SrdjanSale of Croatiaclose to the top
Dubai |By A Sports Reporter |29-12-2002
Three players shared the lead with fivepoints at the end of the end of the sixth round of the UAE Open ChessChampionship.
Magerramov of Azerbaijan, El Taher Fouad, Arousy Abdul Hameed (Egypt) are at thetop. Srdjan Sale of Croatia, ArkhipovSergey, Nagueb Saleh and Nabil Khechen are close behind with 4.5 points.
The top board match between Magerrmov and Arkhipov ended in a quick draw.However, Arousy and El Taher attained crucial wins. It was their superiorpreparation and better handling of the middle game, which turned to be adecisive factor.
Taher adopted his usual aggressive approach against a queen pawn opening and wasable to induce tactical complications. Taher got a material advantage and hisbetter piece position enabled him to turn the tide and clinch the match.
Arousy was superior in all areas of the game and his experience against KhalilHosa. Arousy, an international master, dominated the match from the beginningand attained a facile victory.
Results (round 6):
Arkhipof, Sergey (4) - Magerramov, Elmar (4) 2- 1 drew; Sale, Srdjan; (4) - ElTaher, Fouad (4) 4- 3 0-1; Khalil, Hosa (4) - El Arousy, Abdul Ham (4) 56- 70-1; Osman, Moussa (3) - Khechen, Nabil (3) 5- 12 0-1; Saleh, Najueb (3) -Francis, Aldegver (3) 10- 55 1-0; Al-Khaja, Arif (3) - Hassan, Mohammed Seif (3)16- 11 0-1; Saleh, Nabil (3) - Somev, Abdo (3) 6- 15 1-0; Ali, Sultan (3) -Molina, Tony (3) 27- 9 0-1; Mohammed, Mousa (3) - Nekrasova, Elena (3) 45- 130-1; Ihsan, Jawad (3) - Danny, Baltazar (3) 14- 30 0-1; Ahmed, Eshaq (3) -Ghobash, Mohammed (3) 18- 36 1-0; El-Sayed, Ayman H. (3) - Said, Eshaq (3) 31-19 0-1; Mohammed, Abdulrahim (3) - Ernesto, Yap (2) 41- 32 0-1; Omar, Abdulwahab(2) - Yahya, Mohammed Saleh(2) 48- 17 0-1; Ahmed, Fayez (2) - Mohammed, AhmedRais (2) 58- 42 0-1; Al-Abbar, Mohammed (2) - Roland, Fernando (2) 22- 50 0-1;Al-Hammadi, Fatma (2) - Majed, Ahmed Obaid (2) 24- 39 drew; Ben, Parco (2) -Mohammed, Ibrahim Rai(2) 29- 44 0-1; Esam, Samman (2) - Waleed, Yousef (2) 33-52 0-1; Mohammed, Ibrahim (2) - Homeed, Abdullah Ali(2) 43- 37 1-0; Jihad,Khshkoul (2) - Saeed, Yousef (2) 38- 53 0-1; Mohammed, Naser (2) - Abdulaziz,Ibrahim (1) 46- 21 1-0; Ganpaathy, Ram (1) - Salem, Abdulrahman (1) 35- 20 0-1;Carlos, Bacho (1) - Al-HAmmadi, Amna (1) 51- 23 0-1; Bashar, Fawaz (1) - Al-Hermoudi,Amna (1) 28- 25 0-1; Al-Hermoudi, Maryam (1) - Rashed, Zinel (1) 26- 49 0-1;Nouf, Ahmed Mohammed (1) - Hamed, Al-Saad (1) 47- 54 0-1; Salem, Khamis (0) -Marwan, Abdulwahab (1) 57- 40 0-1; Loss by default: 8 Omearat, 34 Rolly,
