13th Asian Cities Chess Campionship: Aden 2002

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Basic data

13th Asian Cities Chess Campionship for Dubai Cup
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 7th - 13th February 2002
City: Aden, Yemen
Venue: N/A
Tournament Director: N/A
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: 18 from 14 countries
Players participating: 87 (incl. 12 GMs, 9 IMs and 6 FMs)
Games played: 324
Competition format: Four board nine round Swiss.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. Match points
Time control: 90 minutes per game + 30 sec. per move
Downloadable game file: 02asiancities.zip

Tournament review

The Pavoldar team retained the Dubai cup and title easily defeating their main rivals Manila and the Uzbek team Namangan in the early rounds. The event was finally decided in the penultimate round when Pavoldar took a 4 point lead, eventually winning by 5½ points.

Best board results

1st Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. FM Moussa, Othman DBAI 6½ 8 81.3
2. GM Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan TEHR 6 8 75.0
3. GM Al-Modiahki, Mohamad DOHA 6½ 9 72.2

2nd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Vladimirov, Evgeny PVLD 7 7 100.0
2. GM Barsov, Alexei NMNG 7 9 77.8
3. IM Sarsam, Saad Abdullah BGHD 4½ 7 64.3

3rd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. IM Kostenko, Petr PVLD 8 9 88.9
2. GM Ardiansyah, Haji JKRT 6½ 9 72.2
3. GM Villamayor, Buenaventura MNLA 6 9 66.7

4th Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. FM Al-Hadarani, Hatim TAIZ 6 6 100.0
2. Senador, Emmanuel MNLA 8 9 88.9
3. IM Egorov, Evgeny PVLD 6 7 85.7

1st Reserve Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. Al-Aqrabi, Saleh ADEN 5 5 100.0
2. Mansour, Samir AMMN 4½ 5 90.0
3. Al-Qudaimi, Bashir SANA 3½ 6 58.3

Interesting games


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