Sharjah Masters 2025 – participants and information

Sharjah Masters 2025 is taking place 16th May-26th May in Sharjah, UAE. The main tournament is a classical event for players over 2500 elo, which has collected 65 Grandmasters and participants from 31 countries. Top players include the 2700 club members Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Anish Giri, and Parham Maghsoodloo (who recently got his ticket for Las Vegas), the European Champion Alexandar Indjic (recent interview here), the winner from last year’s edition Bardiya Daneshvar (coming with gold from the Asian Individual Championship), Samuel Sevian (who is on a summer tour and his next event is Stepan Avagyan Memorial), young stars Nikolas Theodorou, Shant Sargsyan, Amin Tabatabaei, Leon Luke Mendonca, etc. Scroll down for the full participants list.

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Sharjah Masters 2025 participants

1	GM	Abdusattorov, Nodirbek	UZB	2771
2	GM	Giri, Anish	NED	2738
3	GM	Maghsoodloo, Parham	IRI	2706
4	GM	Sevian, Samuel	USA	2694
5	GM	Tabatabaei, M. Amin	IRI	2670
6	GM	Sargsyan, Shant	ARM	2666
7	GM	Sargissian, Gabriel	ARM	2641
8	GM	Indjic, Aleksandar	SRB	2637
9	GM	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	VIE	2632
10	GM	Predke, Alexandr	SRB	2631
11	GM	Salem, A.R. Saleh	UAE	2631
12	GM	Idani, Pouya	IRI	2630
13	GM	Ivic, Velimir	SRB	2630
14	GM	Mendonca, Leon Luke	IND	2630
15	GM	Xu, Xiangyu	CHN	2623
16	GM	Daneshvar, Bardiya	IRI	2621
17	GM	Theodorou, Nikolas	GRE	2611
18	GM	Muradli, Mahammad	AZE	2603
19	GM	Tin, Jingyao	SGP	2601
20	GM	Azarov, Sergei	FID	2596
21	GM	Paravyan, David	FID	2596
22	GM	Pichot, Alan	ESP	2587
23	GM	Vescovi, Giovanni	BRA	2584
24	GM	Kozak, Adam	HUN	2578
25	GM	Gupta, Abhijeet	IND	2577
26	GM	Iniyan, Pa	IND	2573
27	GM	Bai, Jinshi	CHN	2572
28	GM	Samunenkov, Ihor	UKR	2572
29	GM	Amar, Elham	NOR	2569
30	GM	Can, Emre	TUR	2568
31	GM	Karthik, Venkataraman	IND	2565
32	GM	Ahmadzada, Ahmad	AZE	2564
33	GM	Akobian, Varuzhan	USA	2564
34	GM	Zemlyanskii, Ivan	RUS	2563
35	GM	Sankalp, Gupta	IND	2559
36	GM	Vetokhin, Savva	FID	2558
37	GM	Bharath, Subramaniyam H	IND	2556
38	GM	Grebnev, Aleksey	FID	2556
39	GM	Pranav, Anand	IND	2555
40	GM	Sanal, Vahap	TUR	2555
41	GM	Gavrilescu, David	ROU	2554
42	GM	Sethuraman, S.P.	IND	2552
43	GM	Jumabayev, Rinat	KAZ	2551
44	GM	Aditya, Mittal	IND	2547
45	GM	Woodward, Andy	USA	2547
46	GM	Vakhidov, Jakhongir	UZB	2546
47	GM	Raja, Rithvik R	IND	2545
48	GM	Kuybokarov, Temur	AUS	2542
49	GM	Sychev, Klementy	FID	2542
50	GM	Zhu, Jiner	CHN	2541
51	GM	Ferreira, Jorge Viterbo	POR	2537
52	GM	Dai, Changren	CHN	2531
53	GM	Lobanov, Sergei	FID	2527
54	GM	Petkov, Momchil	BUL	2524
55	IM	Samadov, Read	AZE	2521
56	GM	Madaminov, Mukhiddin	UZB	2520
57	GM	Movahed, Sina	IRI	2518
58	GM	Kacharava, Nikolozi	GEO	2516
59	GM	Nikitenko, Mihail	BLR	2516
60	IM	Aswath, S	IND	2515
61	IM	Aronyak, Ghosh	IND	2514
62	IM	Malek, Jan	POL	2511
63	GM	Visakh, N R	IND	2507
64	GM	Ohanyan, Emin	ARM	2503
65	IM	Klimkowski, Jan	POL	2503
66	IM	Assaubayeva, Bibisara	KAZ	2494
67	GM	Royal, Shreyas	ENG	2493
68	GM	Xiao, Tong(Qd)	CHN	2493
69	IM	Mamedov, Edgar	KAZ	2492
70		Huang, Renjie	CHN	2491
71	IM	Rohith, Krishna S	IND	2490
72	IM	Davtyan, Artur	ARM	2485
73	IM	Pang, Tao	CHN	2485
74	IM	Isik, Alparslan	TUR	2482
75	IM	Injac, Teodora	SRB	2474
76	GM	Siddharth, Jagadeesh	SGP	2472
77	IM	Tarhan, Adar	TUR	2472
78	IM	Divya, Deshmukh	IND	2469
79	IM	Ilamparthi, A R	IND	2469
80	GM	Nigmatov, Ortik	UZB	2457
81	IM	Oro, Faustino	ARG	2454
82	IM	Seemann, Jakub	POL	2453