The Kazakh city of Pavlodar took their third ever Asian Cities Championship for the Dubai Cup as they convincingly won the 15th edition of this biennial competition.

The event was organized by the Iranian Chess Federation from 1st to 9th March in Teheran, the capital of Iran. The head referee was IA Casto Abundo. Eighteen teams from twelve countries competed in the 9 round Swiss. Pavlodar scored 30 points followed by runner-up Tagaytay (Philippines) with 26p and Tehran Saipa with 25 points for third. The event drew 88 players, including 10 GMs and 2 WGMs. Top rated player was GM Evgeny Vladimirov - 2616 Elo.

More info and games to be added soon.

Final results:

rk seed  team          fed  gms  +   =   -   pts    Buch    MP
 1   1  Pavlodar       KAZ   9   8   0   1   30,0   179,5   16
 2   2  Tagaytay       PHI   9   7   2   0   26,0   185,0   16
 3   3  Saipa          IRI   9   6   2   1   25,0   184,0   14
 4   5  Rahahan        IRI   9   5   2   2   23,0   178,0   12
 5   4  Shanghai       CHN   9   5   1   3   21,5   187,0   11
 6   6  Tidewater      IRI   9   5   0   4   21,5   170,0   10
 7   7  Damescaus      SYR   9   3   2   4   17,5   160,5    8
 8  15  Banvan-Tehran  IRI   9   4   2   3   17,5   146,5   10
 9  16  Dubai          UAE   9   2   4   3   16,5   133,0    8
10  11  Sulimania      IRQ   9   3   2   4   16,0   157,5    8
11  12  Calicut        IND   9   4   1   4   15,5   168,5    9
12   8  Lahore         PAK   9   3   1   5   15,5   153,0    7
13  13  Amman          JOR   9   2   3   4   15,0   166,0    7
14  14  Sharjah        UAE   9   3   1   5   15,0   155,0    7
15   9  Aleppo         SYR   9   4   1   4   15,0   148,0    9
16  17  Colombo        SRI   9   3   0   6   15,0   145,0    6
17  10  Erbil          IRQ   9   1   2   6   12,0   155,0    4
18  18  Jerusalem      PLE   9   0   0   9    6,5   144,5    0

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