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Saturday, 11 February 2012

Aeroflot Open: Standings After Round 5

Round 5 of Aeroflot Open has brought some new players in the top positions

Hrant Melkumyan 4/5(+4 -1 =0)
Maxim Rodshtein4/5(+3 -0 =2)
Anton Korobov4/5(+3 -0 =2)
Baris Esen3.5/5(+2 -0 =3)
Mateusz Bartel3.5/5(+2 -0 =3)
Ivan Sokolov3.5/5(+2 -0 =3)
Fabiano Caruana3.5/5(+3 -1 =1)
Dmitry Andreikin3.5/5(+2 -0 =3)
Evgeny Tomashevsky3.5/5(+2 -0 =3)
Krishnan Sasikiran3.5/5(+2 -0 =3)
Alexander Khalifman3.5/5(+2 -0 =3)
Bu Xiangzhi3.5/5(+2 -0 =3)
Evgeny Alekseev3.5/5(+2 -0 =3)
Abhijeet Gupta3.5/5(+2 -0 =3)
Csaba Balogh3.5/5(+2 -0 =3)
Eltaj Safarli3.5/5(+2 -0 =3)
Pavel Eljanov3.5/5(+2 -0 =3)

And now, to get the flavour of the style of one current leaders, I will present you the game Melkumyan v Khairullin, both players are grandmasters rated above 2600.


Interesting game wasn't it?

Hrant Melkumyan was born on 30th April 1989 and he is Armenian grandmaster and European Blitz Champion in 2011. More information about him you can get in Wikipedia.

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