Super Aeroflot will begin soon

Aeroflot Chess 2011
GM Gata Kamsky top seeded

The tenth Aeflot Chess Open will feature a super prize fund of 125 000 eur. Top seeded and favorite for the first prize of 20 000 eur is GM Gata Kamsky, who is leading the list of participants in Aeroflot A. He will have strong competition, facing the new Armenia player GM Sergey Movsesian, GM Dmitry Jakovenko, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, GM Wesley So, GM Alexander Motylev, GM Nikita Vitiugov, GM Dmitry Andreikin, GM Emil Sutovsky, the ex World Champion Kasimdzhanov, as well as close to 100 players above 2550 ELO.

Former Aeroflot winners, from 2002 onwards, are Gregory Kaidanov (USA), Viktor Bologan (Moldova), Sergei Rublevsky (Russia), Emil Sutovsky (Israel), Baadur Jobava (Georgia), Evgeny Alekseev (Russia), Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia), Etienne Bacrot (France), and Le Quang Liem.

Aeroflot B is top notch opportunity for any player around 2500 ELO to access the first prize in the category (10 000 eur) in a relatively equal competition. Moreover, there are a total of 20 other prizes varying between 6000 and 300 eur for the participants, who have a theoretical 1/5 chance of accessing them. That is why we see GM Alexander Lenderman, GM Evgeny Shaposhnikov, GM Vitaly Kunin, GM Mikhail Ulibin, GM Artur Gabrielian, and a total of 100 players going for the title in the B section.

All games will be live on the official site and at the Chessdom / Chessbomb live games platform, where you will be able to follow live commentary and analysis of the 3000+ ELO rated Stockfish 2.0.1 engine.

Aeroflot A participants (over 2600)

g Kamsky Gata USA 2730
g Movsesian Sergei ARM 2721
g Jakovenko Dmitry RUS 2718
g Vachier-Lagrave Maxime FRA 2715
g Vitiugov Nikita RUS 2709
g Sutovsky Emil ISR 2695
g Tomashevsky Evgeny RUS 2695
g Bologan Viktor MDA 2693
g Andreikin Dmitry RUS 2689
g Riazantsev Alexander RUS 2689
g Motylev Alexander RUS 2687
g Kasimdzhanov Rustam UZB 2681
g Timofeev Artyom RUS 2681
g Volokitin Andrei UKR 2678
g So Wesley PHI 2673
g Inarkiev Ernesto RUS 2672
g Kobalia Mikhail RUS 2666
g Cheparinov Ivan BUL 2665
g Le Quang Liem VIE 2664
g Kurnosov Igor RUS 2662
g Grachev Boris RUS 2660
g Mamedov Rauf AZE 2660
g Zvjaginsev Vadim RUS 2660
g Zhou Jianchao CHN 2655
g Potkin Vladimir RUS 2651
g Khismatullin Denis RUS 2649
g Hammer Jon Ludvig NOR 2647
g Ni Hua CHN 2645
g Sandipan Chanda IND 2641
g Khairullin Ildar RUS 2640
g Khalifman Alexander RUS 2638
g Savchenko Boris RUS 2637
g Lysyj Igor RUS 2635
g Edouard Romain FRA 2634
g Ding Liren CHN 2628
g Mareco Sandro Fabio ARG 2627
g Predojevic Borki BIH 2626
g Salgado Lopez Ivan ESP 2626
g Sjugirov Sanan RUS 2626
g Rodshtein Maxim ISR 2625
g Vuckovic Bojan SRB 2623
g Maletin Pavel RUS 2621
g Ragger Markus AUT 2615
g Lenic Luka SLO 2613
g Iturrizaga Eduardo VEN 2611
g Yu Yangyi CHN 2607
g Romanov Evgeny RUS 2606
g Bocharov Dmitry RUS 2605
g Petrosian Tigran L. ARM 2604

Official website: http://www.aeroflotchess.com