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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Grand Final, Aeroflot Open 2013

16 Feb 2013, Kuala Lumpur – The Grand Final of the Aeroflot Chess Open 2013 begins today. Eight guest stars and eight winners qualifying competitions will be vying to become the new Aeroflot Open 2013 champion.

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Final 16 Players:

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Quarterfinalists – Last Eight:

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Pairings of Quarterfinals (K.O. format):

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Chessdom reported that a game that immediately catches the eye is Wang Hao –Dmitry Andreikin. The Nimzo-Indian used by the Russian invited Hao to close the position and avoid every possible pawn confrontation, so there were no pawn exchanges during the first 82(!!) moves. Just 6 moves later, Wang Hao proved that his passed h-pawn was stronger than Andreikin’s piece advantage and closed the game with decisive score.

Eight players enter the quarter-finals comprising of Grischuk, Mamedyarov, Svidler, Nepomniachtchi, Wang Hao, Karjakin, Eljanov and Kamsky.

Official website: http://russiachess.org/championship/detail/2013/aeroflot_open_2013/

Online game: http://online.russiachess.org/

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