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The 9th Aeroflot Open took place from February 9th to 18th, 2010, for the fifth year in succession in the tourist complex Izmailovo Hotel Gamma-Delta, where most of the participants also stayed. The prize sum was EUR 180,000, including prizes for the World Blitz Qualification Tournament. Four Open Tournaments (A1, A2, B and C) were made up according to the rating of the participants. The A1 tournament had players with a rating of 2550 or higher.
Time controls: for tournament A1 and A2 it is 40 moves in 100 minutes, then 20 moves in 50 minutes, finally 15 minutes for the remaining moves, with an increment of 30 seconds per move from move one. For tournaments B and C: 90 minutes for the whole game with an increment of 30 seconds per move from move one.
One round before the end the two Vietnamese grandmasters Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son were in the lead, with 6.0/8 points. The latter lost his final round game to GM Korobov Anton of Ukraine, who moved into second place with that victory. Le Quang Liem, on the other hand, produced a very nice final round victory over Ian Nepomniachtchi to secure sole first place.
Le Quang Liem (2647) - Nepomniachtchi,I (2658) [A35]
9th Aeroflot Open A Moscow RUS (9), 17.02.2010
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Qb6 6.Nb3 e6 7.e4 Bb4
8.Bd3 Ne5 9.0-0 Qd6 10.Bf4 Bxc3 11.bxc3 Qxd3 12.Bxe5 Qxc4 13.Re1 b6 14.Qf3 Bb7
15.Nd4 0-0-0 16.a4 Qc5 17.Bg3 e5 18.a5 Rhe8 19.axb6 axb6 20.Nf5 g6 21.Ng7 Nxe4
22.Nxe8 Rxe8 23.Qxf7 Rf8 24.Qa2 Qc6 25.f3 Qc5+ 26.Bf2 Nxf2 27.Qxf2 Qxf2+ 28.Kxf2
e4 29.Re3 Kc7 30.Kg3 exf3 31.gxf3 Bd5 32.Ra4 Be6 33.Rh4 h5 34.Rf4 Ra8 35.h4
Ra5 36.Rf6 Bf5 37.Kf4 Rc5 38.Kg5 Bc2+ 39.Kh6 Rc4 40.f4 b5 41.Re5 Rc6 42.Rf7
Kb6 43.Rxd7 Rxc3 44.Rd8 Ka5 45.Rb8 Rb3 46.Rc8 Bb1 47.Rb8 Ka4 48.Rb6 Rb4? 49.Ra6+
Kb3
50.Rxg6 Bxg6 51.Kxg6 Rxf4 52.Rxb5+ Kc4 53.Rxh5 and this rook ending wins for White: 53...Rg4+ 54.Kf5 Rg8 55.Rg5 Rh8 56.h5 Kd5 57.Kg6+ Ke6 58.Kg7 Re8 59.h6 Re7+ 60.Kg6 1-0.
2nd: Anton Korobov, UKR, 2648, 6.5/9, perf. 2776; 1st: Le Quang Liem, VIE,
2647, 7.0/9, perf. 2872
It has been an amazing three weeks for the young Vietnamese GM, who can be described as the bane of Russians. First he tied for first at the very strong Moscow Open, a notoriously tough event, with a hefty 7.0/9 score. Then, without a single day's rest, he went on to win the super strong Aeroflot Open outright. It is obvious that he will be the first Vietnamese to top 2700 on the FIDE rating scale.
| Rnk | Player |
Pts |
Nat | Gen | Rtng | Perf | WWe |
| 1 | GM Le, Quang Liem | 7.0 |
VIE | M |
2647 | 2872 | +2.58 |
| 2 | GM Korobov, Anton | 6.5 |
UKR | M |
2648 | 2776 | +1.54 |
| 3 | GM Motylev, Alexander | 6.0 |
RUS | M |
2697 | 2755 | +0.67 |
| 4 | GM Zhou, Jianchao | 6.0 |
CHN | M |
2632 | 2778 | +1.75 |
| 5 | GM Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son | 6.0 |
VIE | M |
2616 | 2749 | +1.61 |
| 6 | GM Grachev, Boris | 6.0 |
RUS | M |
2653 | 2745 | +1.09 |
| 7 | GM Cheparinov, Ivan | 5.5 |
BUL | M |
2660 | 2715 | +0.69 |
| 8 | GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | 5.5 |
FRA | M |
2730 | 2700 | -0.33 |
| 9 | GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian | 5.5 |
RUS | M |
2658 | 2691 | +0.42 |
| 10 | GM Bu, Xiangzhi | 5.5 |
CHN | M |
2673 | 2700 | +0.33 |
| 11 | GM So, Wesley | 5.5 |
PHI | M |
2656 | 2693 | +0.46 |
| 12 | GM Sargissian, Gabriel | 5.5 |
ARM | M |
2680 | 2682 | +0.03 |
| 13 | GM Savchenko, Boris | 5.5 |
RUS | M |
2638 | 2729 | +1.14 |
| 14 | GM Bacrot, Etienne | 5.5 |
FRA | M |
2713 | 2717 | +0.06 |
| 15 | GM Timofeev, Artyom | 5.5 |
RUS | M |
2652 | 2707 | +0.71 |
| 16 | GM Bareev, Evgeny | 5.5 |
RUS | M |
2643 | 2699 | +0.71 |
| 17 | GM Najer, Evgeniy | 5.5 |
RUS | M |
2665 | 2698 | +0.41 |
| 18 | GM Iturrizaga, Eduardo | 5.5 |
VEN | M |
2616 | 2676 | +0.75 |
| 19 | GM Dreev, Alexey | 5.5 |
RUS | M |
2650 | 2676 | +0.34 |
| 20 | GM Mamedov, Rauf | 5.0 |
AZE | M |
2640 | 2659 | +0.20 |
| 21 | GM Novikov, Stanislav | 5.0 |
RUS | M |
2557 | 2646 | +1.09 |
| 22 | GM Salgado Lopez, Ivan | 5.0 |
ESP | M |
2584 | 2654 | +0.84 |
| 23 | GM Volokitin, Andrei | 5.0 |
UKR | M |
2692 | 2652 | -0.52 |
| 24 | GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim | 5.0 |
RUS | M |
2642 | 2649 | +0.06 |
| 25 | GM Kobalia, Mikhail | 5.0 |
RUS | M |
2637 | 2643 | +0.04 |
| 26 | GM Khairullin, Ildar | 5.0 |
RUS | M |
2605 | 2706 | +1.21 |
| 27 | GM Khalifman, Alexander | 5.0 |
RUS | M |
2616 | 2690 | +0.90 |
| 28 | GM Grigoriants, Sergey | 5.0 |
RUS | M |
2560 | 2688 | +1.54 |
| 29 | GM Belov, Vladimir | 5.0 |
RUS | M |
2595 | 2677 | +0.99 |
| 30 | GM Sasikiran, Krishnan | 5.0 |
IND | M |
2653 | 2681 | +0.32 |
| 31 | GM Melkumyan, Hrant | 5.0 |
ARM | M |
2583 | 2667 | +1.02 |
| 32 | GM Pashikian, Arman | 5.0 |
ARM | M |
2647 | 2672 | +0.27 |
| 33 | GM Naiditsch, Arkadij | 5.0 |
GER | M |
2687 | 2649 | -0.49 |
| 34 | GM Vescovi, Giovanni | 5.0 |
BRA | M |
2660 | 2659 | -0.05 |
| 35 | GM Kamsky, Gata | 5.0 |
USA | M |
2693 | 2650 | -0.56 |
| 36 | GM McShane, Luke J | 5.0 |
ENG | M |
2616 | 2646 | +0.36 |
| 37 | GM Amonatov, Farrukh | 5.0 |
TJK | M |
2634 | 2636 | -0.01 |
| 38 | GM Predojevic, Borki | 5.0 |
BIH | M |
2642 | 2621 | -0.30 |
| 39 | GM Tregubov, Pavel V. | 5.0 |
RUS | M |
2628 | 2603 | -0.33 |
| 40 | GM Sjugirov, Sanan | 4.5 |
RUS | M |
2610 | 2655 | +0.56 |
| 41 | GM Safarli, Eltaj | 4.5 |
AZE | M |
2594 | 2631 | +0.48 |
| 42 | GM Moiseenko, Alexander | 4.5 |
UKR | M |
2677 | 2604 | -0.90 |
| 43 | GM Ragger, Markus | 4.5 |
AUT | M |
2568 | 2599 | +0.39 |
| 44 | GM Van Wely, Loek | 4.5 |
NED | M |
2641 | 2606 | -0.44 |
| 45 | GM Shabalov, Alexander | 4.5 |
USA | M |
2611 | 2588 | -0.29 |
| 46 | GM Ehlvest, Jaan | 4.0 |
USA | M |
2600 | 2579 | -0.23 |
| 47 | GM Potkin, Vladimir | 4.0 |
RUS | M |
2611 | 2572 | -0.46 |
| 48 | GM Lenic, Luka | 4.0 |
SLO | M |
2595 | 2563 | -0.37 |
| 49 | IM Danin, Alexandre | 4.0 |
RUS | M |
2519 | 2563 | +0.58 |
| 50 | GM Feller, Sebastien | 4.0 |
FRA | M |
2579 | 2557 | -0.25 |
| 51 | GM Hou, Yifan | 4.0 |
CHN | F |
2590 | 2552 | -0.45 |
| 52 | GM Smirin, Ilia | 4.0 |
ISR | M |
2668 | 2534 | -1.63 |
| 53 | GM Maletin, Pavel | 4.0 |
RUS | M |
2591 | 2537 | -0.62 |
| 54 | GM Volkov, Sergey | 4.0 |
RUS | M |
2623 | 2536 | -1.04 |
| 55 | GM Zhigalko, Sergei | 4.0 |
BLR | M |
2668 | 2525 | -1.72 |
| 56 | GM Bocharov, Dmitry | 4.0 |
RUS | M |
2594 | 2617 | +0.31 |
| 57 | GM Rodshtein, Maxim | 4.0 |
ISR | M |
2622 | 2599 | -0.25 |
| 58 | GM Kosintseva, Tatiana | 4.0 |
RUS | F |
2515 | 2596 | +1.00 |
| 59 | GM Shomoev, Anton | 4.0 |
RUS | M |
2559 | 2578 | +0.26 |
| 60 | GM Rakhmanov, Aleksandr | 4.0 |
RUS | M |
2591 | 2580 | -0.11 |
| 61 | IM Kosintseva, Nadezhda | 4.0 |
RUS | F |
2533 | 2585 | +0.67 |
| 62 | GM Andriasian, Zaven | 4.0 |
ARM | M |
2613 | 2580 | -0.39 |
| 63 | GM Zhou, Weiqi | 4.0 |
CHN | M |
2600 | 2566 | -0.39 |
| 64 | GM Efimenko, Zahar | 4.0 |
UKR | M |
2657 | 2520 | -1.66 |
| 65 | GM Khusnutdinov, Rustam | 3.5 |
KAZ | M |
2513 | 2543 | +0.33 |
| 66 | IM Papin, Vasily | 3.5 |
RUS | M |
2548 | 2523 | -0.33 |
| 67 | IM Krylov, Mikhail | 3.5 |
RUS | M |
2511 | 2521 | +0.09 |
| 68 | GM Ajrapetjan, Yuriy | 3.5 |
UKR | M |
2525 | 2510 | -0.20 |
| 69 | IM Javakhishvili, Lela | 3.0 |
GEO | F |
2493 | 2484 | -0.09 |
| 70 | GM Iljushin, Alexei | 3.0 |
RUS | M |
2551 | 2469 | -0.97 |
| 71 | GM Sebag, Marie | 3.0 |
FRA | F |
2510 | 2471 | -0.45 |
| 72 | GM Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan | 3.0 |
IRI | M |
2589 | 2457 | -1.58 |
| 73 | GM Lopez Martinez, Josep Manu | 3.0 |
ESP | M |
2593 | 2439 | -1.85 |
| 74 | GM Vazquez Igarza, Renier | 3.0 |
ESP | M |
2563 | 2434 | -1.54 |
| 75 | GM Morovic Fernandez, Ivan | 3.0 |
CHI | M |
2561 | 2486 | -0.89 |
| 76 | GM Salem, A.R. Saleh | 3.0 |
UAE | M |
2484 | 2420 | -0.62 |
| 77 | GM Romanov, Evgeny | 3.0 |
RUS | M |
2599 | 2606 | +0.07 |
| 78 | GM Svetushkin, Dmitry | 2.5 |
MDA | M |
2573 | 2411 | -1.95 |
| 79 | GM Yudin, Sergei | 2.0 |
RUS | M |
2573 | 2402 | -1.75 |
| 80 | GM Laylo, Darwin | 0.5 |
PHI | M |
2556 | 2148 | -2.86 |
Three female players, Chinese teenager Hou Yifan and the Kosinseva sisters, finished with 4.0/9 points and performances between 2552 and 2596. Lela Javakhishvili and Marie Sebag were in the last fifth of the table with 3.0/9 points each.
| Rnk | Player | Pts |
Nat | Gen | Rtng | Perf | WWe |
| 51 | GM Hou, Yifan | 4.0 |
CHN | F |
2590 | 2552 | -0.45 |
| 58 | GM Kosintseva, Tatiana | 4.0 |
RUS | F |
2515 | 2596 | +1.00 |
| 61 | IM Kosintseva, Nadezhda | 4.0 |
RUS | F |
2533 | 2585 | +0.67 |
| 69 | IM Javakhishvili, Lela | 3.0 |
GEO | F |
2493 | 2484 | -0.09 |
| 71 | GM Sebag, Marie | 3.0 |
FRA | F |
2510 | 2471 | -0.45 |
Fourth: Zhou Jianchao, China, 2632, 6.0/9, performance 2778
Ninth: Ian Nepomniachtchi, RUS, 2658, 5.5/9 performance 2691
Fifth: Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, Vietnam, 2616, 6.0/9, performance 2749
Sixth: Boris Grachev, Russia, 2653, 6.0/9, performance 2745
Seventh: Ivan Cheparinov, Bulgaria, 2660, 5.5/9, perf. 2715
Eighth: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, France, 2730, 5.5/9, perf. 2700
15th: Artyom Timofeev, RUS, 2652, 5.5/9, performance 2707
16th: Evgeny Bareev, Russia, 2643, 5.5/9, performance 2699
34th: Giovanni Vescovi, BRA, 2660, 5.0/9, performance 2659
35th: Gata Kamsky, USA, 2693, 5.0/9, performance 2650
40th: Sanan Sjugirov, RUS, 2610, 4.5/9, performance 2655
41st: Eltaj Safarli, AZE, 2594, 4.5/9, performance 2631, 44th Loek van Wely,
NED, 2641, 4.5 2606
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