Grandmaster B Adhiban got off to a flying start at the Aeroflot International Chess tournament in Moscow today. In the opening round of the A group, he defeated higher seed Markus Ragger of Austria. National Champion Abhijeet Gupta also scored a fine technical win against Russian Grandmaster Aleksei Pridorozhni, while Parimajan Negi and Krishnan Sasikiran were held to draws by lower ranked opponents, Daniel Alsina Leal of Spain and Yaroslav Zherebukh of Ukraine. G N Gopal went down fighting against Sergei Zhigalko of Belarus. On the brighter side, Vidit Gujrathi came out with sound positional chess to hold former world champion Alexander Khalifman of Russia to a creditable draw while S P Sethuraman also did well to hold Ildar Khairullin of Russia. Sandipan Chanda was also held to a draw by young Russian Daniil Dubov.In the 'B' group, S Nitin recorded the biggest upset, accounting for Grandmaster Dorian Rogozenco of Romania. Another higher ranked Grandmaster, Artashes Minasian of Armenia, also found the going tough as he lost to Akshayraj Kore, while national women's champion Mary Ann Gomes was in her elements as she beat Pogos Nakhapetiane of Russia. Double Grandmaster norm holder Sahaj Grover, the highest rated Indian in the fray in this section, however did not get the desired start as he misplayed a winning end game and was held to a draw by Chinese girl Huang Qian.