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Sarin and Muradli shine on opening day of 25th Dubai Open Chess Tournament
Gulf Today
|May 29, 2025
Top-seed Grandmaster (GM) Nihal Sarin of India and defending champion GM Mahammad Muradli of Azerbaijan won their respective matches with relative ease to lead 27 other players who hurdled their opening-round assignments at the start of the silver jubilee edition of the Dubai Open Chess Tournament on Tuesday at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club.
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Sarin, fresh from a two-way tie for first place in the Asian Individual Men’s Chess Championships in Al Ain early this month, deployed the Scandinavian Defense against compatriot Fide Master (FM) Akshay Borgaonkar.
The tournament top-seed sacrificed a pawn in exchange for strong pressure against white’s queenside pawns, and then gradually outplayed Borgaonkar in a Queen and rook endgame.
Playing the white side of a Catalan game, Muradli built a sizeable advantage on the board and the clock against Israel's International Master (IM) Or Bronstein on the way to a 38-move win. Muradli snatched a pawn on the 23rd move and still had over an hour on his clock while Bronstein was already surviving on the 30-second time increment when the game entered a knight-vs-bishop endgame.
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