I hope everyone is having a great weekend. So far in the tournament, players have played a total of 3 rounds. And only 9 players have 3/3 so far. A few others have 2.5/3. But it is still far from over because there are still 6 more rounds to go. And anything could happen till then.
To Download Games from Round One in PGN Format, click HERE.
To Download Games from Round Two in PGN Format, click HERE.
The players with 3.0 / 3 are: Ferdinand Bugay of the Philippines, Akram Ali of Egypt, Ferdinand Laming of the Philippines, Bader Al Hajery of Kuwait, Hamadah Al Wakeel of Egypt, Bader Al Khaldy of Kuwait, Hamada Matrouk of Egypt, Faisal Al Hamlan of Kuwait, and Khaled Hashem of Kuwait.
Four players have 2.5 so far. They are Waleed Al Awadhi of Kuwait, Florentino Silao of the Philippines, Fayeq Kanaan of Palestine, and Mohamed Hesham of Syria.
Here are a few pictures from Round 3:
As you know, the next round will be on Sunday.
Until then, here is the pairing for Round 4:
1 Ferdinand Bujay PLH [3] : Akram Ali EGY [3]
2 Fernando Laming PLH [3] : Bader Al-Hajiri KWT [3]
3 Hamadah Al-Wakel EGY [3] : Bader Al-Khaldy KWT [3]
4 Hamdy Mabrouk EGY [3] : Faisal Al-Hamlan KWT [3]
5 Khaled Hashem KWT [3] : Waleed Al-Awady KWT [2.5]
6 Faeq Kanaan PAL [2.5] : Florentino Silao PLH [2.5]
7 Adel Al-Amiri KWT [2] : Mohamed Hesham SYR [2.5]
8 Ahmed Al-Deeb EGY [2] : Majdy Ghunaim EGY [2]
9 Ahmed Al-Subae KWT [2] : Sajan Jacub IND [2]
10 Mohamed Abdullah Ali BAH [2] : Ahmed Emad Aldeen JOR [2]
11 Mohamed Abdulmohsen EGY [2] : Alaa Abdullatif EGY [2]
12 Mohamed Ali PLH [2] : Ali Al-Saqaf LEB [2]
13 Mohamed Jaber EGY [2] : Amer Araab PLH [2]
14 Mohammed Qabazrd KWT [2] : Basir Cosin PLH [2]
15 Bhanu Dhepalli IND [2] : Yasser Easa JOR [2]
16 Nasser Al-Maqseed KWT [2] : Eid Mohamed Eid EGY [2]
17 Noor Dhepalli IND [2] : Hamdy El-Okdah EGY [2]
18 Veerappan Aiyappan IND [2] : Herculano Zcarias PLH [2]
19 Yousef Ahmed EGY [2] : Husain Shalabi EGY [2]
20 Zakariya Shahata EGY [2] : labib badee SYR [2]
21 Abdulrahman Fathi EGY [1] : Hazaa Al-Sharfa KWT [1.5]
22 Agha Allahverdiyev AZ [1] : Sayed Mahmoud EGY [1.5]
23 Abdulmohsen Al-Moshary KWT [1] : Nadiya Al-Qaban KWT [1]
24 Nasser Al-Subaie KWT [1] : Abdulrahman Khaled EGY [1]
25 Nathaniel Tinasaie PLH [1] : Abdulsalam Aldekheel KWT [1]
26 Noor Al-Deen Mohamed EGY [1] : Abdulwahab Al-Atiqi KWT [1]
27 Ryan Martiez PLH [1] : Ali Alaa Al-Deen LEB [1]
28 Tamer Ateyah EGY [1] : Farj Saqer EGY [1]
29 Hamad Al-Motawaa KWT [1] : Nawaf Al-Azimy KWT [1]
30 Jermieh Juston USA [1] : Nizar Kanaan PAL [1]
31 Khaled Khan PAK [1] : Omar Al-Yaqout KWT [1]
32 Zeyad Saleh Al-Abdily KSA [1] : Musalam Al-Zamil KWT [1]
33 Mustafa Hanano SYR [1] : Yaseser Yosef EGY [1]
34 Jamal Al-Awady KWT [0] : Abdullah Al-Mutairi KWT [0]
35 Ahmed Khalil EGY [0] : Mohamed Bukhamsen KWT [0]
And a very good luck to you all.