 In 2002, Valery Filippov won Carlos Torre Repetto Memorial for the second time in his career.In 2004, he achieved one of the greatest successes in his career, winning (together with Sergei Rublevsky and Rafael Vaganian) in "Aeroflot Open" in Moscow.In this same year in Tripoli Valery Filippov also appeared in the FIDE World Chess Championship single-elimination tournament, reaching the third round (in the first two he beat Daniel Cámpora and Loek van Wely, and in the third he lost to Alexander Grischuk).