- Aeroflot round 1 matchups

Round 1 top board pairings

#	White	Fed.	Rating	Black	Fed.	Rating
1	GM Iturrizaga, Eduardo	VEN	2611	GM Kamsky, Gata	USA	2730
2	GM Movsesian, Sergei	ARM	2721	GM Yu, Yangyi	CHN	2607
3	GM Romanov, Evgeny	RUS	2606	GM Jakovenko, Dmitry	RUS	2718
4	GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA	2715	GM Bocharov, Dmitry	RUS	2605
5	GM Petrosian, Tigran L.	ARM	2604	GM Vitiugov, Nikita	RUS	2709
6	GM Sutovsky, Emil	ISR	2695	GM Kotronias, Vasilios	GRE	2599
7	GM Zhao, Jun	CHN	2599	GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny	RUS	2695
8	GM Bologan, Viktor	MDA	2693	GM Grigoryan, Avetik	ARM	2595
9	GM Bluvshtein, Mark	CAN	2590	GM Andreikin, Dmitry	RUS	2689
10	GM Riazantsev, Alexander	RUS	2689	GM Felgaer, Ruben	ARG	2585
11	GM Mamedov, Nidjat	AZE	2580	GM Motylev, Alexander	RUS	2687
12	GM Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	UZB	2681	GM Deviatkin, Andrei	RUS	2573
13	GM Zhou, Weiqi	CHN	2573	GM Timofeev, Artyom	RUS	2681
14	GM Volokitin, Andrei	UKR	2678	GM Hess, Robert L	USA	2572
15	GM Fier, Alexandr	BRA	2571	GM So, Wesley	PHI	2673
16	GM Korobov, Anton	UKR	2670	GM Vocaturo, Daniele	ITA	2570
17	GM Novikov, Stanislav	RUS	2568	GM Kobalia, Mikhail	RUS	2666
18	GM Cheparinov, Ivan	BUL	2665	IM Papin, Vasily	RUS	2568
19	GM Zhigalko, Andrey	BLR	2566	GM Le, Quang Liem	VIE	2664
20	GM Kurnosov, Igor	RUS	2662	GM Kotsur, Pavel	KAZ	2559

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Aeroflot round 1 matchups