Aeroflot Chess 2012
The Aeroflot Chess tournament takes place 7-17 February 2012 in Moscow, the city where the RSSU Cup has just finished and where the 2012 World Chess Championship will be played.
Despite having very low number of players for such a high prize fund, Aeroflot Chess 2012 is still one of the strongest open tournaments this year.
Top rated players are Tomashevsky, Caruana, Le Quang Liem, Vallejo Pons, Jobava, Sasikiran, Eljanov, Inarkiev, Andreikin, Zvjagnisev, Akopian, Kobalia, Alekseev, Bu Xiangzhi, Csaba Balogh, Khismatullin, Korobov, Bartel, Zhigalko, Ragger, Gupta, etc. see the full list below.
Defending champion is Le Quang Liem who won Aeroflot last year
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Participants Aeroflot 2012 A (top seeds)
| Tomashevsky | Evgeny | RUS | 2740 | g | |
| Caruana | Fabiano | ITA | 2736 | g | |
| Le | Quang Liem | VIE | 2714 | g | |
| Vallejo Pons | Francisco | ESP | 2705 | g | |
| Jobava | Baadur | GEO | 2704 | g | |
| Sasikiran | Krishnan | IND | 2700 | g | |
| Eljanov | Pavel | UKR | 2690 | g | |
| Inarkiev | Ernesto | RUS | 2689 | g | |
| Andreikin | Dmitry | RUS | 2688 | g | |
| Zvjaginsev | Vadim | RUS | 2688 | g | |
| Akopian | Vladimir | ARM | 2685 | g | |
| Kobalia | Mikhail | RUS | 2673 | g | |
| Alekseev | Evgeny | RUS | 2670 | g | |
| Bu | Xiangzhi | CHN | 2670 | g | |
| Balogh | Csaba | HUN | 2665 | g | |
| Khismatullin | Denis | RUS | 2664 | g | |
| Korobov | Anton | UKR | 2660 | g | |
| Bartel | Mateusz | POL | 2658 | g | |
| Zhigalko | Sergei | BLR | 2658 | g | |
| Ragger | Markus | AUT | 2655 | g | |
| Gupta | Abhijeet | IND | 2652 | g | |
| Iordachescu | Viorel | MDA | 2651 | g | |
| Iturrizaga | Eduardo | VEN | 2649 | g | |
| Nisipeanu | Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 2647 | g | |
| Negi | Parimarjan | IND | 2641 | g | |
| Ni | Hua | CHN | 2641 | g | |
| Sokolov | Ivan | NED | 2641 | g | |
| Khairullin | Ildar | RUS | 2638 | g | |
| Safarli | Eltaj | AZE | 2638 | g | |
| Mamedov | Rauf | AZE | 2636 | g | |
| Socko | Bartosz | POL | 2636 | g | |
| Guseinov | Gadir | AZE | 2634 | g | |
| Rodshtein | Maxim | ISR | 2634 | g | |
| Khalifman | Alexander | RUS | 2632 | g | |
| Yu | Yangyi | CHN | 2631 | g | |
| Sandipan | Chanda | IND | 2628 | g | |
| Sjugirov | Sanan | RUS | 2622 | g | |
| Melkumyan | Hrant | ARM | 2620 | g | |
| Zhou | Jianchao | CHN | 2619 | g | |
| Salgado Lopez | Ivan | ESP | 2618 | g | |
| Gajewski | Grzegorz | POL | 2616 | g | |
| Solak | Dragan | TUR | 2613 | g | |
| Aleksandrov | Aleksej | BLR | 2612 | g | |
| Bocharov | Dmitry | RUS | 2611 | g | |
| Ponkratov | Pavel | RUS | 2611 | g | |
| Savchenko | Boris | RUS | 2609 | g | |
| Robson | Ray | USA | 2596 | g |
Hope Liem can win again.
Liem is over-rated. He panicked against Hou.