At the traditional chess festival in Dubai Open 5 tours have been played. The Georgian grandmaster Sturua leads with the 100% result of 5.0 points.
Among the chess players, sharing between the 2-nd and the 16-th places with 4.0 points there are also three Azerbaijani chess players: Ibragimov, Magerramov and Huseynov. Safarli has 3.5 points, and father and son Badjarani per 3.0 points.