The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament organised through the joint efforts of the Chess Federation of Russia and the Russian Ministry of Sport with the sponsorship from the Russian flag carrier, Aeroflot. It is played in Moscow, holding both the international open tournament and the Russian Youth Cup "Aeroflot Open - Children".

Aeroflot Open was established in 2002 as Swiss system tournament with nine rounds, and the winner is invited to the Dortmund chess tournament held later in the same year, a tradition begun in 2003. In 2013, it was converted into a rapid and blitz event. The first event had around 80 grandmasters, while in the second event 150 grandmasters participated. Beside the main tournament (A Group), there are also B and C-class tournaments.

The 2026 edition of this tournament was held from 28 February - 5 March 2026, at The Carlton Moscow in Moscow, Russia. It was won by Ian Nepomniachtchi.

Winners The name of the winner is boldfaced as in some editions, a few players ended with the same overall score.

# Year Winner(s) Points Rounds 1 2002 6½ 9 2 2003 7 9 3 2004 7 9 4 2005 6½ 9 5 2006 6½ 9 6 2007 7 9 7 2008 7 9 8 2009 6½ 9 9 2010 7 9 10 2011 6½ 9 11 2012 6½ 9 12 2013 (Rapid tournament) (Blitz tournament) 2–1Sergey Karjakin beat Alexander Grischuk by 2–1 in the final of the knockout rapid tournament: "Sergey Karjakin wins Aeroflot Rapid Final" by Chessdom15½ K.O.18 13 2015 7 9 14 2016 6½ 9 15 2017 7 9 16 2018 7 9 17 2019 7 9 18 2020 6½ 9 19 2024 7½ 9 20 2025 7 9 21 2026 7½ 9

Results 2024 Aeroflot Open was included in the 2024 FIDE Circuit.

Ties were broken first according to the number of games played with the black pieces, then the average rating of the player's opponents, excluding the highest and the lowest.

Nine rounds were played; the top 20 players of this event were:

Rank Seed Player Points TB 1 TB 2 1 4 GM Amin Tabatabaei 7.5 4 2521 2 2 GM Andrey Esipenko 6.5 5 2532 3 6 GM Nodirbek Yakubboev 6.5 5 2512 4 5 GM Haik Martirosyan 6.5 4 2480 5 19 GM Denis Lazavik 6.5 4 2480 6 24 GM Sergey Drygalov 6 5 2505 7 8 GM Manuel Petrosyan 6 5 2457 8 14 GM Arseniy Nesterov 6 5 2435 9 10 GM David Paravyan 6 5 2428 10 16 GM Vadim Zvjaginsev 6 5 2408 11 42 GM Aleksey Goganov 6 5 2387 12 1 GM Alexander Grischuk 6 4 2569 13 55 IM Yaroslav Remizov 6 4 2545 14 83 FM Alexey Grachev 6 4 2488 15 26 IM Aleksey Grebnev 6 5 2482 16 7 GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan 6 4 2479 17 11 GM Aydin Suleymanli 6 4 2468 18 45 IM Kazybek Nogerbek 6 4 2413 19 27 GM Mihail Nikitenko 6 4 2391 20 91 IM Kirill Klukin 5.5 5 2519

2025 Aeroflot Open was included in the 2025 FIDE Circuit.

Ties were broken first according to the number of games played with the black pieces, then the average rating of the player's opponents, excluding the highest and the lowest.

Nine rounds were played; the top 20 players of this event were:

Rank Seed Player Points TB 1 TB 2 1 1 GM Ian Nepomniachtchi 7 5 2557 2 3 GM Richard Rapport 6.5 5 2550 3 5 GM Andrey Esipenko 6.5 5 2510 4 15 GM Maxim Matlakov 6.5 5 2460 5 34 GM Sergei Lobanov 6.5 5 2423 6 9 GM Amin Tabatabaei 6.5 5 2403 7 43 GM Aleksey Goganov 6.5 4 2630 8 2 GM Hans Niemann 6.5 4 2565 9 18 GM Bardiya Daneshvar 6.5 4 2482 10 29 GM Savva Vetokhin 6 5 2538 11 25 GM Ivan Zemlyanskii 6 5 2527 12 31 GM Ilia Iljiushenok 6 5 2408 13 23 GM Pavel Ponkratov 6 5 2370 14 13 GM Aram Hakobyan 6 4 2518 15 7 GM Alexander Grischuk 6 4 2503 16 10 GM Raunak Sadhwani 6 4 2494 17 4 GM Daniil Dubov 6 4 2488 18 6 GM Vladislav Artemiev 6 4 2473 19 117 FM Maksim Volkov 6 4 2453 20 20 GM Arseniy Nesterov 6 4 2445

2026 Aeroflot Open was included in the 2026–2027 FIDE Circuit.

Ties were broken first according to the number of games played with the black pieces, then the average rating of the player's opponents, excluding the highest and the lowest.

Nine rounds were played; the top 20 players of this event were:

Rank Seed Player Points TB 1 TB 2 1 1 GM Ian Nepomniachtchi 7.5 5 2494 2 19 GM David Paravyan 6.5 5 2517 3 30 GM Rudik Makarian 6.5 5 2467 4 7 GM Haik M. Martirosyan 6.5 5 2451 5 17 GM Bardiya Daneshvar 6.5 5 2426 6 21 GM Aleksandr Shimanov 6.5 5 2426 7 62 IM Mukhammadzokhid Suyarov 6.5 4 2586 8 74 IM Sauat Nurgaliyev 6.5 4 2563 9 2 GM Andrey Esipenko 6.5 4 2516 10 20 GM Mahammad Muradli 6.5 4 2516 11 8 GM Aleksey Grebnev 6.5 4 2501 12 16 GM Arseniy Nesterov 6.5 4 2495 13 10 GM Aram Hakobyan 6.5 4 2483 14 6 GM Raunak Sadhwani 6.5 4 2481 15 32 GM Artem Uskov 6.5 4 2458 16 28 GM Vadim Zvjaginsev 6.5 4 2399 17 5 GM Alexander Grischuk 6 5 2486 18 41 GM Siddharth Jagadeesh 6 5 2433 19 29 GM Nikita Afanasiev 6 5 2389 20 45 GM Boris Savchenko 6 4 2532

References

Sources Reports from Chessbase: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013 blitz, 2013 rapid final Results from TWIC: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 On the 2002 edition from ruchess.com 2002