Sunday, March 2, the second and third rounds of the 20th jubilee festival Aeroflot Open 2025 took place at The Carlton, Moscow. The tournament guest was Eduard Sovetkin, PAO Aeroflot's Deputy General Director and Flight Director.
The rating favourite Ian Nepomniachtchi, Russia's youngest grandmaster Ivan Zemlyanskii and grandmaster Aleksey Goganov have scored 3 points each.
Half a point behind them are as many as 16 players: the reigning Russian champion Vladislav Artemiev, Daniil Dubov, Aleksandr Shimanov, Oleg Vastrukhin, Maxim Chertkov, Arseniy Nesterov (all of Russia), Hans Niemann (USA), Richard Rapport (Hungary), Haik Martirosyan, Mamikon Gharibyan, Aram Hakobyan (all of Armenia), Mahdi Gholami, Bardiya Daneshvar (both of Iran), Aydin Suleymanli (Azerbaijan), Mihail Nikitenko and Denis Lazavik (both of Belarus).
Top pairings of Round 4:
Nepomniachtchi – Zemlyanskii
Goganov – Niemann
Rapport – Nesterov
Shimanov – Dubov
Lazavik – Artemiev
Martirosyan – Nikitenko
Hakobyan – Chertkov
Vastrukhin – Suleymanli
Gholami – Daneshvar
Grischuk – Gharibyan
In addition to the main event, the Aeroflot Open - Children event is also underway, with four round-robin competitions in two age categories – under 13 and under 15 years old.
Artem Tsepilov has a perfect score in the U13 group. Alisa Genrietta Yunker, Victoria Smirnova, and Mariya Mukhorina have got 2.5 points each in the G13 category.
Timofey Vadeev, Roman Voroshilov, Arseniy Gusev, Adrian Sanchez-Shananin, and Dmitry Petukhov share 2 points in the U15 group. In the G15 group, Diana Preobrazhenskaya is leading the pack with 3 points.
Round 4 will be played on Monday, March 3, starting at 11 AM. Round 5 begins at 5 PM.
The Aeroflot Open International Chess Tournament is organized by the Chess Federation of Russia and the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation with the support of PAO Aeroflot. 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
The rating favourite Ian Nepomniachtchi, Russia's youngest grandmaster Ivan Zemlyanskii and grandmaster Aleksey Goganov have scored 3 points each.
Half a point behind them are as many as 16 players: the reigning Russian champion Vladislav Artemiev, Daniil Dubov, Aleksandr Shimanov, Oleg Vastrukhin, Maxim Chertkov, Arseniy Nesterov (all of Russia), Hans Niemann (USA), Richard Rapport (Hungary), Haik Martirosyan, Mamikon Gharibyan, Aram Hakobyan (all of Armenia), Mahdi Gholami, Bardiya Daneshvar (both of Iran), Aydin Suleymanli (Azerbaijan), Mihail Nikitenko and Denis Lazavik (both of Belarus).
Top pairings of Round 4:
Nepomniachtchi – Zemlyanskii
Goganov – Niemann
Rapport – Nesterov
Shimanov – Dubov
Lazavik – Artemiev
Martirosyan – Nikitenko
Hakobyan – Chertkov
Vastrukhin – Suleymanli
Gholami – Daneshvar
Grischuk – Gharibyan
In addition to the main event, the Aeroflot Open - Children event is also underway, with four round-robin competitions in two age categories – under 13 and under 15 years old.
Artem Tsepilov has a perfect score in the U13 group. Alisa Genrietta Yunker, Victoria Smirnova, and Mariya Mukhorina have got 2.5 points each in the G13 category.
Timofey Vadeev, Roman Voroshilov, Arseniy Gusev, Adrian Sanchez-Shananin, and Dmitry Petukhov share 2 points in the U15 group. In the G15 group, Diana Preobrazhenskaya is leading the pack with 3 points.
Round 4 will be played on Monday, March 3, starting at 11 AM. Round 5 begins at 5 PM.
The Aeroflot Open International Chess Tournament is organized by the Chess Federation of Russia and the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation with the support of PAO Aeroflot. 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