There is only one round left to play. Who is the favorite to win it all? Will the leaders play it safe and allow the next group to catch up?

Round 9 top board pairings

Table White Score Fed. Rating Black Score Fed. Rating
1 GM Korobov, Anton 6.0 UKR 2660 GM Bartel, Mateusz 6.0 POL 2658
2 GM Andreikin, Dmitry 5.5 RUS 2688 GM Eljanov, Pavel 6.0 UKR 2690
3 GM Melkumyan, Hrant 5.5 ARM 2620 GM Khalifman, Alexander 5.5 RUS 2632
4 GM Jobava, Baadur 5.0 GEO 2704 GM Caruana, Fabiano 5.5 ITA 2736
5 GM Safarli, Eltaj 5.0 AZE 2638 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny 5.0 RUS 2740
6 GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim 5.0 RUS 2688 GM Rodshtein, Maxim 5.0 ISR 2634
7 GM Alekseev, Evgeny 5.0 RUS 2670 GM Shomoev, Anton 5.0 RUS 2570
8 GM Popov, Ivan 5.0 RUS 2599 GM Bu, Xiangzhi 5.0 CHN 2670
9 GM Zhou, Jianchao 5.0 CHN 2619 GM Ragger, Markus 5.0 AUT 2655
10 GM Fedoseev, Vladimir 5.0 RUS 2525 GM Iordachescu, Viorel 5.0 MDA 2651
11 GM Sokolov, Ivan 5.0 NED 2641 IM Grigoryan, Karen H. 5.0 ARM 2482
12 GM Sjugirov, Sanan 4.5 RUS 2622 GM Sasikiran, Krishnan 4.5 IND 2700
13 GM Akopian, Vladimir 4.5 ARM 2685 GM Gajewski, Grzegorz 4.5 POL 2616
14 GM Rakhmanov, Aleksandr 4.5 RUS 2593 GM Khismatullin, Denis 4.5 RUS 2664
15 GM Zhigalko, Sergei 4.5 BLR 2658 GM Zherebukh, Yaroslav 4.5 UKR 2594
16 GM Gupta, Abhijeet 4.5 IND 2652 GM Zhigalko, Andrey 4.5 BLR 2576
17 GM Iturrizaga, Eduardo 4.5 VEN 2649 GM Tukhaev, Adam 4.5 UKR 2537
18 GM Socko, Bartosz 4.5 POL 2636 GM Ni, Hua 4.5 CHN 2641
19 GM Bocharov, Dmitry 4.0 RUS 2611 GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian 4.0 RUS 2735
20 GM Esen, Baris 4.0 TUR 2534 GM Vallejo Pons, Francisco 4.0 ESP 2705
21 IM Yilmaz, Mustafa 4.0 TUR 2521 GM Kobalia, Mikhail 4.0 RUS 2673
22 GM Balogh, Csaba 4.0 HUN 2665 GM Ponkratov, Pavel 4.0 RUS 2611
23 GM Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 4.0 ROU 2647 GM Grigoriants, Sergey 4.0 RUS 2570
24 GM Dubov, Daniil 4.0 RUS 2498 GM Khairullin, Ildar 4.0 RUS 2638
25 GM Robson, Ray 4.0 USA 2596 GM Mamedov, Rauf 4.0 AZE 2636
26 GM Salgado Lopez, Ivan 4.0 ESP 2618 GM Jumabayev, Rinat 4.0 KAZ 2573
27 GM Sethuraman, S.P. 4.0 IND 2529 GM Le, Quang Liem 3.5 VIE 2714

Full pairings here: http://www.aeroflotchess.org/tournaments/A/

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Susan Polgar February 15, 2012 Daily News, General News, Major Tournaments 1 Comment
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