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The International Chess Open Festival "Aeroflot Open 2005" in Moscow runs from Feb. 15-23. It is being held in the Hotel Rossija, directly next to the Red Square. Games start at 3 p.m. Moscow time. There are four groups: Tournament A1 for players with a FIDE rating higher than 2549; Tournament A2 for players between 2399-2550; Tournament B 2199-2400; Tournament C below 2200. The time controls are 40/2, 20/1 + 15 minutes/rest (tournament B and C: 90'+30" for the whole game).
After three rounds the veteran Ukrainian grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk and 36-year-old GM Andrei Kharlov from Russia are in the lead. We cannot tell you very much more, since only a selection of games has become available. Well, it is a step in the right direction – last year no games were made available during the event. The only thing the very frugal official site has to offer is all results (but no cross table). We bring you these in all modesty for Tournament A1. You can browse through the tables and monitor the progress of your favourite players. We also bring you a selection of games we have received. Oh, yes, and some pictures from Moscow we received from our correspondent Michael Knyazkov (the official site has lots of pictures from last year's event)
The giant hotel Rossija, the biggest in Europe, where the tournament is
being held
The entrance with the chess poster – and taxies in the Russian winter
A view from the tournament venue, with the Kremlin and the landmark St Bartholomew's
cathedral
Part of the giant playing area in the Rossija Hotel
Players in action at the Aeroflot Open 2005
Watching the action on the transmission screens
Games in play, with Vitaly Tseshkovsky vs Alexander Motylev in the foreground
and lanky Loek van Wely (vs Ferenc Berkes) at the end of the table.
In the middle: Teimour Radjabov on his way to beating Artashes Minasian in
round three
Kateryna Lahno just about to win her game with black to reach 2.5/3.0 points
22-year-old Mikhail Panarin, known on Playchess as "Topotun"
| Jakovenko, Dmitry | Bacrot, Etienne | 0-1 |
| Ivanchuk, Vassily | Riazantsev, Alexander | 1-0 |
| Solak, Dragan | Ponomariov, Ruslan | 1/2 |
| Akopian, Vladimir | Dvoirys, Semen I. | 1-0 |
| Galkin, Alexander | Aronian, Levon | 1/2 |
| Bologan, Viktor | Ivanov, Alexander | 1-0 |
| Amonatov, Farrukh | Van Wely, Loek | 1/2 |
| Sakaev, Konstantin | Lastin, Alexander | 1-0 |
| Popov, Valerij | Tkachiev, Vladislav | 1/2 |
| Vaganian, Rafael A | Minasian, Artashes | 1/2 |
| Bocharov, Dmitry | Sutovsky, Emil | 1/2 |
| Radjabov, Teimour | Ganguly, Surya Shekhar | 1/2 |
| Kotronias, Vasilios | Motylev, Alexander | 0-1 |
| Malakhov, Vladimir | Yakovich, Yuri | 1-0 |
| Belov, Vladimir | Khalifman, Alexander | 1/2 |
| Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | Al-Modiahki, Mohamad | 1-0 |
| Tseshkovsky, Vitaly | Sasikiran, Krishnan | 1-0 |
| Zvjaginsev, Vadim | Sorokin, Maxim | 0-1 |
| Shaposhnikov, Evgeny | Smirnov, Pavel | 1/2 |
| Eljanov, Pavel | Kulaots, Kaido | 1/2 |
| Guseinov, Gadir | Beliavsky, Alexander G | 1/2 |
| Sadvakasov, Darmen | Ivanov, Sergey | 1-0 |
| Kornev, Alexei | Kobalia, Mikhail | 1/2 |
| Kaidanov, Gregory S | David, Alberto | 0-1 |
| Areshchenko, Alexander | Tregubov, Pavel V. | 1-0 |
| Ni, Hua | Markowski, Tomasz | 1-0 |
| Yermolinsky, Alex | Kempinski, Robert | 1/2 |
| Najer, Evgeniy | Anastasian, Ashot | 0-1 |
| Neverov, Valeriy | Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan | 1/2 |
| Naiditsch, Arkadij | Petrosian, Tigran L. | 1-0 |
| Azarov, Sergei | Ehlvest, Jaan | 1/2 |
| Filippov, Valerij | Kuzubov, Yuriy | 1/2 |
| Roiz, Michael | Timofeev, Artyom | 1/2 |
| Iordachescu, Viorel | Vasquez, Rodrigo | 0-1 |
| Atalik, Suat | Epishin, Vladimir | 1/2 |
| Kharlov, Andrei | Romanishin, Oleg M | 1-0 |
| Nataf, Igor-Alexandre | Volkov, Sergey | 0-1 |
| Berkes, Ferenc | Postny, Evgeny | 1-0 |
| --- | --- | - |
| Bu, Xiangzhi | Sandipan, Chanda | 1/2 |
| Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | Izoria, Zviad | 1/2 |
| Shabalov, Alexander | Lugovoi, Aleksei | 0-1 |
| Erenburg, Sergey | Fedorov, Alexei | 0-1 |
| Asrian, Karen | Wang, Yue | 1/2 |
| Kurnosov, Igor | Gyimesi, Zoltan | 1-0 |
| Inarkiev, Ernesto | Fontaine, Robert | 1-0 |
| L'Ami, Erwin | Sargissian, Gabriel | 0-1 |
| Efimenko, Zahar | Zhao, Jun | 1-0 |
| Kosteniuk, Alexandra | Karjakin, Sergey | 1/2 |
| Kotsur, Pavel | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | 1-0 |
| Galliamova, Alisa | Rustemov, Alexander | 1-0 |
| Bacrot, Etienne (1) | Berkes, Ferenc (1) | 1/2 |
| Fedorov, Alexei (1) | Ivanchuk, Vassily (1) | 0-1 |
| Inarkiev, Ernesto (1) | Akopian, Vladimir (1) | 1/2 |
| Sargissian, Gabriel (1) | Bologan, Viktor (1) | 1/2 |
| Efimenko, Zahar (1) | Sakaev, Konstantin (1) | 1/2 |
| Motylev, Alexander (1) | Kotsur, Pavel (1) | 1/2 |
| Sorokin, Maxim (1) | Malakhov, Vladimir (1) | 1/2 |
| David, Alberto (1) | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (1) | 1/2 |
| Sasikiran, Krishnan (0) | Areshchenko, Alexander (1) | 0-1 |
| Anastasian, Ashot (1) | Sadvakasov, Darmen (1) | 1/2 |
| Vasquez, Rodrigo (1) | Ni, Hua (1) | 0-1 |
| Lugovoi, Aleksei (1) | Naiditsch, Arkadij (1) | 1-0 |
| Kurnosov, Igor (1) | Kharlov, Andrei (1) | 0-1 |
| Volkov, Sergey (1) | Galliamova, Alisa (1) | 1-0 |
| Ponomariov, Ruslan (0,5) | Galkin, Alexander (0,5) | 1/2 |
| Aronian, Levon (0,5) | Solak, Dragan (0,5) | 1-0 |
| Van Wely, Loek (0,5) | Popov, Valerij (0,5) | 1-0 |
| Minasian, Artashes (0,5) | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter (0,5) | 1/2 |
| Ganguly, Surya Shekhar (0,5) | Vaganian, Rafael A (0,5) | 1/2 |
| Sutovsky, Emil (0,5) | Amonatov, Farrukh (0,5) | 1-0 |
| Kulaots, Kaido (0,5) | Radjabov, Teimour (0,5) | 1/2 |
| Khalifman, Alexander (0,5) | Bocharov, Dmitry (0,5) | 1/2 |
| Smirnov, Pavel (0,5) | Belov, Vladimir (0,5) | 1/2 |
| Kuzubov, Yuriy (0,5) | Eljanov, Pavel (0,5) | 0-1 |
| Beliavsky, Alexander G (0,5) | Shaposhnikov, Evgeny (0,5) | 1-0 |
| Kobalia, Mikhail (0,5) | Guseinov, Gadir (0,5) | 1/2 |
| Kempinski, Robert (0,5) | Kornev, Alexei (0,5) | 1/2 |
| Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan (0,5) | Yermolinsky, Alex (0,5) | 0-1 |
| Ehlvest, Jaan (0,5) | Neverov, Valeriy (0,5) | 1-0 |
| Nyback, Tomi (0,5) | Filippov, Valerij (0,5) | 0-1 |
| Timofeev, Artyom (0,5) | Azarov, Sergei (0,5) | 1/2 |
| Epishin, Vladimir (0,5) | Roiz, Michael (0,5) | 1/2 |
| Tkachiev, Vladislav (0,5) | Atalik, Suat (0,5) | 1/2 |
| Wang, Yue (0,5) | Bu, Xiangzhi (0,5) | 1/2 |
| Izoria, Zviad (0,5) | Kosteniuk, Alexandra (0,5) | 1-0 |
| Sandipan, Chanda (0,5) | Asrian, Karen (0,5) | 1/2 |
| Karjakin, Sergey (0,5) | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw (0,5) | 1-0 |
| Yakovich, Yuri (0) | Zvjaginsev, Vadim (0) | 0-1 |
| Al-Modiahki, Mohamad (0) | Kaidanov, Gregory S (0) | 1/2 |
| Tregubov, Pavel V. (0) | Tseshkovsky, Vitaly (1) | 1/2 |
| Ivanov, Sergey (0) | Najer, Evgeniy (0) | 1/2 |
| Markowski, Tomasz (0) | Iordachescu, Viorel (0) | 1/2 |
| Petrosian, Tigran L. (0) | Shabalov, Alexander (0) | 1-0 |
| Gyimesi, Zoltan (0) | Romanishin, Oleg M (0) | 1-0 |
| Rustemov, Alexander (0) | Nataf, Igor-Alexandre (0) | 1/2 |
| Postny, Evgeny (0) | Jakovenko, Dmitry (0) | 1-0 |
| Riazantsev, Alexander (0) | Erenburg, Sergey (0) | 1-0 |
| Dvoirys, Semen I. (0) | Fontaine, Robert (0) | 1-0 |
| Ivanov, Alexander (0) | L'Ami, Erwin (0) | 1-0 |
| Lastin, Alexander (0) | Zhao, Jun (0) | 1/2 |
| Nepomniachtchi, Ian (0) | Kotronias, Vasilios (0) | 1/2 |
| Ivanchuk, Vassily | 2 |
Volkov, Sergey | 2 |
1-0 |
| Ni, Hua | 2 |
Areshchenko, Alexander | 2 |
1/2 |
| Kharlov, Andrei | 2 |
Lugovoi, Aleksei | 2 |
1-0 |
| Ehlvest, Jaan | 1,5 |
Bacrot, Etienne | 1,5 |
1/2 |
| Akopian, Vladimir | 1,5 |
Izoria, Zviad | 1,5 |
1-0 |
| Filippov, Valerij | 1,5 |
Aronian, Levon | 1,5 |
1-0 |
| Bologan, Viktor | 1,5 |
Inarkiev, Ernesto | 1,5 |
1-0 |
| Berkes, Ferenc | 1,5 |
Van Wely, Loek | 1,5 |
0-1 |
| Sakaev, Konstantin | 1,5 |
Sargissian, Gabriel | 1,5 |
1/2 |
| Kotsur, Pavel | 1,5 |
Sutovsky, Emil | 1,5 |
0-1 |
| Tseshkovsky, Vitaly | 1,5 |
Motylev, Alexander | 1,5 |
1/2 |
| Malakhov, Vladimir | 1,5 |
Efimenko, Zahar | 1,5 |
1/2 |
| Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | 1,5 |
Karjakin, Sergey | 1,5 |
1-0 |
| Eljanov, Pavel | 1,5 |
Sorokin, Maxim | 1,5 |
1-0 |
| Yermolinsky, Alex | 1,5 |
Beliavsky, Alexander G | 1,5 |
1/2 |
| Sadvakasov, Darmen | 1,5 |
David, Alberto | 1,5 |
0-1 |
| Ponomariov, Ruslan | 1 |
Anastasian, Ashot | 1,5 |
1/2 |
| Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | 1 |
Ivanov, Alexander | 1 |
1-0 |
| Vaganian, Rafael A | 1 |
Kulaots, Kaido | 1 |
1-0 |
| Radjabov, Teimour | 1 |
Minasian, Artashes | 1 |
1-0 |
| Galkin, Alexander | 1 |
Khalifman, Alexander | 1 |
0-1 |
| Zvjaginsev, Vadim | 1 |
Ganguly, Surya Shekhar | 1 |
1/2 |
| Bocharov, Dmitry | 1 |
Smirnov, Pavel | 1 |
1/2 |
| Belov, Vladimir | 1 |
Kobalia, Mikhail | 1 |
0-1 |
| Guseinov, Gadir | 1 |
Kempinski, Robert | 1 |
1/2 |
| Naiditsch, Arkadij | 1 |
Vasquez, Rodrigo | 1 |
1/2 |
| Kornev, Alexei | 1 |
Timofeev, Artyom | 1 |
0-1 |
| Petrosian, Tigran L. | 1 |
Epishin, Vladimir | 1 |
1-0 |
| Azarov, Sergei | 1 |
Tkachiev, Vladislav | 1 |
1-0 |
| Bu, Xiangzhi | 1 |
Postny, Evgeny | 1 |
1/2 |
| Roiz, Michael | 1 |
Fedorov, Alexei | 1 |
1/2 |
| Asrian, Karen | 1 |
Kurnosov, Igor | 1 |
1-0 |
| Atalik, Suat | 1 |
Gyimesi, Zoltan | 1 |
1/2 |
| Sandipan, Chanda | 1 |
Riazantsev, Alexander | 1 |
1/2 |
| Galliamova, Alisa | 1 |
Dvoirys, Semen I. | 1 |
1/2 |
| Kaidanov, Gregory S | 0,5 |
Wang, Yue | 1 |
1-0 |
| Shaposhnikov, Evgeny | 0,5 |
Tregubov, Pavel V. | 0,5 |
0-1 |
| Najer, Evgeniy | 0,5 |
Markowski, Tomasz | 0,5 |
1-0 |
| Nataf, Igor-Alexandre | 0,5 |
Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan | 0,5 |
1/2 |
| Iordachescu, Viorel | 0,5 |
Ivanov, Sergey | 0,5 |
1-0 |
| Neverov, Valeriy | 0,5 |
Rustemov, Alexander | 0,5 |
0-1 |
| Solak, Dragan | 0,5 |
Kuzubov, Yuriy | 0,5 |
1/2 |
| Amonatov, Farrukh | 0,5 |
Nyback, Tomi | 0,5 |
0-1 |
| Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | 0,5 |
Lastin, Alexander | 0,5 |
1/2 |
| Popov, Valerij | 0,5 |
Nepomniachtchi, Ian | 0,5 |
1-0 |
| Zhao, Jun | 0,5 |
Kotronias, Vasilios | 0,5 |
0-1 |
| Kosteniuk, Alexandra | 0,5 |
Al-Modiahki, Mohamad | 0,5 |
1-0 |
| Romanishin, Oleg M | 0 |
Sasikiran, Krishnan | 0 |
1/2 |
| Shabalov, Alexander | 0 |
Erenburg, Sergey | 0 |
1/2 |
| Fontaine, Robert | 0 |
Jakovenko, Dmitry | 0 |
1-0 |
| L'Ami, Erwin | 0 |
Yakovich, Yuri | 0 |
0-1 |
ChessBase reports from previous years
