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Baadur Jobava (Georgia) is the winner of the Aeroflot Open tournament, which took place in Moscow 8th-17th February 2006. Among participants: Shakhrijar Mamedjarov g AZE 2709, Vladimir Akopian g ARM 2704, Alexei Dreev g RUS 2697, Vladimir Malakhov g RUS 2694, Areshchenko Alexander g UKR 2670, Krishnan Sasikiran g IND 2670, Zahar Efimenko g UKR 2666, Dmitry Jakovenko g RUS 2662, Viorel Bologan 2661, Alexander Khalifman g RUS 2660, Arkadij Naiditsch 2657, Alexander Moiseenko g UKR 2657, Pavel Eljanov g UKR 2655, Artem Timofeev g RUS 2653, Aleksej Aleksandrov g BLR 2653, Evgeniy Najer 2652, Zvaid Izoria g GEO 2652, Konstantin Sakaev g RUS 2649, Karen Asrian g ARM 2646, Bu Xiangxi g CHN 2645, Kiril Georgiev g BUL 2645, Alexander Motylev g RUS 2638, Evgeny Alekseev g RUS 2634 etc. The winner of this event will take part in Dortmund tournament.

Final leaders standings:
1 Jobava 6.5
2 Bologan 6.5
3 Sasikiran 6.5
4 Mamedyarov 6.5
5 Eljanov 6.0
6 Vachier-Lagrave 6.0
7 Petrosian 6.0
8 Akopian 6.0
9 Georgiev 6.0
10 Naiditsch 6.0
11 Jakovenko 6.0
12 Efimenko 5.5
13 Najer 5.5
14 Fedorov 5.5
15 Asrian 5.5
16 Balogh 5.5
17 Yakovich 5.5
18 Sedlak 5.5
19 Malakhov 5.5
20 Korotylev 5.5
21 Alekseev 5.5
22 Izoria 5.5
23 Motylev 5.5
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