Sasikiran secures third place; Five Indians score norms in Aeroflot Open

7 years ago

Grandmaster Sasikiran Krishnan finished third after drawing third-seeded Grandmaster Wang Hao of China in the ninth and final round at the ‘Category A’ of Aeroflot Open 2019.

Sasikiran dominated the first half of the tournament with 5.0/5 but three draws and a loss in second half secured him a third-place finish. Estonian grandmaster Kaido Kulaots became the surprising winner of the tournament after edging out GM Haik Martirosyan of Armenia on tiebreak (both scored 7 points).

The Aeroflot Open was held across three categories (A, B and C). A total of 57 Indians participated and, 33 of them were sponsored by the Government of India.

There were norms galore in the tournament IM Raunak Sadwani bagged his maiden GM norm, CM Aditya Mittal, Koustav Chatterjee, and Sammed Jaykumar Shete made IM norms each while WIM Divya Deshmukh secured her second WGM norm.

Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hon’ble Secretary of AICF conducted a meeting with the youngsters after the tournament.

Final Standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	62	GM	Kulaots Kaido		EST	2542	7,0	5	2647
2	28	GM	Martirosyan Haik M.		ARM	2616	7,0	4	2563
3	11	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan		IND	2678	6,5	4	2607
4	3	GM	Wang Hao		CHN	2714	6,0	5	2600
5	1	GM	Wei Yi		CHN	2733	6,0	4	2589
6	30	GM	Chigaev Maksim		RUS	2613	6,0	4	2586
7	7	GM	Inarkiev Ernesto		RUS	2692	6,0	4	2580
8	21	GM	Sarana Alexey		RUS	2630	6,0	4	2573
9	15	GM	Anton Guijarro David		ESP	2642	6,0	4	2557
10	43	GM	Tabatabaei M.Amin	U18	IRI	2590	5,5	5	2613
11	9	GM	Korobov Anton		UKR	2687	5,5	5	2585
12	47	GM	Vaibhav Suri		IND	2575	5,5	5	2577
13	13	GM	Sjugirov Sanan		RUS	2663	5,5	5	2558
14	23	GM	Paravyan David		RUS	2627	5,5	5	2536
	60	GM	Hakobyan Aram	U18	ARM	2545	5,5	5	2536
16	25	GM	Khismatullin Denis		RUS	2621	5,5	5	2526
17	35	GM	Deac Bogdan-Daniel	U18	ROU	2603	5,5	4	2647
18	32	GM	Lupulescu Constantin		ROU	2610	5,5	4	2640
19	61	IM	Sychev Klementy		RUS	2545	5,5	4	2609
20	29	GM	Zhou Jianchao		CHN	2615	5,5	4	2601
21	41	GM	Petrosian Tigran L.		ARM	2595	5,5	4	2597
22	42	GM	Narayanan.S.L		IND	2593	5,5	4	2593
23	12	GM	Maghsoodloo Parham		IRI	2666	5,5	4	2562
24	50	IM	Yakubboev Nodirbek	U18	UZB	2569	5,5	4	2558
25	54	GM	Abdusattorov Nodirbek	U18	UZB	2560	5,0	5	2673
26	45	GM	Nihal Sarin	U18	IND	2578	5,0	5	2638
27	52	GM	Petrosyan Manuel		ARM	2564	5,0	5	2618
28	72	IM	Xu Yi		CHN	2520	5,0	5	2617
29	24	GM	Grachev Boris		RUS	2626	5,0	5	2530
30	17	GM	Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo		VEN	2640	5,0	5	2526