25th Dubai Open R3: Rohith Krishna defies Nihal Sarin

by Shahid Ahmed - 30/05/2025

IM S Rohith Krishna played a hard fought draw against GM Nihal Sarin in Round 3 of 25th Dubai Open 2025. Neither player gave any chance to their opponent and a draw became the only result on the top board. IM Nitish Belurkar drew with GM Yair Parkhov (ISR). GM Shreyas Royal's (ENG) ambitious attack did not work against the reigning National Rapid champion, GM Iniyan Pa. IM Ilamparthi A R played inspired chess to beat GM Emre Can (TUR). The defending champion, GM Muradli Mahammad (AZE) and two-time Asian Junior champion, GM Aleksey Grebnev are the only two players with perfect score 3/3. Eight players including six Indians are at 2.5/3 each. Round 4 starts today at 5 p.m. local time, 6:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Dubai Chess & Culture Club

Ilamparthi crushes Can

IM Ilamparthi A R scored an impressive win against GM Emre Can (TUR). IM Jubin Jimmy, IM Goutham Krishna H and FM Sahib Singh drew with GM Ido Gorshtein (ISR), GM Pranav Anand and GM Aditya Mittal respectively.

IM S Rohith Krishna held the top seed, GM Nihal Sarin to a well contested draw | Photo: Dubai Chess & Culture Club

IM S Rohith Krishna - GM Nihal Sarin: 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Dubai Chess & Culture Club

IM Nitish Belurkar - GM Yair Parkhov (ISR): 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Dubai Chess & Culture Club

Shreyas - Iniyan

Position after 21.Nh6+

GM Shreyas Royal's (ENG, 2493) ambitious attack on the kingside 21.Nh6+ did not work out. 21...gxh6 22.Bxf6 Qa8 23.Qg3 Rxd2 24.Bc3 Bd6 25.Nf4 Bxf4 26.exf4 Rde2 the reason White's attack did not pan out the way he wanted is his queen is tied in the defence of the g2-square. It is unable to capitalize on the control of long a1-h8 diagonal. GM Iniyan Pa (2573) won in four more moves.

GM Shreyas Royal's ambitious attack did not work out against the reigning National Rapid champion, GM Iniyan Pa | Photo: Dubai Chess & Culture Club

Emre - Ilamparthi: 0-1

IM Ilamparthi A R (2469) made his intentions clear early in the game when he went 3...g5 in the Sicilian Moscow variation.

Position after 15...Ne3!

15...Ne3! does not gain any material but completely disintegrates White's position. 16.h4 Nc2+ 17.Kf1 Rg6 18.Ra4 Bb7 19.f3 0-0-0 20.Kf2 Bh6 and Black won the game in the next few moves.

A determined IM Ilamparthi A R defeated GM Emre Can (TUR) convincingly | Photo: Dubai Chess & Culture Club

GM Ido Gorshtein (ISR) - IM Jubin Jimmy (pictured): 0.5-0.5

GM Bharath Subramaniyam H defeated IM Md. Imran to move to 2.5/3 | Photo: Dubai Chess & Culture Club

IM Goutham Krishna H (pictured) - GM Pranav Anand: 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Aditya Mittal - FM Sahib Singh (pictured): 0.5-0.5

A total of 82 players including 31 GMs, 37 IMs and 4 WGMs are taking part from 22 countries across the world in Category A (>2300). The ninee-day nine round Rating Open tournament is being organized by and at Dubai Chess & Culture Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 27th May to 4th June 2025. The time control of the event was 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment per move.

Replay Round 3 games

Round 3 results in Category A

Bo.	No.		White	FED	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Black	FED	Rtg	No.	PGN
1	28	IM	Rohith, Krishna S	IND	2490	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Nihal, Sarin	IND	2693	1	PGN
2	4	GM	Muradli, Mahammad	AZE	2603	2	1 - 0	2	IM	Dotzer, Lukas	AUT	2455	39	PGN
3	14	GM	Grebnev, Aleksey	FID	2556	2	1 - 0	2	FM	Panesar, Vedant	IND	2455	40	PGN
4	41	IM	Nitish, Belurkar	IND	2454	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Parkhov, Yair	ISR	2514	24	PGN
5	26	GM	Boruchovsky, Avital	ISR	2513	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Pichot, Alan	ESP	2587	7	PGN
6	27	GM	Royal, Shreyas	ENG	2493	1½	0 - 1	1½	GM	Iniyan, Pa	IND	2573	9	PGN
7	10	GM	Can, Emre	TUR	2568	1½	0 - 1	1½	IM	Ilamparthi, A R	IND	2469	35	PGN
8	33	GM	Siddharth, Jagadeesh	SGP	2472	1½	0 - 1	1½	GM	Zemlyanskii, Ivan	RUS	2563	11	PGN
9	12	GM	Gorshtein, Ido	ISR	2560	1½	½ - ½	1½	IM	Jubin, Jimmy	IND	2449	43	PGN
10	34	IM	Md, Imran	IND	2472	1½	0 - 1	1½	GM	Bharath, Subramaniyam H	IND	2556	13	PGN

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Standings after Round 3

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	K	rtg+/-
1	4	GM	Muradli, Mahammad			AZE	2603	3	2449	0	4	2	1	10	9,3
2	14	GM	Grebnev, Aleksey			FID	2556	3	2440	0	4	2	1	10	10,6
3	1	GM	Nihal, Sarin			IND	2693	2,5	2464	0	4,5	2	1	10	1,6
4	13	GM	Bharath, Subramaniyam H			IND	2556	2,5	2462	0	3,5	1,5	1	10	2,5
5	9	GM	Iniyan, Pa			IND	2573	2,5	2453	0	3	1,5	2	10	5,6
6	24	GM	Parkhov, Yair			ISR	2514	2,5	2441	0	5	2	0	10	3,2
7	11	GM	Zemlyanskii, Ivan			RUS	2563	2,5	2435	0	3	1,5	1	10	5,3
8	28	IM	Rohith, Krishna S			IND	2490	2,5	2391	0	3,5	1	1	10	9,9
9	35	IM	Ilamparthi, A R			IND	2469	2,5	2381	0	2,5	1	1	10	8,9
10	41	IM	Nitish, Belurkar			IND	2454	2,5	2368	0	4	2	1	10	8,8

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Round 4 pairings

Bo.	No.		White	FED	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Black	FED	Rtg	No.
1	14	GM	Grebnev, Aleksey	FID	2556	3		3	GM	Muradli, Mahammad	AZE	2603	4
2	1	GM	Nihal, Sarin	IND	2693	2½		2½	GM	Parkhov, Yair	ISR	2514	24
3	9	GM	Iniyan, Pa	IND	2573	2½		2½	IM	Rohith, Krishna S	IND	2490	28
4	11	GM	Zemlyanskii, Ivan	RUS	2563	2½		2½	IM	Nitish, Belurkar	IND	2454	41
5	35	IM	Ilamparthi, A R	IND	2469	2½		2½	GM	Bharath, Subramaniyam H	IND	2556	13
6	38	GM	Shyam, Sundar M.	IND	2462	2		2	GM	Sargsyan, Shant	ARM	2666	2
7	7	GM	Pichot, Alan	ESP	2587	2		2	FM	Panesar, Vedant	IND	2455	40
8	39	IM	Dotzer, Lukas	AUT	2455	2		2	GM	Gorshtein, Ido	ISR	2560	12
9	43	IM	Jubin, Jimmy	IND	2449	2		2	GM	Sokolovsky, Yahli	ISR	2539	19
10	21	GM	Movahed, Sina	IRI	2518	2		2	IM	Harshavardhan, G B	IND	2441	46

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