Viets lead Aeroflot

(IN PHOTO: Viet stars Le, left, and Nguyen.)

Two Vietnamese warriors - yes, warriors - are leading Aeroflot Open 2010 in Moscow, Russia after three rounds of play.

GM Le Quang Liem preserved his perfect peformance (3/3) by beating fellow Asian GM Bu Xiangzhi of China to raise his Total Performance Rating to 3386, while compatriot GM Nguyen Ngoc Troung Son (2.5/3) defeated Philippines' Numero Uno GM Wesley So in a game that was filled with twists and reds - a statement that puts Vietnam chess at this particular moment in an ecstatic state.

Reds? That's how Rbyka says it when it sees blunders. The Nguyen-So battle saw at least five reds, one belonging to Nguyen and the rest to Wesley.

Forget the reds anyway. Watch the games below and see how the Filipino pride put up a gallant fight.

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PGNs:

[Event "Aeroflot Open"]
[Site "Moscow RUS"]
[Date "2010.02.11"]
[EventDate "2010.02.09"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son"]
[Black "W So"]
[ECO "A07"]
[WhiteElo "2616"]
[BlackElo "2656"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 c6 4. O-O Bg4 5. d3 e6 6. Nbd2 Be7 7. e4 O-O 8.
Re1 Nbd7 9. h3 Bh5 10. e5 Ne8 11. g4 Bg6 12. Nf1 Nc7 13. Ng3 c5 14. Bf4 d4
15. Ne4 Nd5 16. Bg3 Rc8 17. h4 h6 18. g5 hxg5 19. Nfxg5 c4 20. dxc4 Rxc4
21. b3 Rc7 22. a3 Bxg5 23. hxg5 Nc5 24. Nf6+ gxf6 25. gxf6 Kh7 26. Qxd4 Rh8
27. Bf3 Nxf6 28. Qxd8 Rxd8 29. exf6 Rcc8 30. b4 Na4 31. Kg2 Bxc2 32. Rec1
Bf5 33. Rh1+ Kg6 34. Be5 Rh8 35. Rag1 Bd3 36. Bxb7 Rcg8 37. Rxh8 Rxh8 38.
f4 Rh4 39. Kg3 Rh5 40. Bf3 1-0

[Event "Aeroflot Open"]
[Site "Moscow RUS"]
[Date "2010.02.11"]
[EventDate "2010.02.09"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Le Quang Liem"]
[Black "Bu Xiangzhi"]
[ECO "A33"]
[WhiteElo "2647"]
[BlackElo "2673"]
[PlyCount "62"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nf3 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 e6 6. a3 Be7 7. e4 O-O 8.
Nf3 b6 9. Be2 Bb7 10. O-O Rc8 11. Bf4 Na5 12. Nd2 d5 13. cxd5 exd5 14. e5
Ne4 15. Ncxe4 dxe4 16. b4 Bg5 17. Bxg5 Qxg5 18. h4 Qxh4 19. bxa5 Rc6 20.
Nxe4 Rh6 21. f3 Bxe4 22. fxe4 Rd8 23. Qb3 Qh2+ 24. Kf2 Qxe5 25. Rad1 Re8
26. axb6 Qxe4 27. Kg1 Qe7 28. Rxf7 Qc5+ 29. Rf2+ Kh8 30. Qb5 Qe3 31. Rd3
1-0

Ranking after round 3 (Friday, 12 February 2010)

Rank	Name	Flags	Score	Fed.	M/F	Rating	TPR	W-We	1	2	3
1	GM Le, Quang Liem		3.0	VIE	M	2647	3386	+1.52	1	1	1
2	GM Cheparinov, Ivan		2.5	BUL	M	2660	2883	+0.80	1	½	1
3	GM Timofeev, Artyom		2.5	RUS	M	2652	2835	+0.64	1	½	1
4	GM Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son		2.5	VIE	M	2616	2839	+0.80	½	1	1
5	GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime		2.0	FRA	M	2730	2710	-0.07	½	1	½
6	GM Bacrot, Etienne		2.0	FRA	M	2713	2743	+0.11	1	0	1
7	GM Motylev, Alexander		2.0	RUS	M	2697	2752	+0.21	1	½	½
8	GM Volokitin, Andrei		2.0	UKR	M	2692	2735	+0.16	½	½	1
9	GM Bu, Xiangzhi		2.0	CHN	M	2673	2752	+0.30	1	1	0
10	GM Najer, Evgeniy		2.0	RUS	M	2665	2742	+0.30	1	½	½
11	GM Vescovi, Giovanni		2.0	BRA	M	2660	2731	+0.27	1	½	½
12	GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian		2.0	RUS	M	2658	2691	+0.13	0	1	1
13	GM Efimenko, Zahar		2.0	UKR	M	2657	2719	+0.24	1	½	½
14	GM Grachev, Boris		2.0	RUS	M	2653	2697	+0.16	1	½	½
15	GM Sasikiran, Krishnan		2.0	IND	M	2653	2716	+0.24	½	1	½
16	GM Pashikian, Arman		2.0	ARM	M	2647	2732	+0.33	1	½	½
17	GM Bareev, Evgeny		2.0	RUS	M	2643	2697	+0.21	½	1	½
18	GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim		2.0	RUS	M	2642	2676	+0.13	½	1	½
19	GM Van Wely, Loek		2.0	NED	M	2641	2655	+0.04	½	1	½
20	GM Mamedov, Rauf		2.0	AZE	M	2640	2693	+0.20	1	½	½
21	GM Savchenko, Boris		2.0	RUS	M	2638	2724	+0.34	1	0	1
22	GM Kobalia, Mikhail		2.0	RUS	M	2637	2664	+0.10	½	½	1
23	GM Zhou, Jianchao		2.0	CHN	M	2632	2726	+0.36	½	1	½
24	GM Rodshtein, Maxim		2.0	ISR	M	2622	2748	+0.50	1	½	½
25	GM Khalifman, Alexander		2.0	RUS	M	2616	2737	+0.49	1	½	½
26	GM Sjugirov, Sanan		2.0	RUS	M	2610	2805	+0.79	½	1	½
27	GM Khairullin, Ildar		2.0	RUS	M	2605	2788	+0.74	½	½	1
28	GM Ehlvest, Jaan		2.0	USA	M	2600	2804	+0.83	½	1	½
29	GM Zhou, Weiqi		2.0	CHN	M	2600	2792	+0.77	½	1	½
30	GM Romanov, Evgeny		2.0	RUS	M	2599	2791	+0.79	½	1	½
31	GM Melkumyan, Hrant		2.0	ARM	M	2583	2774	+0.77	½	1	½
32	GM Grigoriants, Sergey		2.0	RUS	M	2560	2771	+0.85	½	1	½
33	IM Kosintseva, Nadezhda	w	2.0	RUS	F	2533	2768	+0.95	1	½	½
34	GM Kosintseva, Tatiana	w	2.0	RUS	F	2515	2764	+1.00	1	½	½
35	GM Salem, A.R. Saleh		2.0	UAE	M	2484	2753	+1.08	½	1	½
36	GM Kamsky, Gata		1.5	USA	M	2693	2574	-0.48	½	0	1
37	GM Naiditsch, Arkadij		1.5	GER	M	2687	2600	-0.36	½	0	1
38	GM Sargissian, Gabriel		1.5	ARM	M	2680	2588	-0.37	½	½	½
39	GM Moiseenko, Alexander		1.5	UKR	M	2677	2602	-0.31	½	½	½
40	GM So, Wesley		1.5	PHI	M	2656	2600	-0.24	½	1	0
41	GM Dreev, Alexey		1.5	RUS	M	2650	2572	-0.32	½	0	1
42	GM Korobov, Anton		1.5	UKR	M	2648	2569	-0.32	½	0	1
43	GM Predojevic, Borki		1.5	BIH	M	2642	2576	-0.28	½	½	½
44	GM Tregubov, Pavel V.		1.5	RUS	M	2628	2518	-0.45	½	0	1
45	GM McShane, Luke J		1.5	ENG	M	2616	2559	-0.23	½	1	0
46	GM Potkin, Vladimir		1.5	RUS	M	2611	2653	+0.17	0	1	½
47	GM Belov, Vladimir		1.5	RUS	M	2595	2583	-0.05	0	½	1
48	GM Bocharov, Dmitry		1.5	RUS	M	2594	2614	+0.09	½	0	1
49	GM Safarli, Eltaj		1.5	AZE	M	2594	2621	+0.12	0	1	½
50	GM Rakhmanov, Aleksandr		1.5	RUS	M	2591	2656	+0.26	1	½	0
51	GM Shomoev, Anton		1.5	RUS	M	2559	2653	+0.38	½	½	½
52	GM Sebag, Marie	w	1.5	FRA	F	2510	2600	+0.36	0	½	1
53	GM Smirin, Ilia		1.0	ISR	M	2668	2468	-0.82	½	0	½
54	GM Zhigalko, Sergei		1.0	BLR	M	2668	2469	-0.80	½	0	½
55	GM Amonatov, Farrukh		1.0	TJK	M	2634	2435	-0.81	0	½	½
56	GM Volkov, Sergey		1.0	RUS	M	2623	2424	-0.80	0	½	½
57	GM Iturrizaga, Eduardo		1.0	VEN	M	2616	2440	-0.71	0	1	0
58	GM Andriasian, Zaven		1.0	ARM	M	2613	2568	-0.17	½	½	0
59	GM Shabalov, Alexander		1.0	USA	M	2611	2526	-0.34	0	1	0
60	GM Lenic, Luka		1.0	SLO	M	2595	2561	-0.13	½	½	0
61	GM Maletin, Pavel		1.0	RUS	M	2591	2429	-0.64	0	½	½
62	GM Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan		1.0	IRI	M	2589	2534	-0.21	½	0	½
63	GM Salgado Lopez, Ivan		1.0	ESP	M	2584	2523	-0.23	0	½	½
64	GM Feller, Sebastien		1.0	FRA	M	2579	2485	-0.37	0	0	1
65	GM Yudin, Sergei		1.0	RUS	M	2573	2518	-0.21	½	½	0
66	GM Ragger, Markus		1.0	AUT	M	2568	2480	-0.35	0	0	1
67	GM Novikov, Stanislav		1.0	RUS	M	2557	2505	-0.19	½	0	½
68	IM Papin, Vasily		1.0	RUS	M	2548	2506	-0.16	½	0	½
69	GM Khusnutdinov, Rustam		1.0	KAZ	M	2513	2511	+0.00	0	1	0
70	IM Krylov, Mikhail		1.0	RUS	M	2511	2536	+0.09	1	0	0
71	IM Javakhishvili, Lela	w	1.0	GEO	F	2493	2497	+0.02	½	0	½
72	GM Hou, Yifan	w	0.5	CHN	F	2590	2386	-0.72	0	½	0
73	GM Svetushkin, Dmitry		0.5	MDA	M	2573	2374	-0.69	½	0	0
74	GM Morovic Fernandez, Ivan		0.5	CHI	M	2561	2372	-0.66	½	0	0
75	GM Iljushin, Alexei		0.5	RUS	M	2551	2347	-0.71	0	½	0
76	GM Ajrapetjan, Yuriy		0.5	UKR	M	2525	2341	-0.63	½	0	0
77	IM Danin, Alexandre		0.5	RUS	M	2519	2348	-0.58	½	0	0
78	GM Lopez Martinez, Josep Manu		0.0	ESP	M	2593	1826	-1.63	0	0	0
79	GM Vazquez Igarza, Renier		0.0	ESP	M	2563	1877	-1.29	0	0	0
80	GM Laylo, Darwin		0.0	PHI	M	2556	1866	-1.31	0	0	0