Only three remain perfect at Sharjah Masters

The 8th Sharjah Masters, a prestigious 9-round Swiss chess tournament for players rated 2500+ Elo, is ongoing from May 17–26, 2025, at the Sharjah Cultural & Chess Club in the UAE. Grandmasters Changren Dai, Visakh, and Alexander Indjic are the only three players that remain perfect at Sharjah Masters after round 2.

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Grandmasters Changren Dai 🇨🇳, Visakh 🇮🇳, and Alexander Indjic 🇷🇸 lead Sharjah Masters with perfect scorehttps://t.co/qfO7t0PoDX

— Chessdom (@chessdom) May 18, 2025

A total of 29 players are half a point behind the leaders, including Anish Giri, Faustino Oro, Venkataraman Karthik, Bibisara Assaubayeva, Andy Woodward, Ivan Zemlyanskii, Amin Tabatabaei, etc. Follow the games of Sharjah Masters round 3 live here

Sharjah Masters round 3 pairings

1	GM	Indjic, Aleksandar	2637	–	GM	Visakh, N R	2507
2	GM	Dai, Changren	2531	–	GM	Maghsoodloo, Parham	2706
3	GM	Giri, Anish	2738	–	GM	Pranav, Anand	2555
4	GM	Vetokhin, Savva	2558	–	GM	Tabatabaei, M. Amin	2670
5	GM	Zhu, Jiner	2541	–	GM	Salem, A.R. Saleh	2631
6	GM	Sargsyan, Shant	2666	–	GM	Woodward, Andy	2547
7	GM	Zemlyanskii, Ivan	2563	–	GM	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	2632
8	GM	Idani, Pouya	2630	–	GM	Nikitenko, Mihail	2516
9	GM	Grebnev, Aleksey	2556	–	GM	Ivic, Velimir	2630
10	GM	Sanal, Vahap	2555	–	GM	Theodorou, Nikolas	2611
11	GM	Ohanyan, Emin	2503	–	GM	Tin, Jingyao	2601
12	GM	Aditya, Mittal *)	2547	–	GM	Sargissian, Gabriel	2641
13	GM	Azarov, Sergei	2596	–	IM	Klimkowski, Jan	2503
14	GM	Kozak, Adam	2578	–	IM	Mamedov, Edgar	2492
15	IM	Assaubayeva, Bibisara	2494	–	GM	Karthik, Venkataraman	2565
16	GM	Ahmadzada, Ahmad	2564	–	IM	Oro, Faustino	2454
17	GM	Nigmatov, Ortik	2457	–	GM	Akobian, Varuzhan	2564
18	GM	Vakhidov, Jakhongir	2546	–	GM	Abdusattorov, Nodirbek	2771
19	GM	Sevian, Samuel	2694	–	GM	Bharath, Subramaniyam H	2556
20	GM	Mendonca, Leon Luke	2630	–	GM	Gavrilescu, David	2554
21	GM	Xiao, Tong(Qd)	2493	–	GM	Xu, Xiangyu	2623
22	GM	Daneshvar, Bardiya	2621	–	GM	Lobanov, Sergei	2527
23		Huang, Renjie	2491	–	GM	Paravyan, David	2596
24	GM	Iniyan, Pa	2573	–	IM	Samadov, Read	2521
25	GM	Kacharava, Nikolozi	2516	–	GM	Bai, Jinshi	2572
26	GM	Samunenkov, Ihor	2572	–	IM	Ilamparthi, A R	2469
27	GM	Siddharth, Jagadeesh	2472	–	GM	Amar, Elham	2569
28	GM	Predke, Alexandr	2631	–	GM	Movahed, Sina	2518
29	GM	Pichot, Alan	2587	–	GM	Ferreira, Jorge Viterbo	2537
30	GM	Petkov, Momchil	2524	–	GM	Vescovi, Giovanni	2584
31	GM	Madaminov, Mukhiddin	2520	–	GM	Gupta, Abhijeet	2577
32	GM	Can, Emre	2568	–	IM	Aronyak, Ghosh	2514
33	IM	Davtyan, Artur	2485	–	GM	Sankalp, Gupta	2559
34	GM	Sethuraman, S.P.	2552	–	IM	Rohith, Krishna S	2490
35	IM	Isik, Alparslan	2482	–	GM	Jumabayev, Rinat	2551
36	IM	Divya, Deshmukh	2469	–	GM	Raja, Rithvik R	2545
37	GM	Kuybokarov, Temur	2542	–	IM	Pang, Tao	2485
38	IM	Seemann, Jakub	2453	–	GM	Sychev, Klementy	2542
39	IM	Aswath, S	2515	–	IM	Tarhan, Adar	2472
40	GM	Muradli, Mahammad	2603	–	GM	Royal, Shreyas	2493
41	IM	Malek, Jan	2511	–	IM	Injac, Teodora	2474