Rounds 7 and 8 of the Aeroflot Open 2025 jubilee festival were played at the Carlton Hotel in Moscow on Wednesday, March 5.
Having defeated Aram Hakobyan of Armenia and having drawn Hans Niemann of the USA, the Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi is now in the sole lead of the tournament. He has 6.5 points under his belt. Half a point behind are Russians Aleksey Goganov and Andrey Esipenko, Hans Niemann, and Richard Rapport (Hungary). 15 competitors are sharing 5.5 points.
Top pairings of the final round:
Goganov – Nepomniachtchi
Niemann – Rapport
Grischuk – Esipenko
Artemiev – Zemlyanskii
Drygalov – Tabatabaei
Sadhwani – Vetokhin
Hakobyan – Iljiushenok
Remizov – Matlakov
Daneshvar – Pavlov
Lazavik – Lobanov
The B13 section of the Aeroflot Open - Children event has Nikolay Kleimenov and Vadim Starikov with 6 points, which is 1.5 points ahead of their nearest rivals. Alisa Genrietta Yunker is leading the G13 section with 6.5 points.
In the B15 group, Adrian Sanchez-Shananin has scored 6.5 points. Diana Preobrazhenskaya has become the group winner with one round to go, having got 8 points out of 8. Our congratulations!
Round 9 will take place Thursday, March 6, starting from 11:00 AM (Moscow time).
The "Aeroflot Open" is organised by the Chess Federation of Russia (CFR) and the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation with the support of Aeroflot. The general partner of the CFR is PhosAgro. The media partner of the tournament is a social network Odnoklassniki.
Tournament on Chess-Results
Photos
Games online
Official website
Photos by Eteri Kublashvili and Vladimir Barsky
Having defeated Aram Hakobyan of Armenia and having drawn Hans Niemann of the USA, the Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi is now in the sole lead of the tournament. He has 6.5 points under his belt. Half a point behind are Russians Aleksey Goganov and Andrey Esipenko, Hans Niemann, and Richard Rapport (Hungary). 15 competitors are sharing 5.5 points.
Top pairings of the final round:
Goganov – Nepomniachtchi
Niemann – Rapport
Grischuk – Esipenko
Artemiev – Zemlyanskii
Drygalov – Tabatabaei
Sadhwani – Vetokhin
Hakobyan – Iljiushenok
Remizov – Matlakov
Daneshvar – Pavlov
Lazavik – Lobanov
The B13 section of the Aeroflot Open - Children event has Nikolay Kleimenov and Vadim Starikov with 6 points, which is 1.5 points ahead of their nearest rivals. Alisa Genrietta Yunker is leading the G13 section with 6.5 points.
In the B15 group, Adrian Sanchez-Shananin has scored 6.5 points. Diana Preobrazhenskaya has become the group winner with one round to go, having got 8 points out of 8. Our congratulations!
Round 9 will take place Thursday, March 6, starting from 11:00 AM (Moscow time).
The "Aeroflot Open" is organised by the Chess Federation of Russia (CFR) and the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation with the support of Aeroflot. The general partner of the CFR is PhosAgro. The media partner of the tournament is a social network Odnoklassniki.
Tournament on Chess-Results
Photos
Games online
Official website
Photos by Eteri Kublashvili and Vladimir Barsky