Aeroflot Open

The Aeroflot Open is a chess tournament that takes place annually in Moscow and is sponsored by the Russian airline Aeroflot . It was held for the first time in 2002 and developed into one of the best-attended tournaments of the year. Since 2003 the winner has been invited to the Dortmund Chess Days . An open tournament based on the Swiss system was played in several classes until 2012 . For participation in the A group, a skill level of 2550 Elo points was required in 2011 . The mode was changed in 2013: First, a rapid chess qualification open (15 minutes per game plus 10 seconds per move) was played with 257 participants, of which the best 32 qualified for a tournament in the knockout system , in which eight specially invited players also took part; a Blitz Open was held for this purpose, many players took part in both competitions. After the tournament did not take place in 2014, they returned to the previous mode of a nine-round open with a classic cooling-off period in 2015.

winner

The winner's name is in bold.

#	year	winner	Points	Round
1	2002	Gregory Kaidanov Alexander Grishchuk Aljaksej Aljaksandrau Alexander Shabalov Vadim Milov	6 1 ⁄ 2	9
2	2003	Viktor Bologan Aljaksej Aljaksandrau Aljaksej Fjodarau Peter Swidler	7th	9
3	2004	Sergei Rublewski Rafael Vaganian Valeri Filippov	7th	9
4th	2005	Emil Sutovsky Andrei Charlow Wassyl Iwantschuk Alexander Motyljow Vladimir Akopian	6 1 ⁄ 2	9
5	2006	Baadur Jobava Viktor Bologan Krishnan Sasikiran Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	6 1 ⁄ 2	9
6th	2007	Yevgeny Alexeyev	7th	9
7th	2008	Jan Nepomnyashchi	7th	9
8th	2009	Étienne Bacrot Oleksandr Mojissejenko	6 1 ⁄ 2	9
9	2010	Le Quang Liem	7th	9
10	2011	Le Quang Liem Nikita Witjugow Yevgeny Tomaschewski	6 1 ⁄ 2	9
11	2012	Mateusz Bartel Anton Korobow Pavel Eljanow	6 1 ⁄ 2	9
12a	2013 (Rapid)	Sergei Karjakin Alexander Grishchuk
12b	2013 (Blitz)	Jan Nepomnyashchi
13	2015	Jan Nepomnyashchi Daniil Dubow	7th	9
14th	2016	Yevgeny Najer Boris Gelfand	6 1 ⁄ 2	9
15th	2017	Vladimir Fedoseyev	7th	9
16	2018	Vladislav Kawaljou	7th	9
17th	2019	Kaido Külaot's Haik Martirosjan	7th	9
18th	2020	Aydın Süleymanlı Rinat Shumabaev Rauf Məmmədov Chithambaram Aravindh	6 1 ⁄ 2	9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Moscow: Meeting point for the chess elite , Chessbase.de, February 10, 2011.

Web links

• Reports at Chessbase: 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010
• Reports at The Week in Chess : 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2013