The Moscow Open is more than just a warm up for the more famous Aeroflot Open which follows on straight afterwards.
Indeed there are few opens to compete with The Moscow open where in a field of 187 players there were 73 GMs present. Where else would you have such a concentration of strength?
So scoring seven out of nine in a field comprising thirty-one 2600+s and sixty-eight 2500+s ensured a high performance. Inarkiev even achieved a 2800 result but on tie-break it was Chernyshov who had won more games than his rivals who came out on top.
The result of a lifetime for the relatively modest (by Russian standards!) GM.
Fellow Russians Bareev and Inarkiev as well as the less-well known Vietnamese player Le Quang Liem also made 7 points. Bologan and Rublevsky were amongst the pack on 6.5.
| Ranking | Title | Name | Country | Elo | Points | Wins | Second tie-break | Performance |
| 1 | GM | Konstantin Chernyshov | RUS | 2556 | 7,0 | 6 | 46,5 | 2726 |
| 2 | GM | Evgeny Bareev | RUS | 2643 | 7,0 | 5 | 52,0 | 2793 |
| 3 | GM | Le Quang Liem | VIE | 2647 | 7,0 | 5 | 50,5 | 2792 |
| 4 | GM | Ernesto Inarkiev | RUS | 2649 | 7,0 | 5 | 49,5 | 36,0 |
| 5 | GM | Krishnan Sasikiran | IND | 2653 | 6,5 | 5 | 50,5 | 2723 |
| 6 | GM | Viktor Bologan | MDA | 2692 | 6,5 | 5 | 50,5 | 2744 |
| 7 | GM | Dmitry Andreikin | RUS | 2635 | 6,5 | 5 | 48,0 | 2717 |
| 8 | GM | Igor Kurnosov | RUS | 2668 | 6,5 | 5 | 47,5 | 2716 |
| 9 | GM | Sergei Azarov | BLR | 2622 | 6,5 | 5 | 47,0 | 2669 |
| 10 | GM | Sergei Rublevsky | RUS | 2697 | 6,5 | 4 | 51,5 | 2697 |
| 11 | GM | Bu Xiangzhi | CHN | 2673 | 6,5 | 4 | 50,5 | 2723 |
| 12 | GM | Vladimir Belov | RUS | 2595 | 6,5 | 4 | 49,5 | 2712 |
| 13 | GM | Evgeny Vorobiov | RUS | 2621 | 6,5 | 4 | 45,0 | 2634 |
| 14 | GM | Boris Savchenko | RUS | 2638 | 6,5 | 4 | 44,5 | 2659 |
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