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Aeroflot is doing videos

15 February 2008 13:37 PM | Last modified: 18:05

Aeroflot has started. And now just chess, no, in Moscow they have discovered the phenomenon of videos too. Footage of a mega tournament.

Not that the material is that special; someone is walking through the venue with the camera running and then it’s all uploaded to YouTube. But still, you can always taste bit more of the tournament’s atmosphere like this, compared to just photos. So far, six videos have been uploaded to russiachess’s account, taken on February 13 and 14:



Here are the round 1 results of the first ten boards of both “A1″ and “A2″ groups:

Aeroflot 2008 | A1 | Round 1 Results

1 GM Akopian, Vladimir ARM 2700 GM Mamedov, Rauf AZE 2583 ½-½
2 GM Minasian, Artashes ARM 2578 GM Volokitin, Andrei UKR 2674 1-0
3 GM Timofeev, Artyom RUS 2664 GM Balogh, Csaba HUN 2575 1-0
4 GM Parligras, Mircea ROU 2574 GM Bologan, Viktor MDA 2663 ½-½
5 GM Amonatov, Farrukh TJK 2649 GM Maletin, Pavel RUS 2573 ½-½
6 GM Meier, Georg GER 2570 GM Motylev, Alexander RUS 2644 ½-½
7 GM Jobava, Baadur GEO 2643 GM Evdokimov, Alexander A. RUS 2569 0-1
8 GM Khismatullin, Denis RUS 2564 GM Sutovsky, Emil ISR 2642 ½-½
9 GM Predojevic, Borki BIH 2641 GM Shomoev, Anton RUS 2562 ½-½
10 GM Dyachkov, Sergej RUS 2559 GM Khalifman, Alexander RUS 2638 ½-½

Aeroflot 2008 | A2 | Round 1 Results

1 GM Dvoirys, Semen I. RUS 2549 IM Petrosian, Davit G. ARM 2459 1-0
2 GM Beshukov, Sergei RUS 2458 GM Iljushin, Alexei RUS 2549 ½-½
3 GM Iljin, Artem RUS 2548 GM Obukhov, Alexander RUS 2458 1-0
4 IM Lushenkov, Mikhail RUS 2458 GM Novikov, Stanislav RUS 2545 0-1
5 GM Kacheishvili, Giorgi GEO 2544 IM Kaplan, Sasha ISR 2456 1-0
6 IM Harika, Dronavalli IND 2455 GM Solodovnichenko, Yuri UKR 2541 1-0
7 GM Kharlov, Andrei RUS 2538 IM Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina RUS 2455 1-0
8 IM Babiy, Anatoly RUS 2452 GM Shaposhnikov, Evgeny RUS 2537 ½-½
9 GM Vorobiov, Evgeny E. RUS 2537 IM Kuznetsov, Viktor RUS 2449 1-0
10 IM Abasheev, Denis RUS 2442 IM Kryakvin, Dmitry RUS 2535 ½-½

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One Response to “Aeroflot is doing videos”

  1. Janis on 16 February 2008 13:33 PM

    Europe-echecs is doing interesting and multilingual videos from Aeroflot

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