Qatar Masters Open 2015

Opening ceremony

Opening ceremony

(Photo taken from Chessbase)

The pairings of the 1st round are out and here are the top 10 boards:

1 GM Carlsen Magnus 2834 0 0 IM Batsiashvili Nino 2498
2 GM Khotenashvili Bela 2496 0 0 GM Kramnik Vladimir 2796
3 GM Giri Anish 2784 0 0 IM Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan 2494
4 WGM Goryachkina Aleksandra 2493 0 0 GM So Wesley 2775
5 GM Karjakin Sergey 2766 0 0 IM Ezat Mohamed 2490
6 GM Shoker Samy 2489 0 0 GM Li Chao B 2750
7 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2748 0 0 GM Zhukova Natalia 2488
8 IM Sanal Vahap 2487 0 0 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2744
9 GM Harikrishna P. 2743 0 0 GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. 2486
10 IM Tabatabaei M.Amin 2482 0 0 GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2737

View all the pairings here.

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