
Round Ten
Hikaru Nakamura (USA) has won the 13th Tradewise Gibraltar Masters, which concluded at the Caleta Hotel on Thursday 5 February 2015. Nakamura drew his last round game with Pentala Harikrishna (India), which took him to 8½/10. Even though Nakamura's opening choice was somewhat quiet (the pawn sacrifice is known to reach a relatively equal endgame), he managed to find some winning chances by winning a pawn, that being said Harikirshna was never in any real danger.
David Howell, playing Black against Hou Yifan, could have reached 8½ had he won but, in trying to do so, overreached and was lost at one stage, luckily for him Hou Yifan missed her best chance and the game was eventually drawn.
44...Kc7 45.g5?? 45.Ke3! Bc6 46.Re7 f6 46...Rf8 47.Kd4 Kd8 48.Re5! 47.Rf7 Bxd7 48.Ke4 Kc8 49.Bxd7+ Rxd7 50.Rxf6 45...Bc6! 46.Re7 Rg8! ½–½
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Hou,Y | 2673 | Howell,D | 2670 | ½–½ | 2015 | C48 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 10.2 |
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Despite this the World Womne's Champion won a pile of money, as she claims the tie for third and the best Women's Prize (15,000 pounds).

Benjamin Bok, from The Netherlands, reached 7.0/10

Despite her last minute blunder Hou Yifan should be quite happy with her performance. The World Women's Champion will be unable to defend her title in Sochi as she had a prior engagement with the Hawaii Chess Festival.
Sharing second through fifth women's prizes were Rout Padmini (India), Anna Muzychuk (Ukraine), Ju Wenjun (China) and Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) 6½.

Dennis Wagner, only 17, finished tied for third after concluding
a breathtaking run by defeating Eduardo Iturrizaga

Baskaran Adhiban also finished with a bang by beating Ivan Cheparinov
Indeed their were a fair amount of people that won their last round games to finish with 7.5/10. Besides Wagner and Adhiban, Topalov defeated Bartel, Wei Yi defeated Felgaer, and Matlakov beat Kuipers.

Wei Yi went from 2641 in October to 2706 after Gibraltar

Argentinean Ruben Felgaer was Wei Yi's last victim

Svidler could only draw Sutovsky and did not tie for third

Yu Yangyi also was out of the big tie beccause of his last round draw with Bok

The winner, without question, with a fabulous performance. Hikaru Nakamura shows the World where exactly he belongs. It is refreshing to see this talented and ambitious player breaking his personal best, regaining his standing as the best American and winning a superbly strong event.
Round Ten Standings
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1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 c6 3.Bg2 Bg4 4.c4 e6 5.0-0 Nd7 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Nc3 Ngf6 8.d3 Bxf3 9.Bxf3 d4 10.Ne4 Be7 11.Nxf6+ Nxf6 12.b4 0-0 13.Qb3 Nd5 14.b5 Qd7 15.Bd2 Bf6 16.bxc6 bxc6 17.Qc4 Rab8 18.Rab1 Nc3 19.Rb3 Qe6 20.Qxc6 Nxe2+ 21.Kg2 Qxc6 22.Bxc6 Nc3 23.Bf4 Rxb3 24.axb3 g5 25.Bd2 Rc8 26.Bf3 a5 27.Ra1 Rc5 28.Bb7 Re5 29.Kf1 Rb5 30.Ba6 Rxb3 31.Rxa5 Rb1+ 32.Kg2 h6 33.h4 gxh4 34.Bxh6 hxg3 35.fxg3 Rb2+ 36.Kf3 Bd8 37.Rc5 Rb6 38.Rc8 Rxh6 39.Rxd8+ Kg7 40.Bc4 Rf6+ 41.Kg2 Nd1 42.Rxd4 Ne3+ 43.Kh3 Rh6+ 44.Rh4 Rb6 45.Re4 Rh6+ 46.Rh4 Rb6 47.Re4 Rh6+ ½–½
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Bachmann,A | 2629 | Nakamura,H | 2776 | ½–½ | 2015 | A07 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.1 |
Howell,D | 2670 | Naroditsky,D | 2622 | 1–0 | 2015 | A29 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.2 |
Topalov,V | 2800 | Wei,Y | 2675 | ½–½ | 2015 | D71 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.3 |
Adhiban,B | 2630 | Svidler,P | 2739 | ½–½ | 2015 | D85 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.4 |
Vitiugov,N | 2735 | Mareco,S | 2583 | 1–0 | 2015 | E21 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.5 |
Jakovenko,D | 2733 | Bok,B | 2572 | ½–½ | 2015 | C53 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.6 |
Yu,Y | 2724 | Wagner,D | 2501 | ½–½ | 2015 | C77 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.7 |
Harikrishna,P | 2723 | Padmini,R | 2388 | 1–0 | 2015 | A48 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.8 |
Hou,Y | 2673 | Rapport,R | 2716 | 1–0 | 2015 | B06 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.9 |
Nakar,E | 2419 | Cheparinov,I | 2681 | ½–½ | 2015 | B51 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.10 |
Matlakov,M | 2695 | Muzychuk,A | 2544 | 1–0 | 2015 | D45 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.11 |
Rodshtein,M | 2680 | Ganguly,S | 2595 | ½–½ | 2015 | A37 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.12 |
Felgaer,R | 2575 | Motylev,A | 2665 | 1–0 | 2015 | B12 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.13 |
Lalith,B | 2537 | Iturrizaga Bonelli,E | 2649 | 0–1 | 2015 | A33 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.14 |
Sutovsky,E | 2637 | Spraggett,K | 2538 | 1–0 | 2015 | B01 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.15 |
Venkatesh,M | 2460 | Bartel,M | 2631 | 0–1 | 2015 | A09 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.16 |
Salgado Lopez,I | 2628 | Xu,J | 2523 | ½–½ | 2015 | E00 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.17 |
Bologan,V | 2608 | Kuipers,S | 2390 | 0–1 | 2015 | C41 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.18 |
Edouard,R | 2638 | Muzychuk,M | 2520 | ½–½ | 2015 | A04 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.19 |
Anton Guijarro,D | 2617 | Svane,R | 2496 | 1–0 | 2015 | D85 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.20 |
Harika,D | 2496 | Lenderman,A | 2614 | ½–½ | 2015 | B65 | Gibraltar Masters 2015 | 9.21 |
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