Aeroflot Chess 2011: Defending champion Le Quang leads with perfect score after 3 rounds
Chess blog for latest news and trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hi everyone,
The tenth Aeroflot Chess Open 2011 is in full swing, in Moscow, in three sections. Le Quang Liem - last year's winner - is leading with a perfect score of three wins in three rounds. He takes on top see Gata Kamsky in the next round.
The Aeroflot Chess Festival runs from February 7 to 18 February 2011 with a total prize fund of 125 thousand Euros. The A event is reserved for players rated 2550 and above, and boasts 20 thousand Euros for first prize,, plus the the winner of the A tournament will be entitled to participate in the round-robin Super Tournament in Dortmund in the second half of July 2011. The B event is reserved for players rated between 2300 and 2549, and has a first prize of ten thousand Euros. The C event is for players rated under 2300, or unrated players, and has a first prize of 3500 Euros. Finally there will also be a qualifier for the World Blitz Championship.
Here are some nice games for you. Enjoy. Just use the dropdown menu to select the game you want to view. Our enhanced game viewer works on everything - from Ipad to your regular laptop. :)
Standings after three rounds
Rk. Name Pts Fed. Rtg Perf.
1 GM Le, Quang Liem 3.0 VIE 2664 3297
2 GM Kamsky, Gata 2.5 USA 2730 2909
3 GM Jakovenko, Dmitry 2.5 RUS 2718 2883
4 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny 2.5 RUS 2695 2876
5 GM Riazantsev, Alexander 2.5 RUS 2689 2898
6 GM Kasimdzhanov, Rustam 2.5 UZB 2681 2881
7 GM Kobalia, Mikhail 2.5 RUS 2666 2841
8 GM Mamedov, Rauf 2.5 AZE 2660 2798
9 GM Shomoev, Anton 2.5 RUS 2557 2947
10 IM Fedoseev, Vladimir 2.5 RUS 2505 2924
11 GM Movsesian, Sergei 2.0 ARM 2721 2745
12 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2.0 FRA 2715 2729
13 GM Vitiugov, Nikita 2.0 RUS 2709 2712
14 GM Bologan, Viktor 2.0 MDA 2693 2716
15 GM Timofeev, Artyom 2.0 RUS 2681 2698
16 GM Volokitin, Andrei 2.0 UKR 2678 2711
17 GM Grachev, Boris 2.0 RUS 2660 2692
18 GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim 2.0 RUS 2660 2644
19 GM Zhou, Jianchao 2.0 CHN 2655 2705
20 GM Khismatullin, Denis 2.0 RUS 2649 2777
21 GM Salgado Lopez, Ivan 2.0 ESP 2626 2744
22 GM Ragger, Markus 2.0 AUT 2615 2613
23 GM Lenic, Luka 2.0 SLO 2613 2720
24 GM Grigoryan, Avetik 2.0 ARM 2595 2811
25 GM Hess, Robert L 2.0 USA 2572 2787
From Alexandra Kosteniuk's
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Hi everyone,
The tenth Aeroflot Chess Open 2011 is in full swing, in Moscow, in three sections. Le Quang Liem - last year's winner - is leading with a perfect score of three wins in three rounds. He takes on top see Gata Kamsky in the next round.
The Aeroflot Chess Festival runs from February 7 to 18 February 2011 with a total prize fund of 125 thousand Euros. The A event is reserved for players rated 2550 and above, and boasts 20 thousand Euros for first prize,, plus the the winner of the A tournament will be entitled to participate in the round-robin Super Tournament in Dortmund in the second half of July 2011. The B event is reserved for players rated between 2300 and 2549, and has a first prize of ten thousand Euros. The C event is for players rated under 2300, or unrated players, and has a first prize of 3500 Euros. Finally there will also be a qualifier for the World Blitz Championship.
Here are some nice games for you. Enjoy. Just use the dropdown menu to select the game you want to view. Our enhanced game viewer works on everything - from Ipad to your regular laptop. :)
Standings after three rounds
Rk. Name Pts Fed. Rtg Perf.
1 GM Le, Quang Liem 3.0 VIE 2664 3297
2 GM Kamsky, Gata 2.5 USA 2730 2909
3 GM Jakovenko, Dmitry 2.5 RUS 2718 2883
4 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny 2.5 RUS 2695 2876
5 GM Riazantsev, Alexander 2.5 RUS 2689 2898
6 GM Kasimdzhanov, Rustam 2.5 UZB 2681 2881
7 GM Kobalia, Mikhail 2.5 RUS 2666 2841
8 GM Mamedov, Rauf 2.5 AZE 2660 2798
9 GM Shomoev, Anton 2.5 RUS 2557 2947
10 IM Fedoseev, Vladimir 2.5 RUS 2505 2924
11 GM Movsesian, Sergei 2.0 ARM 2721 2745
12 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2.0 FRA 2715 2729
13 GM Vitiugov, Nikita 2.0 RUS 2709 2712
14 GM Bologan, Viktor 2.0 MDA 2693 2716
15 GM Timofeev, Artyom 2.0 RUS 2681 2698
16 GM Volokitin, Andrei 2.0 UKR 2678 2711
17 GM Grachev, Boris 2.0 RUS 2660 2692
18 GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim 2.0 RUS 2660 2644
19 GM Zhou, Jianchao 2.0 CHN 2655 2705
20 GM Khismatullin, Denis 2.0 RUS 2649 2777
21 GM Salgado Lopez, Ivan 2.0 ESP 2626 2744
22 GM Ragger, Markus 2.0 AUT 2615 2613
23 GM Lenic, Luka 2.0 SLO 2613 2720
24 GM Grigoryan, Avetik 2.0 ARM 2595 2811
25 GM Hess, Robert L 2.0 USA 2572 2787
From Alexandra Kosteniuk's
www.chessblog.com
Also see her personal blog at
www.chessqueen.com
Labels: Aeroflot Chess Open 2011, chess blog
posted by Chess Blog Admin @ 8:54 AM
5 Comments:
At February 11, 2011 at 12:58 PM ,
Glenn said...
Are you playing in the B group? What is your score so far?
At February 11, 2011 at 1:46 PM ,
Alexandra Kosteniuk said...
I'm playing in the A Group. Up to now I drew my games against GM's Mareco (2627) & Deviatkin (2573), but lost to GM's Salgado Lopez (2626) & Kotronias (2599).
At February 12, 2011 at 10:44 PM ,
Glenn said...
This is a tough group to play in. I see you won your Rd 5 game against Vocaturo. Congratulations! I have a small complaint to the Aeroflot webmaster though. The PGN for this game doesn't appear in the download when you get the A group PGN files.
At February 12, 2011 at 10:53 PM ,
Alexandra Kosteniuk said...
The pgn will probably show up tomorrow on the aeroflotchess web site.
At February 13, 2011 at 8:42 AM ,
Andrew, London said...
Kosteniuk was right, the pgn file is now complete on the web. Here is her win against GM Vocaturo. Very powerful play, I should say,
[Event "Aeroflot Open 2011 A"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "2011.02.12"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Kosteniuk, Alexandra"]
[Black "Vocaturo, Daniele"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C93"]
[WhiteElo "2498"]
[BlackElo "2570"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 h6 10.d4 Re8 11.Nbd2 Bf8 12.Nf1 Bd7 13.Ng3 Na5
14.Bc2 Nc4 15.b3 Nb6 16.Bb2 c5 17.dxc5 dxc5 18.c4 Qc7 19.Bd3
Nc8 20.Nf1 Na7 21.Ne3 b4 22.Nd5 Qd6 23.Bc2 Bc8 24.Nxe5 Rxe5 25.f4
Rxd5 26.cxd5 Qxf4 27.e5 Nh7 28.Qd3 Ng5 29.Rf1 Qh4 30.e6 Nb5 31.Rxf7
Nd6 32.Qg6 Nxh3+ 33.Kf1 Nf5 34.Rxf8+ 1-0
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