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Play in the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters starts at 15.00 local time (GMT+1) on Tuesday 26 January 2016, with live commentary from GM Simon Williams and IM Elisabeth Paehtz throughout. There is play every subsequent day at this time until Thursday 4 February 2016, when the tenth final round starts earlier at 11.00 (GMT+1). Live coverage may be found via the official website.
Pictures: John Saunders, Sophie Triay (Tournament page)
Nils Grandelius (front), Viswanathan Anand, Laurent Fressinet, and Nigel Short in the back.
Anand played with Black against the 16-year old Gledura and went for a line of the Semi-Slav, with which he had already drawn a couple of games against his "peers" at the very top. However, this time things went differently.
Benjamin Gledura
Austria's number one, Markus Ragger, played against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. The French grandmaster is the second seed but had to concede two draws, one against the Indian GM Sethuraman and one against Swedish GM Nils Grandelius - which shows how strong the field in Gibraltar is.
Markus Ragger vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Markus Ragger paid a silent tribute to his oppenent by playing a line against the Grünfeld, which his opponent had tried a couple of years before against Emil Sutovsky. White won an exchange but Black was a pawn up. In the end the point was shared.
At board two Lazaro Bruzon from Cuba played against Pentala Harikrishna from India. With a rating of 2755 the Indian GM is number four on the ranking list in Gibraltar, number two in India, and in the world ranking list not so far away from Vishy Anand. However, against Bruzon he had to content himself with a draw.
Lazaro Bruzon vs Pentala Harikrishna
One of the up-and-coming players of Indian chess is the 22-year old Santosh Gujrathi Vidit. In round seven he had to play the Chinese Yu Yangyi, a real heavyweight. Vidit had White but still was on the defensive for the better part of the game. However, he managed to save the game by defending a rook ending with a pawn down.
Santosh Gujrathi Vidit vs Yu Yangyi
Top seed Hikaru Nakamura played at board six against Luka Lenic. After an English Opening Nakamura tried to complicate the game to play for an advantage but his opponent kept his cool and Nakamura had to settle for a draw.
Hikaru Nakamura gegen Luka Lenic
Richard Rapport v David Anton Guijarro. The Spaniard won the duel of the youngsters.
The Russian top GM Dmitry Jakovenko lost with white against French GM Sebastien Maze.
With her win against Nigel Short Indian GM Harika Dronavalli made the headlines, in round seven she drew against Laurent Fressinet.
Harika Dronavalli
Chinese talents: Lei Tingjie, Xu Xiangyu
Br. | Nr. | Name | Elo | Pkt. | Ergebnis | Pkt. | Name | Elo | Nr. | ||
1 | 14 | GM | Ragger Markus | 2689 | 5 | ½ - ½ | 5 | GM | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | 2785 | 2 |
2 | 18 | GM | Bruzon Batista Lazaro | 2666 | 5 | ½ - ½ | 5 | GM | Harikrishna P. | 2755 | 4 |
3 | 23 | GM | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | 2642 | 5 | ½ - ½ | 5 | GM | Yu Yangyi | 2747 | 6 |
4 | 9 | GM | Rapport Richard | 2721 | 5 | 0 - 1 | 5 | GM | Anton Guijarro David | 2639 | 24 |
5 | 32 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | 2613 | 5 | ½ - ½ | 5 | GM | Bacrot Etienne | 2697 | 11 |
6 | 1 | GM | Nakamura Hikaru | 2787 | 4½ | ½ - ½ | 4½ | GM | Lenic Luka | 2611 | 33 |
7 | 5 | GM | Li Chao B | 2751 | 4½ | 1 - 0 | 4½ | GM | Bachmann Axel | 2610 | 34 |
8 | 7 | GM | Jakovenko Dmitry | 2732 | 4½ | 0 - 1 | 4½ | GM | Maze Sebastien | 2591 | 35 |
9 | 39 | GM | Perez Ponsa Federico | 2577 | 4½ | 0 - 1 | 4½ | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | 2727 | 8 |
10 | 12 | GM | Ni Hua | 2697 | 4½ | 1 - 0 | 4½ | GM | Vazquez Igarza Renier | 2572 | 40 |
11 | 43 | IM | Tari Aryan | 2556 | 4½ | 1 - 0 | 4½ | GM | Almasi Zoltan | 2684 | 16 |
12 | 25 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | 2639 | 4½ | 1 - 0 | 4½ | IM | Kelires Andreas | 2444 | 82 |
13 | 26 | GM | Grandelius Nils | 2635 | 4½ | 1 - 0 | 4½ | GM | Gopal G.N. | 2525 | 51 |
14 | 57 | IM | Gledura Benjamin | 2515 | 4 | 1 - 0 | 4 | GM | Anand Viswanathan | 2784 | 3 |
15 | 58 | GM | Harika Dronavalli | 2511 | 4 | ½ - ½ | 4 | GM | Fressinet Laurent | 2700 | 10 |
16 | 17 | GM | Short Nigel D | 2684 | 4 | 1 - 0 | 4 | GM | Bai Jinshi | 2507 | 60 |
17 | 19 | GM | Kamsky Gata | 2665 | 4 | 1 - 0 | 4 | IM | Nakar Eylon | 2479 | 70 |
18 | 65 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | 2500 | 4 | ½ - ½ | 4 | GM | Duda Jan-Krzysztof | 2660 | 20 |
19 | 67 | GM | Gunina Valentina | 2496 | 4 | ½ - ½ | 4 | GM | Sutovsky Emil | 2647 | 22 |
20 | 28 | GM | Jones Gawain C B | 2625 | 4 | 1 - 0 | 4 | WGM | Goryachkina Aleksandra | 2502 | 64 |
...
Rg. | Snr | Name | Land | Elo | Pkt. | Wtg1 | w | we | w-we | K | rtg+/- | |
1 | 24 | GM | Anton Guijarro David | ESP | 2639 | 6,0 | 2777 | 6 | 4,94 | 1,06 | 10 | 10,6 |
2 | 14 | GM | Ragger Markus | AUT | 2689 | 5,5 | 2816 | 5,5 | 4,35 | 1,15 | 10 | 11,5 |
3 | 2 | GM | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | FRA | 2785 | 5,5 | 2805 | 5,5 | 5,29 | 0,21 | 10 | 2,1 |
4 | 11 | GM | Bacrot Etienne | FRA | 2697 | 5,5 | 2793 | 5 | 4,32 | 0,68 | 10 | 6,8 |
5 | 4 | GM | Harikrishna P. | IND | 2755 | 5,5 | 2769 | 5,5 | 5,33 | 0,17 | 10 | 1,7 |
8 | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | POL | 2727 | 5,5 | 2769 | 5,5 | 5,14 | 0,36 | 10 | 3,6 | |
7 | 25 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | IND | 2639 | 5,5 | 2760 | 5,5 | 4,41 | 1,09 | 10 | 10,9 |
32 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2613 | 5,5 | 2760 | 5,5 | 4,17 | 1,33 | 10 | 13,3 | |
9 | 18 | GM | Bruzon Batista Lazaro | CUB | 2666 | 5,5 | 2749 | 5,5 | 4,79 | 0,71 | 10 | 7,1 |
10 | 6 | GM | Yu Yangyi | CHN | 2747 | 5,5 | 2741 | 5,5 | 5,45 | 0,05 | 10 | 0,5 |
43 | IM | Tari Aryan | NOR | 2556 | 5,5 | 2741 | 5,5 | 3,86 | 1,64 | 10 | 16,4 | |
12 | 12 | GM | Ni Hua | CHN | 2697 | 5,5 | 2736 | 5,5 | 5,18 | 0,32 | 10 | 3,2 |
35 | GM | Maze Sebastien | FRA | 2591 | 5,5 | 2736 | 5 | 3,83 | 1,17 | 10 | 11,7 | |
14 | 5 | GM | Li Chao B | CHN | 2751 | 5,5 | 2698 | 5,5 | 5,80 | -0,30 | 10 | -3,0 |
15 | 26 | GM | Grandelius Nils | SWE | 2635 | 5,5 | 2696 | 5,5 | 4,91 | 0,59 | 10 | 5,9 |
16 | 23 | GM | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | IND | 2642 | 5,5 | 2694 | 5,5 | 5,03 | 0,47 | 10 | 4,7 |
17 | 33 | GM | Lenic Luka | SLO | 2611 | 5,0 | 2762 | 4,5 | 3,25 | 1,25 | 10 | 12,5 |
18 | 57 | IM | Gledura Benjamin | HUN | 2515 | 5,0 | 2729 | 5 | 2,94 | 2,06 | 10 | 20,6 |
19 | 1 | GM | Nakamura Hikaru | USA | 2787 | 5,0 | 2712 | 5 | 5,46 | -0,46 | 10 | -4,6 |
20 | 28 | GM | Jones Gawain C B | ENG | 2625 | 5,0 | 2690 | 5 | 4,29 | 0,71 | 10 | 7,1 |
21 | 9 | GM | Rapport Richard | HUN | 2721 | 5,0 | 2679 | 5 | 5,23 | -0,23 | 10 | -2,3 |
22 | 44 | GM | Muzychuk Mariya | UKR | 2554 | 5,0 | 2639 | 5 | 4,15 | 0,85 | 10 | 8,5 |
23 | 38 | GM | Grigoriants Sergey | RUS | 2580 | 5,0 | 2625 | 4,5 | 4,10 | 0,40 | 10 | 4,0 |
24 | 45 | GM | Lalith Babu M R | IND | 2553 | 5,0 | 2617 | 5 | 4,30 | 0,70 | 10 | 7,0 |
25 | 19 | GM | Kamsky Gata | USA | 2665 | 5,0 | 2613 | 5 | 5,34 | -0,34 | 10 | -3,4 |
26 | 91 | IM | Padmini Rout | IND | 2427 | 5,0 | 2605 | 5 | 3,18 | 1,82 | 10 | 18,2 |
27 | 17 | GM | Short Nigel D | ENG | 2684 | 5,0 | 2582 | 5 | 5,68 | -0,68 | 10 | -6,8 |
28 | 36 | GM | Sandipan Chanda | IND | 2583 | 5,0 | 2576 | 5 | 4,97 | 0,03 | 10 | 0,3 |
29 | 79 | GM | Krush Irina | USA | 2458 | 5,0 | 2572 | 5 | 3,82 | 1,18 | 10 | 11,8 |
30 | 55 | GM | Libiszewski Fabien | FRA | 2515 | 5,0 | 2543 | 4,5 | 4,18 | 0,32 | 10 | 3,2 |
... 250 players
Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||
1 | 24 | GM | Anton Guijarro David | 2639 | 6 | 5½ | GM | Li Chao B | 2751 | 5 | |
2 | 2 | GM | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | 2785 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Bruzon Batista Lazaro | 2666 | 18 | |
3 | 4 | GM | Harikrishna P. | 2755 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | 2642 | 23 | |
4 | 6 | GM | Yu Yangyi | 2747 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | 2639 | 25 | |
5 | 8 | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | 2727 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Grandelius Nils | 2635 | 26 | |
6 | 11 | GM | Bacrot Etienne | 2697 | 5½ | 5½ | IM | Tari Aryan | 2556 | 43 | |
7 | 32 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | 2613 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Ni Hua | 2697 | 12 | |
8 | 35 | GM | Maze Sebastien | 2591 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Ragger Markus | 2689 | 14 | |
9 | 38 | GM | Grigoriants Sergey | 2580 | 5 | 5 | GM | Nakamura Hikaru | 2787 | 1 | |
10 | 44 | GM | Muzychuk Mariya | 2554 | 5 | 5 | GM | Rapport Richard | 2721 | 9 | |
11 | 45 | GM | Lalith Babu M R | 2553 | 5 | 5 | GM | Short Nigel D | 2684 | 17 | |
12 | 55 | GM | Libiszewski Fabien | 2515 | 5 | 5 | GM | Kamsky Gata | 2665 | 19 | |
13 | 79 | GM | Krush Irina | 2458 | 5 | 5 | GM | Jones Gawain C B | 2625 | 28 | |
14 | 33 | GM | Lenic Luka | 2611 | 5 | 5 | IM | Padmini Rout | 2427 | 91 | |
15 | 36 | GM | Sandipan Chanda | 2583 | 5 | 5 | IM | Gledura Benjamin | 2515 | 57 | |
16 | 56 | GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | 2515 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Jakovenko Dmitry | 2732 | 7 | |
17 | 10 | GM | Fressinet Laurent | 2700 | 4½ | 4½ | WGM | Tan Zhongyi | 2504 | 62 | |
18 | 72 | IM | Ly Moulthun | 2474 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Howell David W L | 2685 | 15 | |
19 | 16 | GM | Almasi Zoltan | 2684 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Harika Dronavalli | 2511 | 58 | |
20 | 20 | GM | Duda Jan-Krzysztof | 2660 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Zhukova Natalia | 2484 | 69 | |
21 | 22 | GM | Sutovsky Emil | 2647 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | 2500 | 65 | |
22 | 73 | WGM | Lei Tingjie | 2474 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Salem A.R. Saleh | 2627 | 27 | |
23 | 80 | WGM | Pogonina Natalija | 2454 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo | 2624 | 29 | |
24 | 30 | GM | Edouard Romain | 2617 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Gunina Valentina | 2496 | 67 | |
25 | 34 | GM | Bachmann Axel | 2610 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Prasanna Raghuram Rao | 2460 | 77 | |
26 | 37 | GM | Tregubov Pavel V. | 2582 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Anurag Mhamal | 2387 | 115 | |
27 | 82 | IM | Kelires Andreas | 2444 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Perez Ponsa Federico | 2577 | 39 | |
28 | 40 | GM | Vazquez Igarza Renier | 2572 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Tan Justin | 2446 | 81 | |
29 | 84 | IM | Shytaj Luca | 2443 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Donchenko Alexander | 2570 | 41 | |
30 | 87 | GM | Akesson Ralf | 2435 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Kosteniuk Alexandra | 2550 | 46 | |
31 | 90 | IM | Almagro Llamas Pablo | 2429 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Demuth Adrien | 2535 | 48 | |
32 | 114 | FM | Hauge Lars Oskar | 2388 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Handke Florian Dr. | 2533 | 49 | |
33 | 126 | FM | Kavutskiy Konstantin | 2360 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Gopal G.N. | 2525 | 51 | |
34 | 130 | IM | Wemmers Xander | 2352 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Vishnu Prasanna. V | 2518 | 53 | |
35 | 54 | IM | Pichot Alan | 2517 | 4½ | 4½ | Siva Mahadevan | 2370 | 123 | ||
36 | 96 | IM | Esserman Marc | 2419 | 4 | 4 | GM | Anand Viswanathan | 2784 | 3 | |
37 | 13 | GM | Naiditsch Arkadij | 2696 | 4 | 4 | FM | Neef Maximilian | 2423 | 93 | |
38 | 107 | IM | Codenotti Marco | 2406 | 4 | 4 | GM | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | 2660 | 21 | |
39 | 110 | IM | Kuipers Stefan | 2399 | 4 | 4 | GM | Erdos Viktor | 2613 | 31 | |
40 | 42 | GM | Oparin Grigoriy | 2565 | 4 | 4 | IM | Docx Stefan | 2416 | 99 | |
41 | 47 | GM | Muzychuk Anna | 2537 | 4 | 4 | GM | Vogt Lothar | 2409 | 105 | |
42 | 52 | GM | Cramling Pia | 2523 | 4 | 4 | IM | Khademalsharieh Sarasadat | 2392 | 112 | |
43 | 116 | WIM | Shvayger Yuliya | 2381 | 4 | 4 | GM | Sundararajan Kidambi | 2508 | 59 | |
44 | 60 | GM | Bai Jinshi | 2507 | 4 | 4 | IM | Gaponenko Inna | 2393 | 111 | |
45 | 118 | FM | Gulamali Kazim | 2379 | 4 | 4 | GM | Zhao Xue | 2506 | 61 | |
46 | 122 | Herman Matthew J | 2370 | 4 | 4 | GM | Khotenashvili Bela | 2502 | 63 | ||
47 | 64 | WGM | Goryachkina Aleksandra | 2502 | 4 | 4 | IM | Quillan Gary | 2369 | 124 | |
48 | 70 | IM | Nakar Eylon | 2479 | 4 | 4 | WGM | Vojinovic Jovana | 2352 | 131 | |
49 | 169 | Midonet Matthieu | 2211 | 4 | 4 | IM | Kashlinskaya Alina | 2462 | 75 | ||
50 | 76 | IM | Carlstedt Jonathan | 2461 | 4 | 4 | FM | Nava Pereda Carlos | 2262 | 158 |
...
The tournament attracts a lot of prominent visitors. In round seven the minister of education, Gilbert Licudi, paid a visit.
Stuart Conquest (left), Gilbert Licudi
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ChessBase author Tania Sachdev follows the tournament as anchorwoman of "The Day's Play"
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