Aeroflot 2009 round 7 Group A1 pairings and results

Here are the pairings of Round 7 of the Aeroflot 2009 tournament in Moscow, Russia, minus top seed, GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan. He withdrew from the tournament today (Sunday, Feb 22, 2009) after complaining that his opponent was acting suspicious and possibly cheating. He thought GM Igor Kurnosov might be getting computer assistance as he kept going to the bathroom (yep, bathroom again, now more jokes, just what we need, ) as well as going out and smoking a lot.

I posted his letter to the arbitors and organizers in the previous Aeroflot post. Kamsky-Topalov candidates also resumes tomorrow with round 5 of the 8 round match, which is too short in my opinion. I think it should be at the least 12 games, if not the old 24 games. At least with this amount you can be sure there's a clear winner.

But not going on and on like the Kasparov-Karpov match (I believe the first one...that went into the 40+ games as only wins were counted, draws ignored, if you remember in this match there was controversy as well, as after the long draw-fest, Karpov had a pretty good lead and then Kasparov started chipping away at it..then for some reason (The players were in danger of over exhaustion according to the FIDE president).

The match was stopped, Karpov retained the title, but in the next match where the format was changed, Kasparov became the new World Champion..boy, I hope I have my history lesson right! At least it's what I remember.


1 GM Kurnosov, Igor 5.0 RUS 2602 GM Zhou, Jianchao 4.5 CHN 2612 ½-½
2 GM Moiseenko, Alexander 4.5 UKR 2676 GM Pashikian, Arman 4.5 ARM 2621 ½-½
3 GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim 4.0 RUS 2636 GM Bacrot, Etienne 4.0 FRA 2722 ½-½
4 GM Sargissian, Gabriel 4.0 ARM 2677 GM Potkin, Vladimir 4.0 RUS 2613 ½-½
5 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny 4.0 RUS 2664 GM Grigoriants, Sergey 4.0 RUS 2565 1-0
6 GM Zhigalko, Andrey 4.0 BLR 2572 GM Predojevic, Borki 4.0 BIH 2650 0-1
7 GM Vitiugov, Nikita 3.5 RUS 2687 GM Zhigalko, Sergei 4.0 BLR 2587 0-1
8 GM Minasian, Artashes 3.5 ARM 2557 GM Amonatov, Farrukh 3.5 TJK 2647 ½-½
9 GM Dyachkov, Sergej 3.5 RUS 2553 GM Smirin, Ilia 3.5 ISR 2647 ½-½
10 GM Aleksandrov, Aleksej 3.5 BLR 2636 GM Safarli, Eltaj j 3.5 AZE 2564 ½-½
11 GM Riazantsev, Alexander 3.5 RUS 2634 GM Kotsur, Pavel 3.5 KAZ 2563 1-0
12 GM Kazhgaleyev, Murtas 3.5 KAZ 2630 GM Filippov, Anton 3.5 UZB 2556 ½-½
13 GM Landa, Konstantin 3.5 RUS 2626 GM Ajrapetjan, Yuriy 3.5 UKR 2490 ½-½
14 GM Petrosian, Tigran L. 3.5 ARM 2623 GM Zhou, Weiqi 3.5 CHN 2542 0-1
15 GM Wen, Yang 3.5 CHN 2504 GM Ehlvest, Jaan 3.5 USA 2595 0-1
16 GM Romanov, Evgeny 3.5 RUS 2576 IM Kosintseva, Tatiana w 3.5 RUS 2497 0-1
17 IM Robson, Ray j 3.5 USA 2455 GM Khairullin, Ildar 3.5 RUS 2574 0-1
18 IM Yudin, Sergei 3.0 RUS 2562 GM Onischuk, Alexander 3.0 USA 2659 1-0
19 GM Grachev, Boris 3.0 RUS 2655 GM Andriasian, Zaven 3.0 ARM 2564 ½-½
20 GM Bareev, Evgeny 3.0 RUS 2645 GM Maslak, Konstantin 3.0 RUS 2541 1-0
21 GM Melkumyan, Hrant 3.0 ARM 2519 GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian 3.0 RUS 2628 0-1
22 GM So, Wesley j 3.0 PHI 2627 WGM Shen, Yang w 3.0 CHN 2448 1-0
23 IM Ponkratov, Pavel 3.0 RUS 2557 GM Huzman, Alexander 3.0 ISR 2602 ½-½
24 GM Smirnov, Pavel 3.0 RUS 2579 GM Sjugirov, Sanan j 3.0 RUS 2562 ½-½
25 GM Naiditsch, Arkadij 2.5 GER 2693 GM Akobian, Varuzhan 2.5 USA 2619 ½-½
26 GM Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan 2.5 IRI 2604 GM Dreev, Alexey 2.5 RUS 2688 0-1
27 GM Vaganian, Rafael A 2.5 ARM 2596 GM Milov, Vadim 2.5 SUI 2669 ½-½
28 GM Dziuba, Marcin 2.5 POL 2556 GM Mamedov, Rauf 2.5 AZE 2638 0-1
29 GM Li, Chao b 2.5 CHN 2628 IM Chadaev, Nikolai 2.5 RUS 2568 1-0
30 GM Lysyj, Igor 2.5 RUS 2620 GM Li, Shilong 2.5 CHN 2559 ½-½
31 GM Rodshtein, Maxim 2.0 ISR 2650 GM Zherebukh, Yaroslav j 2.0 UKR 2558 1-0
32 GM Maze, Sebastien 2.0 FRA 2578 GM Bocharov, Dmitry 2.0 RUS 2647 ½-½
33 GM Shomoev, Anton 2.0 RUS 2567 GM Volkov, Sergey 2.0 RUS 2627 ½-½
34 GM Van Wely, Loek 2.0 NED 2625 GM Ragger, Markus 2.0 AUT 2540 1-0
35 IM Kosintseva, Nadezhda w 2.0 RUS 2486 GM Bartel, Mateusz 2.0 POL 2594 ½-½
36 GM Vazquez Igarza, Renier 1.5 ESP 2558 GM Grigoryan, Avetik 2.0 ARM 2506 1-0
37 IM Salem, A.R. Saleh j 1.0 UAE 2473 IM Ipatov, Alexander j 1.5 ESP 2493 0-1

Bye Gajewski, Grzegorz
Absent Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar; Chuprov, Dmitry; Kotanjian, Tigran