Aeroflot Open

Template:Short description The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament organised through 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".

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 into 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.

The 2025 edition of this tournament was held from 1 - 6 March 2025, at The Carlton Moscow in Moscow, Russia. It was won by Ian Nepomniachtchi.

Winners

The name of the winner is boldfaced as in some editions, a few players ended with the same overall score.

#	Year	Winner(s)	Points	Rounds
1	2002	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete	6½	9
2	2003	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete	7	9
3	2004	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete	7	9
4	2005	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete	6½	9
5	2006	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete	6½	9
6	2007	Template:Flagathlete	7	9
7	2008	Template:Flagathlete	7	9
8	2009	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete	6½	9
9	2010	Template:Flagathlete	7	9
10	2011	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete	6½	9
11	2012	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete	6½	9
12	2013	Template:Flagathlete (Rapid tournament) Template:Flagathlete (Blitz tournament)	2–1 15½	K.O. 18
13	2015	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete	7	9
14	2016	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete	6½	9
15	2017	Template:Flagathlete	7	9
16	2018	Template:Flagathlete	7	9
17	2019	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete	7	9
18	2020	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete	6½	9
19	2024	Template:Flagathlete	7½	9
20	2025	Template:Flagathlete	7	9

Results

2024

Aeroflot Open was included in the 2024 FIDE Circuit.

Ties were broken first according to the amount of games played with the black pieces, then the average rating of the player's opponents, excluding the highest and the lowest.

Nine rounds were played; the top 20 players of this event were:

Rank	Seed	Player	Points	Tie-break 1	Tie-break 2
1	4	Template:Flagicon GM Amin Tabatabaei	7.5	4	2521
2	2	Template:Flagicon GM Andrey Esipenko	6.5	5	2532
3	6	Template:Flagicon GM Nodirbek Yakubboev	6.5	5	2512
4	5	Template:Flagicon GM Haik Martirosyan	6.5	4	2480
5	19	Template:Flagicon GM Denis Lazavik	6.5	4	2480
6	24	Template:Flagicon GM Sergey Drygalov	6	5	2505
7	8	Template:Flagicon GM Manuel Petrosyan	6	5	2457
8	14	Template:Flagicon GM Arseniy Nesterov	6	5	2435
9	10	Template:Flagicon GM David Paravyan	6	5	2428
10	16	Template:Flagicon GM Vadim Zvjaginsev	6	5	2408
11	42	Template:Flagicon GM Aleksey Goganov	6	5	2387
12	1	Template:Flagicon GM Alexander Grischuk	6	4	2569
13	55	Template:Flagicon IM Yaroslav Remizov	6	4	2545
14	83	Template:Flagicon FM Alexey Grachev	6	4	2488
15	26	Template:Flagicon IM Aleksey Grebnev	6	5	2482
16	7	Template:Flagicon GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan	6	4	2479
17	11	Template:Flagicon GM Aydin Suleymanli	6	4	2468
18	45	Template:Flagicon IM Kazybek Nogerbek	6	4	2413
19	27	Template:Flagicon GM Mihail Nikitenko	6	4	2391
20	91	Template:Flagicon IM Kirill Klukin	5.5	5	2519

2025

Aeroflot Open was included in the 2025 FIDE Circuit.

Ties were broken first according to the amount of games played with the black pieces, then the average rating of the player's opponents, excluding the highest and the lowest.

Nine rounds were played; the top 20 players of this event were:

Rank	Seed	Player	Points	Tie-break 1	Tie-break 2
1	1	Template:Flagicon GM Ian Nepomniachtchi	7	5	2557
2	3	Template:Flagicon GM Richard Rapport	6.5	5	2550
3	5	Template:Flagicon GM Andrey Esipenko	6.5	5	2510
4	15	Template:Flagicon GM Maxim Matlakov	6.5	5	2460
5	34	Template:Flagicon GM Sergei Lobanov	6.5	5	2423
6	9	Template:Flagicon GM Amin Tabatabaei	6.5	5	2403
7	43	Template:Flagicon GM Aleksey Goganov	6.5	4	2630
8	2	Template:Flagicon GM Hans Niemann	6.5	4	2565
9	18	Template:Flagicon GM Bardiya Daneshvar	6.5	4	2482
10	29	Template:Flagicon GM Savva Vetokhin	6	5	2538
11	25	Template:Flagicon GM Ivan Zemlyanskii	6	5	2527
12	31	Template:Flagicon GM Ilia Iljiushenok	6	5	2408
13	23	Template:Flagicon GM Pavel Ponkratov	6	5	2370
14	13	Template:Flagicon GM Aram Hakobyan	6	4	2518
15	7	Template:Flagicon GM Alexander Grischuk	6	4	2503
16	10	Template:Flagicon GM Raunak Sadhwani	6	4	2494
17	4	Template:Flagicon GM Daniil Dubov	6	4	2488
18	6	Template:Flagicon GM Vladislav Artemiev	6	4	2473
19	117	Template:Flagicon FM Maksim Volkov	6	4	2453
20	20	Template:Flagicon GM Arseniy Nesterov	6	4	2445

Sources

• Reports from Chessbase: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013 blitz, 2013 rapid final
• Results from TWIC: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
• On the 2002 edition from ruchess.com 2002