17th Aeroflot Open 2019: Catch all the live action here

by Nongsha Angom - 19/02/2019

The traditional international festival "Aeroflot Open 2019" is ON now. This will be held from February 19th until 1st March 2019 at the Moscow hotel "Cosmos". Popular worldwide festival will be held for the 17th time (The live game start at 17:30 IST). This year GM Wei Yi of China is the top seed followed by GM Vladimir Fedoseev of Russia and GM Wang Hao of China. A very strong Indian contingent is led by GM Sasikiran Krishnan and GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly. Also we will see GM Praggnanandhaa R, GM Nihal Sarin and GM Gukesh D together in action! Catch all the live games in this page.

The beautiful venue of the event Hotel - Cosmos!

Aeroflot Open 2019 kicked off today and it is one of the most prestigious open tournament in the chess world. Almost all the top players have played the Aeroflot Open at least once in their life, be it Carlsen, Caruana, Karjakin, Hou Yifan and many others. This year a very strong India team is part of the event which includes GM Sasikiran, GM Surya S Ganguly, GM Aravindh Chithambaram, the in-form GM Karthikeyan Murali, IM Padmini Rout to name a few. Also we have the youngsters GM Nihal Sarin, GM Praggnanandhaa R and GM Gukesh D who are part of it.

Starting rank

No.		Name	FideID	FED	Rtg	Typ
1	GM	Wei Yi	8603405	CHN	2733
2	GM	Fedoseev Vladimir	24130737	RUS	2715
3	GM	Wang Hao	8602883	CHN	2714
4	GM	Dubov Daniil	24126055	RUS	2703
5	GM	Kovalev Vladislav	13504398	BLR	2703
6	GM	Mamedov Rauf	13401653	AZE	2703
7	GM	Inarkiev Ernesto	4162722	RUS	2692
8	GM	Nabaty Tamir	2809052	ISR	2688
9	GM	Korobov Anton	14105730	UKR	2687
10	GM	Safarli Eltaj	13402129	AZE	2681
11	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	5004985	IND	2678
12	GM	Maghsoodloo Parham	12539929	IRI	2666
13	GM	Sjugirov Sanan	4189302	RUS	2663
14	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	5021596	IND	2651
15	GM	Anton Guijarro David	2285525	ESP	2642
16	GM	Zvjaginsev Vadim	4113403	RUS	2642
17	GM	Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo	3901211	VEN	2640
18	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	5002150	IND	2636
19	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	4135539	RUS	2634
20	GM	Indjic Aleksandar	911925	SRB	2630

complete list of players

Live game start at: 17:30 IST

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