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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.
After two rounds of play three players have perfect scores. They are followed by 22 with a win and a draw each. One of these is our young friend Fabiano Caruana, who beat GM Milos Pavlovic in the second round with the black pieces:
Pavlovic,Milos (2522) - Caruana,F (2598) [D11]
Aeroflot Open Moscow RUS (2), 15.02.2008
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 c6 4.e3 Bg4 5.h3 Bxf3 6.Qxf3 e6 7.Bd3 Nbd7 8.0-0
Bd6 9.Nc3 0-0 10.Qd1 Qe7 11.Bd2 dxc4 12.Bxc4 e5 13.Bb3 Rad8 14.Qc2 Bb8 15.Ne2
Nb6 16.dxe5 Qxe5 17.Ng3 Qg5 18.Ne2 Qe5 19.Ng3 Qg5 20.Ne2 Nbd5 21.Rad1 Rfe8 22.Nd4
Ne4 23.Nf3 Qf5 24.Ba5 Rd6 25.Nd4 Qd7 26.Rfe1 Rg6 27.Kf1 Rf6 28.Nf3 Rf5 29.Rd4
Qe7 30.Red1?
30...Nxe3+ 31.fxe3 Ng3+ 32.Kg1 Qxe3+ 33.Qf2 Ne2+ 34.Kf1 Ng3+ 35.Kg1 Ne2+ 36.Kf1 Qxf2+ 37.Kxf2 Bg3+ 38.Kf1 Nxd4 0-1.
1 | GM | Dreev, Alexey | RUS | 2633 | 2.0 |
2 | GM | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | 2600 | 2.0 |
3 | GM | Feller, Sebastien | FRA | 2522 | 2.0 |
4 | GM | Timofeev, Artyom | RUS | 2664 | 1.5 |
5 | GM | Motylev, Alexander | RUS | 2644 | 1.5 |
6 | GM | Sutovsky, Emil | ISR | 2642 | 1.5 |
7 | GM | Naiditsch, Arkadij | GER | 2638 | 1.5 |
8 | GM | Najer, Evgeniy | RUS | 2634 | 1.5 |
9 | GM | Asrian, Karen | ARM | 2621 | 1.5 |
10 | GM | Aleksandrov, Aleksej | BLR | 2618 | 1.5 |
11 | GM | Guseinov, Gadir | AZE | 2617 | 1.5 |
12 | GM | Rodshtein, Maxim | ISR | 2614 | 1.5 |
13 | GM | Grachev, Boris | RUS | 2601 | 1.5 |
14 | GM | Bocharov, Dmitry | RUS | 2600 | 1.5 |
15 | GM | Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2598 | 1.5 |
16 | GM | Iordachescu, Viorel | MDA | 2586 | 1.5 |
17 | GM | Jussupow, Artur | GER | 2585 | 1.5 |
18 | GM | Grigoriants, Sergey | RUS | 2583 | 1.5 |
19 | GM | Evdokimov, Alexander A. | RUS | 2569 | 1.5 |
20 | GM | Shomoev, Anton | RUS | 2562 | 1.5 |
21 | GM | Zhigalko, Sergei | BLR | 2558 | 1.5 |
22 | GM | Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son | VIE | 2551 | 1.5 |
23 | GM | Zhou, Jianchao | CHN | 2551 | 1.5 |
24 | WGM | Hou, Yifan | CHN | 2527 | 1.5 |
25 | IM | Sebag, Marie | FRA | 2510 | 1.5 |
26 | GM | Akopian, Vladimir | ARM | 2700 | 1.0 |
27 | GM | Volokitin, Andrei | UKR | 2674 | 1.0 |
28 | GM | Bologan, Viktor | MDA | 2663 | 1.0 |
29 | GM | Amonatov, Farrukh | TJK | 2649 | 1.0 |
30 | GM | Jobava, Baadur | GEO | 2643 | 1.0 |
31 | GM | Khalifman, Alexander | RUS | 2638 | 1.0 |
32 | GM | Azarov, Sergei | BLR | 2594 | 1.0 |
33 | GM | Lysyj, Igor | RUS | 2593 | 1.0 |
34 | GM | Mamedov, Rauf | AZE | 2583 | 1.0 |
35 | GM | Minasian, Artashes | ARM | 2578 | 1.0 |
36 | GM | Balogh, Csaba | HUN | 2575 | 1.0 |
37 | GM | Maletin, Pavel | RUS | 2573 | 1.0 |
38 | GM | Khismatullin, Denis | RUS | 2564 | 1.0 |
39 | GM | Brkic, Ante | CRO | 2558 | 1.0 |
40 | GM | Zhigalko, Andrey | BLR | 2556 | 1.0 |
41 | GM | Romanov, Evgeny | RUS | 2543 | 1.0 |
42 | GM | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2540 | 1.0 |
43 | GM | Olafsson, Helgi | ISL | 2531 | 1.0 |
44 | IM | Melkumyan, Hrant | ARM | 2485 | 1.0 |