Asrian and Anastasian in joint lead

DUBAI, APRIL 19. Grandmaster Ashot Anastasian and Karen Asrian of Armenia lead with three points at the end of the third round of the Dubai Open chess championship, here on Thursday.

Both Asrian and Anastasian won their games played against Jobava Baadur and Maxim Sorokin respectively. Anastasian stamped his superior positional style of play in the opening, middle game and endgame to out manovure GM Sorokin in a protracted battle.

Anastasian took space advantage from the middle game and he outplayed his opponent with brilliant technical play. He then engineered a breakthrough to overcome the blockade and went on to clinch the issue.

The results (third round): Valerij Filippov (2.5) drew Igor V. Greg (2.5); Alexander Motylev (2.5) drew Valery Neverov (2.5); Andre Shariyazdanov (2.5) drew Alexander Galkin (2.5); Elmar Magerramov (2.5) drew Fedorov Alexei (2.5); Mihail Kobalija (2.5) drew Artashes Minasian (2.5); Jobava Baadur (2) lost to Karen Asrian (3); Ashot Anastasian (3) beat Maxim Sorokin (2); Goran Dizdar (2.5) drew Evgeny Sveshnikov (2.5); Dusko Pavasovic (2.5) drew Aleksej Alexandrov (2); Evgeny Vladimirov (2.5) Sergey beat Arkhipov (1.5); Drazan Sermek (2) drew Sturua Zurab (2); Evgeny Yuri (2.5) beat Fouad El Taher (1.5); Ghuloom Salem (2) drew Pavel Kotsur (2); Abihijit Kunte (2.5) beat Raouf Gadjily (1.5); Andrei Kharlov (2) beat Shojaat Ghane (1.5); Radik Asylguzhin (1) lost to Jaan Ehlvest (2); Abdul Hameed El Arousy (1) lost to Alexey Kuzmin (2); Khaled Mahdi (1) lost to Alexander Volzhin (2); Rahul Shetty (1.5) drew Marat Dzhumaev (1.5); Saleh A.R. Jasim (1) lost to Shukhrat Safin (2); Aris Ozolin (1.5) drew orazly Annageldyev (1.5); Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (1.5) drew Rauf Mamedov (1.5); Mohamed N. Al Sayed (1) lost to Mohamad Al- Modiakhi (2); Evgenij Ermenkov (1) lost to Akbar Alibaev (2); Handszar Odeev (1.5) drewisham Al Argha (1.5); Morteza Mahjoob (1) lost to Taher Vakhidov (2); R.B. Ramesh (2) beat Abdul Latief Shabash (1); Moh. Bengafer (1) lost to Imed Abdelnabbi (2); Sandipan Chanda (2) beat Nabil Saleh (1); Abdo Somev (2) bt Neelotpal Das (1); Farhad Tahirov (2) beat Jawad Ihsan (1); Mark Heidenfeld (1.5) drew Mohamed Seif Hassan (1.5); Hasan Kolyaie (1) lost to Moussa A. Othman (2); Thandalam S. Ravi (2) beat Li Georgiy (1); Dinesh K. Sharma (1.5) beat Nejad A. Ramezan (1); Srdjan Sale (1.5) beat Sadegh M. Mahmoody (0.5); C.S. Gokhale (0.5) lost to M. Sadatnajafi (1.5); Bahram G. Javanmard (0.5) lost to Sayed Javad Alavi (1.5); Antonio Molina (1) drew Mansoor Abdullah (1); Arif Zainal (0.5) lost to Ahmed Hamed (1); Sergey Kayumov (1) beat Peter Straub (0); Syed Aras Akbarinia (1) beat Bidhendi Hadiri (0); Rad A. Akhavan (1) beat Ali Ghobadibaigan (0); Mohamed Bin Hafiz (0) lost to Mhamadreza Afshari (1); Alshaali Khalid (1) beat Behna Fardbehbahani (0); Mohamed Saud (0) lost to Vladimir Kase (1); Nabil E. Khechen(1) beat Essa M. Khori (0); Abdulrahman Nizam (1) beat Kiril Kusnetsov (0); Rabeea Othman (1) beat Amirali Rahimi (0).

- UNI

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