| 4th GCC Team Chess Championship: Dubai 2008 |
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| 4th GCC Team Chess Championship (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Date: | 9th - 14th October 2008 |
| City: | Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Venue: | Flora Grand Hotel |
| Tournament Director: | IO Najeeb Saleh |
| Chief Arbiter: | IA Saeed Al Taher |
| Teams participating: | 4 |
| Players participating: | 20 (incl. 1 GM, 4 IMs, 5 FMs and 1 CM) |
| Games played: | 48 |
| Competition format: | Four board double round robin. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Game points; 2. Match points |
| Time control: | 90 min + 30 min/moves + 30 sec starts from move one |
| Websites: | GCC Team Chess Championship 2008 Full Report |
| Downloadable game file: | 08gcc.zip |
| Special thanks to Khalid Hashem (Kuwait) for providing the games. | |
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The fourth GCC team championsip saw fourth consetutive win of Qatar and the final order was nothing new either: second UAE, Bahrain third and Kuwait last. Actually no match was closer than 3-1 so the table looked pretty clear. Qatar only dropped four draws v UAE, while winning 20 games overall. UAE finished second again beating Bahrain 3-1 twice, but Hussain Ayyad won both games vs UAE players, same as last year. Mohamed Al-Modiakhi scored perfect 6/6 again and has now impressive all-time record of 22½/24. |
| bd | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Al-Modiahki, Mohamad | QAT | 6 | 6 | 100.0 |
| 2. | IM Al-Sayed, Mohamad Naser | QAT | 5½ | 6 | 91.7 |
| 3. | IM Nezad, Husein Aziz | QAT | 5½ | 6 | 91.7 |
| 4.= | FM Al-Huwar, Jasem | UAE | 5 | 6 | 83.3 |
| 4.= | Al-Tamimi, Hamad | QAT | 5 | 6 | 83.3 |
| r. | FM Yahya, Mohamed Saleh | UAE | 3 | 4 | 75.0 |