In A Group of “Aeroflot” Open Festival, Baadur Jobava (2704) played draw against Maxim Rodshtein of Israel (2634) with black pieces and got in top 10.
Jobava earned 5.0 points, like other 14 chess players. According to the additional data, he is in the 10th place. Baadur is one point behind of Anton Korobov (Ukraine, 2660), Mateusz Bartel (Poland, 2658) and Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine, 2690). He is 0.5 point behind of Alexander Khalifman (Russia, 2632), Hrant Melkumyan (Armenia, 2620), Dmitry Andreikin (Russia, 2688) and Fabiano Caruana (Italy, 2736).
Baadur will play against Caruana in the decisive round. In case of victory, Baadur will take prize place and advance in ranking.
Nazi Paikidze (2411) continues unsuccessful participation in A Group. She lost to Boris Savchenko of Russia (2609). Nazi is in the last place with 1.0 point.
Meri Arabidze (2358) lost to Sergey Pavlov of Ukraine (2477) in B Group of “Aeroflot Open”. Meri is in the 92nd place with 3.5 points. 125 000 EUR is prize money of the Moscow tournament. Winner of A Group will gain 20 000 EUR and champion of B Group – 10 000 EUR. The last round of the chess festival will be held today.
