Aeroflot - Open A - Bluvshtein

[Bob Armstrong]

Aeroflot - Open A
- Moscow, Russia.

Here are the top 15 seeds:

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
6 Tomashevsky, Evgeny GM RUS 2695 4147235
7 Sutovsky, Emil GM ISR 2695 2802007
8 Bologan, Viktor GM MDA 2693 13900048
9 Riazantsev, Alexander GM RUS 2689 4125029
10 Andreikin, Dmitry GM RUS 2689 4158814
11 Motylev, Alexander GM RUS 2687 4121830
12 Timofeev, Artyom GM RUS 2681 4140419
13 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam GM UZB 2681 14200244
14 Volokitin, Andrei GM UKR 2678 14107090
15 So, Wesley GM PHI 2673 5202213

There are 69 players above 2550 ELO.

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.



Today Rd. 1 starts.

Here are the opening moves of Mark's game with White on Bd. 9 against the Russian GM Dimitry Andreikin, rated just under 2700 ( at 2689 - 10th seed ):



[Event "Aeroflot Open A"]
[Site "Moscow RUS"]
[Date "2011.02.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Bluvshtein, M."]
[Black "Andreikin, D."]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "E46"]
[WhiteElo "2590"]
[BlackElo "2689"]
[PlyCount "26"]
[EventDate "2011.02.08"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Nge2 d5 6. a3 Be7 7. Ng3 c5 8. dxc5 dxc4 9. Qc2 Qa5 10. Bxc4 Qxc5 11. Bd3 Nbd7 12. O-O Ne5 13. Be2 b6 *

10:20 AM EST Update - at move 28, Stockfish gives Dmitry almost a full pawn advantage, despite material equality.

On Bd. 35, Thomas faces Argentinian GM Sandro Mareco ( 2627 ).

We'll provide results later in the day.

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 9:00 AM, EST ( I think ).

Bob