The 18^th Dubai Open Chess Championship 2016 takes place between April 11^th and April 19^th.

Round 1 - Apr 11th Cheparinov - Pratyusha 1-0 Galojan - Korobov 1/2 Sargissian - Rogoznikov 1-0 Aradhya - Bruzon Batista 1/2 Howell - Saeed 1-0 Kulkarni - Jobava 0-1 Adhiban - Prince 1-0 Muthaiah - Kovalenko 1/2 Sethuraman - Swati 1-0 Bisby - Akopian 0-1	Round 2 - Apr 12th Debashis - Cheparinov 1/2 Aryan - Sargissian 1/2 Rohan - Howell 0-1 Jobava - Rathnakaran 1-0 Gholami - Adhiban 0-1 Pascua - Sethuraman 0-1 Akopian - Kostenko 1-0 Hossain - Safarli 0-1 Amin - Das, A. 1/2 Nezad - Jones 0-1
Round 3 - Apr 13th Howell - Can 1-0 Gopal - Jobava 1-0 Adhiban - Aravindh 1/2 Sethuraman - Ly 1/2 Sanal - Akopian 0-1 Safarli - Gagare 1/2 Jones - Ezat 1-0 Ali Marandi - Vidit 1/2 Deepan - Sokolov 0-1 Karthikeyan - Salem, A.R.S. 1/2	Round 4 - Apr 14th Anton Guijarro - Howell 0-1 Akopian - Savchenko 1-0 Yilmaz - Jones 1/2 Sokolov - Gopal 1/2 Amin - Mammadov 1/2 Korobov - Sengupta 0-1 Arribas Lopez - Sargissian 1/2 Ly - Adhiban 0-1 Aravindh - Sethuraman 0-1 Mollah Abdullah - Safarli 1/2
Round 5 - Apr 16th Howell - Akopian 0-1 Adhiban - Yilmaz 1/2 Sethuraman - Sengupta 1-0 Jones - Gagare 1/2 Gopal - Vidit 1/2 Mammadov - Sokolov 0-1 Fier - Ali Marandi 1-0 Sargissian - Haznedaroglu 1-0 Ankit - Bruzon Batista 0-1 Deepan - Jobava 1-0