It is late evening here. I am on my way back home to Saint-Petersburg. I am sitting in the fastest train "Sapsan" for which it takes only 4 hours to cover the 700km distance from Moscow to Saint-Petersburg. They even have wi-fi here, but I am not sure it will be fast enough to publish the pictures. If not, then I ll publish them later. Anyway I`ll do it, because today I`ve spent about 2 hours in the hotel Cosmos and took a lot of pictures from the 5th round of the tournament. I wish I could`ve stayed more. I`d like to make better reports – while making the first ones, I realised how I can improve them. There are people, with whom I wish I could have chatted more. What to do, vacation is over. So this is my last report on Aeroflot open.
The weather is getting colder. Some chessplayers even started to disappear. It seems suspicious...
Ok, let us get to the pictures:
GM Anton Korobov (Ukraine)
GM Maxim Rodshtein (Israel)
GM Evgeny Alexeev (Russia) - GM Abhijeet Gupta (India) ½-½
GM Adhiban Baskaran (India) - GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia). What a pose!
One of the most cheerful GMs Baadur Jobava (Georgia) is waiting for his opponent. He is about to win a quick and beautiful game against GM Pavel Ponkratov (Russia)
GM Sandipan Chanda (India)
IM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (India) won against GM Boris Savchenko (Russia)
GM Le Quang Ljem (Vietnam) - GM Alexander Khalifman (Russia) 0-1
GM Rauf Mamedov (Azerbaijan) drew today
IM Venkatesh M.R.
WGM Nazi Paikidze (Georgia)
WGM Ju Wenjun (China)
GM Alexander Ipatov (since recently - Turkey)
GM Harika Dronavalli wearing kameez
The famous author of the best textbooks on chess in the world Mark Izrailevich Dvoretsky
Matinian Nikita (Russia) - GM Alexander Shimanov (Russia)
IM Lalith Babu and IM Debashish Das (both from India)
GM Tejas Bakre (India)
WGM Soumya Swaminathan (India)
IM Nisha Mohota (India)
WGM Mary Ann Gomes (India)
IM Evgenia Ovod (Russia)
Fide Arbiter Sergey Sudakov from Saint-Petersburg
Correspondent of chess-news.ru Elena Klimets
Arbiter Oksana Zhak
GM Pavel Ponkratov. The monument of the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman is in the background. Minus 20 Celsius
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