Winners
The name of the winner is boldfaced as in some editions, a few players ended with the same overall score.
The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament organised by the joint efforts of the Chess Federation of Russia and the Russian Ministry of Sport with the sponsorship from the Russian flag carrier Aeroflot. It is played in Moscow, holding both the international open tournament and the Russian Youth Cup "Aeroflot Open - Children". [1]
Aeroflot Open was established in 2002 as Swiss system tournament with nine rounds, and the winner is invited to the Dortmund chess tournament held later in the same year, a tradition begun in 2003. In 2013, it was converted to a rapid and blitz event. The first event had around 80 grandmasters, while in the second event 150 grandmasters participated. Beside the main tournament (A Group), there are also B and C-class tournaments.[ citation needed ]
The name of the winner is boldfaced as in some editions, a few players ended with the same overall score.
Aeroflot Open was included in the 2024 FIDE Circuit. The top 20 players who fished the event were: [5]
| Rank | SNo | Player | Points | TB1 | TB2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 |  GM Amin Tabatabaei | 7.5 | 4 | 2521 |
| 2 | 2 |  GM Andrey Esipenko | 6.5 | 5 | 2532 |
| 3 | 6 |  GM Nodirbek Yakubboev | 6.5 | 5 | 2512 |
| 4 | 5 |  GM Haik Martirosyan | 6.5 | 4 | 2480 |
| 5 | 19 |  GM Denis Lazavik | 6.5 | 4 | 2480 |
| 6 | 24 |  GM Sergey Drygalov | 6 | 5 | 2505 |
| 7 | 8 | GM Manuel Petrosyan | 6 | 5 | 2457 |
| 8 | 14 | GM Arseniy Nesterov | 6 | 5 | 2435 |
| 9 | 10 | GM David Paravyan | 6 | 5 | 2428 |
| 10 | 16 | GM Vadim Zvjaginsev | 6 | 5 | 2408 |
| 11 | 42 | GM Aleksey Goganov | 6 | 5 | 2387 |
| 12 | 1 | GM Alexander Grischuk | 6 | 4 | 2569 |
| 13 | 55 | IM Yaroslav Remizov | 6 | 4 | 2545 |
| 14 | 83 | FM Alexey Grachev | 6 | 4 | 2488 |
| 15 | 26 | IM Aleksey Grebnev | 6 | 5 | 2482 |
| 16 | 7 | GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan | 6 | 4 | 2479 |
| 17 | 11 |  GM Aydin Suleymanli | 6 | 4 | 2468 |
| 18 | 45 |  IM Kazybek Nogerbek | 6 | 4 | 2413 |
| 19 | 27 | GM Mihail Nikitenko | 6 | 4 | 2391 |
| 20 | 91 | IM Kirill Klukin | 5.5 | 5 | 2519 |
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