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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Aeroflot Chess 2011 R5 - Le Quang leads with nice win over Kamsky

Chess blog for latest news and trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011

Hello everyone,

Defending champion Liem Le Quang is on a roll at the Aeroflot Chess Open 2011 in the A group. He has already notched up a good 4.5/5 to lead which includes a nice point scored off American Grandmaster and top seed Gata Kamsky.

As you know Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk is also playing in the Group A and has notched up interesting wins. The 10th edition of the International Chess Festival 'Aeroflot Open 2011' is underway in Moscow, and runs February 7 to 18 February 2011. The event includes three nine-round opens, which encompass all ratings together, and have 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, Furthermore 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.

You can keep track of the tournament also at the official website of www.aeroflotchess.com.

Here are the top standings after five rounds:

Rk.
Name
Pts
Fed.
Rtg
Perf
1
Quang Liem
4.5
VIE
2664
2988
2
Kobalia, Mikhail
4.0
RUS
2666
2862
3
Tomashevsky, Evgeny
4.0
RUS
2695
2846
4
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam
4.0
UZB
2681
2797
5
Zhou, Jianchao
4.0
CHN
2655
2808
6
Salgado Lopez, Ivan
3.5
ESP
2626
2803
7
Khismatullin, Denis
3.5
RUS
2649
2794
8
Vitiugov, Nikita
3.5
RUS
2709
2756
9
Zvjaginsev, Vadim
3.5
RUS
2660
2695
10
Jakovenko, Dmitry
3.5
RUS
2718
2780
11
Mamedov, Rauf
3.5
AZE
2660
2750
12
Kurnosov, Igor
3.5
RUS
2662
2724
13
Hess, Robert L
3.0
USA
2572
2741
14
Papin, Vasily
3.0
RUS
2568
2730
15
Fedoseev, Vladimir
3.0
RUS
2505
2730
16
Bukavshin, Ivan
3.0
RUS
2458
2725
17
Kamsky, Gata
3.0
USA
2730
2715
18
Kotsur, Pavel
3.0
KAZ
2559
2714
19
Sandipan, Chanda
3.0
IND
2641
2693
20
Yu, Yangyi
3.0
CHN
2607
2676

Here is the nice Liem-Kamsky game from Round 4.




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www.chessblog.com
Also see her personal blog at
www.chessqueen.com

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