6th Sharjah Masters 2023
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The 6th Sharjah Masters 2023 will take place from 16-26 March 2023 in Sharjah, UAE. The tournament system is 9-round Swiss with time control 90 minutes plus a 30-second increment starting from move one.
THe tournament is separated in 3 different categories – Master section, Challengers section and Futures section. The total prize fund is 60 000 USD and 45 000 USD of them for the Master section with 10 000 USD guaranted for the winner. The participants list include 62 of the best players, lead by GM D Gukesh, GM Yangyi Yu, GM Sanan Sjugirov, GM Hans Moke Niemann and GM H Niemann.
List of players (as of 06.03.2023):
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Gukesh, D | IND | 2730 |
| 2 | GM | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2729 |
| 3 | GM | Sjugirov, Sanan | RUS | 2712 |
| 4 | GM | Niemann, Hans Moke | USA | 2706 |
| 5 | GM | Erigaisi, Arjun | IND | 2701 |
| 6 | GM | Amin, Bassem | EGY | 2692 |
| 7 | GM | Praggnanandhaa, R | IND | 2691 |
| 8 | GM | Sevian, Samuel | USA | 2687 |
| 9 | GM | Martirosyan, Haik M. | ARM | 2686 |
| 10 | GM | Predke, Alexandr | SRB | 2684 |
| 11 | GM | Salem, A.R. Saleh | UAE | 2677 |
| 12 | GM | Tabatabaei, M. Amin | IRI | 2675 |
| 13 | GM | Nihal, Sarin | IND | 2673 |
| 14 | GM | Shevchenko, Kirill | ROU | 2668 |
| 15 | GM | Oparin, Grigoriy | USA | 2667 |
| 16 | GM | Narayanan.S.L, | IND | 2664 |
| 17 | GM | Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | 2661 |
| 18 | GM | Sindarov, Javokhir | UZB | 2661 |
| 19 | GM | Nguyen, Thai Dai Van | CZE | 2651 |
| 20 | GM | Sethuraman, S.P. | IND | 2639 |
| 21 | GM | Pichot, Alan | ARG | 2638 |
| 22 | GM | Indjic, Aleksandar | SRB | 2636 |
| 23 | GM | Iturrizaga Bonelli, Eduardo | ESP | 2636 |
| 24 | GM | Rakhmanov, Aleksandr | FID | 2635 |
| 25 | GM | Petrosyan, Manuel | ARM | 2634 |
| 26 | GM | Chigaev, Maksim | FID | 2632 |
| 27 | GM | Sargsyan, Shant | ARM | 2630 |
| 28 | GM | Yakubboev, Nodirbek | UZB | 2630 |
| 29 | GM | Yilmaz, Mustafa | TUR | 2629 |
| 30 | GM | Karthikeyan, Murali | IND | 2627 |
| 31 | GM | Sadhwani, Raunak | IND | 2627 |
| 32 | GM | Abasov, Nijat | AZE | 2625 |
| 33 | GM | Hakobyan, Aram | ARM | 2620 |
| 34 | GM | Socko, Bartosz | POL | 2618 |
| 35 | GM | Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel | ARM | 2616 |
| 36 | GM | Bernadskiy, Vitaliy | UKR | 2611 |
| 37 | GM | Jumabayev, Rinat | KAZ | 2609 |
| 38 | GM | Harsha, Bharathakoti | IND | 2608 |
| 39 | GM | Aryan, Chopra | IND | 2607 |
| 40 | GM | Vakhidov, Jakhongir | UZB | 2607 |
| 41 | GM | Vescovi, Giovanni | BRA | 2606 |
| 42 | GM | Yuffa, Daniil | ESP | 2605 |
| 43 | GM | Piorun, Kacper | POL | 2601 |
| 44 | GM | Vokhidov, Shamsiddin | UZB | 2601 |
| 45 | GM | Can, Emre | TUR | 2600 |
| 46 | GM | Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios | GRE | 2599 |
| 47 | GM | Puranik, Abhimanyu | IND | 2599 |
| 48 | GM | Iskandarov, Misratdin | AZE | 2598 |
| 49 | GM | Sanal, Vahap | TUR | 2590 |
| 50 | GM | Adhiban, B. | IND | 2589 |
| 51 | GM | Erdos, Viktor | HUN | 2587 |
| 52 | GM | Kadric, Denis | MNE | 2583 |
| 53 | GM | Moroni, Luca Jr | ITA | 2578 |
| 54 | GM | Kobalia, Mikhail | FID | 2577 |
| 55 | GM | Mchedlishvili, Mikheil | GEO | 2569 |
| 56 | GM | Kuybokarov, Temur | AUS | 2562 |
| 57 | GM | Dragnev, Valentin | AUT | 2561 |
| 58 | GM | Azarov, Sergei | FID | 2559 |
| 59 | GM | Murzin, Volodar | FID | 2554 |
| 60 | GM | Mishra, Abhimanyu | USA | 2548 |
| 61 | GM | Chirila, Ioan-Cristian | ROU | 2543 |
| 62 | GM | Vasquez Schroeder, Rodrigo | CHI | 2510 |