From February 9 to 17 Moscow hosts the Aeroflot Open chess tournament, which is attended by 6 Armenian chess players.

The results of the first round:
Zaven Andriasyan - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) 0,5-0,5
Gabrielle Sarkissyan - Wijk Zhou (China) 0,5-0,5
Grant Melkoumian - Krishnan Sasikiran (India) 0,5-0,5
Arman Pashikyan - Renier Vazquez-Igarza (Spain) 1:0.

Tournament A2:
Tigran Kotanjyan - Jop Delemare (Holland) 0,5-0,5
Davit Petrosyan, Evgenia Ovod (Russia) 1:0.