16 February 2018

Aeroflot Open 2018 Starts in Moscow on February 19

Vladimir Fedoseev heads the starting list of the main tournament.

Photo: Reghotel.com
Photo: Reghotel.com

A traditional International Chess Festival "Aeroflot Open 2018" will be held in Moscow from 19 February to 1 March. The venue is Cosmos Hotel. As usually, the competition will consist of three groups according to the rating of the participants - А (2549 and more), B (2299-2550) и C (2300 and less). 

The main tournament is headed by such well-known chess players as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2017 Vladimir Fedoseev (Russia, 2724), winner of Tata Steel Challengers 2018 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit (India, 2723), Russian champion 2012 Dmitry Andreikin (Russia, 2712), European blitz champion 2015 Rauf Mamedov (Azerbaijan, 2709), European champion 2017 Maxim Matlakov (Russia, 2709), winner of the Russian Championship Higher League 2015 Vladislav Artemiev (Russia, 2697), European champion 2016 Ernesto Inarkiev (Russia, 2684), European champion 2015, winner of Aeroflot Open 2016 Evgeniy Najer (Russia, 2683) and many other chess stars.

In general, more than 90 players from 23 countries will take part in the A tournament. The winner of the main tournament will qualify to the super tournament in Dortmund (July 12-23, 2018). 

The festival has a guaranteed prize fund amounting to EUR 120,000 euro.

Special prizes for seniors, women, and juniors (amounting to 2500 euro) will be set as well; a participant can be rewarded only with one (the highest) prize. 

«For many years, Aeroflot has extensively supported promoting sports events and popularization of different athletic disciplines. Chess festival "Aeroflot Open" supported by us has a reputation of a global-level event, one of the most open and popular tournaments in the world. The festival attracts both professional grandmasters and amateurs for whom the tournament can become a start of a great journey in sport», says Vitaly Saveliev, Director General of PJSC Aeroflot. 

The organizers are Aeroflot, the Russian Chess Federation, and the Association of Chess Federations.

Tournament page

Official website