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Participants grandmaster group B Name Country Rating GM Krishnan Sasikiran IND 2694 GM Zahar Efimenko UKR 2680 GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov UZB 2672 GM Alexander Motylev RUS 2672 GM Francisco Vallejo Pons ESP 2664 GM Andrei Volokitin UKR 2659 GM Nigel Short ENG 2642 GM Fabiano Caruana ITA 2640 GM David Navara CZE 2633 GM Erwin l'Ami NED 2610 GM Jan Werle NED 2582 WGM Hou Yifan CHN 2578 GM Henrique Mecking BRA 2567 GM Dimitri Reinderman NED 2543

Russian prodigy Ian Nepomniatchi is the sole leader at Aeroflot after the eighth round. While he beat GM Le Quang Liem, the others leaders fell back after drawing their games. One very interesting progess is the level of play by 13 year old Hou Yifan. She has gathered 4.5 points so far and has played very strong GMs, most of them just around 2600 or above that mark ! Watch out for her. She will soon be in the top 100 of the world and should challenge Judit Polgar in just a couple of years. Aeroflot Open Moscow Round 8 Standings: 1 Nepomniachtchi, Ian GM RUS 2600 6.5 2 Motylev, Alexander GM RUS 2644 6.0 3 Dreev, Alexey GM RUS 2633 6.0 4 Volokitin, Andrei GM UKR 2674 5.5 5 Guseinov, Gadir GM AZE 2617 5.5 6 Rodshtein, Maxim GM ISR 2614 5.5 7 Timofeev, Artyom GM RUS 2664 5.0 8 Amonatov, Farrukh GM TJK 2649 5.0 9 Predojevic, Borki GM BIH 2641 5.0 10 Asrian, Karen GM ARM 2621 5.0