Aeroflot Open 2010 has started in Moscow

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2/9/2010 – The 9th Aeroflot Open is taking place from Feb. 9–18, 2010, in the tourist complex Izmailovo Hotel Gamma-Delta. The prize sum is EUR 180,000. There are four open tournaments (A1, A2, B and C) which are made up according to the rating of the participants. The A1 tournament has players with a rating of 2550 or higher. Results and games of round one.
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The 9th Aeroflot Open is taking place from February 9th to 18th, 2010, for the fifth year in succession in the tourist complex Izmailovo Hotel Gamma-Delta, where most of the participants also stay. The prize sum is EUR 180,000, including prizes for the World Blitz Qualification Tournament. Four Open Tournaments (A1, A2, B and C) are made up according to the rating of the participants. The A1 tournament has players with a rating of 2550 or higher.

Time controls: for tournament A1 and A2 it is 40 moves in 100 minutes, then 20 moves in 50 minutes, finally 15 minutes for the remaining moves, with an increment of 30 seconds per move from move one. For tournaments B and C: 90 minutes for the whole game with an increment of 30 seconds per move from move one.

Results of Tournament A1 Round one

1 GM Andriasian, Zaven ARM
½-½
 2613 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2730
2 GM Bacrot, Etienne FRA
1-0
 2713 GM Potkin, Vladimir RUS 2611
3 GM Shabalov, Alexander USA
0-1
 2611 GM Motylev, Alexander RUS 2697
4 GM Kamsky, Gata USA
½-½
 2693 GM Sjugirov, Sanan RUS 2610
5 GM Khairullin, Ildar RUS
½-½
 2605 GM Volokitin, Andrei UKR 2692
6 GM Naiditsch, Arkadij GER
½-½
 2687 GM Ehlvest, Jaan USA 2600
7 GM Zhou, Weiqi CHN
½-½
 2600 GM Sargissian, Gabriel ARM 2680
8 GM Moiseenko, Alexander UKR
½-½
 2677 GM Romanov, Evgeny RUS 2599
9 GM Belov, Vladimir RUS
0-1
 2595 GM Bu, Xiangzhi CHN 2673
10 GM Smirin, Ilia ISR
½-½
 2668 GM Lenic, Luka SLO 2595
11 GM Bocharov, Dmitry RUS
½-½
 2594 GM Zhigalko, Sergei BLR 2668
12 GM Najer, Evgeniy RUS
1-0
 2665 GM Safarli, Eltaj AZE 2594
13 GM Lopez Martinez, Josep ESP
0-1
 2593 GM Cheparinov, Ivan BUL 2660
14 GM Vescovi, Giovanni BRA
1-0
 2660 GM Maletin, Pavel RUS 2591
15 GM Rakhmanov, Aleksandr RUS
1-0
 2591 GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS 2658
16 GM Efimenko, Zahar UKR
1-0
 2657 GM Hou, Yifan CHN 2590
17 GM Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan IRI
½-½
 2589 GM So, Wesley PHI 2656
18 GM Grachev, Boris RUS
1-0
 2653 GM Salgado Lopez, Ivan ESP 2584
19 GM Melkumyan, Hrant ARM
½-½
 2583 GM Sasikiran, Krishnan IND 2653
20 GM Timofeev, Artyom RUS
1-0
 2652 GM Feller, Sebastien FRA 2579
21 GM Svetushkin, Dmitry MDA
½-½
 2573 GM Dreev, Alexey RUS 2650
22 GM Korobov, Anton UKR
½-½
 2648 GM Yudin, Sergei RUS 2573
23 GM Ragger, Markus AUT
0-1
 2568 GM Le, Quang Liem VIE 2647
24 GM Pashikian, Arman ARM
1-0
 2647 GM Vazquez Igarza, Renier ESP 2563
25 GM Morovic Fernandez, Ivan CHI
½-½
 2561 GM Bareev, Evgeny RUS 2643
26 GM Predojevic, Borki BIH
½-½
 2642 GM Grigoriants, Sergey RUS 2560
27 GM Shomoev, Anton RUS
½-½
 2559 GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim RUS 2642
28 GM Van Wely, Loek NED
½-½
 2641 GM Novikov, Stanislav RUS 2557
29 GM Laylo, Darwin PHI
0-1
 2556 GM Mamedov, Rauf AZE 2640
30 GM Savchenko, Boris RUS
1-0
 2638 GM Iljushin, Alexei RUS 2551
31 IM Papin, Vasily RUS
½-½
 2548 GM Kobalia, Mikhail RUS 2637
32 GM Amonatov, Farrukh TJK
0-1
 2634 IM Kosintseva, Nadezhda RUS 2533
33 GM Ajrapetjan, Yuriy UKR
½-½
 2525 GM Zhou, Jianchao CHN 2632
34 GM Tregubov, Pavel V. RUS
½-½
 2628 IM Danin, Alexandre RUS 2519
35 GM Kosintseva, Tatiana RUS
1-0
 2515 GM Volkov, Sergey RUS 2623
36 GM Rodshtein, Maxim ISR
1-0
 2622 GM Khusnutdinov, Rustam KAZ 2513
37 IM Krylov, Mikhail RUS
1-0
 2511 GM Iturrizaga, Eduardo VEN 2616
38 GM Khalifman, Alexander RUS
1-0
 2616 GM Sebag, Marie FRA 2510
39 IM Javakhishvili, Lela GEO
½-½
 2493 GM McShane, Luke J ENG 2616
40 GM Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son VIE
½-½
 2616 GM Salem, A.R. Saleh UAE 2484

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