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GM Le Quang Liem Impressive at the Aeroflot Open |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 02:42 |
 The prestigious Aeroflot Open that featured 75 Grandmasters and five International Masters in the main Group A concluded on Wednesday with Vietnamese GM Le Quang Liem claiming the clear first place by collecting 7 points from nine games. On the final day he defeated the 2008 Aeroflot winner Ian Nepomniachtchi, rounding up an impressive performance on the Russian tour as earlier he shared first place at the equally tough Moscow Open.
Among the women players at Aeroflot GM Yifan Hou, GM Tatiana Kosintseva, and IM Nadezhda Kosintseva shared places 45-64 with 4,0/9. IM Javakhishvili and GM Sebag were a point behind with 3,0/9.
The 16-year-old Wesley So, the Philippines highest-rated player with an Elo of 2656, made a short draw in the ninth round match against Venezuela's GM Eduardo Iturrizaga (Elo 2616) to finish in a tie for 7th to 19th places with 5.5 points on three wins, five draws and one loss. After the tie break point was applied, So finished 11th in the final standings. This guaranteed him the top junior position.
In group B, IM Pridorozhni, GM Glek, GM Dvoirys, IM Pavlov, and GM Panarin finished with 6,5/9 and shared the first position, with the gold going to IM Pridorozhni on better tiebreak.
Group A final standings:
1 GM Le Quang Liem - 7.0 VIE 2647
2 GM Korobov Anton - 6.5 UKR 2648
3 GM Motylev Alexander - 6.0 RUS 2697
4 GM Zhou Jianchao - 6.0 CHN 2632
5 GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son - 6.0 VIE 2616
6 GM Grachev Boris - 6.0 RUS 2653
7 GM Cheparinov Ivan - 5.5 BUL 2660
8 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime - 5.5 FRA 2730
9 GM Nepomniachtchi Ian - 5.5 RUS 2658
10 GM Bu Xiangzhi - 5.5 CHN 2673
11 GM So Wesley - 5.5 PHI 2656
12 GM Sargissian Gabriel - 5.5 ARM 2680
13 GM Savchenko Boris - 5.5 RUS 2638
14 GM Bacrot Etienne - 5.5 FRA 2713
15 GM Timofeev Artyom - 5.5 RUS 2652
16 GM Bareev Evgeny - 5.5 RUS 2643
17 GM Najer Evgeniy - 5.5 RUS 2665
18 GM Iturrizaga Eduardo - 5.5 VEN 2616
19 GM Dreev Alexey - 5.5 RUS 2650
20 GM Mamedov Rauf - 5.0 AZE 2640
21 GM Novikov Stanislav - 5.0 RUS 2557
22 GM Salgado Lopez Ivan - 5.0 ESP 2584
23 GM Volokitin Andrei - 5.0 UKR 2692
24 GM Zvjaginsev Vadim - 5.0 RUS 2642
25 GM Kobalia Mikhail - 5.0 RUS 2637
26 GM Khairullin Ildar - 5.0 RUS 2605
27 GM Khalifman Alexander - 5.0 RUS 2616
28 GM Grigoriants Sergey - 5.0 RUS 2560
29 GM Belov Vladimir - 5.0 RUS 2595
30 GM Sasikiran Krishnan - 5.0 IND 2653
31 GM Melkumyan Hrant - 5.0 ARM 2583
32 GM Pashikian Arman - 5.0 ARM 2647
33 GM Naiditsch Arkadij - 5.0 GER 2687
34 GM Vescovi Giovanni - 5.0 BRA 2660
35 GM Kamsky Gata - 5.0 USA 2693
36 GM McShane Luke J - 5.0 ENG 2616
37 GM Amonatov Farrukh - 5.0 TJK 2634
38 GM Predojevic Borki - 5.0 BIH 2642
39 GM Tregubov Pavel V. - 5.0 RUS 2628 etc
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