26 February 2018
Amin Tabatabaei Joins the Leader at Aeroflot Open 2018
Seven rounds are over.
Photo by Boris Dolmatovsky
Seven rounds of the International chess festival Aeroflot Open 2018 are played in Moscow. The leader of the main tournament Vladislav Kovalev (Belarus) made a draw against Ihor Lysyj (Russia). It allowed Amin Tabatabaei (Iran) to catch up with him after beating Krishnan Sasikiran (India).
Kovalev and Tabatabaei have scored 5.5 points each. Vladislav Artemiev, Igor Lysyj (both from Russia), Tigran L. Petrosian, Gabriel Sargissian (both from Armenia), and Anton Korobov (Ukraine) are trailing by half a point.
Round 8 pairings