No.1 seed Baadur Jobava (2710) earned 6.0 points at the chess tournament which has ended up in the city of the United Aram Emirates, Al Fujairah. Baadur took the 5th place.
The Georgian grandmaster was 0.5 point behind Top 3: 1. Surya Ganguly (India, 2619) – 6.5; 2. Olexandr Moiseenko (Ukraine, 2702) – 6.5; 3. Chanda Sandipan (2596) – 6.5;
In the last rounds Jobava played draws with Eltaj Safarli of Azerbaijan (2626) and Etienne Bacrot of France (2702). Overall Baadur won five games, played 2 draws and lost twice. The Georgian chess player beat Sergey Fedorchuk of Ukraine (2652) and Sandipan.
Mikheil Mchedlishvili (2639) took the 17th place with 5.0 points. In the 8th round he lost to future champion Ganguly. In the last round the Georgian played draw with Chongsheng Zeng of China (2474). Overall Mikheil won two games, played six draws and lost once.
Prize money of Al Fujairah chess festival was 50 000 USD. Ganguly won 15 000 and Jobava 3 000.
