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 |
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