| 17th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival | ||||
| Master Tournament | ||||
| Starting rank list | ||||
| SNo. | Name | IRtg | FED | |
| 1 | GM | Miroshnichenko Evgenij | 2671 | UKR |
| 2 | GM | Jobava Baadur | 2644 | GEO |
| 3 | GM | Guseinov Gadir | 2612 | AZE |
| 4 | GM | Pantsulaia Levan | 2611 | GEO |
| 5 | GM | Ghaem Maghami Ehsan | 2610 | IRI |
| 6 | GM | Aleksandrov Aleksej | 2609 | BLR |
| 7 | GM | Asrian Karen | 2608 | ARM |
| 8 | GM | Khismatullin Denis | 2599 | RUS |
| 9 | GM | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | 2586 | IND |
| 10 | GM | Koneru Humpy | 2572 | IND |
| 11 | GM | Anastasian Ashot | 2555 | ARM |
| 12 | GM | Le Quang Liem | 2542 | VIE |
| 13 | GM | Neverov Valeriy | 2541 | UKR |
| 14 | GM | Moradiabadi Elshan | 2540 | IRI |
| 15 | GM | Jankovic Alojzije | 2536 | CRO |
| 16 | GM | Amin Bassem | 2521 | EGY |
| 17 | GM | Sturua Zurab | 2517 | GEO |
| 18 | GM | Ibrahimov Rasul | 2504 | AZE |
| 19 | GM | Saric Ante | 2499 | CRO |
| 20 | GM | Bagheri Amir | 2495 | IRI |
| 21 | IM | Alavi Sayed Javad | 2493 | IRI |
| 22 | IM | Hossain Enamul | 2485 | BAN |
| 23 | IM | Gopal G N | 2480 | IND |
| 24 | IM | Mahjoob Morteza | 2479 | IRI |
| 25 | IM | Safarli Eltaj | 2471 | AZE |
| 26 | GM | Ramesh R B | 2470 | IND |
| 27 | IM | Sundararajan Kidambi | 2470 | IND |
| 28 | GM | Bakre Tejas | 2456 | IND |
| 29 | GM | Ivanov Kihail M | 2455 | RUS |
| 30 | GM | Odeev Handszar | 2452 | TKM |
| 31 | GM | Kekelidze Mikheil | 2445 | GEO |
| 32 | IM | Venkatesh M R | 2443 | IND |
| 33 | Nouri Hamed | 2426 | PHI | |
| 34 | Durarbevli Vasif | 2417 | AZE | |
| 35 | IM | Kayumov Sergey | 2414 | UZB |
| 36 | FM | Darban Morteza | 2414 | IRI |
| 37 | IM | Kiss Pal | 2413 | HUN |
| 38 | IM | Sale Srdjan | 2411 | CRO |
| 39 | Adhiban B | 2406 | IND | |
| 40 | FM | Khader Sami | 2402 | JOR |
| 41 | FM | Toufighi Homayoon | 2391 | IRI |
| 42 | WGM | Mamedjarova Zeinab | 2384 | AZE |
| 43 | Sethuraman S P | 2380 | IND | |
| 44 | IM | Lodhi Mahmood | 2374 | PAK |
| 45 | Sattarov F | 2357 | UZB | |
| 46 | Sabirov Farkhad | 2353 | UZB | |
| 47 | Akshat Khamparia | 2339 | IND | |
| 48 | WGM | Sergeeva Maria | 2328 | KAS |
| 49 | Golizadeh Asghar | 2323 | IRI | |
| 50 | WIM | Pourkashiyan Atousa | 2322 | IRI |
| 51 | FM | Othman,A Moussa | 2321 | UAE |
| 52 | WGM | Swathi Ghate | 2317 | IND |
| 53 | Udeshi Aditya | 2307 | IND | |
| 54 | IM | ElArousy Abdulhameed | 2301 | EGY |
| 55 | FM | Jasim,A.R Saleh | 2297 | UAE |
| 56 | Hilwani Talal | 2293 | SYR | |
| 57 | WIM | Mamedjarova Turkan | 2254 | AZE |
| 58 | FM | Priyadharshan K | 2248 | IND |
| 59 | Abasov Nijat Azad | 2235 | AZE | |
| 60 | WGM | Paridar Shadi | 2225 | IRI |
| 61 | Ali Laith | 2224 | IRQ | |
| 62 | FM | Salem.A.R Saleh | 2218 | UAE |
| 63 | Faisal Abdulla | 2168 | UAE | |
| 64 | Ibrahim Ismail | 2165 | UAE | |
| 65 | WIM | Mouradian Knarik | 2164 | LIB |
| 66 | FM | Yahya Mohamaed Saleh | 2142 | UAE |
| 67 | FM | Khouri Ibrahim Mohammed | 2035 | UAE |
| 68 | Almarzouqi Abdulla | 0 | UAE | |
| 69 | Jumaa, AL-Mouhairi | 0 | UAE | |