Aeroflot

AEROFLOT Open

 

Aeroflot logoOne of the strongest world Open tournaments at the beginning of the 21st century organized by Alexander Bakh and his team at the hotels Russia and Cosmos in Moscow and generously co-sponsored by the Russian airline company Aeroflot.
The festival is divided into 3 Opens. The total number of participants regularly reached 700 players with a prize fund of $ 200,000.

The winners were: 2002 Gregory Kaidanov (USA), 2003 Viktor Bologan (MLD), 2004 Rublevsky (RUS), 2005 Emil Sutovsky (ISR), 2006 Baadur Jobava (GEO), 2007 Evgeniy Alekseev (RUS), 2008 Ian Nepomniachtchi (RUS), 2009 Etienne Bacrot, 2010 Le Quang Liem (VIE), 2011 Le Quang Liem (VIE), 2012 Mateusz Bartel (POL), 2015 Ian Nepomniachtchi (RUS), 2016 Evgeniy Najer (RUS), 2017 Vladimir Fedoseev (RUS),  2018 Vadislav Kovaliov (BLR), 2019 Kaido Kulaots (EST), 2020 Aydin Suleymanli (AZE).

Aeroflot directors

Bakh, Smyslov and Roshal in 2004