Quang Liem Leads Aeroflot
Le Quang Liem (pictured) is the sole leader of the huge Aeroflot Open after five out of nine rounds have been completed.
The young Vietnamese star has only given up one draw so far, with his victims including top seeded Gata Kamsky in a one-sided affair in round four.
Quang Liem's win in round three also featured a beautiful final move which is worth seeing! Both games are below.
Le Quang Liem was the winner of last year's Aeroflot tournament, and it would be remarkable if he could achieve the same feat again faced with such a large high quality field.
The top standings after five rounds:
| Name | Nat | Elo | Pts | |
| 1 | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2664 | 4.5 |
| 2 | Kobalia, Mikhail | RUS | 2666 | 4.0 |
| 3 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | 2695 | 4.0 |
| 4 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | UZB | 2681 | 4.0 |
| 5 | Zhou, Jianchao | CHN | 2655 | 4.0 |
| 6 | Salgado Lopez, Ivan | ESP | 2626 | 3.5 |
| 7 | Khismatullin, Denis | RUS | 2649 | 3.5 |
| 8 | Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | 2709 | 3.5 |
| 9 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | RUS | 2660 | 3.5 |
| 10 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2718 | 3.5 |
| 11 | Mamedov, Rauf | AZE | 2660 | 3.5 |
| 12 | Kurnosov, Igor | RUS | 2662 | 3.5 |
| 13 | Hess, Robert L | USA | 2572 | 3.0 |
| 14 | Papin, Vasily | RUS | 2568 | 3.0 |
| 15 | Fedoseev, Vladimir | RUS | 2505 | 3.0 |
| 16 | Bukavshin, Ivan | RUS | 2458 | 3.0 |
| 17 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2730 | 3.0 |
| 18 | Kotsur, Pavel | KAZ | 2559 | 3.0 |
| 19 | Sandipan, Chanda | IND | 2641 | 3.0 |
| 20 | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2607 | 3.0 |
| 21 | Khairullin, Ildar | RUS | 2640 | 3.0 |
| 22 | Timofeev, Artyom | RUS | 2681 | 3.0 |
| 23 | Grachev, Boris | RUS | 2660 | 3.0 |
| 24 | Ni, Hua | CHN | 2645 | 3.0 |
| 25 | Rodshtein, Maxim | ISR | 2625 | 3.0 |
| 26 | Lenic, Luka | SLO | 2613 | 3.0 |
| 27 | Dubov, Daniil | RUS | 2459 | 3.0 |
| 28 | Riazantsev, Alexander | RUS | 2689 | 3.0 |
| 29 | Movsesian, Sergei | ARM | 2721 | 3.0 |
| 30 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2715 | 3.0 |
| 31 | Romanov, Evgeny | RUS | 2606 | 3.0 |
| 32 | Volokitin, Andrei | UKR | 2678 | 3.0 |
| 33 | Sjugirov, Sanan | RUS | 2626 | 3.0 |
| 34 | Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | 2665 | 3.0 |
| 35 | Ding, Liren | CHN | 2628 | 3.0 |
