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Only three remain perfect at Sharjah Masters

19 May, 2025by gprevenasΣκακιστικά νέα

The 8th Sharjah Masters, a prestigious 9-round Swiss chess tournament for players rated 2500+ Elo, is ongoing from May 17–26, 2025, at the Sharjah Cultural & Chess Club in the UAE. Grandmasters Changren Dai, Visakh, and Alexander Indjic are the only three players that remain perfect at Sharjah Masters after round 2.

Interview: Indjic: “My appetite for wins started growing after the European title.”


A total of 29 players are half a point behind the leaders, including Anish Giri, Faustino Oro, Venkataraman Karthik, Bibisara Assaubayeva, Andy Woodward, Ivan Zemlyanskii, Amin Tabatabaei, etc. Follow the games of Sharjah Masters round 3 live here

Sharjah Masters round 3 pairings


1 GM Indjic, Aleksandar 2637 – GM Visakh, N R 2507
2 GM Dai, Changren 2531 – GM Maghsoodloo, Parham 2706
3 GM Giri, Anish 2738 – GM Pranav, Anand 2555
4 GM Vetokhin, Savva 2558 – GM Tabatabaei, M. Amin 2670
5 GM Zhu, Jiner 2541 – GM Salem, A.R. Saleh 2631
6 GM Sargsyan, Shant 2666 – GM Woodward, Andy 2547
7 GM Zemlyanskii, Ivan 2563 – GM Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son 2632
8 GM Idani, Pouya 2630 – GM Nikitenko, Mihail 2516
9 GM Grebnev, Aleksey 2556 – GM Ivic, Velimir 2630
10 GM Sanal, Vahap 2555 – GM Theodorou, Nikolas 2611
11 GM Ohanyan, Emin 2503 – GM Tin, Jingyao 2601
12 GM Aditya, Mittal *) 2547 – GM Sargissian, Gabriel 2641
13 GM Azarov, Sergei 2596 – IM Klimkowski, Jan 2503
14 GM Kozak, Adam 2578 – IM Mamedov, Edgar 2492
15 IM Assaubayeva, Bibisara 2494 – GM Karthik, Venkataraman 2565
16 GM Ahmadzada, Ahmad 2564 – IM Oro, Faustino 2454
17 GM Nigmatov, Ortik 2457 – GM Akobian, Varuzhan 2564
18 GM Vakhidov, Jakhongir 2546 – GM Abdusattorov, Nodirbek 2771
19 GM Sevian, Samuel 2694 – GM Bharath, Subramaniyam H 2556
20 GM Mendonca, Leon Luke 2630 – GM Gavrilescu, David 2554
21 GM Xiao, Tong(Qd) 2493 – GM Xu, Xiangyu 2623
22 GM Daneshvar, Bardiya 2621 – GM Lobanov, Sergei 2527
23 Huang, Renjie 2491 – GM Paravyan, David 2596
24 GM Iniyan, Pa 2573 – IM Samadov, Read 2521
25 GM Kacharava, Nikolozi 2516 – GM Bai, Jinshi 2572
26 GM Samunenkov, Ihor 2572 – IM Ilamparthi, A R 2469
27 GM Siddharth, Jagadeesh 2472 – GM Amar, Elham 2569
28 GM Predke, Alexandr 2631 – GM Movahed, Sina 2518
29 GM Pichot, Alan 2587 – GM Ferreira, Jorge Viterbo 2537
30 GM Petkov, Momchil 2524 – GM Vescovi, Giovanni 2584
31 GM Madaminov, Mukhiddin 2520 – GM Gupta, Abhijeet 2577
32 GM Can, Emre 2568 – IM Aronyak, Ghosh 2514
33 IM Davtyan, Artur 2485 – GM Sankalp, Gupta 2559
34 GM Sethuraman, S.P. 2552 – IM Rohith, Krishna S 2490
35 IM Isik, Alparslan 2482 – GM Jumabayev, Rinat 2551
36 IM Divya, Deshmukh 2469 – GM Raja, Rithvik R 2545
37 GM Kuybokarov, Temur 2542 – IM Pang, Tao 2485
38 IM Seemann, Jakub 2453 – GM Sychev, Klementy 2542
39 IM Aswath, S 2515 – IM Tarhan, Adar 2472
40 GM Muradli, Mahammad 2603 – GM Royal, Shreyas 2493
41 IM Malek, Jan 2511 – IM Injac, Teodora 2474