Aeroflot Open 2000 under way in Moscow

2/16/2008 – It will probably be the strongest open of the year, and 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. We bring you results and games from the first two rounds, and a number of video links that provide impressions of the tournament.

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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.

Top standings after two rounds

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