The traditional tournament Dubai Chess Open 2025 will take place 27 May – June 4 in Dubai Chess and Culture Club. The event features a stellar participants list, including the 2700 club member Nihal Sarin, the winner of Baku Open Alexander Indjic, the winner of Asian Zone 3.3 Chess Championship 2025 Jingyao Tin, etc. Scroll down for the full list of participants
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Throwback to previous editions: Grandmaster Dragan Solak wins 17th Dubai Open Chess Tournament / GM Gawain Jones is double champion at the 18th Dubai Open Chess Tournament / GM Aravindh Chithambaram clinches Dubai Chess Open 2022 / Strong participants at Dubai Open 2023 / Mahammad Muradli wins Dubai Open 2024 / Gaioz Nigalidze banned for cheating at the Dubai Open Chess Tournament More from Dubai: World Chess Championship 2021 in Dubai – the spectacular venue
Dubai Chess 2025 participants
1
GM
Nihal, Sarin
IND
2693
2
GM
Sargsyan, Shant
ARM
2666
3
GM
Indjic, Aleksandar
SRB
2637
4
GM
Idani, Pouya
IRI
2630
5
GM
Muradli, Mahammad
AZE
2603
6
GM
Tin, Jingyao
SGP
2601
7
GM
Narayanan, S L
IND
2598
8
GM
Pichot, Alan
ESP
2587
9
GM
Can, Emre
TUR
2568
10
GM
Zemlyanskii, Ivan
RUS
2563
11
GM
Gorshtein, Ido
ISR
2560
12
GM
Bharath, Subramaniyam H
IND
2556
13
GM
Pranav, Anand
IND
2555
14
GM
Sanal, Vahap
TUR
2555
15
GM
Gavrilescu, David
ROU
2554
16
GM
Sokolovsky, Yahli
ISR
2539
17
GM
Petkov, Momchil
BUL
2524
18
GM
Movahed, Sina
IRI
2518
19
GM
Kacharava, Nikolozi
GEO
2516
20
IM
Aswath, S
IND
2515
21
GM
Parkhov, Yair
ISR
2514
22
IM
Aronyak, Ghosh
IND
2514
23
GM
Boruchovsky, Avital
ISR
2513
24
GM
Ohanyan, Emin
ARM
2503
25
GM
Royal, Shreyas
ENG
2493
26
IM
Rohith, Krishna S
IND
2490
27
IM
Muthaiah, Al
IND
2487
28
IM
Ayush, Sharma
IND
2478
29
GM
Prraneeth, Vuppala
IND
2474
30
GM
Siddharth, Jagadeesh
SGP
2472
31
IM
Md, Imran
IND
2472
32
IM
Ilamparthi, A R
IND
2469
33
IM
Srihari, L R
IND
2468
34
IM
Harikrishnan.A.Ra,
IND
2467
35
IM
Rathanvel, V S
IND
2465
36
IM
Pingin, Artem
RUS
2464
37
GM
Shyam, Sundar M.
IND
2462
38
IM
Dotzer, Lukas
AUT
2455
39
FM
Panesar, Vedant
IND
2455
40
IM
Nitish, Belurkar
IND
2454
41
FM
Borgaonkar, Akshay
IND
2453
42
IM
Jubin, Jimmy
IND
2449
43
IM
Mahdavi, Reza
IRI
2445
44
IM
Neelash, Saha
IND
2445
45
IM
Bronstein, Or
ISR
2443
46
IM
Harshavardhan, G B
IND
2441
47
IM
Celik, Hasan Huseyin
TUR
2440
48
Jiang, Haochen
CHN
2439
49
IM
Mayank, Chakraborty
IND
2436
50
IM
Stribuk, Artiom
FID
2433
51
IM
Tsaruk, Maksim
FID
2431
52
GM
Shyaam, Nikhil P
IND
2430
53
IM
Goutham, Krishna H
IND
2427
54
IM
Liu, Guanchu
CHN
2426
55
IM
Veinberg, Nimrod
ISR
2425
56
IM
Pham, Tran Gia Phuc
VIE
2424
57
GM
Hayrapetyan, Hovik
ARM
2423
58
IM
Dau, Khuong Duy
VIE
2423
59
IM
Talibov, Shiroghlan
AZE
2423
60
IM
Ghimpu, Samuel-Timotei
ROU
2421
61
FM
Vagman, Roy
ISR
2417
62
IM
Piliposyan, Robert
ARM
2416
63
FM
Sahib, Singh
IND
2416
64
FM
Agasarov, Benik
ARM
2414
65
FM
Vivaan, Vishal Shah
IND
2410
66
Zhang, Di
CHN
2410
67
FM
Ashraf, Artin
IRI
2407
68
IM
Nazari, Arad
IRI
2405
69
IM
Manon, Reja Neer
BAN
2403
70
IM
Davtyan, Arsen
ARM
2402
71
IM
Kushagra, Mohan
IND
2400
72
WGM
Gaal, Zsoka
HUN
2395
73
WGM
Beydullayeva, Govhar
AZE
2394
74
IM
Liyanage, Ranindu Dilshan
SRI
2387
75
FM
Zia, Tahsin Tajwar
BAN
2374
76
WGM
Nandhidhaa, P V
IND
2363
77
IM
Roebers, Eline
NED
2361
78
IM
Balajayeva, Khanim
AZE
2358
79
WGM
Rakshitta, Ravi
IND
2324
80
IM
Farahat, Ali
USA
2321