[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.14"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Aliev, Kerim"]
[Black "Djao Thien Hai"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2385"]
[BlackElo "2580"]
[ECO "D36"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "25"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bd3 Be7 8.Nge2 
O-O 9.O-O Re8 10.Qc2 Nf8 11.Rab1 Be6 12.Nf4 h6 13.Nxe6 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.14"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "Kasimdzhanov, Rustam"]
[Black "Mallahi, Amir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2570"]
[BlackElo "2370"]
[ECO "D34"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "77"]

1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 e6 3.d4 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.g3 Nf6 7.Bg2 Be7 8.O-O 
O-O 9.dxc5 Bxc5 10.Bg5 d4 11.Bxf6 Qxf6 12.Nd5 Qd8 13.Nd2 a6 14.Rc1 Ba7 15.
Nf4 Bg4 16.h3 Bf5 17.Qb3 Rb8 18.g4 Qg5 19.Qg3 Be6 20.Nxe6 fxe6 21.Ne4 Qb5 
22.Qb3 Qe5 23.Kh1 Rf4 24.Ng3 Na5 25.Qd3 Rbf8 26.Be4 g6 27.Kg2 Bb8 28.Bf3 
Nc6 29.Qb3 Qf6 30.Rxc6 bxc6 31.Rc1 Rd8 32.Rxc6 d3 33.Ne4 Rxe4 34.Bxe4 d2 
35.Rxe6 Qf7 36.Re8+ Rxe8 37.Bd5 Rd8 38.Bxf7+ Kf8 39.Bd5 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.14"]
[Round "1.3"]
[White "Al-Rakib, Abdullah"]
[Black "Barua, Dibyendu"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2350"]
[BlackElo "2540"]
[ECO "D31"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "38"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 e6 4.e4 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Qxd4 7.Bxb4 Qxe4+ 8.
Be2 Na6 9.Ba5 f6 10.Qd8+ Kf7 11.Nf3 b6 12.Bc3 Nc5 13.Nd2 Qg6 14.b4 Ne7 15.
Qxh8 Nd3+ 16.Kf1 Nf4 17.Qd8 Qxg2+ 18.Ke1 Qxh1+ 19.Bf1 e5 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.14"]
[Round "1.4"]
[White "Saltaev, Mikhail"]
[Black "Mansour, Samir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2525"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[ECO "C60"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "41"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bg7 6.Be3 Nge7 7.Nc3 O-O 8.Qd2
d5 9.Bxc6 bxc6 10.Bh6 f5 11.Bxg7 Kxg7 12.exd5 cxd5 13.O-O-O c6 14.Na4 Qd6 
15.Qc3 Kf7 16.Rhe1 Bd7 17.Nc5 Rab8 18.Nxd7 Qxd7 19.Ne6 d4 20.Rxd4 Nd5 21.
Rxd5 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.14"]
[Round "1.5"]
[White "Reilly, Tim"]
[Black "Al-Modiahki, Mohamad"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2270"]
[BlackElo "2505"]
[ECO "E84"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "76"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 O-O 6.Be3 Nc6 7.Nge2 a6 8.Qd2 Rb8 
9.h4 b5 10.h5 e5 11.d5 Na5 12.Ng3 bxc4 13.O-O-O Rb4 14.Be2 Bd7 15.Rh2 Qe7 
16.Bh6 Bxh6 17.Qxh6 Rfb8 18.Rd2 c6 19.Nf1 c5 20.g4 Qf8 21.Qg5 Ne8 22.Ne3 
h6 23.Qh4 g5 24.Qe1 Nc7 25.Rc2 Nb5 26.a3 Nxc3 27.Qxc3 Nb3+ 28.Kb1 Ra4 29.
Bxc4 Nd4 30.Rcf2 Nb5 31.Bxb5 axb5 32.b4 Rc8 33.Qd3 Qd8 34.Rc2 Qb6 35.Rhe2 
Qa7 36.Ra2 cxb4 37.axb4 Qd4 38.Red2 Rxb4+ 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.14"]
[Round "1.6"]
[White "Zagrebelny, Sergei"]
[Black "Ghane, Shojaat"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2480"]
[BlackElo "2265"]
[ECO "C05"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "95"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Ng8 5.Bd3 b6 6.c3 Qd7 7.Ne2 Ba6 8.Bc2 c5 9.
Nf3 Nc6 10.O-O f5 11.exf6 gxf6 12.Re1 Bd6 13.Nf4 Bxf4 14.Bxf4 O-O-O 15.Qd2
Re8 16.Qe3 c4 17.Re2 Re7 18.Rae1 Kd8 19.Bg3 Bc8 20.Ba4 Qb7 21.Qf4 b5 22.
Bc2 Qd7 23.Bh4 Qc7 24.Ne5 Ke8 25.Bxf6 Rf7 26.Qg5 Nxf6 27.Nxf7 Qxf7 28.Qf4 
Rf8 29.Qd6 Nd8 30.a4 a6 31.axb5 axb5 32.Ra1 Qh5 33.f3 Qf7 34.Ra8 Bd7 35.
Bf5 Qe7 36.Rxd8+ Kxd8 37.Qb8+ Bc8 38.Rxe6 Nd7 39.Qa8 Nb6 40.Qb8 Nd7 41.
Qxb5 Rxf5 42.Rxe7 Kxe7 43.Qc6 Kd8 44.g4 Rxf3 45.Qxd5 Rf6 46.g5 Rg6 47.h4 
h6 48.Qf7 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.14"]
[Round "1.7"]
[White "Karim, Raad"]
[Black "Kakageldiev, Amanmurad"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2170"]
[BlackElo "2475"]
[ECO "A00"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "0"]

0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.14"]
[Round "1.8"]
[White "Thipsay, Praveen Mahadeo"]
[Black "Khamdamov, Sukhrob"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2450"]
[BlackElo "2140"]
[ECO "B06"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "66"]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.f4 a6 5.Nf3 b5 6.Be3 Bb7 7.Bd3 Nd7 8.O-O c5 9.
Qe1 cxd4 10.Nxd4 Ngf6 11.Kh1 Nc5 12.Bg1 O-O 13.b4 Ne6 14.Nb3 Rc8 15.Rc1 
Rxc3 16.Qxc3 Nxe4 17.Qe1 Bc3 18.Qe3 Qa8 19.f5 Ng7 20.fxg6 hxg6 21.Rf4 Nf5 
22.Qh3 Be5 23.Rxf5 gxf5 24.Qxf5 e6 25.Qh5 Bg7 26.Nd4 Bd5 27.Nf3 f5 28.Be3 
f4 29.Bg1 Rf6 30.Qg4 e5 31.Re1 Rh6 32.Nh4 Nf6 33.Qh3 Rxh4 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.14"]
[Round "1.9"]
[White "Azahari, Mohd Nor"]
[Black "Ghorbani, Mohsen"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2140"]
[BlackElo "2430"]
[ECO "B23"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "50"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bc4 e6 6.O-O Nge7 7.Qe1 a6 8.a4 Nd4 
9.Nxd4 cxd4 10.Nd1 d5 11.exd5 exd5 12.Bd3 O-O 13.b3 Nf5 14.Bxf5 Bxf5 15.d3
Rc8 16.Qd2 Qc7 17.Rf2 Rfe8 18.Ra2 h5 19.h3 Qe7 20.a5 Rc6 21.Ba3 Qh4 22.Ra1
Rce6 23.Nb2 Qg3 24.Raf1 Bxh3 25.Rf3 Qg4 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.14"]
[Round "1.10"]
[White "Bagheri, Amir"]
[Black "Ismail, Ahmad"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2405"]
[BlackElo "2040"]
[ECO "B01"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "61"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.h3 Bh5 7.g4 Bg6 8.Ne5 
Nbd7 9.Nc4 Qa6 10.Bf4 Qe6+ 11.Ne3 c6 12.Bc4 Nd5 13.Nxd5 cxd5 14.Bxd5 Qb6 
15.O-O e6 16.Bg2 Be7 17.c3 h5 18.Qb3 hxg4 19.Bxb7 Rd8 20.hxg4 Bd3 21.Qxb6 
Nxb6 22.Rfd1 Be2 23.Bc7 Nd5 24.Nxd5 exd5 25.Kg2 Bxg4 26.Bxd8 Bh3+ 27.Kg3 
Kxd8 28.Rh1 Bd6+ 29.f4 g5 30.Rxh3 gxf4+ 31.Kg2 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.14"]
[Round "1.11"]
[White "De Silva, Nirosh"]
[Black "Saravanan, Venkat"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2025"]
[BlackElo "2390"]
[ECO "B87"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "99"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 b5 8.O-O b4 
9.Na4 Bb7 10.Re1 Nc6 11.c3 Rb8 12.f3 Be7 13.Nxc6 Bxc6 14.cxb4 Rxb4 15.Qc2 
Qd7 16.Bd2 Rb8 17.Rac1 Bb5 18.Be3 Qb7 19.Qc7 O-O 20.Ba7 Bd8 21.Qxb7 Rxb7 
22.Bd4 Bxa4 23.Bxa4 Rb4 24.Bxf6 Bxf6 25.b3 a5 26.Red1 Rb6 27.Rc7 Rd8 28.
Rdc1 d5 29.Rc8 Rd6 30.Kf1 g6 31.Rxd8+ Rxd8 32.Rc5 dxe4 33.Rxa5 Rd2 34.Bb5 
e3 35.Be2 Rb2 36.g3 Rb1+ 37.Kg2 Re1 38.Bc4 g5 39.f4 g4 40.h3 e2 41.Kf2 Ra1
42.Bxe2 gxh3 43.Rh5 Bd4+ 44.Kf3 Rxa2 45.Rxh3 Kg7 46.g4 h6 47.Rg3 Rb2 48.
Bc4 Rf2+ 49.Ke4 Bb6 50.f5 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.15"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Al-Modiahki, Mohamad"]
[Black "Bagheri, Amir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2505"]
[BlackElo "2405"]
[ECO "B14"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "75"]

1.e4 c6 2.c4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.cxd5 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nxd5 6.Nf3 e6 7.d4 Bb4 8.Bd2 
Nc6 9.Bd3 Be7 10.O-O O-O 11.Rc1 Ndb4 12.Be4 Nxd4 13.Nxd4 Qxd4 14.Be3 Qf6 
15.Qa4 Na6 16.Nb5 Qxb2 17.Nxa7 Qb4 18.Qc2 Nc5 19.Bxh7+ Kh8 20.Rb1 Qa3 21.
Rb5 b6 22.Nc6 Ba6 23.Qd1 g6 24.Nxe7 Kxh7 25.Qd4 Qa4 26.Rb4 Qxb4 27.Qxb4 f6
28.Qh4+ Kg7 29.Bh6+ Kf7 30.Bxf8 Rxf8 31.Qh7+ Ke8 32.Nc6 Rf7 33.Qg8+ Rf8 
34.Qxg6+ Kd7 35.Qg7+ Kxc6 36.Qxf8 Bxf1 37.Kxf1 f5 38.h4 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.15"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Barua, Dibyendu"]
[Black "Zagrebelny, Sergei"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2540"]
[BlackElo "2480"]
[ECO "B92"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "50"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.O-O 
O-O 9.Kh1 b6 10.f3 Bb7 11.Be3 b5 12.a4 b4 13.Nd5 Nxd5 14.exd5 Nd7 15.a5 
Qc7 16.c4 bxc3 17.Rc1 Nf6 18.Rxc3 Qd7 19.Bc4 Rfc8 20.Qd3 Bd8 21.Rd1 h6 22.
Rc2 Rab8 23.Ba7 Ra8 24.Be3 Rab8 25.Ba7 Ra8 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.15"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Djao Thien Hai"]
[Black "De Silva, Nirosh"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2580"]
[BlackElo "2025"]
[ECO "E59"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "54"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.e3 O-O 6.Bd3 c5 7.a3 Bxc3+ 8.bxc3 
Nc6 9.Nf3 Qc7 10.O-O dxc4 11.Bxc4 Na5 12.Bd3 c4 13.Be2 b5 14.a4 a6 15.Ba3 
Re8 16.Ne5 Bb7 17.Rae1 Nd7 18.f4 f6 19.Bh5 fxe5 20.Bxe8 Rxe8 21.fxe5 Nb6 
22.Rf2 Nxa4 23.Ref1 Qc8 24.Rf7 Nb6 25.Qf2 h6 26.Rxg7+ Kxg7 27.Qf7+ Kh8 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.15"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Ghane, Shojaat"]
[Black "Al-Rakib, Abdullah"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2265"]
[BlackElo "2350"]
[ECO "D00"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "49"]

1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 e6 3.e3 Bd6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Nbd2 Bxf4 6.exf4 c5 7.dxc5 Qc7 8.Ne5
Nbd7 9.Ndf3 Nxc5 10.Bd3 O-O 11.O-O Bd7 12.Re1 Rac8 13.Re2 Qb6 14.c3 Ba4 
15.Bc2 Bxc2 16.Qxc2 Nce4 17.Nd4 Rc7 18.Rae1 g6 19.Qd3 a6 20.Qh3 Kg7 21.
Nef3 h6 22.Ne5 h5 23.Qe3 Qc5 24.Kh1 Re7 25.f3 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.15"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Ghorbani, Mohsen"]
[Black "Saltaev, Mikhail"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2430"]
[BlackElo "2525"]
[ECO "E94"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "125"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 d6 4.Nc3 Nbd7 5.e4 e5 6.Be2 Bg7 7.O-O O-O 8.Be3 c6 
9.d5 c5 10.Nd2 Ne8 11.a3 Kh8 12.Kh1 b6 13.g4 Rb8 14.Rg1 Rb7 15.Rg3 Ndf6 
16.Qg1 Ng8 17.Nf3 f6 18.Nh4 Ne7 19.Bd3 Bd7 20.b4 a6 21.Rb1 Qc8 22.a4 Qc7 
23.Qd1 Bc8 24.Rg1 Ng8 25.Qd2 Rf7 26.Nf3 Bf8 27.Ne1 Ng7 28.Nf3 Be7 29.Qe2 
Bd8 30.Rb2 Rf8 31.Nd2 Qf7 32.f4 exf4 33.Bxf4 Rd7 34.Qg2 Ne8 35.Nf3 Qg7 36.
Nd1 Nh6 37.Ne3 Nf7 38.Rb3 Ne5 39.Be2 Qe7 40.Bg3 Ng7 41.Be1 Qe8 42.Nxe5 
fxe5 43.Rf1 Rxf1+ 44.Nxf1 Ra7 45.a5 Rb7 46.Ra3 cxb4 47.Bxb4 Qe7 48.axb6 
Rxb6 49.Bc3 Ne8 50.Ra1 Nf6 51.c5 dxc5 52.Nd2 Bc7 53.Rf1 Kg7 54.h3 Nd7 55.
g5 Rb8 56.Qg3 Bb7 57.Bg4 Qxg5 58.h4 Qe7 59.Bxd7 Rf8 60.Rxf8 Kxf8 61.Be6 
Ke8 62.Nf3 Qf6 63.Kg2 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.15"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Kakageldiev, Amanmurad"]
[Black "Kasimdzhanov, Rustam"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2475"]
[BlackElo "2570"]
[ECO "E70"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "76"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Bd3 O-O 6.Nge2 Nc6 7.f3 e5 8.d5 Nd4 
9.Be3 Nh5 10.Qd2 c5 11.dxc6 bxc6 12.O-O f5 13.exf5 gxf5 14.Bg5 Bf6 15.Bxf6
Qxf6 16.Rad1 c5 17.Nd5 Qg7 18.Nxd4 cxd4 19.Qb4 Be6 20.Qxd6 Bxd5 21.Qxd5+ 
Kh8 22.Qa5 Rg8 23.Qd2 Qf6 24.Kh1 Rg7 25.Bxf5 Qxf5 26.g4 Qf7 27.gxh5 Qxh5 
28.Qe2 Rf8 29.Rde1 Rf4 30.Rg1 d3 31.Qf2 d2 32.Rd1 Rxg1+ 33.Kxg1 Rxf3 34.
Qxd2 Rf8 35.Qd5 Qe2 36.b4 h5 37.c5 h4 38.c6 h3 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.15"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Khamdamov, Sukhrob"]
[Black "Aliev, Kerim"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2140"]
[BlackElo "2385"]
[ECO "D15"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.g3 e6 6.Bg2 Nbd7 7.O-O Be7 8.e4 O-O
9.a4 b6 10.Qe2 a5 11.Bf4 Ba6 12.Rfe1 Re8 13.Rad1 Qc8 14.Nd2 Bf8 15.Nxc4 b5
16.axb5 cxb5 17.e5 b4 18.b3 bxc3 19.exf6 Nxf6 20.Qd3 Nd5 21.Re5 a4 22.Rxd5
exd5 23.Bxd5 axb3 24.Qxc3 Bxc4 25.Bxa8 Be2 26.Qxc8 Rxc8 27.Re1 Rxa8 28.
Rxe2 Ra2 29.Re8 b2 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.15"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Mallahi, Amir"]
[Black "Reilly, Tim"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2370"]
[BlackElo "2270"]
[ECO "B07"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "55"]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3 Bg7 5.Qd2 c6 6.f3 b5 7.g4 h5 8.g5 Nfd7 9.
f4 Nb6 10.Nf3 d5 11.Ne5 b4 12.Ne2 dxe4 13.Ng3 Nd5 14.Nxe4 Nxe3 15.Qxe3 Be6
16.Nc5 Bd5 17.Rg1 Qc7 18.a3 bxa3 19.Rxa3 Bxe5 20.Qxe5 Qxe5+ 21.fxe5 Nd7 
22.c4 Be6 23.Bg2 Rc8 24.Nxe6 fxe6 25.Rxa7 c5 26.Bb7 Rd8 27.Bc6 cxd4 28.Rf1
1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.15"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Mansour, Samir"]
[Black "Azahari, Mohd Nor"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2280"]
[BlackElo "2140"]
[ECO "D07"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "118"]

1.Nf3 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.c4 Bg4 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bf4 Bb4 6.e3 Nf6 7.Rc1 O-O 8.Bd3 Re8
9.cxd5 Nxd5 10.Bg3 e5 11.dxe5 Nxe5 12.Bxe5 Rxe5 13.Be2 Re8 14.O-O Nxc3 15.
bxc3 Bd6 16.Qd4 Bh5 17.Rfd1 Qc8 18.Qh4 Bg6 19.Bd3 Qe6 20.Bxg6 Qxg6 21.Rd4 
f5 22.Qh3 Qf6 23.g3 Re6 24.Rd5 g6 25.Qf1 Re4 26.Qb5 Rb8 27.Qb3 Kg7 28.Rcd1
b6 29.Nd2 Re5 30.Rd3 b5 31.Nf3 Rc5 32.Nd4 Kh6 33.Qa3 Ra8 34.Qa6 Qe5 35.Ne2
Qe4 36.Nd4 Rb8 37.f3 Qe8 38.Qa3 Re5 39.Qc1 Kg7 40.Kf2 b4 41.c4 Qa4 42.f4 
Re4 43.c5 Bf8 44.Qb2 Kg8 45.Nb3 Bg7 46.Qd2 Rbe8 47.Rd8 Kh8 48.Rxe8+ Qxe8 
49.Qe2 h6 50.Rd5 Kh7 51.Qd2 Rc4 52.Qe2 Qe4 53.Rd1 Rc2 54.Rd2 Rxd2 55.Qxd2 
Qh1 56.Qxb4 Qxh2+ 57.Kf3 Qxa2 58.Qb7 Qb1 59.c6 Qf1# 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.15"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Saravanan, Venkat"]
[Black "Thipsay, Praveen Mahadeo"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2390"]
[BlackElo "2450"]
[ECO "B24"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "77"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.d3 e5 6.Nh3 Nge7 7.O-O O-O 8.f4 d6 
9.g4 exf4 10.Nxf4 Nd4 11.h3 Ne6 12.Nce2 Rb8 13.a4 Nxf4 14.Nxf4 Bd7 15.c3 
Bc6 16.Be3 a6 17.d4 cxd4 18.Bxd4 Be5 19.a5 Bb5 20.Rf2 Nc6 21.Bxe5 Nxe5 22.
b3 Bc6 23.Rd2 Qg5 24.Rf2 Rbd8 25.Raa2 Nd7 26.c4 Nc5 27.Rae2 Rfe8 28.Nd5 
Bxd5 29.exd5 Rxe2 30.Rxe2 Qf4 31.b4 Nd7 32.Qf1 Qd4+ 33.Kh1 Ne5 34.Re4 Qc3 
35.Qf6 Qc1+ 36.Kh2 Re8 37.c5 Qb2 38.g5 h6 39.cxd6 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.16"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Aliev, Kerim"]
[Black "Barua, Dibyendu"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2385"]
[BlackElo "2540"]
[ECO "D46"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "116"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Be2 Bd6 7.Qc2 O-O 8.O-O 
dxc4 9.Bxc4 Qe7 10.e4 e5 11.Be3 exd4 12.Bxd4 Ng4 13.Qd2 Nde5 14.Nxe5 Bxe5 
15.Bxe5 Qxe5 16.g3 Qh5 17.h4 Ne5 18.Be2 Bg4 19.Qe3 Bxe2 20.Qxe2 Qxe2 21.
Nxe2 Nf3+ 22.Kg2 Nd2 23.Rfd1 Nxe4 24.Rd4 Nf6 25.Rad1 Rfe8 26.Nf4 g6 27.Rd6
Kg7 28.h5 gxh5 29.Kf3 Re5 30.b3 Rae8 31.Rh1 Rc5 32.Rd2 Rc3+ 33.Kg2 Re5 34.
Ne2 Rcc5 35.Nf4 Rf5 36.Re2 Rce5 37.Rd2 Nd5 38.Nd3 Re7 39.Rh4 Rd7 40.Rd4 
Re7 41.Rc2 Kf8 42.Ra4 a6 43.Rh4 Ke8 44.a4 a5 45.Rd2 Kd8 46.Rc2 Kc7 47.Rd4 
Re8 48.Rh4 Nf6 49.Rh1 Re4 50.Nc5 Rd4 51.Rh4 Ng4 52.b4 axb4 53.Nb3 Rd3 54.
Rb2 Rdf3 55.Rxg4 hxg4 56.Nd4 c5 57.Nb5+ Kc6 58.Rd2 c4 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.16"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Azahari, Mohd Nor"]
[Black "Kakageldiev, Amanmurad"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2140"]
[BlackElo "2475"]
[ECO "B06"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1.d4 g6 2.Nc3 Bg7 3.e4 d6 4.f3 c6 5.Bc4 d5 6.exd5 b5 7.Bb3 b4 8.Ne4 cxd5 
9.Nc5 Nf6 10.Bd2 Qb6 11.a3 bxa3 12.Rxa3 O-O 13.Ne2 Nc6 14.Bc3 e6 15.g4 Ne8
16.Qd2 Nd6 17.Na4 Qc7 18.Qd3 Rb8 19.Nc5 Nb5 20.Na6 Bxa6 21.Rxa6 Nxc3 22.
Qxc3 Rfc8 23.Ba4 Nxd4 24.Qxc7 Rxc7 25.Nxd4 Bxd4 26.Kd2 Bxb2 27.Rc6 Rxc6 
28.Bxc6 Rb6 29.Ba4 Rb4 30.Bb3 a5 31.Ba2 Be5 32.h3 Ra4 33.Bb3 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.16"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Bagheri, Amir"]
[Black "Khamdamov, Sukhrob"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2405"]
[BlackElo "2140"]
[ECO "A48"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1.d4 g6 2.Nf3 Bg7 3.c3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Ne4 5.Bh4 d5 6.Nbd2 c5 7.e3 f5 8.Bd3 Nc6 
9.O-O Qb6 10.Qc1 O-O 11.c4 e6 12.Nb3 cxd4 13.exd4 a5 14.Rd1 a4 15.cxd5 
exd5 16.Nc5 Nxc5 17.dxc5 Qxb2 18.Qf4 Ne5 19.Nxe5 Qxe5 20.Qf3 Bd7 21.Re1 
Qd4 22.Rad1 Bc6 23.Be7 Rf7 24.Bd6 Qg4 25.Be2 Qg5 26.Bf1 d4 27.Qh3 Bd5 28.
a3 h5 29.Rd3 Qg4 30.Qxg4 fxg4 31.Rdd1 Rd8 32.Bb5 Bb3 33.Rd3 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.16"]
[Round "3"]
[White "De Silva, Nirosh"]
[Black "Al-Rakib, Abdullah"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2025"]
[BlackElo "2350"]
[ECO "B17"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "66"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Bc4 Ndf6 6.Ng5 e6 7.N1f3 Bd6 8.Qe2
h6 9.Ne4 Nxe4 10.Qxe4 Nf6 11.Qe2 b5 12.Bd3 Bb7 13.O-O O-O 14.Rd1 Qc7 15.b3
c5 16.Bxb5 cxd4 17.h3 e5 18.Bb2 Nd5 19.g3 Nf6 20.Nh4 a6 21.Ba4 Be4 22.f4 
exf4 23.Bxd4 Bc5 24.Qc4 Bxd4+ 25.Rxd4 Qa7 26.Rd1 Rac8 27.Qf1 fxg3 28.Qf4 
Bxc2 29.Rd2 Ne4 30.Bd7 Rc7 31.Nf5 Nxd2 32.Ne7+ Kh8 33.Qd6 Qxd4+ 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.16"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Djao Thien Hai"]
[Black "Ghorbani, Mohsen"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2580"]
[BlackElo "2430"]
[ECO "D26"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "73"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 a6 6.Qe2 c5 7.dxc5 Bxc5 8.O-O 
Nc6 9.e4 b5 10.Bb3 Bb7 11.e5 Nd7 12.Bf4 Ne7 13.Nbd2 Nd5 14.Bg5 Qb8 15.Ne4 
h6 16.Bh4 Be7 17.Bg3 O-O 18.Rfd1 Qa7 19.Nd6 Nc5 20.Bc2 Nb4 21.Bb1 Rfd8 22.
a3 Nd5 23.Qc2 f5 24.Nxf5 exf5 25.Qxf5 Qb6 26.Qh7+ Kf8 27.Bg6 Qe6 28.Bh5 
Bc8 29.Nh4 Bxh4 30.Bxh4 Bb7 31.Bxd8 Rxd8 32.Rac1 Nd7 33.Qh8+ Qg8 34.Qxg8+ 
Kxg8 35.Bf3 N7b6 36.Rc7 Ba8 37.Ra7 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.16"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ismail, Ahmad"]
[Black "Mallahi, Amir"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2040"]
[BlackElo "2370"]
[ECO "D01"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "209"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bg5 Nbd7 4.f3 c5 5.e4 cxd4 6.Bxf6 dxc3 7.Bxc3 dxe4 8.
fxe4 e5 9.Nf3 Bc5 10.Qd5 O-O 11.O-O-O Qe7 12.Bb5 Nf6 13.Qxe5 Qxe5 14.Bxe5 
Nxe4 15.Rhe1 Nf6 16.Bxf6 gxf6 17.Bd7 Rd8 18.Bxc8 Raxc8 19.c3 Kg7 20.Kc2 b5
21.Rxd8 Rxd8 22.Re4 Rd5 23.a4 f5 24.Re5 Rxe5 25.Nxe5 bxa4 26.Nd7 Bd6 27.c4
f6 28.Kd3 Kf7 29.Kd4 Bxh2 30.Kd5 Be5 31.Nxe5+ fxe5 32.Kxe5 Ke7 33.Kxf5 Kd6
34.Ke4 Kc5 35.Kd3 Kb4 36.g4 h6 37.Kd4 Kb3 38.c5 Kxb2 39.c6 a3 40.c7 a2 41.
c8=Q a1=Q 42.Qf5 a5 43.Kd3 Qd1+ 44.Ke4 Qc2+ 45.Kf4 a4 46.Qe5+ Kb1 47.Qb5+ 
Qb3 48.Qf1+ Ka2 49.Qe2+ Ka3 50.Qa6 Qc3 51.Kf5 Qd2 52.Kg6 Qf4 53.Qd3+ Kb4 
54.Qb1+ Kc3 55.Qa1+ Kd3 56.Qa3+ Ke2 57.Kh7 Kf2 58.Qh3 Kg1 59.Kg6 Qd6+ 60.
Kh7 a3 61.Qe3+ Kg2 62.g5 hxg5 63.Qxg5+ Kf2 64.Qf5+ Ke3 65.Qg5+ Kd3 66.Qb5+
Kd4 67.Qa4+ Ke5 68.Qb5+ Kf6 69.Qf1+ Ke7 70.Qe1+ Kd8 71.Qa1 Qe7+ 72.Kh8 
Qf8+ 73.Kh7 Qf7+ 74.Kh8 Qe8+ 75.Kg7 Qe7+ 76.Kh8 Qh4+ 77.Kg7 Qg3+ 78.Kh8 
Ke7 79.Qb1 Qh2+ 80.Kg8 Qg2+ 81.Kh7 a2 82.Qb4+ Ke6 83.Qb6+ Kf5 84.Qc5+ Kf4 
85.Qd6+ Kf5 86.Qf8+ Kg4 87.Qg7+ Kh3 88.Qh6+ Kg3 89.Qd6+ Kf2 90.Qd4+ Ke2 
91.Qb2+ Kf3 92.Qf6+ Kg3 93.Qe5+ Kh4 94.Qf6+ Kg4 95.Qe6+ Kf4 96.Qf6+ Ke3 
97.Qc3+ Kf2 98.Qd4+ Ke2 99.Qb2+ Kf3 100.Qc3+ Kf2 101.Qd4+ Kg3 102.Qe5+ Kh4
103.Qf6+ Kh3 104.Qh6+ Kg3 105.Qd6+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.16"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Kasimdzhanov, Rustam"]
[Black "Al-Modiahki, Mohamad"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2570"]
[BlackElo "2505"]
[ECO "B40"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "49"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 Nc6 4.Nc3 e5 5.d3 d6 6.Be2 g6 7.O-O Bg7 8.a3 a5 9.
Nd5 Nge7 10.Bg5 h6 11.Bxe7 Nxe7 12.Nxe7 Qxe7 13.b4 d5 14.cxd5 cxb4 15.axb4
Qxb4 16.Qc2 O-O 17.Rfb1 Qd6 18.Nd2 Ra7 19.Rb5 Bd7 20.Rbxa5 Rxa5 21.Rxa5 
Rc8 22.Qb2 b5 23.Ra7 Bf6 24.h3 Kg7 25.Rxd7 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.16"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Saltaev, Mikhail"]
[Black "Ghane, Shojaat"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2525"]
[BlackElo "2265"]
[ECO "C05"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "91"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.c3 c5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.Ngf3 Be7 8.O-O g5 
9.dxc5 g4 10.Nd4 Ndxe5 11.Bb5 Bd7 12.N2b3 Nxd4 13.Bxd7+ Qxd7 14.cxd4 Nc6 
15.Qxg4 Bf6 16.Qf3 Qe7 17.Bf4 Bxd4 18.Bd6 Qg5 19.Nxd4 Nxd4 20.Qd3 Rg8 21.
g3 Qf6 22.Rad1 Nc6 23.b4 Rg4 24.b5 Ne5 25.Bxe5 Qxe5 26.Qxh7 Rc8 27.Rfe1 
Qg5 28.Qh8+ Kd7 29.Qc3 Qh5 30.c6+ bxc6 31.Qc5 Rh8 32.bxc6+ Kc8 33.Qxa7 
Qxh2+ 34.Kf1 Qh1+ 35.Ke2 Qe4+ 36.Qe3 Qc4+ 37.Kf3 Re4 38.Qb6 Qc3+ 39.Kg2 
Rb4 40.Qa6+ Kd8 41.Rc1 Qd4 42.c7+ Ke7 43.c8=Q Rh2+ 44.Kxh2 Qxf2+ 45.Kh3 
Qf5+ 46.Kg2 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.16"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Thipsay, Praveen Mahadeo"]
[Black "Mansour, Samir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2450"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[ECO "C77"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "79"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d4 b5 6.dxe5 Nxe4 7.Bb3 Nc5 8.Bd5 
Be7 9.O-O O-O 10.Nc3 Rb8 11.a3 b4 12.Ne4 Nxe4 13.Bxe4 bxa3 14.b3 Na7 15.
Qd3 h6 16.Bxa3 Bxa3 17.Rxa3 Qe7 18.Raa1 Nc6 19.Bxc6 dxc6 20.Nd4 Rb6 21.
Rfe1 c5 22.Nf5 Qg5 23.Ng3 Be6 24.Qc3 Qe7 25.Ne4 c4 26.bxc4 Rc6 27.Ra4 Rd8 
28.h3 Qd7 29.c5 Bf5 30.Ng3 Bg6 31.f4 h5 32.Rc4 h4 33.Nf1 Bf5 34.Ne3 Be6 
35.Rb4 Qd2 36.Qxd2 Rxd2 37.f5 Bd5 38.Rb8+ Kh7 39.Rd8 Rxc5 40.c4 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.16"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Zagrebelny, Sergei"]
[Black "Saravanan, Venkat"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2480"]
[BlackElo "2390"]
[ECO "B70"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 g6 7.O-O Bg7 8.Re1 
O-O 9.Bf1 b6 10.Bg5 Bb7 11.Qd2 Re8 12.f4 Nbd7 13.Rad1 Qc7 14.Nb3 Rac8 15.
Kh1 b5 16.Bd3 Nb6 17.Qe2 b4 18.Nb1 Na4 19.e5 dxe5 20.fxe5 Nd5 21.Bxa6 Nxb2
22.Bxb7 Qxb7 23.Rd4 Ra8 24.Qf3 e6 25.c4 bxc3 26.Nxc3 Qc8 27.Nxd5 exd5 28.
Rxd5 Rxa2 29.Rf1 Qf5 30.Qxf5 gxf5 31.Bf6 Nc4 32.Rfd1 Bxf6 33.exf6 Rae2 34.
Rxf5 Re1+ 35.Rf1 Rxd1 36.Rxd1 Ne3 37.Rd4 Nd5 38.h3 Nxf6 39.Nc5 Re5 40.Nd3 
Rd5 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Al-Modiahki, Mohamad"]
[Black "Djao Thien Hai"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2505"]
[BlackElo "2580"]
[ECO "B42"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "106"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Bc5 6.Nb3 Ba7 7.O-O Nc6 8.Qg4 
Nf6 9.Qg3 d6 10.a4 O-O 11.Nc3 Ne8 12.Bg5 Qc7 13.Rad1 Bd7 14.Kh1 Rb8 15.f4 
f6 16.Bh4 Nb4 17.e5 Bc6 18.Rde1 Qf7 19.Na5 f5 20.Nxc6 bxc6 21.exd6 Nxd6 
22.Rd1 Nd5 23.Nxd5 cxd5 24.b3 Ne4 25.Qe1 Qc7 26.Rf3 h6 27.c4 Rfe8 28.Rc1 
Qd6 29.Qa5 Nc5 30.Bc2 Ne4 31.Bd3 Qa3 32.Rb1 Bb6 33.Qe1 Bd4 34.Bc2 Qc5 35.
Bd3 a5 36.Rc1 Qa7 37.h3 Kh7 38.Qd1 Be3 39.Rc2 Rxb3 40.cxd5 Nc3 41.Qe1 Rb1 
42.Rxc3 Rxe1+ 43.Bxe1 exd5 44.Bxf5+ g6 45.Bd3 Bd4 46.Rc1 Re3 47.Rxe3 Bxe3 
48.Rc6 Kg8 49.Bc3 Bd4 50.Be1 Qe7 51.Bd2 Qa3 52.Bxg6 Qg3 53.Bxa5 Qe3 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Al-Rakib, Abdullah"]
[Black "Thipsay, Praveen Mahadeo"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2350"]
[BlackElo "2450"]
[ECO "B08"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "38"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 c6 6.O-O Qc7 7.e5 dxe5 8.Nxe5 
Be6 9.Bf4 Qa5 10.Qd2 O-O 11.a4 Nbd7 12.b4 Qxb4 13.Rab1 Qa5 14.Rxb7 Nxe5 
15.Bxe5 Nd5 16.Bxg7 Kxg7 17.Ne4 Qxd2 18.Nxd2 a5 19.Nb3 Bc8 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Barua, Dibyendu"]
[Black "Kasimdzhanov, Rustam"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2540"]
[BlackElo "2570"]
[ECO "B43"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "49"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Nc3 b5 6.Bd3 Qb6 7.Nb3 Qc7 8.O-O 
Nf6 9.a3 Bb7 10.Qe2 d6 11.f4 Nbd7 12.Bd2 Be7 13.Rae1 O-O 14.Kh1 e5 15.fxe5
Nxe5 16.Nd4 g6 17.Bg5 Qd8 18.Qd2 Rc8 19.Bh6 Re8 20.Nf5 Bf8 21.Bxf8 Rxf8 
22.Qg5 Nfg4 23.Qxd8 Rcxd8 24.Ne7+ Kg7 25.Ned5 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "De Silva, Nirosh"]
[Black "Azahari, Mohd Nor"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2025"]
[BlackElo "2140"]
[ECO "B00"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "84"]

1.e4 Nc6 2.Nf3 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.Nc3 Qd8 5.Bb5 Bd7 6.O-O e6 7.d4 a6 8.Ba4 
Nf6 9.d5 exd5 10.Nxd5 Be6 11.Nxf6+ Qxf6 12.Bxc6+ bxc6 13.Qd4 Be7 14.Bf4 
Qxd4 15.Nxd4 Kd7 16.Nxe6 fxe6 17.c4 Bd6 18.Be3 c5 19.Rfd1 Kc6 20.Rd3 Be5 
21.Rb1 Rad8 22.Rxd8 Rxd8 23.Kf1 a5 24.b3 Bd4 25.Ke2 e5 26.f3 a4 27.Bg5 Ra8
28.Kd3 axb3 29.axb3 h6 30.Bd2 Ra2 31.g4 Kd6 32.h4 Ke6 33.h5 Ra8 34.f4 Rd8 
35.Ke4 c6 36.g5 exf4 37.gxh6 gxh6 38.Bxf4 Rf8 39.b4 Rf5 40.b5 cxb5 41.cxb5
Be5 42.Bxh6 Rxh5 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Ghane, Shojaat"]
[Black "Bagheri, Amir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2265"]
[BlackElo "2405"]
[ECO "E13"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "72"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 Bb7 7.e3 g5 8.Bg3 Ne4 
9.Qc2 d6 10.Bd3 Bxc3+ 11.bxc3 f5 12.d5 Nd7 13.Nd4 Ndc5 14.dxe6 Qf6 15.f3 
f4 16.exf4 Nxd3+ 17.Qxd3 Nc5 18.Qe2 gxf4 19.Bf2 O-O-O 20.O-O Rde8 21.Rae1 
Rhg8 22.Kh1 Re7 23.Qc2 Rge8 24.Re2 Ba6 25.Nf5 Rxe6 26.Bh4 Rxe2 27.Qxe2 
Rxe2 28.Bxf6 Bxc4 29.Nxh6 a5 30.h4 Kd7 31.Nf5 Bf7 32.Nd4 Re3 33.Nc2 Re6 
34.Bg5 Nd3 35.Nd4 Re5 36.Kh2 c5 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Ghorbani, Mohsen"]
[Black "Zagrebelny, Sergei"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2430"]
[BlackElo "2480"]
[ECO "E00"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "132"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 Bb4+ 4.Bd2 Qe7 5.Bg2 Bxd2+ 6.Nxd2 d6 7.Ngf3 e5 8.e4 
O-O 9.O-O a5 10.Qc2 Bg4 11.Rfe1 Nfd7 12.h3 Bxf3 13.Nxf3 a4 14.Rad1 a3 15.
b3 c5 16.dxe5 dxe5 17.Nh4 g6 18.Qc1 Rd8 19.Qh6 Nc6 20.f4 Nd4 21.Nf3 Ra6 
22.Nxd4 cxd4 23.Rf1 Rd6 24.h4 d3 25.Qg5 f6 26.Qg4 Kg7 27.Rd2 Rd4 28.f5 b6 
29.fxg6 hxg6 30.h5 Nf8 31.hxg6 Ne6 32.Rfd1 Ng5 33.Qf5 Qc5 34.Kf1 Qd6 35.
Re1 Qb4 36.Red1 Qe7 37.Kg1 Qe8 38.Kf2 Qc6 39.Re1 Qc5 40.Kf1 Qb4 41.Red1 
R8d7 42.Bf3 b5 43.cxb5 Qxb5 44.Rc1 Qb4 45.Rcd1 Qd6 46.Rh2 Rd8 47.Qg4 Rh8 
48.Rxh8 Kxh8 49.Rd2 Kg8 50.Qh5 Qc7 51.Rh2 Qg7 52.Rd2 Rd8 53.b4 Qc7 54.Bd1 
Qg7 55.Rh2 Rd4 56.Qg4 Rd8 57.Qf5 d2 58.b5 Qe7 59.b6 Kg7 60.Rf2 Rd6 61.Qc8 
Rd8 62.Qc4 Qd7 63.Rh2 Kxg6 64.Qe2 Kg7 65.Qc4 Rc8 66.Qb3 Rc1 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Khamdamov, Sukhrob"]
[Black "Kakageldiev, Amanmurad"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2140"]
[BlackElo "2475"]
[ECO "E60"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "101"]

1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.g3 Nf6 5.Bg2 O-O 6.O-O Nc6 7.b3 e5 8.dxe5 Ng4 
9.Bb2 Ngxe5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.Nc3 a5 12.Qd2 a4 13.Rad1 axb3 14.axb3 Nc6 15.
Na4 Be6 16.Bxg7 Kxg7 17.Nc3 f5 18.Nd5 Bxd5 19.Bxd5 Qf6 20.b4 Rae8 21.b5 
Nd8 22.e3 Re7 23.Ra1 b6 24.Ra8 Ne6 25.Rfa1 Nc5 26.R1a3 Ne4 27.Rxf8 Qxf8 
28.Qd4+ Qf6 29.Qxf6+ Kxf6 30.h4 h6 31.Ra8 Kg7 32.Rc8 Nf6 33.Bc6 g5 34.hxg5
hxg5 35.Kf1 Kg6 36.Kg2 Kg7 37.Bf3 Kg6 38.Be2 Rd7 39.Bd3 d5 40.g4 Nxg4 41.
Rg8+ Kf6 42.Rf8+ Rf7 43.Rxf7+ Kxf7 44.Bxf5 Nf6 45.Bd3 Ke6 46.Kg3 dxc4 47.
Bxc4+ Kd6 48.Bf1 c6 49.bxc6 Kxc6 50.Bc4 Kd6 51.Kf3 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Mallahi, Amir"]
[Black "Aliev, Kerim"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2370"]
[BlackElo "2385"]
[ECO "C29"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "70"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 Be7 6.Qe2 Ng5 7.d4 Nxf3+ 8.
Qxf3 Be6 9.Be3 Qd7 10.Bb5 Nc6 11.O-O a6 12.Ba4 O-O 13.Qg3 Kh8 14.Ne2 Nxd4 
15.Nxd4 Qxa4 16.Rf4 Qd7 17.Raf1 f6 18.Nf3 f5 19.h4 c5 20.c3 g6 21.h5 Rg8 
22.hxg6 Rxg6 23.Qh3 Rag8 24.Rf2 Rg4 25.Qh5 Qe8 26.Qxe8 Rxe8 27.Rxg4 fxg4 
28.Ng5 d4 29.Nxe6 dxe3 30.Re2 Bh4 31.Nxc5 Rxe5 32.Nxb7 Bf2+ 33.Kf1 Rb5 34.
Nd6 Rd5 35.Rxf2 Rc5 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Reilly, Tim"]
[Black "Ismail, Ahmad"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2270"]
[BlackElo "2040"]
[ECO "A52"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "124"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ng4 4.Bf4 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bb4+ 6.Nbd2 Qe7 7.e3 Ngxe5 8.
Nxe5 Nxe5 9.Be2 O-O 10.O-O Bxd2 11.Qxd2 d6 12.Rfd1 b6 13.b4 Bb7 14.Rac1 
Rfd8 15.Qb2 Qf6 16.Rd2 Qg6 17.Bg3 Qe4 18.Bf1 Nc6 19.Bd3 Qe7 20.c5 dxc5 21.
bxc5 h5 22.h4 Na5 23.Qc3 Rd5 24.cxb6 cxb6 25.Be2 Rxd2 26.Qxd2 Rd8 27.Qb2 
Qe4 28.Bf3 Qf5 29.Bxb7 Nxb7 30.Rc7 Rd1+ 31.Kh2 Nc5 32.Rxa7 Ne4 33.Qe5 Qxe5
34.Bxe5 Nxf2 35.Bd4 b5 36.Rb7 Ng4+ 37.Kg3 Rd3 38.Kf3 Ra3 39.Rb8+ Kh7 40.
Rxb5 Rxa2 41.Rxh5+ Nh6 42.g4 Ra8 43.Rb5 g6 44.Rb7 Re8 45.e4 g5 46.hxg5 
Nxg4 47.Rxf7+ Kg6 48.Rf5 Rd8 49.Kxg4 Rxd4 50.Rf6+ Kg7 51.Kf5 Rd1 52.Rc6 
Rf1+ 53.Ke6 Kg6 54.e5 Kxg5 55.Ke7 Re1 56.e6 Kg6 57.Ke8 Kg7 58.e7 Re2 59.
Rc4 Kf6 60.Rf4+ Kg7 61.Rf7+ Kg8 62.Rf8+ Kg7 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Saravanan, Venkat"]
[Black "Saltaev, Mikhail"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2390"]
[BlackElo "2525"]
[ECO "B23"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "107"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6 3.Nge2 Nc6 4.g3 Nf6 5.Bg2 d6 6.O-O Bd7 7.h3 Rb8 8.a4 a6 
9.g4 h6 10.d3 b5 11.axb5 axb5 12.Ng3 b4 13.Nce2 Ra8 14.Rxa8 Qxa8 15.f4 Be7
16.c3 Qa2 17.d4 cxd4 18.cxd4 O-O 19.d5 Na5 20.Nd4 Rc8 21.g5 hxg5 22.fxg5 
Nh7 23.dxe6 Bxe6 24.Ngf5 Bf8 25.Nxe6 Qxe6 26.Bf4 Nc4 27.b3 Ne5 28.Qd5 Rc3 
29.Qxe6 fxe6 30.Nd4 Be7 31.Nxe6 Rxb3 32.Bxe5 dxe5 33.g6 Ng5 34.Nxg5 Bxg5 
35.Bf3 Bf4 36.Bg4 Kf8 37.Rd1 Ke8 38.Rd5 Rb1+ 39.Kg2 b3 40.Rb5 b2 41.Be6 
Be3 42.Ba2 Rg1+ 43.Kh2 Rxg6 44.Rxb2 Bf4+ 45.Kh1 Ra6 46.Bc4 Ra1+ 47.Kg2 Re1
48.Bd5 Ke7 49.h4 Be3 50.Kf3 Bh6 51.Rb6 Rf1+ 52.Ke2 Rf6 53.Rxf6 Kxf6 54.Kf3
1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.19"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Aliev, Kerim"]
[Black "Ghorbani, Mohsen"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2385"]
[BlackElo "2430"]
[ECO "D20"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "73"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e4 c6 5.Bxc4 b5 6.Bd3 a6 7.Nf3 e6 8.Bg5 h6 
9.Bh4 Nbd7 10.O-O Bb7 11.d5 e5 12.Rc1 c5 13.a4 c4 14.Be2 Qb6 15.Bxf6 gxf6 
16.Nh4 Nc5 17.Bh5 Rh7 18.Nf5 Rd8 19.Qg4 Bc8 20.d6 Be6 21.Nd5 Bxd5 22.exd5 
Rh8 23.Bxf7+ Kd7 24.axb5 axb5 25.Rxc4 h5 26.Qh3 Bxd6 27.Rc2 b4 28.Rfc1 Bf8
29.Bxh5 b3 30.Rc4 Ra8 31.Qg4 Kd8 32.Qg6 Rxh5 33.Qxh5 Nd3 34.Qf7 Bc5 35.
Qg8+ Kd7 36.Qxa8 Nxc1 37.Qc6+ 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.19"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Azahari, Mohd Nor"]
[Black "Mallahi, Amir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2140"]
[BlackElo "2370"]
[ECO "D00"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "52"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 c5 3.Bg5 Nc6 4.e4 cxd4 5.Nxd5 f6 6.Bd2 e6 7.Nf4 Nge7 8.Bc4 
Qd6 9.Qh5+ g6 10.Qh4 Bg7 11.O-O-O O-O 12.Nd3 Kh8 13.f4 Bd7 14.Nf3 Rab8 15.
e5 Qc7 16.exf6 Bxf6 17.Ng5 Bxg5 18.fxg5 b5 19.Bb3 a5 20.Nc5 e5 21.Na6 Qd6 
22.Nxb8 Rxb8 23.a4 bxa4 24.Bxa4 Nb4 25.Bxd7 Na2+ 26.Kb1 Qa3 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.19"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Bagheri, Amir"]
[Black "Reilly, Tim"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2405"]
[BlackElo "2270"]
[ECO "A48"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "83"]

1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bg5 Bg7 4.c3 Nf6 5.Nbd2 O-O 6.e4 Nc6 7.Bc4 e5 8.dxe5 
Nxe5 9.Nxe5 dxe5 10.O-O h6 11.Bh4 Qd6 12.Qc2 Be6 13.Rfd1 Bxc4 14.Nxc4 Qe6 
15.Ne3 c6 16.a4 Ng4 17.Nxg4 Qxg4 18.Be7 Rfe8 19.Bc5 Bf8 20.Be3 a6 21.Bb6 
Be7 22.f3 Qe6 23.Rd3 Bd8 24.Be3 Be7 25.Rad1 Rad8 26.Bb6 Rxd3 27.Rxd3 f5 
28.Be3 fxe4 29.fxe4 Rf8 30.h3 Bg5 31.Bxg5 hxg5 32.Qd2 Qa2 33.Kh2 Qb1 34.
Re3 Kg7 35.Qd6 Qxb2 36.Qxe5+ Kh6 37.Rf3 Qa3 38.c4 Qb4 39.c5 Rg8 40.Rf7 
Qxa4 41.Qe7 Rh8 42.h4 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.19"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Ismail, Ahmad"]
[Black "Ghane, Shojaat"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2040"]
[BlackElo "2265"]
[ECO "D03"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "62"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bg5 Ne4 4.Bh4 Qd6 5.c3 Qh6 6.Nbd2 g5 7.Bg3 Nxg3 8.fxg3
Nc6 9.Qb3 g4 10.Nh4 e6 11.O-O-O Be7 12.Qc2 Qe3 13.Kb1 b6 14.Nb3 Ba6 15.Nc1
O-O-O 16.Qa4 Kb7 17.Nd3 h5 18.Ne1 Bc4 19.Qc2 Bg5 20.Nd3 a5 21.a4 Rc8 22.b3
Ba6 23.Ka2 Nd8 24.Qc1 Qxc1 25.Nxc1 c5 26.Kb2 cxd4 27.cxd4 Be3 28.b4 axb4 
29.Nb3 Nc6 30.Rd3 Bxd3 31.exd3 Nxd4 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.19"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Kakageldiev, Amanmurad"]
[Black "Saravanan, Venkat"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2475"]
[BlackElo "2390"]
[ECO "E63"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "72"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 O-O 5.Bg2 d6 6.O-O a6 7.Nc3 Nc6 8.Re1 Rb8 
9.Rb1 Bf5 10.e4 Bg4 11.Be3 Nd7 12.Ne2 Na5 13.Nd2 Bxe2 14.Qxe2 c5 15.dxc5 
dxc5 16.f4 e5 17.Bh3 b6 18.Rbd1 Nc6 19.Nb1 Nd4 20.Qg2 b5 21.cxb5 axb5 22.
Nc3 Rb7 23.b4 cxb4 24.Nd5 Ne6 25.Nxb4 Qa8 26.Nd5 Nf6 27.fxe5 Nd7 28.Nf4 
Re8 29.Nxe6 fxe6 30.Rd6 Nf8 31.Bd4 b4 32.Qc2 Qa5 33.Rf1 Bxe5 34.Qc6 Bxd4+ 
35.Rxd4 Qb5 36.Qxb5 Rxb5 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.19"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Kasimdzhanov, Rustam"]
[Black "Djao Thien Hai"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2570"]
[BlackElo "2580"]
[ECO "D30"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "87"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nbd2 Nbd7 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.O-O O-O 8.e4 e5 
9.cxd5 cxd5 10.exd5 exd4 11.Ne4 Nxe4 12.Bxe4 Nf6 13.Bc2 Bg4 14.h3 Bxf3 15.
Qxf3 Nxd5 16.Be4 Nf6 17.Bxb7 Rb8 18.Ba6 Qa5 19.Bc4 Nd7 20.Bb3 Ne5 21.Qg3 
Rb6 22.Bf4 Bb8 23.Kh1 Rg6 24.Qh4 Qa6 25.Bxe5 Bxe5 26.Qe4 Qf6 27.Rad1 Rd8 
28.Rfe1 Bd6 29.Rxd4 h5 30.f4 Kf8 31.Bd5 Qh4 32.Rdd1 Rb8 33.Rf1 Re8 34.Qc4 
Re7 35.Qc8+ Re8 36.Qd7 Qe7 37.Qf5 Rf6 38.Qxh5 Kg8 39.Qh4 Qc7 40.Qg4 g6 41.
f5 Kg7 42.fxg6 Rxf1+ 43.Rxf1 fxg6 44.Bf7 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.19"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Mansour, Samir"]
[Black "De Silva, Nirosh"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2280"]
[BlackElo "2025"]
[ECO "A17"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "133"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 d6 6.d4 Be7 7.O-O Nbd7 8.Qc2 O-O
9.e4 e5 10.d5 Ne8 11.Ne1 Nc5 12.b4 Na6 13.a3 Bc8 14.Nd3 f5 15.f3 g5 16.
exf5 Bxf5 17.Ne4 Bxe4 18.fxe4 Rxf1+ 19.Bxf1 Qd7 20.Nf2 Nb8 21.Qe2 Ng7 22.
Ng4 h5 23.Nh6+ Kh7 24.Nf5 g4 25.Nxe7 Qxe7 26.Bg2 Qf6 27.Be3 Nd7 28.c5 dxc5
29.Qb5 Qd6 30.bxc5 Nxc5 31.Bxc5 bxc5 32.Rc1 c4 33.Qxc4 Ne8 34.Qf1 Ng7 35.
Qf7 Rc8 36.a4 Qa3 37.Rf1 Qxa4 38.h4 Qe8 39.Qxe8 Rxe8 40.Ra1 Ra8 41.Ra6 Ne8
42.Bf1 Kg7 43.Kf2 Nd6 44.Ke3 Kf7 45.Rc6 Ne8 46.Bc4 Kf8 47.Re6 Nd6 48.Bd3 
Nf7 49.Rc6 a5 50.Rxc7 a4 51.Bc4 Nd6 52.Ba2 Rb8 53.Rd7 Rb2 54.Rxd6 Rxa2 55.
Re6 Ra3+ 56.Kd2 Rxg3 57.d6 Rb3 58.Rxe5 Rb6 59.Rd5 Ke8 60.e5 a3 61.e6 Rb8 
62.Rxh5 Rb2+ 63.Kc3 Kf8 64.e7+ Kf7 65.Rh8 Re2 66.Rf8+ Kg7 67.e8=Q 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.19"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Saltaev, Mikhail"]
[Black "Barua, Dibyendu"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2525"]
[BlackElo "2540"]
[ECO "C42"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "76"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Qe2 Qe7 6.d3 Nf6 7.Bg5 Qxe2+ 8.
Bxe2 Be7 9.Nc3 c6 10.O-O-O h6 11.Bf4 O-O 12.h3 Rd8 13.g4 Nbd7 14.Nd4 Ne5 
15.Bg3 Ng6 16.f4 d5 17.f5 Bc5 18.Nb3 Be3+ 19.Kb1 Nf8 20.Bf3 Re8 21.Rde1 
Bd7 22.d4 h5 23.Be5 Bf2 24.Re2 Bh4 25.Nc5 b6 26.Nxd7 N8xd7 27.gxh5 Re7 28.
Rg1 Rae8 29.Bf4 Kh7 30.Reg2 Re1+ 31.Nd1 Rxg1 32.Rxg1 Ne4 33.c3 Be7 34.Bxe4
dxe4 35.Ne3 Nf6 36.Be5 Nxh5 37.Rg4 Bf6 38.Bxf6 Nxf6 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.19"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Thipsay, Praveen Mahadeo"]
[Black "Al-Modiahki, Mohamad"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2450"]
[BlackElo "2505"]
[ECO "B49"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "91"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 a6 7.O-O Nf6 8.Be3 
Bb4 9.Na4 Be7 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.Nb6 Rb8 12.Nxc8 Qxc8 13.Bd4 c5 14.Be5 Rb6 
15.b3 Nxe4 16.Bxg7 Rg8 17.Bb2 Bf6 18.Bxf6 Nxf6 19.Bf3 Qc7 20.Re1 Qf4 21.
Qe2 Rg5 22.Rad1 h5 23.Rd3 Ng4 24.g3 Qc7 25.Qd2 Rg6 26.Qc3 Ke7 27.Rd5 d6 
28.Rxh5 Nf6 29.Rh4 d5 30.Qd2 Qd6 31.Rh6 Rg8 32.c3 Rbb8 33.Rh4 Rg6 34.Qd3 
Rb6 35.Ra4 Qc6 36.c4 Kf8 37.Ra5 Qd6 38.cxd5 Nxd5 39.Qc4 Rc6 40.Rc1 Rf6 41.
Bg2 Nb6 42.Qc2 Rc8 43.Rxc5 Rd8 44.Qc3 Nd7 45.Rc6 Qe5 46.Qd2 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.19"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Zagrebelny, Sergei"]
[Black "Khamdamov, Sukhrob"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2480"]
[BlackElo "2140"]
[ECO "B07"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.c3 Nf6 5.Bd3 O-O 6.O-O Nc6 7.Re1 e5 8.h3 h6 9.
Na3 Nh5 10.Nc2 Re8 11.b4 a6 12.a4 Nf4 13.Bf1 f5 14.exf5 Bxf5 15.Ne3 Qf6 
16.Nxf5 Qxf5 17.Nh4 Qf6 18.Bxf4 exf4 19.Qg4 g5 20.Nf3 Qf7 21.h4 gxh4 22.
Nxh4 Ne7 23.Bd3 Nd5 24.Rxe8+ Rxe8 25.Bg6 Qe6 26.Nf5 Re7 27.Nxe7+ Qxe7 28.
Kf1 Nxc3 29.Re1 Qf6 30.Re8+ Bf8 31.Bc2+ Kf7 32.Rxf8+ Kxf8 33.Qc8+ 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Al-Modiahki, Mohamad"]
[Black "Mansour, Samir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2505"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[ECO "C10"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "43"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Nf3 Ngf6 6.Nxf6+ Nxf6 7.Bc4 c5 8.
O-O Be7 9.Qe2 O-O 10.dxc5 Bxc5 11.Bg5 Be7 12.Rad1 Qc7 13.Ne5 a6 14.Rfe1 b5
15.Bb3 Bd6 16.Bxf6 gxf6 17.Ng4 f5 18.Nf6+ Kg7 19.Nh5+ Kh8 20.Qd2 Be5 21.
Qh6 Bb7 22.Rxe5 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Al-Rakib, Abdullah"]
[Black "Reilly, Tim"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2350"]
[BlackElo "2270"]
[ECO "A41"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "63"]

1.d4 d6 2.Bg5 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.c3 f5 5.h3 Nf6 6.Nbd2 O-O 7.Bxf6 Bxf6 8.e4 
fxe4 9.Nxe4 Bg7 10.Bd3 d5 11.Ned2 Nc6 12.Bb5 Qd6 13.O-O e5 14.Bxc6 bxc6 
15.dxe5 Bxe5 16.Nxe5 Qxe5 17.Re1 Qf6 18.Qf3 Bf5 19.Qg3 Rab8 20.Re2 d4 21.
cxd4 Rxb2 22.Qe3 Rc2 23.g4 Rxd2 24.Qxd2 Be6 25.Rae1 Bd5 26.Re8 Qf3 27.
Rxf8+ Kxf8 28.Qh6+ Kf7 29.Qxh7+ Kf8 30.Qh8+ Kf7 31.Qe8+ Kg7 32.Re7+ 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Djao Thien Hai"]
[Black "Barua, Dibyendu"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2580"]
[BlackElo "2540"]
[ECO "D45"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "59"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.Be2 O-O 8.b3 dxc4
9.bxc4 e5 10.O-O Re8 11.a4 exd4 12.exd4 Nf8 13.Rd1 Bb4 14.Ne5 c5 15.Be3 
cxd4 16.Bxd4 Ne6 17.Be3 Qc7 18.Nd3 Bxc3 19.Qxc3 Nd5 20.Qc1 Nxe3 21.fxe3 
Nc5 22.Nxc5 Qxc5 23.Rd4 Be6 24.Bf3 Rad8 25.Qd2 Rxd4 26.Qxd4 b6 27.Qxc5 
bxc5 28.Rb1 Bxc4 29.Rc1 Bb3 30.Rxc5 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Ghorbani, Mohsen"]
[Black "Ghane, Shojaat"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2430"]
[BlackElo "2265"]
[ECO "E09"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "99"]

1.d4 e6 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Be7 5.Bg2 O-O 6.O-O Nbd7 7.Nbd2 c6 8.Qc2 b6
9.b3 Bb7 10.Rd1 Rc8 11.e4 Qc7 12.e5 Ne8 13.h4 c5 14.Ba3 dxc4 15.bxc4 Nb8 
16.dxc5 bxc5 17.Rab1 Nc6 18.Ne4 Nb4 19.Qe2 Nxa2 20.Rxb7 Qxb7 21.Nd4 Qa6 
22.Nb5 Nb4 23.Rd7 Nc6 24.Nec3 Rd8 25.Bxc6 Rxd7 26.Bxd7 Qa5 27.Bb2 a6 28.
Na3 Nc7 29.Bc6 Rb8 30.Be4 Qb4 31.Nd1 Rd8 32.Bc1 a5 33.Kg2 a4 34.Ne3 Na6 
35.Qc2 h6 36.Nb5 Qb3 37.Qe2 Nb4 38.Qf3 Nd3 39.Bxd3 Qxd3 40.Qb7 Bf8 41.Ba3 
Qe2 42.Nd6 Qh5 43.Qc7 Ra8 44.Qxc5 f6 45.Qc6 Rb8 46.exf6 Rb3 47.fxg7 Be7 
48.g4 Qg6 49.Ndf5 Bxa3 50.Qc8+ 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Ismail, Ahmad"]
[Black "Azahari, Mohd Nor"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2040"]
[BlackElo "2140"]
[ECO "A38"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "44"]

1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.O-O Nc6 6.Nc3 e5 7.d3 d6 8.Bg5 h6 9.
Bxf6 Bxf6 10.Nd5 Bg7 11.Rb1 Be6 12.Nd2 O-O 13.a3 Qd7 14.b4 b6 15.bxc5 dxc5
16.e4 Nd4 17.Nb3 Bxd5 18.exd5 f5 19.Nxd4 cxd4 20.a4 Rac8 21.Rb5 Rc5 22.
Rxc5 bxc5 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Kakageldiev, Amanmurad"]
[Black "Aliev, Kerim"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2475"]
[BlackElo "2385"]
[ECO "E15"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "23"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 c6 6.Bg2 d5 7.Nbd2 Bb4 8.O-O O-O 
9.Bb2 Nbd7 10.Rc1 Rc8 11.a3 Be7 12.b4 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Mallahi, Amir"]
[Black "Khamdamov, Sukhrob"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2370"]
[BlackElo "2140"]
[ECO "C45"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "76"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Qf6 5.Nf3 Qg6 6.Nc3 Bb4 7.Bd2 d6 8.Bd3 
Bg4 9.Nd5 Bxd2+ 10.Qxd2 O-O-O 11.O-O-O Qh6 12.Ne3 Be6 13.Kb1 Nf6 14.Rhe1 
Rhe8 15.Qc3 Qf4 16.Bb5 Nxe4 17.Qa3 Nxf2 18.Bxc6 Nxd1 19.g3 Qf6 20.Bxe8 
Nxe3 21.Rxe3 Rxe8 22.Qxa7 Qf5 23.b3 Qc5 24.Qa8+ Kd7 25.Qa4+ b5 26.Qe4 Qd5 
27.Qf4 Bf5 28.Nd4 Rxe3 29.Qxe3 Bg6 30.Qf2 b4 31.g4 c5 32.Nf3 Qd1+ 33.Kb2 
Bxc2 34.Qxc2 Qxf3 35.Qxh7 Qxg4 36.Qg8 Qg2+ 37.Kb1 Qg1+ 38.Kb2 Qxh2+ 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Saravanan, Venkat"]
[Black "Bagheri, Amir"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2390"]
[BlackElo "2405"]
[ECO "B12"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "84"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nc3 Qb6 5.g4 Bd7 6.Na4 Qc7 7.Be3 e6 8.Bg2 h5 9.
h3 hxg4 10.hxg4 Rxh1 11.Bxh1 c5 12.Nxc5 Bxc5 13.dxc5 Qxe5 14.Qd4 Nc6 15.
Qxe5 Nxe5 16.g5 Ne7 17.f4 Nf5 18.Bd2 Nc4 19.b3 Nxd2 20.Kxd2 Rc8 21.b4 b6 
22.cxb6 axb6 23.Ne2 b5 24.c3 Ke7 25.Bf3 f6 26.gxf6+ gxf6 27.Rh1 Ra8 28.Nc1
Kd6 29.Rh7 Be8 30.Rh8 e5 31.fxe5+ fxe5 32.Be2 Kc6 33.Bg4 Nd6 34.Bh5 Kd7 
35.Bxe8+ Nxe8 36.Kc2 Ra6 37.Rh7+ Ke6 38.Kb3 Rb6 39.a4 Nf6 40.Rh6 bxa4+ 41.
Kxa4 Ra6+ 42.Kb3 Kf5 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Thipsay, Praveen Mahadeo"]
[Black "Saltaev, Mikhail"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2450"]
[BlackElo "2525"]
[ECO "B83"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "24"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be2 Nf6 7.Be3 Bd7 8.Nb3 
Be7 9.O-O O-O 10.f4 Qc7 11.Kh1 Rad8 12.Bf3 a6 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Zagrebelny, Sergei"]
[Black "Kasimdzhanov, Rustam"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2480"]
[BlackElo "2570"]
[ECO "D13"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "36"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 cxd5 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Bf4 a6 7.e3 Bg4 8.Be2 e6
9.O-O Bd6 10.Ne5 Bxe2 11.Nxe2 Bxe5 12.Bxe5 Nxe5 13.dxe5 Nd7 14.f4 Qb6 15.
Qd4 Qxd4 16.exd4 Ke7 17.Rac1 Rac8 18.Kf2 f5 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.22"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Bagheri, Amir"]
[Black "Al-Rakib, Abdullah"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2405"]
[BlackElo "2350"]
[ECO "D02"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "37"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 c5 3.dxc5 e6 4.e4 Bxc5 5.exd5 exd5 6.Bb5+ Nc6 7.O-O Ne7 8.
Nbd2 O-O 9.Nb3 Bb6 10.c3 Bg4 11.Be2 Qd6 12.Bg5 Rfe8 13.Nbd2 Nf5 14.Bd3 h6 
15.Bxf5 Bxf5 16.Nc4 Qc5 17.Nxb6 Qxb6 18.Bc1 Rad8 19.b3 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.22"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Barua, Dibyendu"]
[Black "Thipsay, Praveen Mahadeo"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2540"]
[BlackElo "2450"]
[ECO "B83"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "100"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Be2 e6 7.O-O Be7 8.Be3 
O-O 9.f4 Bd7 10.Kh1 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 Bc6 12.Bd3 Nd7 13.Qe2 e5 14.fxe5 Nxe5 15.
Bxe5 dxe5 16.Bc4 Qc7 17.Qh5 Bf6 18.Rf2 Rad8 19.Raf1 Rd6 20.Nd5 Bxd5 21.
Bxd5 Rd7 22.c4 g6 23.Qh6 Bg7 24.Qe3 b6 25.b4 Kh8 26.c5 f6 27.h4 f5 28.c6 
Rd6 29.b5 f4 30.Qh3 Bf6 31.g3 g5 32.gxf4 exf4 33.Rg2 Qe7 34.Qg4 h6 35.Qh5 
Bg7 36.Rxg5 f3 37.Rg3 Rdf6 38.Rgxf3 Rxf3 39.Rxf3 Rxf3 40.Qxf3 Qxh4+ 41.Kg2
Qg5+ 42.Kh3 Be5 43.Be6 Qg7 44.Qg4 h5 45.Qf3 Qh6 46.Bd5 Qf4 47.Qg2 Kh7 48.
Qg8+ Kh6 49.Qe6+ Kg5 50.Qg8+ Kh6 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.22"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Djao Thien Hai"]
[Black "Zagrebelny, Sergei"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2580"]
[BlackElo "2480"]
[ECO "E34"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "79"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.e3 O-O 6.Nf3 c5 7.a3 Bxc3+ 8.bxc3 b6
9.Be2 Ba6 10.Ne5 Qc7 11.O-O cxd4 12.cxd4 Rc8 13.Bb2 Nfd7 14.f4 Nxe5 15.
fxe5 Bxc4 16.Bxc4 Qd7 17.Rf4 Rxc4 18.Qd3 Qb5 19.Qd2 Nd7 20.Raf1 f5 21.exf6
Nxf6 22.Qf2 Qb3 23.Bc1 Rc2 24.Qf3 Qd3 25.Rd1 Qg6 26.Bd2 a5 27.Be1 h6 28.
Bh4 Ne4 29.Qh3 Rac8 30.Rdf1 Rc1 31.Be1 Ng5 32.Qg3 Qd3 33.h4 Ne4 34.Qg6 
Qxe3+ 35.Kh2 Nd6 36.Rg4 R1c7 37.Bg3 Rd8 38.Bxd6 Rxd6 39.Qe8+ Kh7 40.Rf8 
1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.22"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Ghane, Shojaat"]
[Black "Mallahi, Amir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2265"]
[BlackElo "2370"]
[ECO "A48"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bf4 Bg7 4.e3 O-O 5.Nbd2 d6 6.Bc4 Nbd7 7.h3 c5 8.O-O 
Qe8 9.Re1 e5 10.dxe5 dxe5 11.Bg3 e4 12.Nh2 Ne5 13.Nhf1 Bf5 14.Qe2 Rd8 15.
Red1 a6 16.a4 g5 17.Bb3 Bg6 18.Bxe5 Qxe5 19.Nc4 Qc7 20.a5 Nd7 21.Rd5 f5 
22.Rad1 Nb8 23.Rxd8 Rxd8 24.Rxd8+ Qxd8 25.Nd6+ Kf8 26.Nxb7 Qc7 27.Qd2 Qxb7
28.Qd8+ Be8 29.Qd6+ Qe7 30.Qxb8 Be5 31.Qc8 Kg7 32.Ng3 Bxg3 33.fxg3 Bg6 34.
Qe6 Qf8 35.Kh2 Kh6 36.Qe5 Qc8 37.Bc4 Qd8 38.Qxc5 Qb8 39.Qe7 Qxb2 40.Qf8+ 
Kh5 41.g4+ 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.22"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Ghorbani, Mohsen"]
[Black "Al-Modiahki, Mohamad"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2430"]
[BlackElo "2505"]
[ECO "E92"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "138"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.Be3 Ng4 8.Bg5 f6 
9.Bh4 g5 10.Bg3 Nh6 11.dxe5 dxe5 12.Qxd8 Rxd8 13.Nd5 Na6 14.O-O-O Be6 15.
h4 g4 16.Nd2 c6 17.Nc3 Nc5 18.Kc2 Nf5 19.exf5 Bxf5+ 20.Kc1 Bh6 21.f3 gxf3 
22.gxf3 Nd3+ 23.Kc2 Nb4+ 24.Kc1 Nd3+ 25.Kc2 Bxd2 26.Kxd2 Nxb2+ 27.Ke3 
Nxd1+ 28.Nxd1 Rd4 29.Be1 Rad8 30.Bc3 Rf4 31.Nf2 Kf7 32.Rh2 Ke6 33.Ne4 Bxe4
34.fxe4 f5 35.exf5+ Kxf5 36.h5 Re4+ 37.Kf2 Rf4+ 38.Ke3 Re4+ 39.Kf3 Rf4+ 
40.Ke3 Re4+ 41.Kf2 Rf4+ 42.Ke3 Rg8 43.Kd2 Rg3 44.Kc2 Ke6 45.Be1 Rg7 46.Bd2
Rf6 47.Bd3 Rf3 48.Be4 Ra3 49.Kb2 Rag3 50.Bc3 Re3 51.h6 Rf7 52.Bg6 Rd7 53.
Bc2 Rf7 54.Bd1 Rg3 55.Bb3 Rff3 56.c5+ Kf5 57.Bd2 e4 58.Bc2 Ke5 59.Re2 e3 
60.Be1 Rh3 61.Bxh7 Rxh6 62.Bg8 Rh1 63.Kc3 Kf4 64.Kd3 Rff1 65.Bc3 Rd1+ 66.
Kc4 Kf3 67.Rb2 e2 68.Ba5 Rh4+ 69.Kb3 e1=Q 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.22"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Kasimdzhanov, Rustam"]
[Black "Aliev, Kerim"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2570"]
[BlackElo "2385"]
[ECO "D95"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "105"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 g6 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.Bd2 O-O 7.Qb3 Qb6 8.Qa3 Qd8 
9.Bd3 dxc4 10.Bxc4 Bf5 11.O-O Ne4 12.Nxe4 Bxe4 13.Bb4 Bf6 14.Ne5 h5 15.
Rfd1 Nd7 16.Qb3 Qe8 17.f3 b5 18.Bxf7+ Rxf7 19.Qxf7+ Qxf7 20.Nxf7 Bd5 21.
Ne5 Nxe5 22.dxe5 Bxe5 23.e4 Bc4 24.Bc3 Bd6 25.b3 Be6 26.Rac1 Ba3 27.Rc2 c5
28.Ba5 Kf7 29.h4 Rc8 30.Rd3 c4 31.bxc4 Bc5+ 32.Kh1 Bxc4 33.Rd8 Rxd8 34.
Bxd8 Ke8 35.Ba5 Kd7 36.g3 Kc6 37.Kg2 Bd3 38.Rd2 Bc4 39.g4 b4 40.Rb2 Kb5 
41.Bxb4 Bxb4 42.a3 a5 43.Kf2 Ka4 44.axb4 Ka3 45.Rd2 a4 46.Rd7 e5 47.Rb7 
Bb3 48.Ke3 Bc4 49.b5 Kb4 50.b6 Kb5 51.Rc7 Kxb6 52.Rxc4 a3 53.Ra4 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.22"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Khamdamov, Sukhrob"]
[Black "Saravanan, Venkat"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2140"]
[BlackElo "2390"]
[ECO "E64"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "102"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 O-O 5.Bg2 c5 6.d5 d6 7.Nc3 Na6 8.O-O Nc7 
9.a4 Rb8 10.h3 b6 11.e4 a6 12.Re1 b5 13.axb5 axb5 14.e5 Nfe8 15.exd6 exd6 
16.Bg5 Nf6 17.Ne4 bxc4 18.Nfd2 Bf5 19.Nxc4 Bxe4 20.Bxe4 Re8 21.Bf3 Rxe1+ 
22.Qxe1 h6 23.Bf4 Ncxd5 24.Bxd6 Rb4 25.b3 Rxb3 26.Qe2 Qc8 27.Kg2 Rb4 28.
Ra5 Kh7 29.Rxc5 Qa6 30.Qd3 Nb6 31.Ne5 Qxd3 32.Nxd3 Rd4 33.Rc6 Rxd3 34.Rxb6
Nd7 35.Ra6 Rd2 36.Bf4 Rb2 37.Ra7 g5 38.Bc1 Bd4 39.Be4+ Kg8 40.Rxd7 Rxf2+ 
41.Kh1 Rf1+ 42.Kg2 Rf2+ 43.Kg1 Bb6 44.Rb7 Bd4 45.Rb4 Ba7 46.Rb8+ Kg7 47.
Ra8 Bb6 48.Rb8 Ba7 49.Rb7 Bd4 50.Rd7 Bb6 51.Rb7 Bd4 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.22"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Mansour, Samir"]
[Black "Ismail, Ahmad"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2280"]
[BlackElo "2040"]
[ECO "A39"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "103"]

1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 g6 5.Bg2 Bg7 6.O-O O-O 7.d4 cxd4 8.Nxd4 
Nxd4 9.Qxd4 d6 10.Qd2 Rb8 11.b3 b6 12.Bb2 Bb7 13.e4 Nd7 14.Rad1 f5 15.Rfe1
Ne5 16.f4 Nf7 17.exf5 Bxg2 18.Qxg2 gxf5 19.Re6 Qd7 20.Rde1 Rbe8 21.Nd5 Ne5
22.Rxe7 Rxe7 23.Nxe7+ Qxe7 24.fxe5 dxe5 25.Qd5+ Rf7 26.Bxe5 Bxe5 27.Rxe5 
Qf6 28.Re2 Kg7 29.Rf2 h6 30.Kg2 Kg6 31.a4 h5 32.h4 Re7 33.Qg8+ Kh6 34.Qa8 
Re3 35.Qg8 Rxb3 36.Re2 f4 37.Re6 Rxg3+ 38.Qxg3 Qxe6 39.Qg5+ Kh7 40.Qxh5+ 
Kg7 41.Qg5+ Kh7 42.Qxf4 Qc6+ 43.Kg3 Qxa4 44.Qf7+ Kh8 45.Kf4 Qc6 46.Qh5+ 
Kg7 47.Qg5+ Kh8 48.Qd5 Qf6+ 49.Ke3 a5 50.h5 Kh7 51.Kd3 Kh6 52.Kc2 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.22"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Reilly, Tim"]
[Black "De Silva, Nirosh"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2270"]
[BlackElo "2025"]
[ECO "E49"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Ne2 c5 8.a3 
Bxc3+ 9.bxc3 c4 10.Bb1 Re8 11.O-O Bg4 12.f3 Bh5 13.Nf4 Bg6 14.Nxg6 hxg6 
15.Ra2 Nc6 16.Re2 Na5 17.e4 Nb3 18.Bb2 a5 19.e5 Nh7 20.f4 b5 21.f5 gxf5 
22.Rxf5 g6 23.Rf4 Qd7 24.Ref2 Re7 25.h4 Kg7 26.h5 Rh8 27.hxg6 fxg6 28.Rf6 
Nf8 29.Qf3 Qe8 30.Qxd5 a4 31.Qf3 Rg8 32.e6 Rxe6 33.Rf7+ Kh6 34.Qf4+ 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.22"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Saltaev, Mikhail"]
[Black "Kakageldiev, Amanmurad"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2525"]
[BlackElo "2475"]
[ECO "B09"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "27"]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.f4 Nf6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Bd3 Na6 7.O-O c5 8.Kh1 cxd4
9.Nxd4 Nc5 10.Nf3 b6 11.Qe1 Bb7 12.f5 e6 13.fxe6 fxe6 14.Bd2 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.23"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Al-Modiahki, Mohamad"]
[Black "Zagrebelny, Sergei"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2505"]
[BlackElo "2480"]
[ECO "C92"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "109"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 O-O 
9.h3 Nd7 10.d4 Nb6 11.Be3 exd4 12.cxd4 d5 13.Nc3 Be6 14.e5 Nc4 15.Bc1 Qd7 
16.Bc2 Rad8 17.a3 g6 18.b3 Nxa3 19.Bxa3 b4 20.Bb2 bxc3 21.Bxc3 Nb4 22.Bxb4
Bxb4 23.Re3 a5 24.Ng5 c5 25.dxc5 Bxc5 26.Rg3 Qc7 27.Qe2 Rc8 28.Rf1 Bd4 29.
Bxg6 hxg6 30.Nxe6 Qxe5 31.Nxd4 Qxd4 32.Rd1 Qc5 33.h4 Rfe8 34.Qf3 Re5 35.h5
Rc6 36.hxg6 fxg6 37.Qf4 Qe7 38.Qd2 Qc5 39.Qh6 Qc2 40.Rf1 Re7 41.Rf3 Rg7 
42.Qg5 Rd7 43.Re1 Rc8 44.Qf6 Rh7 45.Qe6+ Kh8 46.Qe5+ Kg8 47.Qxd5+ Kh8 48.
Qe5+ Kg8 49.Qe6+ Kh8 50.Qf6+ Kg8 51.Rg3 Rh6 52.Rge3 Rf8 53.Re8 Qc5 54.Qe6+
Kh8 55.Qf7 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.23"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Al-Rakib, Abdullah"]
[Black "Ghorbani, Mohsen"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2350"]
[BlackElo "2430"]
[ECO "D26"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "73"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.O-O Nc6 7.dxc5 Qxd1 8.Rxd1
Bxc5 9.a3 a6 10.b4 Be7 11.Bb2 b5 12.Bd3 O-O 13.Nbd2 Rd8 14.Nb3 Bb7 15.Rac1
Rd5 16.Nfd4 Rad8 17.Be2 Nxd4 18.Rxd4 Rxd4 19.Bxd4 Rc8 20.Rxc8+ Bxc8 21.Bf3
Ne8 22.Na5 Nd6 23.Bc5 Bf8 24.Kf1 Ne8 25.Ke2 f6 26.Kd3 Kf7 27.Bxf8 Kxf8 28.
Kd4 Ke7 29.Kc5 Nd6 30.Kc6 e5 31.Kc7 e4 32.Nc6+ Ke6 33.Bg4+ f5 34.Bd1 Bd7 
35.Bb3+ Nc4 36.Na5 Ke7 37.Nxc4 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.23"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Aliev, Kerim"]
[Black "Saltaev, Mikhail"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2385"]
[BlackElo "2525"]
[ECO "E94"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "112"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nf3 Nbd7 4.Nc3 c6 5.e4 e5 6.Be2 g6 7.O-O Bg7 8.Be3 O-O 
9.Qc2 Qe7 10.Rad1 Ng4 11.Bg5 f6 12.Bh4 Nh6 13.c5 dxc5 14.dxe5 Nf7 15.Qb3 
Nb6 16.exf6 Bxf6 17.Bxf6 Qxf6 18.Qa3 Qe7 19.Rfe1 Bg4 20.b3 Bxf3 21.Bxf3 
Ng5 22.Be2 Qe5 23.Qc1 Ne6 24.g3 g5 25.Bg4 Nd4 26.Re3 Rad8 27.Kg2 Nd7 28.
Rh1 Qf6 29.Rf1 Ne5 30.Be2 g4 31.h3 gxh3+ 32.Kxh3 Ndf3 33.Kg2 Rd7 34.Bxf3 
Nxf3 35.e5 Nxe5 36.Ne4 Qf5 37.Qxc5 Rd5 38.Qc3 Ng4 39.Ree1 Ne5 40.Nd6 Qf3+ 
41.Qxf3 Nxf3 42.Re6 Ng5 43.Rh6 Kg7 44.Rh5 h6 45.Nc4 b5 46.Ne3 Rd2 47.Ng4 
Nf7 48.Rc1 Rc8 49.Rxb5 a6 50.Re5 Rxa2 51.Re7 Kg6 52.Re6+ Kg7 53.Ne3 Kh7 
54.Nf5 h5 55.Re7 Kg6 56.Re6+ Kh7 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.23"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Azahari, Mohd Nor"]
[Black "Reilly, Tim"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2140"]
[BlackElo "2270"]
[ECO "B07"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1.d4 d6 2.Nc3 g6 3.e4 Nf6 4.Bg5 Bg7 5.Bc4 O-O 6.Qd2 Nxe4 7.Bxf7+ Rxf7 8.
Nxe4 Qf8 9.f3 Nd7 10.h4 d5 11.Nf2 Nb6 12.h5 Nc4 13.Qc1 Bxd4 14.c3 Bg7 15.
hxg6 hxg6 16.Ne2 e5 17.b3 Nd6 18.Qd2 c6 19.O-O-O Nb5 20.Qe3 a5 21.Kb1 a4 
22.b4 Nxc3+ 23.Nxc3 Qxb4+ 24.Kc2 d4 25.Qe1 dxc3 26.Rd8+ Rf8 27.Rxf8+ Kxf8 
28.Nd1 Qc4 29.Kc1 Qxa2 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.23"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Barua, Dibyendu"]
[Black "Bagheri, Amir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2540"]
[BlackElo "2405"]
[ECO "B14"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "93"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nf3 Bb4 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Bd2 
Nc6 9.Bd3 Be7 10.O-O O-O 11.Qe2 Nf6 12.Ne4 Bd7 13.Rad1 Qb6 14.Nxf6+ Bxf6 
15.Ne5 Rad8 16.Nc4 Qb5 17.Bc3 Ne7 18.Ne5 Qb6 19.Qe1 Bc6 20.Ba5 Qxb2 21.
Nxc6 Nxc6 22.Bxd8 Rxd8 23.Qe4 g6 24.Rb1 Qxa2 25.Rxb7 Nxd4 26.Qf4 Kg7 27.
Qc7 Rf8 28.Rxa7 Qd2 29.Bc4 Qg5 30.g3 Nf3+ 31.Kg2 Qg4 32.Qf4 Qxf4 33.gxf4 
Nd2 34.Rc1 Rc8 35.Bxe6 Rxc1 36.Rxf7+ Kh6 37.Rxf6 Ne4 38.Rf7 Rc2 39.Kf3 
Nxf2 40.Rd7 Nh1 41.Bg8 g5 42.f5 g4+ 43.Kf4 Rf2+ 44.Ke5 g3 45.Kf6 Kh5 46.h3
h6 47.Rd4 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.23"]
[Round "8"]
[White "De Silva, Nirosh"]
[Black "Ismail, Ahmad"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2025"]
[BlackElo "2040"]
[ECO "B32"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "119"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 d6 6.N1c3 a6 7.Na3 b5 8.Nd5 
Nge7 9.Bg5 h6 10.Bh4 Be6 11.c3 Rb8 12.Qd2 f5 13.f3 g5 14.Bf2 Bg7 15.h4 g4 
16.fxg4 fxe4 17.Nxe7 Qxe7 18.Be2 d5 19.Nc2 d4 20.cxd4 exd4 21.Qf4 Bf7 22.
Nxd4 Rc8 23.Rc1 Qb4+ 24.Qd2 Qxd2+ 25.Kxd2 Bxd4 26.Bxd4 O-O 27.Be3 Rcd8+ 
28.Ke1 Nd4 29.Bxh6 Nxe2 30.Kxe2 Rfe8 31.Rhd1 Bc4+ 32.Ke3 Rxd1 33.Rxd1 a5 
34.b3 Bd3 35.h5 Rc8 36.Bf4 Rc2 37.Rd2 Rxd2 38.Kxd2 Bb1 39.a4 bxa4 40.bxa4 
Ba2 41.g5 Be6 42.Bc7 Bg4 43.h6 Kh7 44.Kc2 Bf5 45.Bxa5 Kg6 46.Bd8 e3+ 47.
Kc3 Be4 48.a5 e2 49.Kd2 Bd3 50.Ke1 Ba6 51.Kf2 Bd3 52.Bf6 Ba6 53.Bc3 Bc4 
54.Bd2 Ba6 55.Ke3 Bb5 56.Kd4 Ba6 57.Kc5 Bb7 58.Kb6 Bxg2 59.a6 Be4 60.a7 
1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.23"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Ghane, Shojaat"]
[Black "Mansour, Samir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2265"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[ECO "D84"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "75"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bf4 Bg7 5.e3 O-O 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.Nxd5 Qxd5 8.
Bxc7 Nc6 9.Ne2 Bf5 10.Nc3 Qd7 11.Bg3 e5 12.d5 Nd4 13.Bd3 Bxd3 14.Qxd3 Nf5 
15.O-O Nd6 16.e4 f5 17.f3 Rac8 18.Rfe1 Rfe8 19.Re2 Rc4 20.Rae1 fxe4 21.
fxe4 Rec8 22.Bf2 b5 23.Nb1 b4 24.Nd2 Rc2 25.Nb3 Qc7 26.Rxc2 Qxc2 27.Qh3 
Rf8 28.Bxa7 Nxe4 29.d6 Nxd6 30.Qe6+ Nf7 31.Bc5 Qf5 32.Qxf5 gxf5 33.Bxf8 
Bxf8 34.Rc1 Kg7 35.Nc5 Kg6 36.Na6 e4 37.Rc6+ Kg5 38.h4+ 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.23"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Kakageldiev, Amanmurad"]
[Black "Thipsay, Praveen Mahadeo"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2475"]
[BlackElo "2450"]
[ECO "A48"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "84"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c3 Bg7 4.Bg5 O-O 5.Nbd2 d6 6.e4 c5 7.dxc5 dxc5 8.Bc4 
Nc6 9.O-O Qc7 10.Qe2 h6 11.Bxf6 exf6 12.Nh4 Ne7 13.f4 Kh8 14.f5 g5 15.Nhf3
Bd7 16.Nxg5 fxg5 17.f6 Ng6 18.fxg7+ Kxg7 19.Qf2 f5 20.exf5 Bxf5 21.Rfe1 
Rad8 22.Qe3 Qf4 23.Qxf4 Nxf4 24.Nf1 Rfe8 25.Rxe8 Rxe8 26.Rd1 Be4 27.Rd7+ 
Kh8 28.Rd2 Bc6 29.Ng3 Re5 30.Bf1 h5 31.Ne2 Nd5 32.c4 Ne3 33.Nc3 Nxf1 34.
Kxf1 Kg7 35.g3 Kf6 36.Kf2 Kf5 37.b3 h4 38.gxh4 gxh4 39.Rd8 Re6 40.Rh8 Kg5 
41.Nd5 Re4 42.a3 Bxd5 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.23"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Khamdamov, Sukhrob"]
[Black "Djao Thien Hai"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2140"]
[BlackElo "2580"]
[ECO "A81"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1.d4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.c3 O-O 6.Qb3+ e6 7.h4 c5 8.dxc5 Na6 
9.Qc4 b6 10.cxb6 axb6 11.Bg5 Nc5 12.h5 gxh5 13.Nbd2 Ra4 14.b4 h6 15.Be3 
Nd5 16.Bxc5 bxc5 17.Qb3 Nxc3 18.bxc5 Qa5 19.Qb6 Nxa2 20.Rb1 Nc3 21.Rc1 Ba6
22.Nb3 Qxb6 23.cxb6 Ra2 24.Nfd2 Rb8 25.Nc5 Rxb6 26.Nxa6 Rbxa6 27.Bf3 Rb6 
28.Nc4 Rb4 29.Ne3 Rb1 30.Rxb1 Nxb1 31.Nxf5 Bc3+ 32.Kf1 Nd2+ 33.Kg2 Nxf3 
34.Kxf3 exf5 35.Rxh5 Ra6 36.Rxf5 Rf6 37.Ke4 Rxf5 38.Kxf5 Be1 39.Kg6 Bxf2 
40.Kxh6 Bxg3 41.Kg6 Kf8 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.23"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Saravanan, Venkat"]
[Black "Kasimdzhanov, Rustam"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2390"]
[BlackElo "2570"]
[ECO "B06"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "100"]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.Bc4 d6 5.Qf3 e6 6.Nge2 Nd7 7.O-O Ngf6 8.Bb3 
O-O 9.Bg5 h6 10.Bh4 Qc7 11.Rad1 b5 12.h3 Bb7 13.Bg3 e5 14.d5 b4 15.dxc6 
Bxc6 16.Nd5 Nxd5 17.Bxd5 Bxd5 18.Rxd5 Qxc2 19.Rxd6 Nb6 20.Rfd1 Qxb2 21.
R6d2 Qa3 22.Qxa3 bxa3 23.Rd3 Nc4 24.Rc1 Rfc8 25.f3 f5 26.exf5 gxf5 27.Rdc3
Nb6 28.Rxa3 Rxc1+ 29.Nxc1 Rd8 30.Rd3 Rc8 31.Nb3 e4 32.fxe4 fxe4 33.Rd1 e3 
34.Bf4 Re8 35.Nc1 Na4 36.Re1 Bc3 37.Re2 Bd2 38.Nb3 Nc3 39.Kf1 Kh7 40.Nxd2 
Nxe2 41.Kxe2 exd2+ 42.Kxd2 Re4 43.Be3 Ra4 44.g4 a5 45.Kc2 Rxa2+ 46.Kb3 Rh2
47.Ka4 Rxh3 48.Bd2 Rh4 49.Bxa5 Rxg4+ 50.Kb3 h5 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Al-Modiahki, Mohamad"]
[Black "Barua, Dibyendu"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2505"]
[BlackElo "2540"]
[ECO "C41"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "104"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 d6 4.d4 Nbd7 5.Bc4 Be7 6.O-O O-O 7.Re1 c6 8.a4 Qc7
9.h3 b6 10.Bg5 a6 11.d5 Bb7 12.dxc6 Bxc6 13.Qe2 h6 14.Bxf6 Nxf6 15.Qd3 Qb7
16.Nh2 Kh8 17.Ng4 Nxe4 18.Nxe4 d5 19.Nxe5 dxc4 20.Qxc4 Bd5 21.Qe2 Rae8 22.
Qg4 Bb4 23.Nc3 Bxc3 24.bxc3 Qc7 25.Qd7 Qc5 26.Nd3 Rxe1+ 27.Rxe1 Qc6 28.Re7
Qf6 29.Re8 Rxe8 30.Qxe8+ Kh7 31.Qe5 Qd8 32.c4 Bb7 33.c5 bxc5 34.Qxc5 Qf6 
35.Kh2 Be4 36.Qe5 Qc6 37.Nb4 Qb7 38.f3 Bxf3 39.gxf3 Qxb4 40.Qe4+ Qxe4 41.
fxe4 Kg6 42.Kg3 Kf6 43.Kf3 Ke5 44.Ke3 g5 45.c4 Kd6 46.Kd4 f6 47.a5 h5 48.
c5+ Ke6 49.Ke3 Kd7 50.Kd4 h4 51.e5 fxe5+ 52.Ke4 g4 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Bagheri, Amir"]
[Black "Azahari, Mohd Nor"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2405"]
[BlackElo "2140"]
[ECO "C72"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "85"]

1.e4 Nc6 2.Nf3 e5 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 d6 5.O-O Bg4 6.h3 Bxf3 7.Qxf3 Qf6 8.Qd1 
Ne7 9.Nc3 b5 10.Bb3 Nd4 11.d3 g5 12.Be3 Bh6 13.Qh5 Qg6 14.Qg4 c6 15.Bxd4 
exd4 16.Ne2 c5 17.a4 b4 18.Ng3 O-O 19.Rae1 Ra7 20.Nf5 Bg7 21.h4 gxh4 22.
Qh3 Kh8 23.Nxh4 Qh6 24.Qh2 Bf6 25.Nf3 Qxh2+ 26.Nxh2 Ng6 27.g3 Bg7 28.f4 a5
29.Kg2 Re7 30.g4 f6 31.Rf2 h6 32.Rh1 Kh7 33.Nf1 Rd7 34.Be6 Rdd8 35.Bf5 Rh8
36.Nd2 Bf8 37.Nc4 Kg7 38.b3 Ra8 39.Kg3 Be7 40.Rfh2 Ra6 41.Rh5 Nf8 42.Kf3 
Bd8 43.Bc8 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Djao Thien Hai"]
[Black "Kakageldiev, Amanmurad"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2580"]
[BlackElo "2475"]
[ECO "A42"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "63"]

1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.e4 d6 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.Be3 e5 6.d5 Nce7 7.Qd2 f5 8.f3 Nf6 9.
Bd3 O-O 10.Nge2 c6 11.h3 cxd5 12.cxd5 h5 13.O-O-O a6 14.Kb1 b5 15.Nc1 Bd7 
16.Rdg1 b4 17.Nd1 Rb8 18.g4 hxg4 19.hxg4 f4 20.Bf2 a5 21.Bh4 Kf7 22.Nf2 
Rh8 23.Ne2 Qb6 24.Nh3 Nh7 25.Bf2 Qb7 26.Nhxf4 exf4 27.Qxf4+ Ke8 28.Qxd6 b3
29.a4 Nf8 30.Rxh8 Bxh8 31.Bc5 Bxa4 32.Ba6 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Ismail, Ahmad"]
[Black "Khamdamov, Sukhrob"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2040"]
[BlackElo "2140"]
[ECO "A45"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "32"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.h4 d5 4.Nd2 Bf5 5.Nxe4 Bxe4 6.f3 h6 7.Bf4 Bh7 8.Qd2 
e6 9.O-O-O c5 10.dxc5 Nc6 11.e4 dxe4 12.Bd6 Bxd6 13.cxd6 O-O 14.Bc4 Na5 
15.Be2 Rc8 16.d7 e3 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Kasimdzhanov, Rustam"]
[Black "Saltaev, Mikhail"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2570"]
[BlackElo "2525"]
[ECO "E94"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "71"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nf3 Nbd7 4.Nc3 e5 5.e4 g6 6.Be2 Bg7 7.O-O O-O 8.Be3 Re8
9.d5 Nh5 10.g3 Bf8 11.Ne1 Ng7 12.Nd3 f5 13.f3 Be7 14.Qd2 Rf8 15.Rac1 Nf6 
16.c5 fxe4 17.fxe4 Ng4 18.Rxf8+ Bxf8 19.Bg5 Nf6 20.Bh6 Be7 21.Qd1 Bd7 22.
b4 a6 23.a4 Qe8 24.Be3 Kh8 25.Nb2 h5 26.Nc4 Ng4 27.Bxg4 Bxg4 28.Qd2 Kh7 
29.b5 Qd8 30.b6 cxb6 31.c6 bxc6 32.Nxb6 cxd5 33.Ncxd5 Rb8 34.Rc7 Bf8 35.a5
Bf3 36.Rd7 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Mallahi, Amir"]
[Black "De Silva, Nirosh"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2370"]
[BlackElo "2025"]
[ECO "C29"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "173"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 Be7 6.Qe2 f5 7.d3 Nxc3 8.bxc3 
c5 9.Bf4 d4 10.Qd2 Nc6 11.Be2 O-O 12.O-O h6 13.h3 g5 14.Bg3 Be6 15.Bf2 Kg7
16.cxd4 cxd4 17.c3 dxc3 18.Qxc3 g4 19.hxg4 fxg4 20.Nd2 Bb4 21.Qb2 Rxf2 22.
Rxf2 Bxd2 23.Bxg4 Be3 24.Bxe6 Qb6 25.Qxb6 axb6 26.Kf1 Bxf2 27.Kxf2 Nxe5 
28.d4 Kf6 29.Bb3 Nc6 30.Ke3 Re8+ 31.Kd3 Rd8 32.Rf1+ Kg5 33.d5 Ne7 34.Ke4 
Re8 35.Kd3 Nf5 36.Rf3 h5 37.Rf2 h4 38.Bd1 Nd6 39.Rb2 b5 40.Rb4 Ra8 41.Kd4 
Rxa2 42.Kc5 Nc4 43.Kxb5 Ne5 44.Re4 Kf5 45.Rxh4 Rxg2 46.Kb6 Rd2 47.Bb3 Nd7+
48.Kc7 Nf6 49.Kd6 Nxd5 50.Bxd5 Rb2 51.Be6+ Kf6 52.Rf4+ Kg5 53.Rg4+ Kf6 54.
Rf4+ Kg5 55.Rf5+ Kg6 56.Rf1 Rd2+ 57.Ke7 Kg5 58.Rb1 Kf4 59.Kf6 Rd4 60.Rxb7 
Ra4 61.Rh7 Rd4 62.Rh5 Re4 63.Bd5 Rd4 64.Rf5+ Kg4 65.Ke6 Rf4 66.Re5 Rf8 67.
Ke7 Rf1 68.Re2 Kf5 69.Be6+ Kf4 70.Kf6 Rd1 71.Rh2 Rd4 72.Rh5 Re4 73.Bd5 Rd4
74.Ke6 Kg4 75.Rh8 Rd2 76.Ke5 Kg3 77.Rf8 Re2+ 78.Be4 Rd2 79.Rg8+ Kf2 80.Kf4
Rd7 81.Rg2+ Kf1 82.Ke3 Ra7 83.Rg6 Re7 84.Rg8 Re5 85.Ra8 Kg1 86.Ra1+ Kh2 
87.Kf4 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Mansour, Samir"]
[Black "Saravanan, Venkat"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2280"]
[BlackElo "2390"]
[ECO "A10"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "144"]

1.Nf3 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.g3 e5 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.Bg2 f5 6.d3 d6 7.O-O Nf6 8.Rb1 a5 9.
d4 e4 10.Ng5 h6 11.Nh3 O-O 12.f3 exf3 13.exf3 Re8 14.d5 Ne5 15.b3 c6 16.
Re1 Bd7 17.Be3 Neg4 18.fxg4 Rxe3 19.Rxe3 Qb6 20.Kh1 Qxe3 21.dxc6 bxc6 22.
g5 Qxc3 23.gxf6 Qxf6 24.Nf4 Re8 25.Qd2 g5 26.Ne2 Qe5 27.Ng1 f4 28.gxf4 
Qxf4 29.Qxf4 gxf4 30.Bf3 c5 31.Rd1 Be5 32.Kg2 a4 33.bxa4 Rb8 34.Bd5+ Kf8 
35.Nf3 Bc3 36.Nh4 Rb2+ 37.Kf3 Rxh2 38.Ng6+ Ke8 39.Nxf4 Rxa2 40.Rh1 Bd2 41.
Nh5 Ra3+ 42.Kg2 Kd8 43.Nf6 Bxa4 44.Ne4 Bf4 45.Rh4 Ra2+ 46.Kf3 Bc1 47.Nxd6 
Kc7 48.Ne4 Bd1+ 49.Kg3 Ra3+ 50.Kg2 Kb6 51.Nf2 Be2 52.Rh1 Bf4 53.Rb1+ Kc7 
54.Ne4 Bf3+ 55.Kf2 Be5 56.Rb7+ Kd8 57.Nd2 Bxd5 58.cxd5 Rd3 59.Ne4 Rxd5 60.
Rb5 Bd4+ 61.Kf3 Kc7 62.Nxc5 Bxc5 63.Kg2 Kc6 64.Rb1 Kd6 65.Ra1 Ke6 66.Rb1 
Kf5 67.Rc1 Be3 68.Rf1+ Kg4 69.Re1 Rd2+ 70.Kh1 Kf3 71.Rf1+ Bf2 72.Rb1 Rd4 
0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Reilly, Tim"]
[Black "Ghane, Shojaat"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2270"]
[BlackElo "2265"]
[ECO "D31"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "116"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Be7 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bf4 Nf6 6.Qc2 O-O 7.e3 c5 8.dxc5 
Bxc5 9.Nf3 Nc6 10.Rd1 Qa5 11.Be2 Bb4 12.O-O Bxc3 13.bxc3 Ne4 14.Bd3 Bf5 
15.Rb1 h6 16.Rfe1 a6 17.Ne5 Rfe8 18.Nxf7 Kxf7 19.f3 b5 20.fxe4 Bxe4 21.
Bxe4 Rxe4 22.Rf1 Kg8 23.Rbd1 Rd8 24.Rxd5 Rde8 25.Rd6 Qb6 26.Qd3 Qc5 27.h4 
Qc4 28.Qd1 R8e6 29.Qh5 Qxa2 30.Bg3 Rxd6 31.Bxd6 Qe6 32.Qf3 Kh7 33.Ra1 a5 
34.Rd1 a4 35.Bc5 Qg4 36.Qxg4 Rxg4 37.Rd6 Ne5 38.Rb6 Nf3+ 39.Kf2 Nxh4 40.g3
Nf5 41.Rxb5 Nxg3 42.Bd4 Rg6 43.Ra5 h5 44.Rxa4 Rg5 45.Bb6 Nh1+ 46.Kf3 Rg3+ 
47.Ke2 Rg2+ 48.Kf3 Rf2+ 49.Ke4 g6 50.Bc7 Rf7 51.Bb8 g5 52.Ra7 Nf2+ 53.Ke5 
Rxa7 54.Bxa7 g4 55.e4 Nd3+ 56.Kf5 h4 57.Kxg4 Nf2+ 58.Kxh4 Nxe4 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Thipsay, Praveen Mahadeo"]
[Black "Aliev, Kerim"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2450"]
[BlackElo "2385"]
[ECO "C42"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "83"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nc4 Nxe4 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.d4 Be7 7.Be2 O-O 8.O-O 
Nbd7 9.Bf4 Nb6 10.Ne3 Re8 11.Bd3 Bf8 12.Qf3 c6 13.Bg5 Be7 14.Rae1 g6 15.
Re2 Be6 16.Rfe1 Nbd7 17.h3 Qa5 18.Bxf6 Nxf6 19.d5 cxd5 20.Nb5 Ne4 21.Nxd5 
Bxd5 22.Bxe4 Bxe4 23.Rxe4 Kf8 24.Rxe7 Rxe7 25.Rxe7 Kxe7 26.Qxb7+ Kf6 27.
Qxa8 Qe1+ 28.Kh2 Qe5+ 29.g3 Qxb5 30.Qh8+ Ke7 31.Qd4 a5 32.a4 Qc6 33.c3 h5 
34.Qa7+ Kf8 35.Qxa5 Qf3 36.Qd8+ Kg7 37.Qb6 h4 38.Qd4+ f6 39.gxh4 Qb7 40.b4
d5 41.a5 Qc7+ 42.Kg2 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Zagrebelny, Sergei"]
[Black "Al-Rakib, Abdullah"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2480"]
[BlackElo "2350"]
[ECO "B17"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "83"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Ng5 e6 6.Bd3 Ngf6 7.N1f3 Bd6 8.Qe2
h6 9.Ne4 Nxe4 10.Qxe4 Qc7 11.Qg4 Kf8 12.Nd2 e5 13.Nc4 Nc5 14.Qg3 Nxd3+ 15.
cxd3 f6 16.O-O Be6 17.dxe5 Bxe5 18.Nxe5 Qxe5 19.Bf4 Qd5 20.Rfe1 Kf7 21.Re4
Bf5 22.Re3 Rhe8 23.Rae1 Qxd3 24.h3 Rxe3 25.Rxe3 Qd7 26.Bb8 a5 27.a4 Kg8 
28.Qf4 Bg6 29.g4 Kh7 30.Re1 c5 31.Kh2 Qd4 32.Kg3 Qxb2 33.Re7 c4 34.Qc7 f5 
35.Qe5 f4+ 36.Qxf4 Qa3+ 37.Re3 Qc1 38.Kh2 Qf1 39.Be5 Re8 40.h4 Re7 41.h5 
Bf7 42.Bxg7 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.26"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Aliev, Kerim"]
[Black "Al-Modiahki, Mohamad"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2385"]
[BlackElo "2505"]
[ECO "E99"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 
9.Ne1 Nd7 10.Be3 f5 11.f3 f4 12.Bf2 g5 13.Nb5 b6 14.b4 a6 15.Nc3 Rf6 16.
Nd3 Rg6 17.c5 Nf6 18.cxb6 cxb6 19.b5 g4 20.Nxe5 dxe5 21.d6 g3 22.Be1 Be6 
23.dxe7 Qxe7 24.Qc2 Qc5+ 25.Kh1 Rh6 26.h3 Bxh3 27.Bxg3 Be6+ 28.Bh2 Nh5 29.
g4 fxg3 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.26"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Azahari, Mohd Nor"]
[Black "Al-Rakib, Abdullah"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2140"]
[BlackElo "2350"]
[ECO "B15"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "49"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 c6 3.e4 dxe4 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.Bg5 Bf5 6.Bxf6 exf6 7.Nge2 Bb4 8.
Ng3 Bg6 9.O-O Bxc3 10.bxc3 O-O 11.h4 h6 12.Qg4 Kh8 13.h5 Bh7 14.Nf5 Bxf5 
15.Qxf5 b5 16.Bb3 a5 17.a4 b4 18.Qxe4 bxc3 19.Rfe1 Na6 20.Re3 f5 21.Qe5 
Qd7 22.Rg3 f6 23.Qxa5 Qxd4 24.Qxf5 Nc5 25.Rxg7 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.26"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Bagheri, Amir"]
[Black "Zagrebelny, Sergei"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2405"]
[BlackElo "2480"]
[ECO "A46"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "66"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bg5 h6 4.Bxf6 Qxf6 5.e4 d6 6.Nc3 Bd7 7.Qd2 Nc6 8.Bb5 
a6 9.Bxc6 Bxc6 10.O-O Be7 11.d5 Bd7 12.Nd4 O-O 13.f4 e5 14.Nf5 Bd8 15.Rae1
exf4 16.Qxf4 Qg5 17.Qf3 Bf6 18.h4 Qg6 19.Ne2 Rae8 20.Nf4 Qh7 21.Nd3 Bxf5 
22.exf5 Bxh4 23.Re4 Bf6 24.Rfe1 Rxe4 25.Rxe4 h5 26.Rb4 Rb8 27.Qf2 h4 28.
Qa7 Rf8 29.Rf4 Qh5 30.Rf3 Re8 31.Qxb7 Bd4+ 32.Kh2 Re2 33.Qxc7 Qg4 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.26"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Barua, Dibyendu"]
[Black "Khamdamov, Sukhrob"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2540"]
[BlackElo "2140"]
[ECO "B06"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "133"]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Be2 Bg7 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.Be3 e5 6.dxe5 dxe5 7.Qxd8+ Nxd8 8.
Nb5 Ne6 9.Nxa7 Bd7 10.Nb5 Nf6 11.f3 O-O 12.c3 Ra5 13.Na3 Rfa8 14.Bc4 b5 
15.Bb3 Bf8 16.Nc2 c5 17.a3 b4 18.Ne2 bxc3 19.bxc3 Rb8 20.Bc4 Ra4 21.Ba2 c4
22.Rb1 Rxb1+ 23.Bxb1 Bxa3 24.Nxa3 Rxa3 25.Kd2 Ba4 26.Rc1 Nd7 27.Bc2 Ra2 
28.Kd1 Ndc5 29.Bxc5 Nxc5 30.Bxa4 Rxa4 31.Rb1 Ra2 32.Ke1 Kg7 33.Kf2 Na4 34.
Rc1 f5 35.exf5 gxf5 36.f4 e4 37.Ke3 Kf6 38.h3 Nb6 39.Rd1 Ke7 40.g4 Rc2 41.
gxf5 Na4 42.Rd2 Rxd2 43.Kxd2 Kf6 44.Ke3 Kxf5 45.Ng3+ Ke6 46.Nxe4 h6 47.Kf3
Kf5 48.Ng3+ Kf6 49.Ne2 Kf5 50.Ke3 Kf6 51.Ke4 Nb2 52.h4 Nd1 53.Kd4 Nb2 54.
Ng3 Ke6 55.f5+ Kf6 56.Kd5 Ke7 57.Ne4 Kf7 58.h5 Ke7 59.f6+ Kf7 60.Ke5 Na4 
61.Kf5 Nb6 62.Nd6+ Kf8 63.Ke6 Na8 64.Nxc4 Nc7+ 65.Kf5 Nd5 66.Ne5 Nxc3 67.
Ke6 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.26"]
[Round "10"]
[White "De Silva, Nirosh"]
[Black "Kakageldiev, Amanmurad"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2025"]
[BlackElo "2475"]
[ECO "B07"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "61"]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.Be3 c6 5.Qd2 Nf6 6.f3 b5 7.Bd3 Nbd7 8.h4 h5 9.
Nh3 Nb6 10.Nf2 Qc7 11.a4 Nc4 12.Bxc4 bxc4 13.O-O O-O 14.Bh6 Rb8 15.Bxg7 
Kxg7 16.Rab1 d5 17.e5 Ng8 18.g4 Nh6 19.gxh5 Nf5 20.Ng4 Rh8 21.h6+ Kh7 22.
Qf4 Be6 23.Ne2 Qa5 24.Qg5 Qxa4 25.Nf4 Qxc2 26.Rfc1 Qb3 27.Nxe6 fxe6 28.Kf2
Rhf8 29.Rc3 Qa4 30.Nf6+ exf6 31.Ra3 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.26"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Ghorbani, Mohsen"]
[Black "Ismail, Ahmad"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2430"]
[BlackElo "2040"]
[ECO "E06"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "120"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.g3 Be7 5.Bg2 O-O 6.O-O c5 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.dxc5 
Bxc5 9.a3 a5 10.e4 Nf6 11.Qc2 Qb6 12.Nc3 Na6 13.Bf4 Bd7 14.Ne5 Bb5 15.Rfd1
h6 16.Nxb5 Qxb5 17.Bf1 Qb6 18.Qe2 Rac8 19.Kg2 g5 20.Bc1 Rfd8 21.Nc4 Qc7 
22.Bd2 Qc6 23.f3 a4 24.Bc3 Be7 25.Na5 Qb6 26.Nxb7 Rxd1 27.Rxd1 Rxc3 28.
bxc3 Qxb7 29.Qxa6 Qb2+ 30.Qe2 Qxa3 31.c4 Qc5 32.e5 Nh7 33.Rb1 a3 34.Qe4 
Nf8 35.Rb8 Kg7 36.Ra8 Qb4 37.Bd3 Qb2+ 38.Qe2 Qd4 39.Bc2 Qb2 40.Bd3 Qd4 41.
Bc2 Qb2 42.Bd3 Qd4 43.Ra5 Bc5 44.f4 gxf4 45.gxf4 h5 46.f5 exf5 47.Bxf5 Ng6
48.Bxg6 fxg6 49.h4 Qg1+ 50.Kh3 Bf2 51.Qf3 Qf1+ 52.Qg2 Qd3+ 53.Kh2 Be3 54.
Qb7+ Kh6 55.Qf3 Qd2+ 56.Kh3 Bf4 57.Qxf4+ Qxf4 58.Rxa3 Qf5+ 59.Kg2 Qxe5 60.
Ra2 Qe4+ 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.26"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Reilly, Tim"]
[Black "Mansour, Samir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2270"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[ECO "E49"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 c5 6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 d5 8.cxd5 
exd5 9.Ne2 Nc6 10.O-O Ne7 11.Ng3 Be6 12.f3 Rc8 13.Bb2 cxd4 14.cxd4 Nc6 15.
Qe2 Re8 16.Rad1 Na5 17.h3 Nc4 18.e4 Qb6 19.Ba1 Bd7 20.Qf2 Ba4 21.Rb1 Qc7 
22.Bxc4 Qxc4 23.e5 Nd7 24.Nf5 Qd3 25.Nd6 Rc2 26.Qh4 Rf8 27.Rxb7 Nb6 28.Qg4
Nc4 29.Nxf7 Qxf1+ 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.26"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Saltaev, Mikhail"]
[Black "Mallahi, Amir"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2525"]
[BlackElo "2370"]
[ECO "B33"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "124"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 
b5 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.c3 O-O 12.Nc2 Bg5 13.Be2 Be6 14.O-O g6 15.Bf3
f5 16.a4 bxa4 17.Rxa4 Kh8 18.Nce3 Bxe3 19.Nxe3 f4 20.Nc4 Bxc4 21.Rxc4 Ne7 
22.Ra4 g5 23.Qe2 a5 24.Rfa1 Rg8 25.Bg4 Ng6 26.b4 Qc7 27.Qd2 f3 28.Bxf3 g4 
29.Bd1 Nf4 30.Rxa5 Raf8 31.Ra7 Qc4 32.Bc2 Qe6 33.Kh1 g3 34.fxg3 Rxg3 35.
Ra8 Rxg2 36.Rxf8+ Kg7 37.Rxf4 Rxd2 38.Rg1+ Qg6 39.Rxg6+ hxg6 40.Rf1 Rxc2 
41.Rb1 Rxc3 42.b5 Rc7 43.b6 Rb7 44.Kg2 Kf6 45.Kf3 Ke6 46.Kg4 d5 47.Kf3 d4 
48.Rb5 Kd6 49.Ke2 Kc6 50.Rxe5 Kxb6 51.Kd3 Rh7 52.Kxd4 Rxh2 53.Rg5 Kc7 54.
Rxg6 Kd7 55.Kd5 Ra2 56.Rg7+ Ke8 57.e5 Ra5+ 58.Ke6 Ra6+ 59.Kf5 Rb6 60.Ra7 
Rc6 61.Ke4 Rh6 62.Kd5 Rg6 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.26"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Saravanan, Venkat"]
[Black "Djao Thien Hai"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2390"]
[BlackElo "2580"]
[ECO "B25"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "38"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.d3 d6 6.f4 e5 7.Nf3 Nge7 8.O-O O-O 
9.Be3 Nd4 10.h3 Rb8 11.a4 a6 12.Qd2 b5 13.axb5 axb5 14.fxe5 dxe5 15.Bh6 b4
16.Nd1 Nxf3+ 17.Rxf3 Be6 18.Bxg7 Kxg7 19.Kh2 h6 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.26"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Thipsay, Praveen Mahadeo"]
[Black "Kasimdzhanov, Rustam"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2450"]
[BlackElo "2570"]
[ECO "B49"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "36"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 a6 7.Be3 Nf6 8.O-O 
Bb4 9.Na4 Be7 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.Nb6 Rb8 12.Nxc8 Qxc8 13.e5 Nd5 14.Bc1 Bc5 
15.c4 Ne7 16.b3 Qc7 17.Bb2 Ng6 18.Kh1 O-O 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.27"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Al-Modiahki, Mohamad"]
[Black "Saltaev, Mikhail"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2505"]
[BlackElo "2525"]
[ECO "B80"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "96"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 d6 6.g3 Nf6 7.Bg2 Bd7 8.O-O a6
9.a4 Be7 10.Nb3 Na5 11.Nxa5 Qxa5 12.Bd2 Qc7 13.a5 Bc6 14.Be3 Nd7 15.Na4 
O-O 16.c4 f5 17.Nc3 Nc5 18.Qc2 Bf6 19.exf5 Bxg2 20.Kxg2 Bxc3 21.Qxc3 Rxf5 
22.Bd4 Raf8 23.f3 Qf7 24.Rae1 Nd7 25.Qd3 e5 26.Bc3 Nc5 27.Qxd6 e4 28.f4 
Qxc4 29.Qd4 Qxd4 30.Bxd4 Re8 31.Be5 Nb3 32.g4 Rf7 33.Bc3 Rd7 34.Re3 Rd3 
35.Rfe1 Nc5 36.R3e2 Kf7 37.Bb4 Rd5 38.Rc1 Nd3 39.Rc7+ Kg8 40.Bd2 e3 41.
Rxe3 Nxf4+ 42.Kg3 Ne6 43.Rc2 Red8 44.Rxe6 Rxd2 45.Rxd2 Rxd2 46.Rb6 Rd5 47.
b4 Rd7 48.Kf4 Re7 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.27"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Al-Rakib, Abdullah"]
[Black "Ismail, Ahmad"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2350"]
[BlackElo "2040"]
[ECO "D36"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "64"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 O-O 7.Bd3 c6 8.Qc2 h6
9.Bh4 Re8 10.Nge2 b6 11.O-O Ba6 12.Bxa6 Nxa6 13.Qa4 Nb8 14.Bxf6 Bxf6 15.
Rac1 Qd6 16.Rfd1 Nd7 17.Ng3 b5 18.Qa6 Nb6 19.a4 b4 20.Nce2 Qc7 21.b3 Rac8 
22.Nf4 Red8 23.Nd3 Be7 24.Ne5 c5 25.dxc5 Qxe5 26.cxb6 Rxc1 27.Rxc1 axb6 
28.Qxb6 d4 29.exd4 Rxd4 30.Qc6 Bg5 31.Rc5 Rd1+ 32.Nf1 Qe2 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.27"]
[Round "11"]
[White "De Silva, Nirosh"]
[Black "Bagheri, Amir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2025"]
[BlackElo "2405"]
[ECO "B13"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "101"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Qb3
Bxf3 9.gxf3 e6 10.Qxb7 Nxd4 11.Bb5+ Nxb5 12.Qc6+ Ke7 13.Qxb5 Qd7 14.Qe2 f6
15.Nxd5+ Qxd5 16.O-O Kf7 17.Rd1 Qb7 18.Qe4 Rb8 19.Qxb7+ Rxb7 20.Rb1 Be7 
21.Be3 Rc8 22.Rdc1 Rxc1+ 23.Bxc1 Bc5 24.Be3 Bxe3 25.fxe3 Kg6 26.Kf2 Kf5 
27.Ke2 e5 28.b4 Rc7 29.Kd3 Rd7+ 30.Kc4 e4 31.fxe4+ Kxe4 32.Rb3 h5 33.a4 
Rc7+ 34.Kb5 g5 35.Ka6 g4 36.b5 f5 37.a5 h4 38.b6 axb6 39.axb6 Rg7 40.b7 
Rxb7 41.Kxb7 g3 42.hxg3 hxg3 43.Kc6 g2 44.Rb1 Kxe3 45.Kd5 f4 46.Re1+ Kf2 
47.Rb1 f3 48.Ke4 Kg3 49.Rb3 g1=Q 50.Rxf3+ Kg2 51.Rd3 0-1

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.27"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Djao Thien Hai"]
[Black "Thipsay, Praveen Mahadeo"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2580"]
[BlackElo "2450"]
[ECO "E73"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "13"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 O-O 6.Bg5 Nbd7 7.Qd2 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.27"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Ghane, Shojaat"]
[Black "Kasimdzhanov, Rustam"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2265"]
[BlackElo "2570"]
[ECO "D35"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "12"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Bg5 Be7 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.27"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Ghorbani, Mohsen"]
[Black "Reilly, Tim"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2430"]
[BlackElo "2270"]
[ECO "A89"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "40"]

1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 f5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.g3 Bg7 6.Bg2 O-O 7.O-O Nc6 8.d5 Na5 
9.Nd2 c5 10.Rb1 e5 11.a3 b6 12.b4 Nb7 13.Bb2 Bd7 14.e3 g5 15.Ne2 Qe7 16.
Re1 Rae8 17.f3 Kh8 18.Nc3 Qf7 19.Qc2 Nh5 20.Nf1 Rg8 1/2-1/2

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.27"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Kakageldiev, Amanmurad"]
[Black "Zagrebelny, Sergei"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2475"]
[BlackElo "2480"]
[ECO "A18"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4 d5 4.e5 d4 5.exf6 dxc3 6.bxc3 Qxf6 7.d4 e5 8.Qe2 
Be7 9.dxe5 Qe6 10.g3 Qc6 11.Nf3 Nd7 12.Bg2 Nb6 13.O-O Qxc4 14.Qc2 Nd5 15.
Bd2 O-O 16.Nd4 Rd8 17.Be4 h6 18.Rfe1 c5 19.Nf5 Bxf5 20.Bxf5 Nb4 21.Qd1 Nd3
22.Re4 Qd5 23.c4 Qc6 24.e6 Bf6 25.exf7+ Kf8 26.Re6 Nb2 27.Qh5 Qc7 28.Bg6 
Nxc4 29.Rae1 Ne5 30.R1xe5 Bxe5 31.Qxe5 Qxe5 32.Rxe5 b6 33.Bf4 a5 34.Re6 
1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.27"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Khamdamov, Sukhrob"]
[Black "Azahari, Mohd Nor"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2140"]
[BlackElo "2140"]
[ECO "D31"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "125"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.a4 Bb4 6.e4 b5 7.Qc2 Bb7 8.b3 Qa5 9.
Bb2 Bxc3+ 10.Qxc3 Qxc3+ 11.Bxc3 Nf6 12.Nd2 cxb3 13.axb5 cxb5 14.Bxb5+ Bc6 
15.Bd3 Nbd7 16.f3 O-O 17.Nxb3 Rfb8 18.Na5 Bb5 19.Kd2 Bxd3 20.Kxd3 Rb5 21.
Rhb1 a6 22.Nc6 Rb6 23.Rxb6 Nxb6 24.Rb1 Nc8 25.g4 Kf8 26.Rb7 Ke8 27.Bb4 Nd7
28.f4 Ncb6 29.Ba5 Rc8 30.Na7 Ra8 31.f5 Nc8 32.fxe6 fxe6 33.Nc6 Nd6 34.Rb2 
Rc8 35.Rc2 Nb5 36.h3 Na3 37.Rc3 Nb5 38.Rc4 Na3 39.Rc1 Nb8 40.d5 Nxc6 41.
Rxc6 Rxc6 42.dxc6 Nb5 43.Kc4 Na7 44.Kc5 Nc8 45.Bc3 g6 46.Bf6 Kf7 47.Bg5 
Ke8 48.Bh4 h6 49.Bf6 Kf7 50.Bh4 Ke8 51.Bf6 Kf7 52.Bc3 Ke7 53.Bd2 h5 54.
Bg5+ Ke8 55.gxh5 gxh5 56.e5 Kf7 57.c7 Ke8 58.Kc6 a5 59.Bd2 a4 60.Bb4 Na7+ 
61.Kb7 Kd7 62.Kxa7 Kxc7 63.Bc3 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.27"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Mallahi, Amir"]
[Black "Mansour, Samir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2370"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[ECO "C29"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "47"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 Be7 6.Qe2 Ng5 7.d4 O-O 8.Qf2 
Nxf3+ 9.Qxf3 Be6 10.Bd3 c5 11.dxc5 Bxc5 12.Bf4 Nc6 13.O-O-O Qa5 14.Nxd5 
Bxd5 15.Qxd5 Nb4 16.Qb3 Nxa2+ 17.Kb1 Nb4 18.Be4 Rad8 19.Bg5 Rxd1+ 20.Rxd1 
Qa6 21.c3 Nc6 22.e6 Be7 23.exf7+ Kh8 24.Bd3 1-0

[Event "1st Asia-ch"]
[Site "Teheran IRI"]
[Date "1998.08.27"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Saravanan, Venkat"]
[Black "Barua, Dibyendu"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2390"]
[BlackElo "2540"]
[ECO "C42"]
[EventDate "1998.08.14"]
[PlyCount "20"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Qe2 Qe7 6.d3 Nf6 7.Bg5 Qxe2+ 8.
Bxe2 Be7 9.Nbd2 c6 10.O-O O-O 1/2-1/2

