“The Aeroflot-Open 2015” will be held from the 27th of March till the 7th April in Moscow. The venue is Cosmos Hotel.
The tournament will be played in three groups – A, B and C according to the participants’ ratings. On the 6th of April there will be organized a blitz tournament.
The total prize fund is 140.000 Euro.
The organizers are OJSC “Aeroflot Russian Airlines”, the Russian Chess Federation and the Fund for Support of Chess Creation.
The Aeroflot Open had taken its start in 2000 in the capital of Russia and became an annual classical event since then. In 2013, the former RCF management decided to change its format into rapid and blitz, while this year the tournament was cancelled at all.
