Indians got off to a flying start at Aeroflot Open 2019

Six players lead “A” tournament, four of them on a perfect 2/2 score are Indians

Aeroflot Open 2019, one of the strongest chess tournaments in the world, is underway at Hotel Cosmos, Moscow, Russia. Indian Chess Team of 33 members (15 men + 14 women + 4 coaches), sponsored by the Government of India, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, are competing here as part of the exposure trip.

After 2 rounds, Grandmasters Sasikiran Krishnan, S.L Narayanan, Nihal Sarin, and Aravindh Chidambaram are leading the pack with perfect 2.0/2 points respectively.

GM Sasikian Krishnan has started the tournament on a perfect two points. His latest victory came against Grandmaster Svane Rasmus as White in Ruy Lopez Marshall Attack. However, Sasikiran had an enticing first round against Russian IM Sychev Klementy where he executed a spectacular tactical combination that left the young master to give up his queen to avoid checkmate.

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The reigning National Champion GM Aravindh Chidambaram started his campaign with two scintillating victories against IM Pritu Gupta and GM Eltaj Safarli.

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GM SL Narayanan joined Sasikiran and Aravindh in the lead following a fine victory over Alekseenko Kirill in the second round.

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In the other decisive game of the day, 14-year-old prodigy Nihal Sarin defeated Aleksandar Indjic to join the leaders.

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Pairings

Round 3

Bo.	No.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	FED	Rtg	No.
1	11	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	IND	2678	2		2	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND	2601	38
2	42	GM	Narayanan.S.L	IND	2593	2		2	GM	Zhou Jianchao	CHN	2615	29
3	30	GM	Chigaev Maksim	RUS	2613	2		2	GM	Nihal Sarin	IND	2578	45
4	1	GM	Wei Yi	CHN	2733	1½		1½	GM	Lupulescu Constantin	ROU	2610	32
5	2	GM	Fedoseev Vladimir	RUS	2715	1½		1½	GM	Idani Pouya	IRI	2604	33
6	36	GM	Esipenko Andrey	RUS	2603	1½		1½	GM	Wang Hao	CHN	2714	3
7	6	GM	Mamedov Rauf	AZE	2703	1½		1½	GM	Donchenko Alexander	GER	2600	39
8	44	GM	Antipov Mikhail Al.	RUS	2589	1½		1½	GM	Inarkiev Ernesto	RUS	2692	7
9	46	GM	Yuffa Daniil	RUS	2578	1½		1½	GM	Korobov Anton	UKR	2687	9
10	48	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	BLR	2574	1½		1½	GM	Sjugirov Sanan	RUS	2663	13
11	14	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	IND	2651	1½		1½	GM	Deac Bogdan-Daniel	ROU	2603	35
12	18	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	IND	2636	1½		1½	GM	Tabatabaei M.Amin	IRI	2590	43
13	67	GM	Debashis Das	IND	2532	1½		1½	GM	Sarana Alexey	RUS	2630	21
14	24	GM	Grachev Boris	RUS	2626	1½		1½	IM	Xu Yi	CHN	2520	72
15	93	IM	Sadhwani Raunak	IND	2448	1½		1½	GM	Khismatullin Denis	RUS	2621	25
16	26	GM	Firouzja Alireza	IRI	2618	1½		1½	GM	Kulaots Kaido	EST	2542	62
17	28	GM	Martirosyan Haik M.	ARM	2616	1½		1½	GM	Liu Yan	CHN	2498	77
18	4	GM	Dubov Daniil	RUS	2703	1		1½	GM	Harika Dronavalli	IND	2471	87
19	54	GM	Abdusattorov Nodirbek	UZB	2560	1		1	GM	Kovalev Vladislav	BLR	2703	5
20	8	GM	Nabaty Tamir	ISR	2688	1		1	GM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	2532	68
21	10	GM	Safarli Eltaj	AZE	2681	1		1	GM	Santos Ruiz Miguel	ESP	2554	58
22	12	GM	Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI	2666	1		1	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	IRI	2540	64
23	59	IM	Tsydypov Zhamsaran	RUS	2547	1		1	GM	Anton Guijarro David	ESP	2642	15
24	16	GM	Zvjaginsev Vadim	RUS	2642	1		1	IM	Lobanov Sergei	RUS	2526	70
25	63	GM	Aryan Chopra	IND	2540	1		1	GM	Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo	VEN	2640	17
26	73	GM	Xu Yinglun	CHN	2512	1		1	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS	2634	19
27	20	GM	Indjic Aleksandar	SRB	2630	1		1	IM	Iniyan P	IND	2480	84
28	22	GM	Kobalia Mikhail	RUS	2627	1		1	IM	Dai Changren	CHN	2473	86
29	75	FM	Afanasiev Nikita	RUS	2508	1		1	GM	Van Foreest Jorden	NED	2618	27
30	83	IM	Tahbaz Arash	IRI	2484	1		1	GM	Goganov Aleksey	RUS	2612	31
31	90	IM	Flom Gabriel	FRA	2460	1		1	GM	Gordievsky Dmitry	RUS	2603	37
32	40	GM	Svane Rasmus	GER	2599	1		1	IM	Warmerdam Max	NED	2450	92
33	96		Chen Qi B	CHN	2443	1		1	GM	Petrosian Tigran L.	ARM	2595	41
34	50	IM	Yakubboev Nodirbek	UZB	2569	1		1	FM	Murzin Volodar	RUS	2337	101
35	97	WIM	Zhu Jiner	CHN	2442	1		1	GM	Petrosyan Manuel	ARM	2564	52
36	34	GM	Jumabayev Rinat	KAZ	2604	½		1	IM	Arjun Kalyan	IND	2444	94
37	79	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND	2494	½		½	GM	Paravyan David	RUS	2627	23
38	81	IM	Henderson De La Fuente Lance	ESP	2490	½		½	GM	Vaibhav Suri	IND	2575	47
39	82	IM	Sargsyan Shant	ARM	2488	½		½	GM	Narayanan Srinath	IND	2572	49
40	51	GM	Moroni Luca Jr	ITA	2567	½		½	GM	Stupak Kirill	BLR	2537	66
41	53	GM	Fier Alexandr	BRA	2561	½		½	FM	Gavrilescu David	ROU	2479	85
42	55	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND	2560	½		½	IM	Prithu Gupta	IND	2470	88
43	99	FM	Suleymenov Alisher	KAZ	2428	½		½	GM	Hakobyan Aram	ARM	2545	60
44	61	IM	Sychev Klementy	RUS	2545	½		½	FM	Macovei Andrei	MDA	2435	98
45	65	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	IND	2538	½		½	FM	Schitco Ivan	MDA	2426	100
46	76	IM	Sindarov Javokhir	UZB	2505	0		0	GM	Lalith Babu M R	IND	2556	57
47	78	GM	Gagare Shardul	IND	2495	0		0	GM	Pourramezanali Amirreza	IRI	2529	69
48	80	IM	Vokhidov Shamsiddin	UZB	2494	0		0	GM	Vishnu Prasanna. V	IND	2524	71
49	91	CM	Aditya Mittal	IND	2454	½		½	IM	Lomasov Semyon	RUS	2559	56
50	89	IM	Kevlishvili Robby	NED	2463	0		0	IM	Gukesh D	IND	2508	74
51	95	IM	Raja Rithvik R	IND	2443	0	0			bye

Photos: Eugene Potemkin/ Aeroflot Open

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