 30. Rf3 f5 31. Bb2 Rc4 32. Ra3 g6 33. Be5 Re4 34. Bf6
Nxf6 35. gxf6 Ke8 36. a5 Kf7 37. Rc3 Kxf6 38. Rc6 Re5 39. b6 axb6 40. axb6 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.33"]
[White "Davtyan, Artur"]
[Black "Sankalp, Gupta"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2485"]
[BlackElo "2559"]
[ECO "E47"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "4.e3 O-O, 5.Bd3"]
[WhiteFideId "13308327"]
[BlackFideId "5097010"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 Re8 6. Ne2 d5 7. a3 Bf8 8. Qc2
Nbd7 9. b4 dxc4 10. Bxc4 a5 11. b5 e5 12. Qb3 Re7 13. O-O exd4 14. exd4 Nb6 15.
Bg5 Qd6 16. Bf4 Qd7 17. Rfd1 Re8 18. a4 Qe7 19. h3 Bf5 20. Be5 Bg6 21. Qa2 Nfd7
22. Bg3 Nxc4 23. Qxc4 Rac8 24. Qa2 Bh5 25. Rd2 Qg5 26. Nf4 Nf6 27. Nxh5 Nxh5 28.
Be5 Nf4 29. Bxf4 Qxf4 30. Rd3 Bd6 31. g3 Qf5 32. Rad1 Qxh3 33. Qd5 Re6 34. Qxb7
Rce8 35. Rf1 h5 36. Qh1 Qf5 37. Rf3 Qg4 38. Kg2 Rg6 39. Qh3 Qxd4 40. Qxh5 Re5
41. Qh3 Rh6 42. Qc8+ Kh7 43. Rh1 Rxh1 44. Kxh1 Bb4 45. Qxc7 Rc5 46. Qxf7 Bxc3
47. b6 Qe4 48. b7 Bf6 49. Kg2 Rf5 50. Qb3 Be5 51. Qd3 Qxd3 52. Rxd3 Rf7 53. Rd5
Bb8 54. Rb5 Kg6 55. Rxa5 Rxb7 56. Kh3 Rb2 57. f3 Bc7 58. Rc5 Bb6 59. Rc4 Bf2 60.
Rg4+ Kf7 61. Rf4+ Kg8 62. Re4 Ra2 63. Kg4 Kf7 64. Rc4 Ra1 65. Kf4 Ra3 66. Rc7+
Kg6 67. Rc4 Be1 68. Rc6+ Kh7 69. Rc4 Ra2 70. Re4 Ba5 71. Kf5 Ra3 72. Kg4 Kg6 73.
Rc4 Ra1 74. Rc6+ Kh7 75. Rc4 Rg1 76. Kh3 Be1 77. Kh2 Rf1 78. Re4 Ba5 79. Kg2 Rb1
80. Rh4+ Kg8 81. Rh5 Bc3 82. Rc5 Bf6 83. Rc4 Kf7 84. Re4 Rb3 85. Kf2 Rb2+ 86.
Ke3 Bg5+ 87. f4 Rb3+ 88. Ke2 Be7 89. g4 Rg3 90. g5 Ra3 91. Kd2 Bd8 92. Rd4 Ba5+
93. Ke2 Kg6 94. Rd6+ Kh5 95. Rd7 Bc3 96. Rd3 Ra2+ 97. Kf3 Ba1 98. Rd1 Ra3+ 99.
Ke4 Rxa4+ 100. Kf5 Ra5+ 101. Ke6 Kg4 102. g6 Kxf4 103. Kf7 Ra7+ 104. Kg8 Be5
105. Rf1+ Kg5 106. Kh7 Ra4 107. Re1 Rh4+ 108. Kg8 Kf6 109. Rxe5 Kxe5 110. Kxg7
Ke6 111. Kg8 Rg4 112. g7 Kf6 113. Kh8 Ke5 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.34"]
[White "Sethuraman, S.P."]
[Black "Rohith, Krishna S"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2552"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Opening "Scotch"]
[Variation "Potter variation"]
[WhiteFideId "5021596"]
[BlackFideId "46617051"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Nb3 Bb6 6. Qe2 Nge7 7. Nc3 O-O 8.
Be3 f5 9. Bxb6 axb6 10. exf5 Rxf5 11. O-O-O Qf8 12. f3 d6 13. Qd2 Be6 14. Bd3
Rf7 15. Rhe1 Ne5 16. Be4 N7c6 17. Kb1 Kh8 18. h4 Re8 19. h5 h6 20. Nd4 Nxd4 21.
Qxd4 Rd7 22. Bd5 Bf5 23. Bb3 Bh7 24. Qe3 Rdd8 25. Qg1 Nd7 26. Nd5 Nc5 27. Bc4
Rxe1 28. Qxe1 b5 29. Bf1 c6 30. Nb4 Qf6 31. b3 Ra8 32. Qe3 Qh4 33. g4 Qf6 34.
Be2 Kg8 35. Rd2 Kf8 36. Qd4 Qxd4 37. Rxd4 d5 38. Kc1 Ke7 39. Rd1 Rf8 40. Kd2 Kd6
41. Ke3 Ne6 42. Bd3 d4+ 43. Kf2 Bxd3 44. Nxd3 c5 45. Kg3 Ra8 46. Nc1 b4 47. f4
Nc7 48. f5 Nd5 49. Rf1 b6 50. Rf2 Ke5 51. Kf3 Ne3 52. Re2 Ra7 53. Rh2 Kf6 54.
Re2 Kg5 55. Rh2 Rf7 56. Nd3 Nxg4 57. Rg2 Rxf5+ 58. Ke4 Rf1 59. Kd5 Kxh5 60. Kc6
Rf6+ 61. Kb7 g5 62. Re2 Ne3 63. Ne5 g4 64. Nd7 Rf7 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.35"]
[White "Isik, Alparslan"]
[Black "Jumabayev, Rinat"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2482"]
[BlackElo "2551"]
[ECO "D22"]
[Opening "QGA"]
[Variation "Haberditz variation"]
[WhiteFideId "34506896"]
[BlackFideId "13702661"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 a6 4. e3 b5 5. a4 Bb7 6. b3 Nf6 7. axb5 axb5 8. Rxa8
Bxa8 9. bxc4 bxc4 10. Bxc4 e6 11. O-O Be7 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.36"]
[White "Divya, Deshmukh"]
[Black "Raja, Rithvik R"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2469"]
[BlackElo "2545"]
[ECO "E49"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "4.e3, Botvinnik system"]
[WhiteFideId "35006916"]
[BlackFideId "35007394"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 dxc4 8.
Bxc4 c5 9. Ne2 Qc7 10. Bd3 b6 11. O-O Bb7 12. f3 Nbd7 13. e4 e5 14. d5 c4 15.
Bc2 Ne8 16. f4 Nd6 17. fxe5 Nxe5 18. Bf4 Rfe8 19. Nd4 Qe7 20. Qh5 f6 21. Qh3 Bc8
22. Qg3 Bd7 23. Rae1 b5 24. Nf3 Ndf7 25. Nxe5 Nxe5 26. Ra1 a5 27. Be3 Nd3 28.
Bd4 Ne5 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.37"]
[White "Kuybokarov, Temur"]
[Black "Pang, Tao"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2542"]
[BlackElo "2485"]
[ECO "C02"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "advance, Euwe variation"]
[WhiteFideId "14203049"]
[BlackFideId "8609950"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bd7 6. Be2 Nge7 7. O-O Ng6 8. g3
cxd4 9. cxd4 Be7 10. Nc3 O-O 11. h4 f6 12. h5 Nh8 13. h6 g5 14. exf6 Bxf6 15.
Be3 Nf7 16. Qd2 Nxh6 17. Nxg5 Nf5 18. Nf3 Bg7 19. Bd3 Be8 20. Rae1 Bh5 21. Ng5
Qf6 22. Bf4 Ncxd4 23. Nb5 Nf3+ 24. Nxf3 Bxf3 25. Be2 Bxe2 26. Rxe2 a6 27. Be5
Qg6 28. Nd4 Nxd4 29. Qxd4 Bxe5 30. Rxe5 Rf6 31. Rfe1 Re8 32. Rxd5 Rxf2 33. Kxf2
Rf8+ 34. Kg2 exd5 35. Qxd5+ Qf7 36. Qxf7+ Kxf7 37. Rf1+ Kg7 38. Rxf8 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.38"]
[White "Seemann, Jakub"]
[Black "Sychev, Klementy"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2453"]
[BlackElo "2542"]
[ECO "D20"]
[Opening "QGA"]
[Variation "3.e4"]
[WhiteFideId "21874697"]
[BlackFideId "4114060"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 b5 4. a4 c6 5. Nc3 b4 6. Nce2 e6 7. Nf3 Ba6 8. Ng3 c5
9. Be3 Nc6 10. d5 Na5 11. dxe6 Qxd1+ 12. Rxd1 fxe6 13. Ng5 Bc8 14. e5 Ne7 15.
Bxc5 Nd5 16. Bxf8 Rxf8 17. N3e4 Ke7 18. Nc5 Rf5 19. Nf3 Bd7 20. Be2 Rc8 21. Nxd7
Kxd7 22. O-O Ke7 23. Rfe1 c3 24. Ba6 Rc5 25. bxc3 Nxc3 26. Rd4 Nc6 27. Rg4 g6
28. Bd3 Rxf3 29. gxf3 b3 30. Rh4 h5 31. Bxg6 Nxe5 32. Rxe5 Rxe5 33. Kf1 Kf6 34.
Bh7 Kg7 35. Rc4 Kxh7 36. Rxc3 Ra5 37. Rxb3 Rxa4 38. Re3 Ra6 39. Re5 Kg6 40. Kg2
Rb6 41. Kg3 a6 42. f4 Rb3+ 43. f3 Rb6 44. Rg5+ Kf6 45. Rxh5 Rb5 46. Rh6+ Kf5 47.
h4 Rb7 48. Rh5+ Kf6 49. Ra5 Rg7+ 50. Kf2 Rh7 51. h5 Rh8 52. Ke3 Rh7 53. Ke4 Rh8
54. Re5 Rh7 55. f5 Rxh5 56. Rxe6+ Kf7 57. Ke5 Rh1 58. Rf6+ Ke7 59. Rxa6 Re1+ 60.
Kf4 Kf7 61. Rd6 Ra1 62. f6 Ra5 63. Kg4 Rb5 64. f4 Ra5 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.39"]
[White "Aswath, S"]
[Black "Tarhan, Adar"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2515"]
[BlackElo "2472"]
[ECO "E11"]
[Opening "Bogo-Indian defence, Gruenfeld variation"]
[WhiteFideId "46694919"]
[BlackFideId "34544712"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 Bb4+ 4. Nbd2 O-O 5. a3 Bxd2+ 6. Qxd2 b6 7. e3 Bb7 8.
Be2 d5 9. b4 dxc4 10. Bxc4 Nbd7 11. O-O Ne4 12. Qc2 Rc8 13. Rd1 Ndf6 14. Ne5 Nd6
15. Bd3 c5 16. dxc5 bxc5 17. bxc5 Qa5 18. Bd2 Qxc5 19. Qxc5 Rxc5 20. Bb4 Rxe5
21. Bxd6 Rg5 22. Bxf8 Rxg2+ 23. Kf1 Kxf8 24. Rab1 Bf3 25. Be2 Ng4 26. Bxf3 Rxf2+
27. Kg1 Rxf3 28. Rb8+ Ke7 29. Rb7+ Kf6 30. Re1 Kg5 31. Rxa7 Nxe3 32. a4 Ng4 33.
Rf1 Ra3 34. Rf2 f6 35. Rxf6 g6 36. Rf1 h5 37. a5 e5 38. Re1 Kh4 39. a6 Ra2 40.
Rb1 Nxh2 41. Rf7 e4 42. Rf2 Nf3+ 43. Kg2 Rxa6 44. Rb4 Kg5 45. Rxe4 Nh4+ 46. Kh2
Ra3 47. Re6 Ra4 48. Kh3 Ra3+ 49. Kh2 Nf3+ 50. Kg2 Nd4 51. Re5+ Nf5 52. Kh2 Ra4
53. Re6 Nh6 54. Rd2 Rh4+ 55. Kg1 Rg4+ 56. Kh2 Nf5 57. Rf2 Nd4 58. Re5+ Nf5 59.
Re6 h4 60. Rg2 Nh6 61. Re5+ Kf4 62. Rge2 Nf5 63. Re6 Rg3 64. Rf2+ Kg5 65. Re5
Kg4 66. Re4+ Kh5 67. Re5 Rg5 68. Kh3 Rg3+ 69. Kh2 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.40"]
[White "Muradli, Mahammad"]
[Black "Royal, Shreyas"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2603"]
[BlackElo "2493"]
[ECO "D26"]
[Opening "QGA"]
[Variation "classical variation, 6.O-O"]
[WhiteFideId "13409301"]
[BlackFideId "448869"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O Nc6 7. Nc3 a6 8. Qe2
b5 9. Bb3 Bb7 10. d5 Nxd5 11. Rd1 Bd6 12. Nxd5 exd5 13. Bxd5 O-O 14. a4 c4 15.
b3 Qf6 16. axb5 axb5 17. Rxa8 Bxa8 18. bxc4 bxc4 19. Qxc4 Ne5 20. Nxe5 Qxe5 21.
g3 Bxd5 22. Rxd5 Qe6 23. Qd3 Be7 24. Bb2 Rb8 25. Be5 Rc8 26. Kg2 Bf6 27. Bf4 Re8
28. h4 Qe4+ 29. Qxe4 Rxe4 30. h5 Re8 31. g4 Rd8 32. Rb5 h6 33. e4 Ra8 34. Be3
Re8 35. Rb4 Ra8 36. f4 Be7 37. Rb7 Bh4 38. e5 Be1 39. Kf3 Rd8 40. Ke4 Bc3 41.
Rb3 Ba1 42. Bc5 Rc8 43. Kd5 Ra8 44. Ra3 Rd8+ 45. Bd6 Bb2 46. Rb3 Bc1 47. f5 Bf4
48. Kc6 Ra8 49. Rb8+ Rxb8 50. Bxb8 f6 51. e6 Bxb8 52. e7 Kf7 53. Kd7 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.19"]
[Round "3.41"]
[White "Malek, Jan"]
[Black "Injac, Teodora"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2511"]
[BlackElo "2474"]
[ECO "D38"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Ragozin variation"]
[WhiteFideId "21864080"]
[BlackFideId "932400"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. cxd5 exd5 6. Bf4 Ne4 7. Rc1 Nc6 8.
Nd2 g5 9. Be3 Nxc3 10. bxc3 Ba3 11. Rb1 f5 12. g3 O-O 13. Qb3 Be7 14. f4 Na5 15.
Qc2 b6 16. Bg2 c6 17. Qd3 Bd6 18. fxg5 f4 19. Bxf4 Bxf4 20. gxf4 Rxf4 21. Qe3
Qxg5 22. Rg1 Qh4+ 23. Kd1 Kf8 24. c4 Bf5 25. Qe5 Bxb1 26. Qd6+ Ke8 27. Bxd5 Bg6
28. Bxc6+ Nxc6 29. Qxc6+ Ke7 30. Qxa8 Rxd4 31. Qxa7+ Rd7 32. Qa3+ Rd6 33. Qg3
Qd4 34. Qg5+ Ke8 35. e4 Rf6 36. Rg2 Bxe4 37. Qg8+ Rf8 38. Qe6+ Kd8 39. Qxe4 Qa1+
40. Ke2 Re8 41. Rg8 Rxg8 42. Qd5+ Kc7 43. Qxg8 Qe5+ 44. Kd3 Qf5+ 45. Ne4 Qf3+
46. Kd4 Qd1+ 47. Ke5 Qh5+ 48. Ke6 Qh3+ 49. Ke7 Qh4+ 50. Nf6 Qxh2 51. Ne8+ Kb7
52. Nd6+ Ka7 53. Nb5+ Kb7 54. Qd5+ 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.1"]
[White "Zemlyanskii, Ivan"]
[Black "Giri, Anish"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2563"]
[BlackElo "2738"]
[ECO "C55"]
[Opening "Two knights defence (Modern bishop's opening)"]
[WhiteFideId "24249971"]
[BlackFideId "24116068"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Be7 5. O-O d6 6. a4 Be6 7. Nbd2 O-O 8. Re1
h6 9. b3 Nh7 10. h3 Ng5 11. Nf1 Nxf3+ 12. Qxf3 Bg5 13. Bb2 Qe7 14. Ng3 g6 15.
Bc3 a5 16. Bd5 Bd7 17. Ne2 Qf6 18. Qxf6 Bxf6 19. f4 Bg7 20. fxe5 Bxe5 21. d4 Bg7
22. Rad1 Nd8 23. e5 c6 24. Bc4 d5 25. Bd3 Ne6 26. Bb2 b5 27. axb5 cxb5 28. c4
dxc4 29. bxc4 b4 30. Be4 Rac8 31. c5 Bb5 32. Ng3 a4 33. Bc2 a3 34. Ba1 Bc4 35.
Rb1 Rb8 36. Bb3 Bxb3 37. Rxb3 Rfd8 38. Ne2 Bxe5 39. Reb1 a2 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.2"]
[White "Nikitenko, Mihail"]
[Black "Indjic, Aleksandar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2516"]
[BlackElo "2637"]
[ECO "A61"]
[Opening "Benoni defence"]
[WhiteFideId "13506862"]
[BlackFideId "911925"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. d5 d6 5. Nc3 exd5 6. cxd5 g6 7. h3 Bg7 8. e4 O-O
9. Bd3 b5 10. Nxb5 Re8 11. O-O Nxe4 12. Bxe4 Rxe4 13. Bg5 Qd7 14. Qd3 Rb4 15.
Rfe1 c4 16. Qd2 Rxb2 17. Qf4 Rxb5 18. Rad1 h5 19. Bf6 Bf8 20. Nh4 Bb7 21. Bc3
Bg7 22. Bxg7 Kxg7 23. Qg5 Nc6 24. f4 c3 25. f5 c2 26. fxg6 cxd1=Q 27. gxf7+ Kxf7
28. Rxd1 Ne7 29. Qxh5+ Kg8 30. Rf1 Nxd5 31. Qg6+ Qg7 32. Qe6+ Kh8 33. Ng6+ Kh7
34. Rf7 Bc8 35. Rxg7+ Kxg7 36. Qxd6 Rab8 37. Ne5 Bf5 38. Kh2 R8b6 39. Qd8 Be6
40. a4 Rc5 41. Qh4 Rc8 42. Qg5+ Kf8 43. Qh6+ Ke8 44. Qh8+ Ke7 45. Qh4+ Kd6 46.
Nc4+ Rxc4 47. Qxc4 a5 48. h4 Rb4 49. Qa6+ Ke5 50. Qxa5 Rxh4+ 51. Kg1 Rg4 52. Qb5
Bf5 53. a5 Be4 54. Qb8+ Kd4 55. g3 Rg6 56. Qb2+ Nc3 57. Qd2+ Kc4 58. Kh2 Rg7 59.
Qd8 Rh7+ 60. Kg1 Nd5 61. g4 Kd3 62. Qf8 Ne3 63. Qa3+ Ke2 64. Qb2+ Nc2 65. Qb5+
Ke3 66. Qg5+ Kf3 67. Qe5 Ne3 68. g5 Rd7 69. Qf6+ Bf5 70. Qc3 Rd1+ 71. Kh2 Rd3
72. Qc6+ Kf2 73. Qb6 Rd2 74. Qb7 Nf1+ 75. Kh1 Be4+ 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.3"]
[White "Theodorou, Nikolas"]
[Black "Dai, Changren"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2611"]
[BlackElo "2531"]
[ECO "D02"]
[Opening "Queen's bishop game"]
[WhiteFideId "4262875"]
[BlackFideId "8608156"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Bf4 c5 4. e3 e6 5. Be2 Bd6 6. dxc5 Bxc5 7. O-O O-O 8. c4
b6 9. Nc3 Bb7 10. cxd5 Nxd5 11. Nxd5 Bxd5 12. a3 Nd7 13. b4 Be7 14. Rc1 Rc8 15.
Qa4 a5 16. Rxc8 Qxc8 17. bxa5 bxa5 18. Qxa5 Qa8 19. Qc7 Bc6 20. Bg5 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.4"]
[White "Visakh, N R"]
[Black "Kozak, Adam"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2507"]
[BlackElo "2578"]
[ECO "D37"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "4.Nf3"]
[WhiteFideId "25012223"]
[BlackFideId "753246"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Nbd7 5. Bf4 dxc4 6. e3 Nb6 7. Bxc4 Bd6 8.
Bxd6 cxd6 9. Bb3 Bd7 10. O-O Bc6 11. Re1 Ne4 12. Nxe4 Bxe4 13. Bc2 Bxc2 14. Qxc2
O-O 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.5"]
[White "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Black "Madaminov, Mukhiddin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2631"]
[BlackElo "2520"]
[ECO "A29"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "four knights, kingside fianchetto"]
[WhiteFideId "9301348"]
[BlackFideId "14210703"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 Bb4 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O e4 7. Nh4 Bxc3 8.
bxc3 Re8 9. f3 exf3 10. Nxf3 Qe7 11. d4 h6 12. e4 Nxe4 13. Re1 Qf8 14. d5 Na5
15. Nd4 Nf6 16. Rf1 d6 17. Bxh6 Ng4 18. Ne6 Rxe6 19. dxe6 Bxe6 20. Bf4 Nxc4 21.
Re1 d5 22. Bh3 Qc5+ 23. Qd4 Qc6 24. Bxg4 Bxg4 25. Re7 Rc8 26. Rf1 Bh5 27. Rf2 a6
28. g4 Bg6 29. Bh6 gxh6 30. Rf6 Nd2 31. Kg2 Be4+ 32. Rxe4 Qb5 33. Re7 Ne4 34.
Rg6+ Kf8 35. Rxf7+ 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.6"]
[White "Abdusattorov, Nodirbek"]
[Black "Nigmatov, Ortik"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2771"]
[BlackElo "2457"]
[ECO "B40"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Anderssen variation"]
[WhiteFideId "14204118"]
[BlackFideId "14202131"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Bd3 Nc6 6. Nf3 d5 7. exd5 exd5 8.
O-O Be7 9. Nc3 O-O 10. h3 a6 11. Bg5 h6 12. Bh4 Be6 13. Re1 Qb6 14. a3 Rad8 15.
b4 Qc7 16. Ne2 Nh5 17. Bxe7 Qxe7 18. c3 Qf6 19. Bc2 Rfe8 20. Ned4 Nxd4 21. Nxd4
Nf4 22. Qf3 Qg5 23. h4 Qxh4 24. g3 Nh3+ 25. Kh2 Qg4 26. Rxe6 Qxf3 27. Rxe8+ Rxe8
28. Nxf3 Nxf2 29. Re1 Rc8 30. Bf5 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.7"]
[White "Maghsoodloo, Parham"]
[Black "Ahmadzada, Ahmad"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2706"]
[BlackElo "2564"]
[ECO "E48"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "4.e3 O-O, 5.Bd3 d5"]
[WhiteFideId "12539929"]
[BlackFideId "13413007"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. cxd5 exd5 7. a3 Bd6 8. Qc2
b6 9. Nf3 c5 10. dxc5 bxc5 11. O-O Bb7 12. b4 cxb4 13. Nb5 Nc6 14. Bb2 bxa3 15.
Bxf6 Qxf6 16. Bxh7+ Kh8 17. Nxd6 Qxd6 18. Qb3 Kxh7 19. Qxb7 Na5 20. Qb1+ g6 21.
Rd1 Nc4 22. h4 Rab8 23. Qd3 Rfd8 24. Qc3 Rb6 25. e4 Qf6 26. Qc1 Rb5 27. Rd4 Rdb8
28. exd5 a2 29. Rxa2 Rb1 30. Rxc4 a6 31. Rd2 Qd6 32. g3 Kg7 33. Ng5 a5 34. Qxb1
Rxb1+ 35. Kg2 Qa6 36. Rdd4 Rb4 37. Rxb4 axb4 38. Rxb4 Qd3 39. Rf4 Qxd5+ 40. Kh2
f6 41. Ne4 f5 42. Ng5 Qd2 43. Nh3 Kf6 44. Ra4 Kg7 45. Ra7+ Kf6 46. Ra6+ Kg7 47.
Re6 Kf7 48. Re3 Kg7 49. Re5 Kf6 50. Rb5 Qd4 51. Kg1 Qa1+ 52. Kg2 Qa8+ 53. Kh2
Qa2 54. Rc5 Qb2 55. Rd5 Qc2 56. Rd6+ Kg7 57. Re6 Qd2 58. Ra6 Qc2 59. Ra1 Qb2 60.
Rf1 Kf6 61. Kg1 Qd4 62. Nf4 Qd2 63. Rb1 Qc2 64. Rb6+ Kf7 65. Rb7+ Kf6 66. Rc7
Qe4 67. Rd7 Qe1+ 68. Kg2 Qe4+ 69. Kh2 Qe1 70. Nd5+ 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.8"]
[White "Tabatabaei, M. Amin"]
[Black "Grebnev, Aleksey"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2670"]
[BlackElo "2556"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange, positional line, 5...c6"]
[WhiteFideId "12521213"]
[BlackFideId "34189030"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4 Be7 8. Bd3
O-O 9. Nge2 Ne8 10. Bg3 Nd6 11. h3 Re8 12. O-O Bf8 13. Qc2 a5 14. a3 Na6 15. Kh1
b5 16. Ng1 Nc4 17. Nf3 Be6 18. Ne2 a4 19. Ne5 Qb6 20. Nf4 Nxe5 21. Bh7+ Kh8 22.
Nxe6 Rxe6 23. Bxe5 Ree8 24. Bf5 Rad8 25. b3 axb3 26. Qxb3 Qa5 27. Bb1 Kg8 28.
Qc2 g6 29. Qxc6 Re6 30. Qc2 b4 31. f4 Rb6 32. f5 bxa3 33. fxg6 fxg6 34. Qf2 Rb7 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.9"]
[White "Vetokhin, Savva"]
[Black "Sargsyan, Shant"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2558"]
[BlackElo "2666"]
[ECO "E49"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "4.e3, Botvinnik system"]
[WhiteFideId "44144474"]
[BlackFideId "13306766"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 dxc4 8.
Bxc4 c5 9. Ne2 Qc7 10. Bd3 Nc6 11. Qc2 Na5 12. Qb1 e5 13. dxe5 Qxe5 14. c4 Rd8
15. O-O Qd6 16. Nf4 Be6 17. Qc2 Qa6 18. Nxe6 Qxe6 19. Bb2 h6 20. Rac1 Nc6 21.
Bf5 Qe7 22. Rfd1 Rxd1+ 23. Rxd1 Rd8 24. h3 Kf8 25. Rd3 b6 26. Rxd8+ Nxd8 27. Qc3
Ne8 28. Bg4 f6 29. Qc2 Nf7 30. Bf3 Ng5 31. Bc6 Qd6 32. Bd5 Nc7 33. Qf5 Nxd5 34.
cxd5 Qe7 35. Qc8+ Kf7 36. a4 Qe4 37. d6 Qb1+ 38. Kh2 Qxb2 39. d7 Nf3+ 40. Kg3
Qe5+ 41. Kxf3 Qf5+ 42. Kg3 Qe5+ 43. Kf3 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.10"]
[White "Woodward, Andy"]
[Black "Mendonca, Leon Luke"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2547"]
[BlackElo "2630"]
[ECO "D10"]
[Opening "QGD Slav defence"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[WhiteFideId "30953499"]
[BlackFideId "35028561"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. Bf4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. e3 Bf5 7. Qb3 Na5 8.
Qa4+ Bd7 9. Qc2 e6 10. Nf3 Rc8 11. Bd3 Bb4 12. O-O O-O 13. h3 a6 14. Rfc1 Bxc3
15. bxc3 Bb5 16. Bxb5 axb5 17. Qb2 Ne4 18. Qxb5 Nxc3 19. Qb2 Ne4 20. Qb4 b6 21.
Rxc8 Qxc8 22. Qxb6 Qc3 23. Qb1 Ra8 24. a4 h6 25. Ra2 Rc8 26. Kh2 g5 27. Be5 Qc4
28. Nd2 Nxd2 29. Rxd2 Qxa4 30. Ra2 Qb3 31. Rb2 Qa4 32. Bf6 Nc4 33. Ra2 Qd7 34.
Qe1 Nd6 35. f3 Ne8 36. Be5 f6 37. Bg3 Ng7 38. Qa1 Qb5 39. Rb2 Qc6 40. Qa7 Qe8
41. Rb7 Qg6 42. Qa6 Rf8 43. Bd6 Re8 44. Qc6 h5 45. e4 dxe4 46. fxe4 h4 47. Qd7
g4 48. hxg4 Qxg4 49. Qf7+ Kh8 50. Qxf6 Kh7 51. Be5 Rg8 52. Rxg7+ Rxg7 53. Qxg7+
Qxg7 54. Bxg7 Kxg7 55. Kh3 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.11"]
[White "Klimkowski, Jan"]
[Black "Daneshvar, Bardiya"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2503"]
[BlackElo "2621"]
[ECO "E46"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "4.e3 O-O"]
[WhiteFideId "21856222"]
[BlackFideId "12576468"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd2 d5 6. Nf3 Nbd7 7. Rc1 Be7 8. cxd5
exd5 9. Bd3 c6 10. O-O Bd6 11. Qc2 Re8 12. Rfe1 h6 13. h3 Nf8 14. Qb1 Bd7 15. b4
Rc8 16. e4 dxe4 17. Nxe4 Nxe4 18. Bxe4 Be6 19. b5 cxb5 20. Bxb7 Rxc1 21. Rxc1
Bd7 22. Bc6 Qb6 23. Bxd7 Nxd7 24. Qc2 Ba3 25. Rb1 a6 26. Bf4 Qb7 27. Qb3 Bf8 28.
Rc1 Rc8 29. Rxc8 Qxc8 30. Ne5 Nxe5 31. Bxe5 Qe6 32. Kf1 Qf5 33. Qd5 Qb1+ 34. Ke2
a5 35. Qb3 Qe4+ 36. Kf1 b4 37. g4 Be7 38. f3 Qc6 39. d5 Qb5+ 40. Ke1 a4 41. Qc2
Bh4+ 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.12"]
[White "Ivic, Velimir"]
[Black "Aditya, Mittal"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2630"]
[BlackElo "2547"]
[ECO "A28"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "four knights, Capablanca variation"]
[WhiteFideId "950122"]
[BlackFideId "35042025"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. d3 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. g3 Bc5 7. Bg2 O-O 8. O-O
a5 9. Bg5 Nde7 10. Rc1 h6 11. Bxe7 Bxe7 12. Nd2 Be6 13. Nc4 f6 14. Bxc6 bxc6 15.
Qa4 Qd7 16. Rfd1 Rfb8 17. Qc2 Bxc4 18. dxc4 Qe6 19. b3 f5 20. e3 Rf8 21. Qe2 Ba3
22. Rb1 Rae8 23. Qf3 Bb4 24. Rbc1 Ba3 25. Rb1 Bb4 26. Rbc1 Ba3 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.13"]
[White "Tin, Jingyao"]
[Black "Kacharava, Nikolozi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2601"]
[BlackElo "2516"]
[ECO "A07"]
[Opening "Reti"]
[Variation "King's Indian attack (Barcza system)"]
[WhiteFideId "5804418"]
[BlackFideId "13611860"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 c6 4. c4 dxc4 5. O-O Nbd7 6. Na3 Nb6 7. Qc2 g6 8.
Nxc4 Nxc4 9. Qxc4 Bg7 10. Qc2 O-O 11. b3 a5 12. Bb2 a4 13. b4 a3 14. Be5 Qb6 15.
Rab1 Rd8 16. d3 Nd5 17. Bxg7 Kxg7 18. Rb3 f6 19. Nd2 Nxb4 20. Qb1 c5 21. Nc4 Qc7
22. Nxa3 Be6 23. Nc4 Rab8 24. Rb2 b5 25. Nd2 Bd5 26. Rc1 Bxg2 27. Kxg2 Qb6 28.
Kg1 Rdc8 29. Ne4 Na6 30. h4 Qa5 31. Rb3 c4 32. dxc4 bxc4 33. Rxb8 Rxb8 34. Qc2
Rc8 35. Nc3 Qe5 36. Qa4 Qe6 37. Rd1 Nc5 38. Qa7 Kf7 39. Rd4 Rc6 40. Qb8 Rd6 41.
Rxd6 Qxd6 42. Qb4 Qd4 43. Nb5 Qd5 44. Na3 Ne4 45. Qxc4 Qxc4 46. Nxc4 Nc3 47. a3
Nxe2+ 48. Kf1 Nc3 49. Ke1 Ke6 50. Kd2 Na4 51. Kd3 Kd5 52. Ne3+ Kc5 53. g4 e6 54.
f4 Nb6 55. Nd1 Nc4 56. a4 e5 57. Nf2 f5 58. gxf5 gxf5 59. fxe5 Nxe5+ 60. Ke3 h5
61. Kf4 Ng6+ 62. Kg5 Nxh4 63. Nd3+ Kb6 64. Kxh4 Ka5 65. Nb2 f4 66. Kh3 Kb4 67.
Kh4 Ka5 68. Kh3 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.14"]
[White "Ilamparthi, A R"]
[Black "Azarov, Sergei"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2469"]
[BlackElo "2596"]
[ECO "C53"]
[Opening "Giuoco Piano"]
[WhiteFideId "45015775"]
[BlackFideId "13501470"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. b4 Bb6 7. e5 d5 8. exf6
dxc4 9. Qe2+ Be6 10. b5 Nb4 11. cxb4 Qxf6 12. O-O O-O 13. a4 a6 14. a5 Ba7 15.
Na3 c3 16. Bg5 Qf5 17. Rad1 Rfe8 18. Rfe1 h6 19. Bc1 Bd7 20. Qf1 Rxe1 21. Qxe1
Re8 22. Qf1 Bxb5 23. Nxb5 Qxb5 24. Qxb5 axb5 25. Kf1 c5 26. bxc5 Bxc5 27. Nxd4
Rd8 28. Be3 c2 29. Rc1 Bxd4 30. Bxd4 Rxd4 31. Rxc2 Ra4 32. Rc7 Rxa5 33. Rxb7 g5
34. Ke2 h5 35. h3 Kg7 36. Rb6 Ra2+ 37. Kf3 Rb2 38. g4 h4 39. Kg2 Rb3 40. Kh2 Rb4
41. Kg2 Kf8 42. Rb7 Ke8 43. Kg1 Rb3 44. Kg2 f6 45. Kh2 Rb2 46. Kg2 Rb4 47. Kg1
Rb3 48. Kg2 b4 49. Kh2 Kd8 50. Kg2 Ke8 51. Kh2 Rb1 52. Kg2 Rb2 53. Kf3 b3 54.
Rb6 Ke7 55. Ke4 Re2+ 56. Kf3 Rb2 57. Ke4 Kf7 58. Kf3 Ke7 59. Ke4 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.15"]
[White "Oro, Faustino"]
[Black "Iniyan, Pa"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2454"]
[BlackElo "2573"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Byrne (English) attack"]
[WhiteFideId "20000197"]
[BlackFideId "25002767"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nf3 Qc7 8. a4
h6 9. Be2 Be6 10. O-O Nbd7 11. Nd2 Rc8 12. Bf3 Be7 13. a5 O-O 14. Qe2 Qb8 15.
Rfc1 Bd8 16. Ra3 Re8 17. h3 b5 18. axb6 Bxb6 19. Rb1 Bxe3 20. Qxe3 Rc6 21. Be2
Qb7 22. b4 Rb6 23. b5 axb5 24. Nxb5 d5 25. exd5 Nxd5 26. Qg3 Nf4 27. Bf3 Qb8 28.
c4 Bxc4 29. Nxc4 Rxb5 30. Rxb5 Qxb5 31. Nd6 Qb1+ 32. Kh2 Rf8 33. Be4 Qb4 34. Nf5
g6 35. Re3 Nf6 36. Nxh6+ Kh7 37. Ng4 N6h5 38. Qh4 f5 39. g3 fxe4 40. gxf4 exf4
41. Re2 f3 42. Rxe4 Qxe4 43. Nf6+ Rxf6 44. Qxe4 Rf5 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.16"]
[White "Amar, Elham"]
[Black "Assaubayeva, Bibisara"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2569"]
[BlackElo "2494"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Lipnitzky attack"]
[WhiteFideId "1533533"]
[BlackFideId "13708694"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bc4 e6 7. a3 b5 8. Ba2
Be7 9. Be3 O-O 10. Qe2 Bb7 11. O-O-O Nbd7 12. f3 Rc8 13. Qe1 Kh8 14. h4 Qa5 15.
g4 Ne5 16. Kb1 d5 17. g5 Nh5 18. exd5 b4 19. axb4 Bxb4 20. Bd2 Nc4 21. Bxc4 Rxc4
22. Nb3 Qc7 23. dxe6 fxe6 24. Nb5 axb5 25. Bxb4 Rc8 26. Bd6 Qf7 27. Na5 Rxc2 28.
Nxb7 Qxb7 29. Qxe6 Qxf3 30. Rhe1 h6 31. Qe5 R2c6 32. gxh6 Qb3 33. hxg7+ Nxg7 34.
Rg1 Qc2+ 35. Ka1 Rg8 36. Ba3 b4 37. Bxb4 Ra6+ 38. Ba3 Qb3 39. Qe7 Qf3 40. Rdf1
Qd5 41. Rf6 Qd3 42. h5 Qd4 43. Rxa6 Qxg1+ 44. Ka2 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.17"]
[White "Karthik, Venkataraman"]
[Black "Ohanyan, Emin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2565"]
[BlackElo "2503"]
[ECO "D10"]
[Opening "QGD Slav defence"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[WhiteFideId "25006479"]
[BlackFideId "13312022"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. Bf4 Nf6 5. e3 Nc6 6. Bd3 Bg4 7. f3 Bh5 8. Qb3
Qb6 9. Qxb6 axb6 10. Nc3 Bg6 11. Bb5 e6 12. Nge2 Bb4 13. Kf2 Ke7 14. Rhc1 Na7
15. a3 Bd6 16. Bxd6+ Kxd6 17. Nf4 Nh5 18. Nxg6 hxg6 19. e4 Nf4 20. Bf1 g5 21.
e5+ Ke7 22. Na4 Rac8 23. Nxb6 Rc6 24. Rxc6 Nxc6 25. Rd1 Rxh2 26. b4 f6 27. b5
Na5 28. Kg1 Rh6 29. Rc1 fxe5 30. Rc7+ Kd8 31. Rc8+ Ke7 32. dxe5 Ng6 33. Ra8 Nb3
34. Rg8 Na5 35. Ra8 Nb3 36. a4 Rh8 37. Rxh8 Nxh8 38. Nc8+ Kf8 39. Nd6 Na5 40.
Bd3 Nf7 41. Nxf7 Kxf7 42. Kf2 b6 43. Ke3 Nb3 44. Bc2 Na5 45. Kd4 Nb7 46. g3 Na5
47. f4 gxf4 48. gxf4 g6 49. Bd1 Nb7 50. Bb3 Na5 51. Ba2 Ke7 52. Bb1 Kf7 53. Ba2
Ke7 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.18"]
[White "Sankalp, Gupta"]
[Black "Sevian, Samuel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2559"]
[BlackElo "2694"]
[ECO "B22"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Alapin's variation (2.c3)"]
[WhiteFideId "5097010"]
[BlackFideId "2040506"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 e6 6. Be3 cxd4 7. cxd4 Bb4+ 8.
Nc3 Qa5 9. Qc2 Bd7 10. Bd3 Ba4 11. Qd2 Nbd7 12. O-O Bc6 13. a3 Bxc3 14. Qxc3 Qh5
15. Be2 O-O 16. Rfe1 Qf5 17. Ne5 Nxe5 18. dxe5 Ng4 19. f3 Nxe3 20. Qxe3 Rfd8 21.
Rac1 Rd5 22. Bc4 Rd7 23. Rc3 Rad8 24. Qxa7 Rd2 25. b4 Qg6 26. Be2 h6 27. a4 Qg5
28. Qe3 Qh4 29. Rb1 Bxa4 30. b5 Bc2 31. Rc1 Qb4 32. Bf1 Bf5 33. Rb3 Qh4 34. Rbc3
Kh7 35. Rc4 Qh5 36. Rc7 Rb2 37. Rxb7 Rdd2 38. Qf4 Qg6 39. Qg3 Bd3 40. Qxg6+ Kxg6
41. Rd7 Bxf1 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.19"]
[White "Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son"]
[Black "Sanal, Vahap"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2632"]
[BlackElo "2555"]
[ECO "C47"]
[Opening "Four knights"]
[Variation "Scotch, 4...exd4"]
[WhiteFideId "12401110"]
[BlackFideId "6300545"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bb4 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bd3 d5 8.
exd5 O-O 9. O-O cxd5 10. h3 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.20"]
[White "Bharath, Subramaniyam H"]
[Black "Idani, Pouya"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2556"]
[BlackElo "2630"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Byrne (English) attack"]
[WhiteFideId "46634827"]
[BlackFideId "12510130"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nf3 Be7 8. Bc4
Be6 9. Bxe6 fxe6 10. Ng5 Qd7 11. Qf3 Nc6 12. Qh3 Nd8 13. O-O-O h6 14. Bb6 O-O
15. Bxd8 hxg5 16. Bxe7 Qxe7 17. Rd2 Rac8 18. Re1 Rc6 19. Qg3 b5 20. Qxg5 Qc7 21.
Qe3 Rc8 22. a3 Qb8 23. Nb1 a5 24. Ree2 b4 25. h4 Qb5 26. Qb3 Kf7 27. a4 Qa6 28.
Qf3 Rh8 29. g3 Rf8 30. b3 Kg8 31. Kb2 Qb7 32. Qe3 Rfc8 33. f3 Qc7 34. Kc1 Qf7
35. Kb2 Nh5 36. Qg5 Nf6 37. Rh2 d5 38. exd5 Nxd5 39. h5 Qf6 40. Qxf6 gxf6 41.
Rd1 Ne3 42. Rc1 Kh7 43. Rd2 Kh6 44. c3 Nf5 45. Rdc2 Ne3 46. Rd2 Kxh5 47. Rd3 Nd5
48. c4 Kg6 49. Nd2 Nc3 50. Rh1 f5 51. Rd7 R8c7 52. Rd8 Ne2 53. Re1 Nc3 54. Rxe5
Rh7 55. Rxa5 Rh2 56. Kc2 Rc7 57. Ra6 Kf6 58. Rb6 Ke7 59. Rd3 Nd5 60. Rb8 f4 61.
gxf4 Nxf4 62. Rdd8 Rc5 63. Re8+ Kd7 64. Rbd8+ Kc7 65. Rc8+ Kb6 66. Rxc5 Kxc5 67.
a5 Rh1 68. Rc8+ Kd4 69. Rd8+ Ke3 70. c5 Rh2 71. c6 Nd5 72. c7 Nxc7 73. Rd3+ Ke2
74. Nc4 Rh5 75. Re3+ Kf2 76. Kd3 Rd5+ 77. Ke4 Ne8 78. Kf4 Rf5+ 79. Ke4 Rd5 80.
Kf4 Rf5+ 81. Ke4 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.21"]
[White "Xu, Xiangyu"]
[Black "Zhu, Jiner"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2623"]
[BlackElo "2541"]
[ECO "E00"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[WhiteFideId "8608288"]
[BlackFideId "8608059"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Bf4 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Bg3 c5 6. e4 Nf6 7. Nd2 Nc6 8. dxc5
Bxc5 9. e5 Nd5 10. a3 O-O 11. Ngf3 Nd4 12. Bd3 Nf5 13. Qe2 Be7 14. O-O h5 15.
Bxf5 exf5 16. h3 Be6 17. Nb3 h4 18. Bh2 Qb6 19. Nbd4 a6 20. Qd2 Rfd8 21. Rfd1
Rd7 22. Nxe6 fxe6 23. Bf4 Rad8 24. Bg5 Nf6 25. Qe2 Rxd1+ 26. Rxd1 Rxd1+ 27. Qxd1
Ne4 28. Be3 Qxb2 29. Qd7 Kf7 30. a4 f4 31. Bxf4 Qxf2+ 32. Kh2 g5 33. Qxb7 gxf4
34. Qxe4 Qe3 35. Qc4 a5 36. Qc7 Qc5 37. Qxc5 Bxc5 38. Nxh4 Bf2 39. Nf3 Kg6 40.
h4 Kf5 41. Kh3 Bc5 42. h5 Bf8 43. Nd4+ Kxe5 44. Nb3 Kf5 45. Nxa5 e5 46. Nb3 Bd6
47. a5 Kg5 48. a6 Bb8 49. h6 Kxh6 50. Kg4 e4 51. Nc5 f3 52. gxf3 e3 53. f4 Ba7
54. Nd3 Kg6 55. Nb4 Kf6 56. Kf3 Kf5 57. Nc2 e2 58. Ne1 Bb6 59. Nd3 Bd4 60. Kxe2
Ke4 61. Kd2 Kd5 62. f5 Kc6 63. Nb4+ Kb6 64. Kd3 Bg7 65. Kc4 Bh8 66. Kd5 Bc3 67.
Nc6 Kxa6 68. Ne5 Kb7 69. f6 Kc7 70. Ke6 Bb2 71. f7 Ba3 72. Nd3 Bf8 73. Nf4 Kd8
74. Ne2 Kc7 75. Nc3 Bc5 76. Nb5+ Kc6 77. Nd4+ Kc7 78. Nf3 Bf8 79. Ne5 Ba3 80.
Kf6 Kd8 81. Ke6 Kc7 82. Kf5 Bf8 83. Kf6 Bb4 84. Nd3 Ba3 85. Ke6 Bf8 86. Ne5 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.22"]
[White "Paravyan, David"]
[Black "Xiao, Tong(QD)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2596"]
[BlackElo "2493"]
[ECO "D30"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Capablanca-Duras variation"]
[WhiteFideId "4194985"]
[BlackFideId "8622388"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Bg5 h6 5. Bxf6 Qxf6 6. e3 Nd7 7. g3 Bb4+ 8. Nbd2
dxc4 9. Bg2 c3 10. bxc3 Bxc3 11. Rc1 Bxd2+ 12. Nxd2 c6 13. O-O O-O 14. Nc4 Qe7
15. Qd2 Nb6 16. Ne5 Nd7 17. Rfd1 Rd8 18. Qb2 a5 19. Nd3 a4 20. a3 Ra5 21. Qc3
Ra8 22. Rb1 Nf6 23. e4 Qc7 24. Ne5 Nd7 25. Nc4 b5 26. Ne3 Ba6 27. d5 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.23"]
[White "Pranav, Anand"]
[Black "Pichot, Alan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2555"]
[BlackElo "2587"]
[ECO "C95"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "closed, Breyer, Borisenko variation"]
[WhiteFideId "46626786"]
[BlackFideId "110973"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3
O-O 9. h3 Nb8 10. d4 Nbd7 11. Bc2 Bb7 12. Nbd2 Re8 13. Nf1 Bf8 14. Ng3 a5 15.
Bd2 a4 16. Bd3 c6 17. Rc1 g6 18. Be3 Qc7 19. Qd2 Rad8 20. Bg5 Bg7 21. Nh2 Qb6
22. Be3 exd4 23. cxd4 c5 24. d5 b4 25. f4 Ba6 26. Nf3 Re7 27. Bb1 Rde8 28. Kh1
Bb7 29. f5 b3 30. axb3 axb3 31. Bh6 Bh8 32. Rf1 Ba6 33. Rf2 c4 34. Be3 Nc5 35.
Re1 c3 36. bxc3 Qb5 37. Bd4 Nd3 38. Bxd3 Qxd3 39. Qg5 Nxe4 40. Rxe4 Rxe4 41.
Bxh8 Kxh8 42. fxg6 fxg6 43. Qf6+ Kg8 44. Ng5 R4e7 45. Ne6 h6 46. Nf5 gxf5 47.
Qg6+ Kh8 48. Qxh6+ Kg8 49. Qg6+ Kh8 50. Rf4 Qe4 51. Rxe4 fxe4 52. Qh5+ Kg8 53.
Qg4+ Kh8 54. Qh4+ Kg8 55. Qxe4 b2 56. Qb4 Rb7 57. Qg4+ Kh8 58. Qh5+ Kg8 59.
Qxe8+ Kh7 60. Qh5+ Kg8 61. Qg5+ Kh8 62. Qf6+ Kg8 63. Qd8+ Kh7 64. Nf8+ Kg7 65.
Ne6+ Kh7 66. Qh4+ Kg8 67. Qg5+ Kh8 68. Qh6+ Kg8 69. Qg6+ Kh8 70. Qb1 Bd3 71.
Qxd3 b1=Q+ 72. Qxb1 Rxb1+ 73. Kh2 Kg8 74. Kg3 Rb3 75. Kg4 Rxc3 76. h4 Re3 77.
Kf5 Re5+ 78. Kg6 Re4 79. h5 Rg4+ 80. Ng5 Rxg2 81. h6 Kh8 82. Kf6 Re2 83. h7 Re1
84. Kg6 Rg1 85. Kh6 Rh1+ 86. Kg6 Rg1 87. Kf6 Re1 88. Nf7+ Kxh7 89. Nxd6 Rd1 90.
Ke6 Rxd5 91. Kxd5 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.24"]
[White "Mamedov, Edgar"]
[Black "Can, Emre"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2492"]
[BlackElo "2568"]
[ECO "E51"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "4.e3 e8g8, 5.Nf3 d7d5"]
[WhiteFideId "13739980"]
[BlackFideId "6302181"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 Bb4 5. e3 O-O 6. Bd2 Nbd7 7. Rc1 Be7 8. a3
a6 9. cxd5 exd5 10. Bd3 Bd6 11. O-O Re8 12. Qc2 c5 13. dxc5 Nxc5 14. Bf5 Nce4
15. Bxc8 Rxc8 16. Qd3 Nc5 17. Qc2 Nce4 18. Qd3 Nc5 19. Qc2 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.25"]
[White "Akobian, Varuzhan"]
[Black "Huang, Renjie"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2564"]
[BlackElo "2491"]
[ECO "D27"]
[Opening "QGA"]
[Variation "classical, 6...a6"]
[WhiteFideId "13300580"]
[BlackFideId "8610134"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 dxc4 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O a6 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8.
Qxd8+ Kxd8 9. a3 Ke7 10. b4 Bd6 11. Bb2 b5 12. Be2 Bb7 13. Nbd2 Nbd7 14. Nb3
Rac8 15. Nfd4 Nb6 16. Na5 Bd5 17. Rac1 Rxc1 18. Rxc1 Rc8 19. Rxc8 Nxc8 20. f3
Ba8 21. e4 Nd7 22. Kf2 Bc7 23. a4 Bb6 24. Ke1 bxa4 25. Bxa6 Na7 26. Kd2 g6 27.
Nc4 Bc7 28. b5 Nb6 29. Kc3 Nac8 30. Bxc8 Nxc8 31. h3 e5 32. Ba3+ Kd7 33. Ne2 Nb6
34. Bc5 Nxc4 35. Kxc4 f5 36. Nc3 fxe4 37. fxe4 Bd6 38. Bxd6 Kxd6 39. Kb4 a3 40.
Kxa3 Kc5 41. Ka4 Kc4 42. Nd5 Bxd5 43. exd5 Kxd5 44. Kb4 e4 45. Kc3 Kc5 46. b6
Kxb6 47. Kd4 Kc6 48. Kxe4 Kd6 49. Kf4 Ke6 50. Kg5 Kf7 51. Kh6 Kg8 52. h4 Kh8 53.
h5 gxh5 54. Kxh5 Kg7 55. Kg5 h6+ 56. Kh5 Kh7 57. g4 Kg7 58. g5 hxg5 59. Kxg5 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.26"]
[White "Rohith, Krishna S"]
[Black "Sargissian, Gabriel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2641"]
[ECO "D37"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "classical variation (5.Bf4)"]
[WhiteFideId "46617051"]
[BlackFideId "13300881"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 Be7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 c5 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8. Qc2
Nc6 9. a3 Qa5 10. Rd1 h6 11. Nd2 d4 12. Nb3 Qb6 13. Nxc5 Qxc5 14. b4 Qe7 15.
exd4 a5 16. c5 axb4 17. axb4 Nd5 18. Nxd5 exd5+ 19. Be2 Bg4 20. Be3 Nxb4 21. Qb3
Bxe2 22. Kxe2 Nc6 23. Rhe1 Qd7 24. Kf1 Na5 25. Qc2 Nc4 26. Bf4 Rfe8 27. h3 Ra6
28. Rxe8+ Qxe8 29. Re1 Re6 30. Rxe6 Qxe6 31. Qd3 g5 32. Bb8 Kg7 33. g4 Na5 34.
Be5+ f6 35. Bd6 Nc6 36. f3 Qd7 37. Kf2 Na5 38. Qe2 Nc4 39. Bg3 Qf7 40. h4 gxh4
41. Bxh4 f5 42. gxf5 Qxf5 43. Qe7+ Qf7 44. Qe1 Qf4 45. Qe7+ Qf7 46. Qe1 Qf4 47.
Qe7+ Qf7 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.27"]
[White "Lobanov, Sergei"]
[Black "Predke, Alexandr"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2527"]
[BlackElo "2631"]
[ECO "D31"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "semi-Slav"]
[WhiteFideId "24183750"]
[BlackFideId "24107581"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bf4 Bd6 6. Bxd6 Qxd6 7. Qb3 Qe7 8.
e3 Nh6 9. Nf3 Nd7 10. Bd3 Nf6 11. Qc2 g6 12. O-O Bf5 13. Rfe1 O-O 14. e4 dxe4
15. Nxe4 Bxe4 16. Bxe4 Qd6 17. Bd3 Nd5 18. a3 Ng4 19. g3 Rad8 20. Qb3 Qc7 21.
Rac1 Qb6 22. Qc2 Rfe8 23. Bc4 Kg7 24. Qd2 Ndf6 25. h3 Nh6 26. g4 Nd5 27. Bxd5
Rxe1+ 28. Rxe1 Rxd5 29. Re8 Ng8 30. Ne5 f6 31. Nf3 Rd8 32. Ne5 fxe5 33. Re7+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.28"]
[White "Samadov, Read"]
[Black "Muradli, Mahammad"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2521"]
[BlackElo "2603"]
[ECO "D37"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "4.Nf3"]
[WhiteFideId "13417444"]
[BlackFideId "13409301"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Nbd7 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 Be7 7. e3 O-O 8. Rc1
dxc4 9. Bxc4 a6 10. a4 c5 11. O-O cxd4 12. Nxd4 Ne5 13. Be2 Qb6 14. Bg3 Nc6 15.
Nxc6 bxc6 16. Qc2 Bb7 17. Bf3 Nd5 18. Rfd1 Rac8 19. h3 Rfd8 20. Nxd5 cxd5 21.
Bc7 Qa7 22. Qb3 Rd7 23. Qb6 Qxb6 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.29"]
[White "Vescovi, Giovanni"]
[Black "Malek, Jan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2584"]
[BlackElo "2511"]
[ECO "D02"]
[Opening "Queen's bishop game"]
[WhiteFideId "2100789"]
[BlackFideId "21864080"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bf4 c5 4. e3 Nc6 5. c3 e6 6. Nbd2 cxd4 7. exd4 Nh5 8. Bg5
f6 9. Be3 Bd6 10. Bb5 O-O 11. O-O Nf4 12. Re1 Ng6 13. Nb3 Nce7 14. Bd3 Bd7 15.
c4 a5 16. Rc1 Bc6 17. a3 a4 18. Nc5 Bxc5 19. dxc5 e5 20. cxd5 Nxd5 21. Qc2 Qe8
22. Nd2 Nh4 23. f3 Qh5 24. Nc4 Rad8 25. Bd2 Nxg2 26. Bxh7+ Kh8 27. Bg6 Nxe1 28.
Bxh5 Nxc2 29. Rxc2 g6 30. Bg4 Nf4 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.30"]
[White "Bai, Jinshi"]
[Black "Petkov, Momchil"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2572"]
[BlackElo "2524"]
[ECO "A05"]
[Opening "Reti"]
[Variation "King's Indian attack"]
[WhiteFideId "8602280"]
[BlackFideId "2921642"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. b3 Bg7 4. Bb2 d6 5. d4 b5 6. Bg2 Bb7 7. O-O Nbd7 8. Na3
Rb8 9. c4 bxc4 10. Nxc4 O-O 11. Rc1 Be4 12. Qd2 Rb5 13. Rfd1 Qb8 14. Ne1 Bxg2
15. Nxg2 Rc8 16. Qd3 d5 17. Ne5 Nxe5 18. dxe5 Nd7 19. e6 Bxb2 20. exd7 Rd8 21.
Rxc7 Qxc7 22. Qxb5 Qxd7 23. Qxd7 Rxd7 24. e4 d4 25. Nf4 Rc7 26. Nd5 Rc2 27.
Nxe7+ Kf8 28. Nd5 Bc3 29. Nxc3 dxc3 30. Rd3 Rxa2 31. Rxc3 h5 32. Kg2 a5 33. Kf3
a4 34. bxa4 Rxa4 35. Ke3 Ra2 36. h3 Kg7 37. Rd3 Ra1 38. Kd4 Rf1 39. Rd2 Ra1 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.31"]
[White "Movahed, Sina"]
[Black "Samunenkov, Ihor"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2518"]
[BlackElo "2572"]
[ECO "B33"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Pelikan (Lasker/Sveshnikov) variation"]
[WhiteFideId "42520835"]
[BlackFideId "14187086"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Nd5 Nxd5 8.
exd5 Nb8 9. c4 Be7 10. c5 O-O 11. Bd3 Na6 12. cxd6 Bxd6 13. O-O Nc7 14. Bg5 Qd7
15. Qh5 f5 16. Nxd6 Qxd6 17. Rfd1 Bd7 18. Rac1 Rac8 19. Qh4 Nxd5 20. Bc4 Be6 21.
h3 Rf7 22. Rc3 Rxc4 23. Rxc4 f4 24. Qh5 Rf5 25. Qe8+ Rf8 26. Qb5 h6 27. Bh4 g5
28. Qxb7 Rf7 29. Qa8+ Rf8 30. Qb7 Rf7 31. Qc6 Rd7 32. Qa8+ Kg7 33. Rc6 Qe7 34.
Qb8 Bf7 35. Re1 e4 36. Bg3 Rb7 37. Qc8 fxg3 38. fxg3 Rxb2 39. Qg4 Nf6 40. Qf5 e3
41. Rc3 Qb7 42. Qf1 Rf2 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.32"]
[White "Gavrilescu, David"]
[Black "Isik, Alparslan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2554"]
[BlackElo "2482"]
[ECO "B10"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "two knights variation"]
[WhiteFideId "1227190"]
[BlackFideId "34506896"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Qe2 Nxe4 6. Qxe4 Be6 7. b3 Nd7 8.
Bb2 Nf6 9. Qe3 Nd5 10. Qe5 Qc7 11. Qxc7 Nxc7 12. Nd4 Bd7 13. O-O-O O-O-O 14. f4
e6 15. Bc4 Bd6 16. Rhf1 f6 17. g3 e5 18. fxe5 Bxe5 19. Nf5 Bxb2+ 20. Kxb2 Bxf5
21. Rxf5 Rhe8 22. a4 Rd6 23. g4 h6 24. Rf4 Nd5 25. Rd4 Re5 26. Rf1 Kc7 27. Rf2
Nb6 28. Rdf4 Nxc4+ 29. Rxc4 Rde6 30. Kc3 Re4 31. h3 Kd6 32. Rd4+ Rxd4 33. Kxd4
c5+ 34. Kd3 Re5 35. c3 h5 36. Rf4 hxg4 37. hxg4 Ke6 38. b4 g5 39. Rc4 b6 40. a5
f5 41. axb6 axb6 42. bxc5 bxc5 43. Ra4 fxg4 44. Rxg4 Kf5 45. Rg1 Rd5+ 46. Kc4
Rxd2 47. Kxc5 g4 48. c4 Kf4 49. Kb6 Rb2+ 50. Kc6 g3 51. c5 Kf3 52. Kd7 Rd2+ 53.
Kc7 Kf2 54. Ra1 g2 55. c6 g1=Q 56. Rxg1 Kxg1 57. Kb7 Rc2 58. c7 Rxc7+ 59. Kxc7 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.33"]
[White "Jumabayev, Rinat"]
[Black "Divya, Deshmukh"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2551"]
[BlackElo "2469"]
[ECO "A14"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "Neo-Catalan declined"]
[WhiteFideId "13702661"]
[BlackFideId "35006916"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 e6 4. O-O Be7 5. c4 O-O 6. d4 a5 7. Qc2 Nc6 8. a3
dxc4 9. Qxc4 a4 10. Bf4 Bd7 11. Nc3 Na5 12. Qd3 Nd5 13. Ne5 Nxf4 14. gxf4 Bd6
15. Nxd7 Qxd7 16. e3 Rab8 17. Ne4 Be7 18. Rad1 b5 19. Qc2 Rfd8 20. Rd3 b4 21.
axb4 Rxb4 22. Rc3 Bd6 23. Nc5 Qb5 24. Rb1 Bxc5 25. Rxc5 Qb6 26. Rxc7 g6 27. Rc1
Nb3 28. Rd1 Na5 29. Rc5 Nb7 30. Rc6 Qb5 31. Bf1 Qf5 32. Ra1 Nd6 33. Qxf5 gxf5
34. Rc2 Rdb8 35. Ra2 Kg7 36. h3 Kf6 37. Kg2 Rb3 38. Be2 Ne4 39. Bf3 h6 40. Rxa4
Rxb2 41. Rxb2 Rxb2 42. Bxe4 fxe4 43. Ra5 Kg6 44. Re5 Rb6 45. Rxe4 f6 46. f5+
Kxf5 47. Rg4 e5 48. d5 e4 49. Rh4 Ke5 50. Rxh6 Kxd5 51. h4 Ke5 52. Rg6 Rb8 53.
Rg3 Rh8 54. Kh3 f5 55. Rg6 Rh7 56. Ra6 Rh8 57. Rb6 Rh7 58. Rb8 Kf6 59. Ra8 Ke5
60. Ra1 Rh8 61. Rb1 Rh7 62. Rg1 Rh8 63. Rg5 Kf6 64. Kg3 Rh7 65. Rg8 Ke5 66. Rc8
Rg7+ 67. Kh3 Rh7 68. Rc5+ Kf6 69. Rc1 Ke5 70. Rh1 Kf6 71. Kg2 Kg6 72. Kg3 Kf6
73. Kf4 Rh5 74. Rh2 Ke6 75. f3 exf3 76. Kxf3 Ke5 77. Rh1 Ke6 78. Kg3 Ke5 79. Ra1
Ke4 80. Kf2 Rh8 81. Ra4+ Ke5 82. Kf3 Rh7 83. Rb4 Rh8 84. Kg3 Rg8+ 85. Kf2 Rh8
86. Rf4 Rh7 87. Kg2 Rg7+ 88. Kh3 Rh7 89. Ra4 Rh8 90. Rb4 Rh7 91. Rb8 Ke4 92.
Re8+ Kf3 93. Re5 Rh5 94. Re7 Rh8 95. Re6 Rh7 96. Re8 Rh6 97. Rf8 Rh5 98. Re8 Rh7
99. Re5 Rh5 100. e4 Kf4 101. Rxf5+ Rxf5 102. exf5 Kxf5 103. h5 Kg5 104. h6 Kxh6 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.34"]
[White "Pang, Tao"]
[Black "Vakhidov, Jakhongir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2485"]
[BlackElo "2546"]
[ECO "D38"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Ragozin variation"]
[WhiteFideId "8609950"]
[BlackFideId "14201801"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 Qxf6 8.
e3 O-O 9. Be2 dxc4 10. Bxc4 Nd7 11. O-O b6 12. Bb5 Rd8 13. Bc6 Rb8 14. Qa4 a6
15. Qa3 a5 16. Rad1 Bb7 17. Ne5 Nf8 18. e4 Ba6 19. Rfe1 Ng6 20. Nd7 Rxd7 21.
Bxd7 Nf4 22. Re3 Qg6 23. g3 Be2 24. Re1 Qg4 25. R1xe2 Nxe2+ 26. Kf1 Nxd4 27.
cxd4 Qd1+ 28. Kg2 Qxd4 29. Bc6 Qc4 30. Rc3 Qd4 31. Qc1 Rd8 32. a4 Rd6 33. Rc4
Qd3 34. Qc2 Qa3 35. e5 Rd8 36. Qc3 Qxc3 37. Rxc3 Kf8 38. Bb5 c5 39. Rd3 Rc8 40.
Kf3 f6 41. Ke4 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.35"]
[White "Raja, Rithvik R"]
[Black "Seemann, Jakub"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2545"]
[BlackElo "2453"]
[ECO "E51"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "4.e3 e8g8, 5.Nf3 d7d5"]
[WhiteFideId "35007394"]
[BlackFideId "21874697"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. e3 O-O 6. Bd2 b6 7. cxd5 exd5 8. Bd3
Bb7 9. O-O Be7 10. Ne5 c5 11. Qf3 Nc6 12. Rfd1 cxd4 13. Nxc6 Bxc6 14. exd4 Re8
15. Rac1 Ne4 16. Nxe4 dxe4 17. Bxe4 Bxe4 18. Qxe4 Bf6 19. Qc6 Qxd4 20. Bc3 Qf4
21. g3 Qh6 22. Bxf6 Qxf6 23. Qxf6 gxf6 24. Rc7 Re2 25. Rdd7 Rf8 26. Rxa7 Rxb2
27. Rdb7 Kg7 28. a4 Kg6 29. Ra6 Rc8 30. Rbxb6 Rxb6 31. Rxb6 Rc4 32. a5 Ra4 33.
a6 h5 34. h4 Kf5 35. Kg2 Ra3 36. Rc6 Ke5 37. g4 hxg4 38. h5 Kf5 39. Rc5+ Kf4 40.
h6 Rxa6 41. Rc8 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.36"]
[White "Tarhan, Adar"]
[Black "Kuybokarov, Temur"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2472"]
[BlackElo "2542"]
[ECO "D79"]
[Opening "Neo-Gruenfeld, 6.O-O, main line"]
[WhiteFideId "34544712"]
[BlackFideId "14203049"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 c6 4. Bg2 d5 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. Nf3 Bg7 7. O-O O-O 8. Nc3
Ne4 9. Ne5 Nxc3 10. bxc3 Nc6 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. Qa4 Qb6 13. Ba3 Qa6 14. Qxa6 Bxa6
15. Rfb1 Bxe2 16. Bxe7 Rfb8 17. Bd6 Rxb1+ 18. Rxb1 Bd3 19. Rb7 Re8 20. Bf1 Re1
21. Rb8+ Bf8 22. Rxf8+ Kg7 23. Re8 Rxf1+ 24. Kg2 f5 25. h4 Ra1 26. Re7+ Kf6 27.
Rxa7 h6 28. Be5+ Ke6 29. Bf4 Bb1 30. Kf3 Rxa2 31. Rc7 g5 32. hxg5 hxg5 33. Bxg5
Ra6 34. Kf4 Be4 35. f3 Bc2 36. Be7 Bd1 37. Kg5 Ra8 38. Bc5 Rg8+ 39. Kf4 Ba4 40.
Rh7 Kf6 41. Bd6 Kg6 42. Ra7 Bb5 43. Be5 Re8 44. Rg7+ Kh6 45. Rf7 1-0

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.37"]
[White "Sychev, Klementy"]
[Black "Siddharth, Jagadeesh"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2542"]
[BlackElo "2472"]
[ECO "D37"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "4.Nf3"]
[WhiteFideId "4114060"]
[BlackFideId "5818320"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 Nbd7 7. Qd3 b6 8. cxd5
Nxd5 9. O-O Bb7 10. Nxd5 exd5 11. b3 Re8 12. Bf4 c5 13. Rac1 h6 14. Rfd1 Bf8 15.
dxc5 bxc5 16. Qb5 Nb6 17. Be3 Rxe3 18. fxe3 Qe7 19. Kh1 Rb8 20. Qa5 Ba8 21. Ne1
c4 22. Nc2 h5 23. Rd4 cxb3 24. axb3 Rc8 25. Qe1 g6 26. Rd3 Nd7 27. Nd4 Re8 28.
Rdc3 Bh6 29. Rc8 Bxe3 30. Rxe8+ Qxe8 31. Rd1 Nf6 32. h3 h4 33. g4 Ne4 34. Bxe4
Qxe4+ 35. Nf3 g5 36. Qc3 d4 37. Qc8+ Kg7 38. Qf5 Qe7 39. Rf1 Be4 40. Qa5 Qd6 41.
Qe1 Qf4 42. Kg2 f5 43. Kh1 fxg4 44. Qa5 gxf3 45. Qxa7+ Kh6 0-1

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.38"]
[White "Gupta, Abhijeet"]
[Black "Aswath, S"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2577"]
[BlackElo "2515"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange, Saemisch variation"]
[WhiteFideId "5010608"]
[BlackFideId "46694919"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Nbd7 5. cxd5 exd5 6. Bf4 Bb4 7. Rc1 c6 8. e3
Ne4 9. Bd3 O-O 10. O-O Re8 11. Qb3 Bxc3 12. bxc3 Nb6 13. a4 c5 14. Qa3 c4 15.
Bxe4 dxe4 16. Nd2 Bd7 17. a5 Nd5 18. Be5 f6 19. Bd6 Qc8 20. Ra1 Qc6 21. Bg3 b5
22. axb6 axb6 23. Qb2 f5 24. Be5 b5 25. Rfc1 b4 26. Rab1 bxc3 27. Rxc3 Ra2 28.
Qxa2 Nxc3 29. d5 Nxd5 30. Nxc4 Ra8 31. Qb3 Rc8 32. Nd6 Qc1+ 33. Qd1 Qxd1+ 34.
Rxd1 Rc5 35. Ra1 h6 36. Bd4 Rc6 37. Nb5 f4 38. h3 Rg6 39. Ra8+ Kh7 40. Rd8 Nf6
41. Bxf6 Bxb5 42. Bd4 f3 43. g4 Bc4 44. Rc8 Be6 45. Rc5 Rg5 46. Rc6 Bd5 47. Rd6
h5 48. Kh2 hxg4 49. hxg4 Bb7 50. Rd7 Bc8 51. Rc7 Bxg4 52. Kg3 Be6+ 53. Kf4 Rg4+
54. Ke5 Bb3 55. Kf5 Rg2 56. Kxe4 Rxf2 57. Rxg7+ Kh6 58. Rg3 Be6 59. Ke5 Bd7 60.
e4 Rf1 61. Be3+ Kh5 62. Rg5+ Kh4 63. Rg7 Bc6 64. Kf4 Kh3 65. Rg6 Bb7 66. Rb6 Bc8
67. Rb8 Bd7 68. Rb7 Be6 69. Rb2 Bd7 70. e5 f2 71. Bxf2 Kg2 72. Ke3 Rd1 73. Rb6
Bf5 74. Kf4 Bd7 75. Rb2 Rf1 76. Ke3 Ra1 77. Be1+ Kh3 78. Bc3 Ra3 79. Kd4 Kg4 80.
Rg2+ Kf5 81. Rf2+ Kg5 82. Bd2+ Kg6 83. Rf6+ Kg7 84. Bh6+ Kh7 85. Bc1 Ra4+ 86.
Kc5 Be8 87. e6 Ra6 88. Bb2 Ba4 89. Bc3 Ra8 90. Kd6 Ra6+ 91. Kc5 Ra8 92. Rf4 Kg6
93. Rf6+ Kg5 94. Rf2 Rc8+ 95. Kd4 Rc6 96. Bd2+ Kg6 97. Kd5 Rb6 98. Rg2+ Kf5 99.
Rf2+ Kg6 100. e7 Rf6 101. Re2 Kf7 102. Bb4 Bc6+ 103. Kd4 Be8 104. Bc5 Rf5 105.
Re1 Rf6 106. Kc4 Rf5 107. Kb4 Rf4+ 108. Ka5 Rf6 109. Re3 Rc6 110. Kb4 Rf6 111.
Kc4 Rf5 112. Bd6 Kf6 113. Rh3 Ke6 114. Ba3 Rf4+ 115. Kc3 Kd7 116. Rd3+ Ke6 117.
Bc5 Kf6 118. Re3 Kf7 119. Bd4 Rf5 120. Kb4 Rd5 121. Kc4 Rf5 122. Bc5 Rf4+ 123.
Kd5 Rf5+ 124. Kd4 Kf6 125. Bd6 Kf7 126. Rh3 Ke6 127. Rh6+ Rf6 128. Rh8 Kxd6 129.
Rxe8 Re6 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.39"]
[White "Aronyak, Ghosh"]
[Black "Sethuraman, S.P."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2514"]
[BlackElo "2552"]
[ECO "E68"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "fianchetto, classical variation, 8.e4"]
[WhiteFideId "25072846"]
[BlackFideId "5021596"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. Nc3 d6 6. Nf3 Nbd7 7. O-O e5 8. e4
exd4 9. Nxd4 Re8 10. Be3 c6 11. Qd2 Ne5 12. b3 Neg4 13. Bf4 Nh5 14. Bg5 Qb6 15.
Rad1 h6 16. Be3 Nxe3 17. Qxe3 Nf6 18. h3 Nd7 19. Rfe1 Nc5 20. Nde2 Qb4 21. Qd2
Be6 22. Nb1 a5 23. Nf4 Qxd2 24. Rxd2 Bf5 25. f3 Bf8 26. Red1 Bc8 27. h4 a4 28.
b4 Nd7 29. a3 Ne5 30. Rc2 f5 31. Nd2 Kf7 32. Ne2 Bg7 33. Kh2 Bf6 34. Rf1 Kg7 35.
Nf4 Bd7 36. Bh3 Kf7 37. exf5 gxf5 38. Rd1 Ng6 39. Ne4 fxe4 40. Bxd7 Re7 41. Nxg6
Kxg6 42. Rxd6 exf3 43. Bg4 Re3 44. Rf2 Rxa3 45. Bxf3 Rf8 46. Rd7 Re3 47. Bd1 Re7
48. Bc2+ Kg7 49. Rxe7+ Bxe7 50. Rxf8 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.40"]
[White "Ferreira, Jorge Viterbo"]
[Black "Davtyan, Artur"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2537"]
[BlackElo "2485"]
[ECO "C65"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "Berlin defence"]
[WhiteFideId "1910850"]
[BlackFideId "13308327"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. c3 O-O 6. Bg5 d6 7. O-O Bd7 8. Nbd2
h6 9. Bh4 a6 10. Ba4 b5 11. Bc2 g5 12. Bg3 Bb6 13. Re1 Nh7 14. h3 h5 15. Nf1 h4
16. Bh2 g4 17. hxg4 Bxg4 18. Ne3 Bh5 19. Qd2 h3 20. Bd1 Qf6 21. Bg3 Bxe3 22.
Qxe3 Bxf3 23. Bxf3 hxg2 24. Kxg2 Qg5 25. Qxg5+ Nxg5 26. Bg4 f6 27. a4 b4 28.
Rec1 Ra7 29. a5 bxc3 30. bxc3 Rb8 31. Ra4 Rb2 32. Rca1 Kf7 33. R1a2 Rb3 34. Rc4
Ne7 35. f4 exf4 36. Bxf4 Rab7 37. Kg3 Ne6 38. Be3 c5 39. Rh2 Ra3 40. Rh7+ Kg8
41. Rh6 Kf7 42. Rh7+ Kg8 43. Rh6 Kf7 44. Rh7+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "8th Sharjah Masters 2025"]
[Site "Sharjah UAE"]
[Date "2025.05.20"]
[Round "4.41"]
[White "Royal, Shreyas"]
[Black "Injac, Teodora"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2493"]
[BlackElo "2474"]
[ECO "A15"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[WhiteFideId "448869"]
[BlackFideId "932400"]
[EventDate "2025.05.17"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. e3 c5 5. cxd5 exd5 6. d4 Nc6 7. Bb5 Bd6 8. O-O
O-O 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. b3 Bd6 11. Bb2 Bc7 12. h3 Bf5 13. Bd3 Bxd3 14. Qxd3 Ne5 15.
Nxe5 Bxe5 16. Rac1 Qa5 17. a3 Rfe8 18. Rfd1 Qd8 19. Rc2 Qb6 20. b4 Rad8 21. Na4
Qd6 22. Bxe5 Qxe5 23. Nc5 Re7 24. Nb3 h6 25. Rdc1 Ne4 26. Nd4 Nd6 27. Nf3 Qe6
28. Rc5 Ne4 29. R5c2 Nd6 30. Rc5 Ne4 31. Rc7 Red7 32. Qc2 Nd6 33. Nd4 Qe7 34.
Qc5 Rxc7 35. Qxc7 Qxc7 36. Rxc7 Kf8 37. Kf1 Ke8 38. Ke2 Rd7 39. Rc5 Ne4 40. Rc8+
Ke7 41. Nb3 Rd8 42. Rc7+ Rd7 43. Rc2 h5 44. Kd3 h4 45. a4 g6 46. Kd4 Ng5 47. Kd3
Ne6 48. Nd4 Nxd4 49. Kxd4 Ke6 50. Rc8 Kf5 51. a5 g5 52. b5 f6 53. Re8 b6 54. a6
Rc7 55. Kxd5 Rc5+ 56. Kd6 Rxb5 57. Kc6 Rb2 58. g4+ hxg3 59. fxg3 b5 60. g4+ Kg6
61. Kb7 b4 62. Kxa7 b3 63. Rb8 Rb1 64. Rb6 b2 65. Kb7 Re1 66. Rxb2 Rxe3 67. a7
Re7+ 68. Ka6 1-0

