GM Sasikiran Krishnan leads the Aeroflot Open with 5/5

GM Sasikiran Krishnan [Photo: Eldar Mukhametov]

The fourth and fifth rounds of the category ‘A’ of Aeroflot Open 2019 were played in the Hotel Cosmos, Moscow on 23rd February. Having won against Maksim Chigaev (Russia) and Anton Korobov (Ukraine), GM Sasikiran Krishnan is the only player with a perfect score after 5 rounds at the Aeroflot Open.

GM Sasikiran Krishnan [Photo: David Llada]

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Seven Indians are two points behind the tournament leader viz. Grandmasters Vaibhav Suri, Karthikeyan Murali, Nihal Sarin, Narayanan.S.L, Surya Shekhar Ganguly and International Master Raunak Sadhwani.

GM Vaibhav Suri [Photo: Eugene Potemkin]

GM Karthikeyan Murali [Photo: Eugene Potemkin]

In category B of the tournament, GM Swapnil Dhopade has 3.5 points out of 4 rounds.

Pairings

Round 6

Bo.	No.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	FED	Rtg	No.
1	43	GM	Tabatabaei M.Amin	IRI	2590	4		5	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	IND	2678	11
2	62	GM	Kulaots Kaido	EST	2542	4		4	GM	Chigaev Maksim	RUS	2613	30
3	29	GM	Zhou Jianchao	CHN	2615	3½		4	GM	Martirosyan Haik M.	ARM	2616	28
4	44	GM	Antipov Mikhail Al.	RUS	2589	3½		3½	GM	Wei Yi	CHN	2733	1
5	35	GM	Deac Bogdan-Daniel	ROU	2603	3½		3½	GM	Fier Alexandr	BRA	2561	53
6	37	GM	Gordievsky Dmitry	RUS	2603	3		3	GM	Fedoseev Vladimir	RUS	2715	2
7	3	GM	Wang Hao	CHN	2714	3		3	GM	Svane Rasmus	GER	2599	40
8	4	GM	Dubov Daniil	RUS	2703	3		3	GM	Donchenko Alexander	GER	2600	39
9	41	GM	Petrosian Tigran L.	ARM	2595	3		3	GM	Kovalev Vladislav	BLR	2703	5
10	42	GM	Narayanan.S.L	IND	2593	3		3	GM	Mamedov Rauf	AZE	2703	6
11	8	GM	Nabaty Tamir	ISR	2688	3		3	GM	Nihal Sarin	IND	2578	45
12	9	GM	Korobov Anton	UKR	2687	3		3	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	BLR	2574	48
13	13	GM	Sjugirov Sanan	RUS	2663	3		3	IM	Yakubboev Nodirbek	UZB	2569	50
14	15	GM	Anton Guijarro David	ESP	2642	3		3	GM	Abdusattorov Nodirbek	UZB	2560	54
15	52	GM	Petrosyan Manuel	ARM	2564	3		3	GM	Zvjaginsev Vadim	RUS	2642	16
16	47	GM	Vaibhav Suri	IND	2575	3		3	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	IND	2636	18
17	21	GM	Sarana Alexey	RUS	2630	3		3	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND	2560	55
18	23	GM	Paravyan David	RUS	2627	3		3	IM	Sychev Klementy	RUS	2545	61
19	82	IM	Sargsyan Shant	ARM	2488	3		3	GM	Grachev Boris	RUS	2626	24
20	25	GM	Khismatullin Denis	RUS	2621	3		3	GM	Xu Yinglun	CHN	2512	73
21	72	IM	Xu Yi	CHN	2520	3		3	GM	Firouzja Alireza	IRI	2618	26
22	32	GM	Lupulescu Constantin	ROU	2610	3		3	GM	Debashis Das	IND	2532	67
23	33	GM	Idani Pouya	IRI	2604	3		3	IM	Sadhwani Raunak	IND	2448	93
24	7	GM	Inarkiev Ernesto	RUS	2692	2½		2½	IM	Tsydypov Zhamsaran	RUS	2547	59
25	36	GM	Esipenko Andrey	RUS	2603	2½		2½	GM	Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI	2666	12
26	46	GM	Yuffa Daniil	RUS	2578	2½		2½	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	IND	2651	14
27	19	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS	2634	2½		2½	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	IND	2538	65
28	58	GM	Santos Ruiz Miguel	ESP	2554	2½		2½	GM	Indjic Aleksandar	SRB	2630	20
29	68	GM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	2532	2½		2½	GM	Kobalia Mikhail	RUS	2627	22
30	27	GM	Van Foreest Jorden	NED	2618	2½		2½	FM	Suleymenov Alisher	KAZ	2428	99
31	101	FM	Murzin Volodar	RUS	2337	2½		2½	GM	Jumabayev Rinat	KAZ	2604	34
32	17	GM	Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo	VEN	2640	2		2½	GM	Liu Yan	CHN	2498	77
33	70	IM	Lobanov Sergei	RUS	2526	2		2	GM	Safarli Eltaj	AZE	2681	10
34	31	GM	Goganov Aleksey	RUS	2612	2		2	GM	Gagare Shardul	IND	2495	78
35	84	IM	Iniyan P	IND	2480	2		2	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND	2601	38
36	49	GM	Narayanan Srinath	IND	2572	2		2	FM	Afanasiev Nikita	RUS	2508	75
37	88	IM	Prithu Gupta	IND	2470	2		2	GM	Moroni Luca Jr	ITA	2567	51
38	57	GM	Lalith Babu M R	IND	2556	2		2	GM	Harika Dronavalli	IND	2471	87
39	60	GM	Hakobyan Aram	ARM	2545	2		2	IM	Flom Gabriel	FRA	2460	90
40	92	IM	Warmerdam Max	NED	2450	2		2	GM	Aryan Chopra	IND	2540	63
41	64	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	IRI	2540	2		2	IM	Raja Rithvik R	IND	2443	95
42	97	WIM	Zhu Jiner	CHN	2442	2		1½	GM	Pourramezanali Amirreza	IRI	2529	69
43	71	GM	Vishnu Prasanna. V	IND	2524	1½		1½	FM	Gavrilescu David	ROU	2479	85
44	74	IM	Gukesh D	IND	2508	1½		1½	IM	Dai Changren	CHN	2473	86
45	94	IM	Arjun Kalyan	IND	2444	1½		1½	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND	2494	79
46	80	IM	Vokhidov Shamsiddin	UZB	2494	1½		1½		Chen Qi B	CHN	2443	96
47	98	FM	Macovei Andrei	MDA	2435	1½		1½	IM	Henderson De La Fuente Lance	ESP	2490	81
48	83	IM	Tahbaz Arash	IRI	2484	1½		1½	IM	Kevlishvili Robby	NED	2463	89
49	66	GM	Stupak Kirill	BLR	2537	2		2	CM	Aditya Mittal	IND	2454	91
50	100	FM	Schitco Ivan	MDA	2426	½		1	IM	Sindarov Javokhir	UZB	2505	76
51	56	IM	Lomasov Semyon	RUS	2559	1	0			not paired

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