Gabriel Sargissian ranks 9th at Aeroflot Open Chess Tournament

February 17, 2010 - 12:32 AMT

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Two Armenian chess players, Gabriel Sargissian and Hrant Melkumyan, having scored victory the 8th round of the ongoing Aeroflot Open Chess Tournament, rank 9th and 35th respectively.



Results of tournament А in the following parings:



Gabriel Sargissian – Maxim Rodshtein (Israel) 1:0

Arman Pashikian – Alexander Khalifman (Russia) 0.5:0.5

Hrant Melkumyan – Sergei Volkov (Russia) 1:0

Zaven Andriasian – Ivan Salgado Lopez (Spain) 1:0.



During tournament А2, Tigran Kotanjian played tie with Alexei Gavrilov (Russia) and ranks 19th.





Aeroflot Open chess tournament

The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot. It was established in 2001 by Russian Airline Aeroflot, Association of Chess Federations and Russian Chess Federation, and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament. The first edition counted around 80 grandmasters, while in the second edition already 150 grandmasters participated.

Aeroflot supports the chess tournament, providing flights for participants and donating money awards.

Aeroflot Open 2002 hosted 370 chess players from 34 countries, including 95 GMs. 476 chess players participated in the tournament next year. Number of participants increased to 644 in 2004. The tournament attracts more and more interest each year.

The tournament consists of 4 rounds (A1, A2, B and C) based on the participants’ ratings and is played in 9 rounds by Swiss system. The main interest is group A1, where the required rating is over 2550 and usually extra-class chess players are included in the group.

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