The Aeroflot Open 2008 is taking place from February 13th to 22nd. The venue and official hotel the "Gamma-Delta" Hotel, which can accomodate 3,500 guests. The festival consists of four tournaments, each a nine rounds Swiss Tournament. The total prize fund of the four tournaments is US $200,000 – $30,000 first place and $100,000 total in the top group.
| # | Player | Ti. | FED | Rtng | Pts. | Perf. | 1 | Rodshtein, Maxim | GM | ISR | 2614 | 4.5 | 2932 |
| 2 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | GM | RUS | 2600 | 4.5 | 2954 |
| 3 | Timofeev, Artyom | GM | RUS | 2664 | 4.0 | 2820 |
| 4 | Dreev, Alexey | GM | RUS | 2633 | 4.0 | 2814 |
| 5 | Volokitin, Andrei | GM | UKR | 2674 | 3.5 | 2702 |
| 6 | Motylev, Alexander | GM | RUS | 2644 | 3.5 | 2741 |
| 7 | Jobava, Baadur | GM | GEO | 2643 | 3.5 | 2716 |
| 8 | Asrian, Karen | GM | ARM | 2621 | 3.5 | 2697 |
| 9 | Guseinov, Gadir | GM | AZE | 2617 | 3.5 | 2728 |
| 10 | Grachev, Boris | GM | RUS | 2601 | 3.5 | 2720 |
| 11 | Bologan, Viktor | GM | MDA | 2663 | 3.0 | 2640 |
| 12 | Amonatov, Farrukh | GM | TJK | 2649 | 3.0 | 2648 |
| 13 | Sutovsky, Emil | GM | ISR | 2642 | 3.0 | 2645 |
| 14 | Predojevic, Borki | GM | BIH | 2641 | 3.0 | 2627 |
| 15 | Najer, Evgeniy | GM | RUS | 2634 | 3.0 | 2646 |
| 16 | Bocharov, Dmitry | GM | RUS | 2600 | 3.0 | 2647 |
| 17 | Grigoriants, Sergey | GM | RUS | 2583 | 3.0 | 2680 |
| 18 | Mamedov, Rauf | GM | AZE | 2583 | 3.0 | 2707 |
| 19 | Khismatullin, Denis | GM | RUS | 2564 | 3.0 | 2690 |
| 20 | Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son | GM | VIE | 2551 | 3.0 | 2701 |
| 21 | Romanov, Evgeny | GM | RUS | 2543 | 3.0 | 2691 |
| 22 | Le, Quang Liem | GM | VIE | 2540 | 3.0 | 2662 |
| 23 | Safarli, Eltaj | IM | AZE | 2496 | 3.0 | 2611 |
| 24 | Akopian, Vladimir | GM | ARM | 2700 | 2.5 | 2570 |
| 25 | Khalifman, Alexander | GM | RUS | 2638 | 2.5 | 2555 |
| 26 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | GM | GER | 2638 | 2.5 | 2564 |
| 27 | Riazantsev, Alexander | GM | RUS | 2628 | 2.5 | 2541 |
| 28 | Aleksandrov, Aleksej | GM | BLR | 2618 | 2.5 | 2578 |
| 29 | Azarov, Sergei | GM | BLR | 2594 | 2.5 | 2525 |
| 30 | Lysyj, Igor | GM | RUS | 2593 | 2.5 | 2520 |
| 31 | Iordachescu, Viorel | GM | MDA | 2586 | 2.5 | 2591 |
| 32 | Jussupow, Artur | GM | GER | 2585 | 2.5 | 2594 |
| 33 | Minasian, Artashes | GM | ARM | 2578 | 2.5 | 2594 |
| 34 | Parligras, Mircea | GM | ROU | 2574 | 2.5 | 2581 |
| 35 | Maletin, Pavel | GM | RUS | 2573 | 2.5 | 2623 |
| 36 | Evdokimov, Alexander | GM | RUS | 2569 | 2.5 | 2630 |
| 37 | Shomoev, Anton | GM | RUS | 2562 | 2.5 | 2635 |
| 38 | Zhou, Jianchao | GM | CHN | 2551 | 2.5 | 2635 |
| 39 | Frolyanov, Dmitry | GM | RUS | 2544 | 2.5 | 2623 |
| 40 | Hou, Yifan | WGM | CHN | 2527 | 2.5 | 2603 |
| 41 | Feller, Sebastien | GM | FRA | 2522 | 2.5 | 2618 |
| 42 | Pavlovic, Milos | GM | SRB | 2522 | 2.5 | 2598 |
| 43 | Sebag, Marie | IM | FRA | 2510 | 2.5 | 2607 |
| 44 | Bindrich, Falko | GM | GER | 2497 | 2.5 | 2589 |
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Picture Gallery by ChessProThe following pictures have been provided by our colleagues over at ChessPro. The Russian language site has extensive commentary of games from the Aeroflot and other tournaments.
The playing hall of the 2008 Aeroflot tournament in Moscow
2nd place: GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, RUS, 2600, 4.5/5, perf. 2954
4th place: GM Alexey Dreev, RUS, 2633 4.0/5, perf. 2814
5th place: GM Andrei Volokitin, UKR 2674, 3.5/5, perf. 2702
26th place: GM Arkadij Naiditsch, GER, 2638, 2.5/5, perf. 2564
31st place: GM Viorel Iordachescu, MDA, 2586, 2.5/5, perf. 2591
Young GMs: Falko Bindrich and Fabiano Caruana analysing
Top Ukrainian female player Anna Ushenina
Chinese super-talent Hou Yifan, who turns 14 next week
Chief Arbiter Geurt Geissen (back on his feet after a hip fracture in an
earlier Russian tournament) and Aeroflot chief organiser Alexander Bakh
