Aeroflot - Open A
- Moscow, Russia.

There are 87 players , 69 above 2550 ELO, and 75 GM's.

Here are the top 5 seeds ( all over 2700 ):

Rk Name Ti FED Elo FIDE Id
1 Kamsky, Gata GM USA 2730 2000024
2 Movsesian, Sergei GM ARM 2721 310204
3 Jakovenko, Dmitry GM RUS 2718 4122356
4 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime GM FRA 2715 623539
5 Vitiugov, Nikita GM RUS 2709 4152956

Two Canadian GM's are playing in this top section:

1. GM Mark Bluvshtein , top FIDE-rated Canadian ( playing for Canada ), with a 2590 rating. He is ranked # 53 ( out of 87 ).



2. GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon, rated 2500, and ranked # 79.



Round 2 Results ( Wednesday, Feb. 9 )

After 2 rounds, there are only 2 co-leaders with perfect scores:

Rank Name Flags Score Fed. M/F Rating TPR W-We 1 2
1 GM Le, Quang Liem 2.0 VIE M 2664 3272 +0.66 1 1
2 GM Lenic, Luka 2.0 SLO M 2613 3295 +0.86 1 1

Rd. 2 Canadian Results:

Bd. 26 GM Khairullin, Ildar 0.5 RUS 2640 1 - 0 - GM Roussel-Roozmon, Thomas 0.5 CAN 2500

Bd. 40 WGM Pogonina, Natalija w 0.0 RUS 2472 0 - 1 - GM Bluvshtein, Mark 0.0 CAN 2590

Mark has 1/2 pts.
Thomas has .5/2 pts.

Round 3 Pairings

Top Boards:

Table White Flags Score Fed. Rating Black Flags Score Fed. Rating Result
1 GM Lenic, Luka 2.0 SLO 2613 GM Le, Quang Liem 2.0 VIE 2664
2 GM Sandipan, Chanda 1.5 IND 2641 GM Kamsky, Gata 1.5 USA 2730
3 GM Movsesian, Sergei 1.5 ARM 2721 GM Khismatullin, Denis 1.5 RUS 2649
4 GM Sjugirov, Sanan j 1.5 RUS 2626 GM Jakovenko, Dmitry 1.5 RUS 2718
5 GM Petrosian, Tigran L. 1.5 ARM 2604 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny 1.5 RUS 2695
6 GM Shomoev, Anton 1.5 RUS 2557 GM Andreikin, Dmitry 1.5 RUS 2689
7 GM Riazantsev, Alexander 1.5 RUS 2689 GM Khairullin, Ildar 1.5 RUS 2640
8 GM Kasimdzhanov, Rustam 1.5 UZB 2681 GM Rodshtein, Maxim 1.5 ISR 2625
9 GM Volokitin, Andrei 1.5 UKR 2678 GM Salgado Lopez, Ivan 1.5 ESP 2626
10 GM Alsina Leal, Daniel 1.5 ESP 2531 GM Kobalia, Mikhail 1.5 RUS 2666
11 GM Cheparinov, Ivan 1.5 BUL 2665 IM Fedoseev, Vladimir j 1.5 RUS 2505
12 GM Mamedov, Rauf 1.5 AZE 2660 IM Kovalenko, Igor 1.5 UKR 2515
13 IM Dubov, Daniil j 1.5 RUS 2459 GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim 1.5 RUS 2660
14 GM Zhou, Jianchao 1.5 CHN 2655 FM Bukavshin, Ivan j 1.5 RUS 2458

Canadians:

Bd.16 GM Bluvshtein, Mark 1.0 CAN 2590 GM Vitiugov, Nikita 1.0 RUS 2709 ( 5th seed )



Bd.36 GM Roussel-Roozmon, Thomas 0.5 CAN 2500 - GM Maletin, Pavel 0.5 RUS 2621

Other Canadians playing in the other tournaments are: Antoine Berube (B), Victor Plotkin and Doug Sly (both C).

Official Website: http://www.aeroflotchess.com/ ( live games available - starting at 7:00 AM, EST ( I think ) ).

Bob