Government of India sponsors exposure trip for Indian Players

The All India Chess Federation is pleased to inform that the Government of India, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports has approved to sponsor the Indian Chess Team in Aeroflot Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament to be held at Moscow, Russia from 18-Feb-19 to 1-Mar-19 for 33 members (15 men + 14 women + 4 coaches) at full cost to Government.

The composition of the Team as under:-


	Senior Open
1	GM Lalith Babu M.R
2	GM Aravindh Chithambaram
3	GM Karthikeyan Murali
4	GM Debashis Das
5	GM S.L Narayanan
6	IM Nitin S

	Senior Women
1	IM Padmini Rout
2	WGM Mary Ann Gomes
3	IM Soumya Swaminathan
4	WIM Nandhidhaa P.V

	Junior Open
1	GM Karthik Venkataraman
2	IM Krishna Teja N
3	Pranavananda V
4	IM Raja Rithvik R
5	Sammed Jaykumar Shete

	Junior Girls
1	WIM Mahalakshmi M
2	WIM Chitlange Sakshi
3	WCM Isha Sharma
4	Sunyuktha CMN
5	Priyanka K

	Sub Junior Open
1	Sankalp Gupta
2	Koustav Chatterjee
3	IM Iniyan P
4	CM Aronyak Ghosh

	Sub Junior Girls
1	WIM Divya Deshmukh
2	Sanskrit Goyal
3	WFM Aashna Makhija
4	Samriddhaa Ghosh
5	WFM Bommini Mounika Akshaya

	Officials
1	GM R.B Ramesh (Coach)
2	IM Sekhar Sahu (Coach)
3	FT Jayant Gokhale (Coach)
4	FI Gagan Chitkara (Coach)

The Government of India is coming forward to empower chess players to reach their full potential. This step will ensure the players to participate in the best Grandmaster Open in the World.

Aeroflot Open 2019 A

Starting rank

No.		Name	FideID	FED	Rtg	Typ
1	GM	Wei Yi	8603405	CHN	2733
2	GM	Wang Hao	8602883	CHN	2714
3	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	24101605	RUS	2709
4	GM	Mamedov Rauf	13401653	AZE	2703
5	GM	Inarkiev Ernesto	4162722	RUS	2692
6	GM	Korobov Anton	14105730	UKR	2687
7	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	5004985	IND	2678
8	GM	Maghsoodloo Parham	12539929	IRI	2666
9	GM	Sjugirov Sanan	4189302	RUS	2663
10	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	5021596	IND	2651
11	GM	Zvjaginsev Vadim	4113403	RUS	2642
12	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	5002150	IND	2636
13	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	4135539	RUS	2634
14	GM	Indjic Aleksandar	911925	SRB	2630
15	GM	Sarana Alexey	24133795	RUS	2630
16	GM	Kobalia Mikhail	4119150	RUS	2627
17	GM	Paravyan David	4194985	RUS	2627
18	GM	Grachev Boris	4129199	RUS	2626
19	GM	Firouzja Alireza	12573981	IRI	2618	U18
20	GM	Van Foreest Jorden	1039784	NED	2618
21	GM	Martirosyan Haik M.	13306553	ARM	2616
22	GM	Zhou Jianchao	8603537	CHN	2615
23	GM	Chigaev Maksim	4108116	RUS	2613
24	GM	Goganov Aleksey	24109959	RUS	2612
25	GM	Lupulescu Constantin	1207822	ROU	2610
26	GM	Idani Pouya	12510130	IRI	2604
27	GM	Jumabayev Rinat	13702661	KAZ	2604
28	GM	Deac Bogdan-Daniel	1226380	ROU	2603	U18
29	GM	Gordievsky Dmitry	24112798	RUS	2603
30	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	5072786	IND	2601