Aeroflot is doing videos

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

Links:

• Tournament website
• Live games
• Games in PGN
• “Aero-Alekseev the best in Moscow”