Yet again our attention comes back to the Russian capital. In February there are two important open tournaments the first of which has just finished. Four players finished with 7/9 and 46th seed Konstantin Chernyshov was awarded the title due to a higher number of wins.
The Moscow Open is more than just a warm up for the more famous Aeroflot Open which follows on straight afterwards. Indeed there are few opens to compete with The Moscow open where in a field of 187 players there were 73 GMs present. Where else would you have such a concentration of strength? So scoring seven out of nine in a field comprising thirty-one 2600+s and sixty-eight 2500+s ensured a high performance. Inarkiev even achieved a 2800 result but on tie-break it was Chernyshov who had won more games than his rivals who came out on top. The result of a lifetime for the relatively modest (by Russian standards!) GM. Fellow Russians Bareev and Inarkiev as well as the less-well known Vietnamese player Le Quang Liem also made 7 points. Bologan and Rublevsky were amongst the pack on 6.5.
Ranking
Title
Name
Country
Elo
Points
Wins
Second tie-break
Performance
1
GM
Konstantin Chernyshov
RUS
2556
7,0
6
46,5
2726
2
GM
Evgeny Bareev
RUS
2643
7,0
5
52,0
2793
3
GM
Le Quang Liem
VIE
2647
7,0
5
50,5
2792
4
GM
Ernesto Inarkiev
RUS
2649
7,0
5
49,5
36,0
5
GM
Krishnan Sasikiran
IND
2653
6,5
5
50,5
2723
6
GM
Viktor Bologan
MDA
2692
6,5
5
50,5
2744
7
GM
Dmitry Andreikin
RUS
2635
6,5
5
48,0
2717
8
GM
Igor Kurnosov
RUS
2668
6,5
5
47,5
2716
9
GM
Sergei Azarov
BLR
2622
6,5
5
47,0
2669
10
GM
Sergei Rublevsky
RUS
2697
6,5
4
51,5
2697
11
GM
Bu Xiangzhi
CHN
2673
6,5
4
50,5
2723
12
GM
Vladimir Belov
RUS
2595
6,5
4
49,5
2712
13
GM
Evgeny Vorobiov
RUS
2621
6,5
4
45,0
2634
14
GM
Boris Savchenko
RUS
2638
6,5
4
44,5
2659
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