Baadur Jobava (2705) was leading the Al Ain tournament but he lost the last two games and showed a bad result.

In the 8^th round the Georgian chess player lost to Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine (2617). In the last round Jobava did not show up to play Abhijeet Gupta of India (2608).

Jobava earned 6.0 points and took the 10^th place. Another Georgian Khvicha Supatashvili (2455) gained 5.5 points and took the 27^th place.

Gupta won the Arabic tournament. The Indian earned 7.0 points and had better additional data than Vasif Durarbayli of Azerbaijan (2559) and Kravtsiv.