Three leaders at Isle of Man tournament

by Johannes Fischer
10/10/2014 – 76 players from all parts of the world take part in the PokerStars Isle of Man tournament. After six rounds all of them lost some of their chips. However, with 5.0/6 French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, GM Gabriel Sargissian from Armenia and GM Gawain Jones from England suffered the least losses and lead the field. Six players follow with 4.5/6 each.
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Gabriel Sargissian

Gawain Jones

Ranking after round 6  

Rank Name Score Fed. Rating
1 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 5.0 FRA 2757
2 GM Sargissian, Gabriel 5.0 ARM 2690
3 GM Jones, Gawain C B 5.0 ENG 2664
4 GM Fressinet, Laurent 4.5 FRA 2713
5 GM Tiviakov, Sergei 4.5 NED 2668
6 GM Howell, David W L 4.5 ENG 2657
7 GM Short, Nigel D 4.5 ENG 2646
8 GM Fridman, Daniel 4.5 GER 2635
9 GM Popilski, Gil 4.5 ISR 2493
10 GM Gupta, Abhijeet 4.0 IND 2640
11 GM Marin, Mihail 4.0 ROU 2583
12 GM Greenfeld, Alon 4.0 ISR 2542
13 IM Hawkins, Jonathan 4.0 ENG 2533
14 GM Vaisser, Anatoly 4.0 FRA 2531
15 GM Harika, Dronavalli 4.0 IND 2528
16 GM Gormally, Daniel W 4.0 ENG 2488
17 GM Adams, Michael 3.5 ENG 2758
18 GM Hillarp Persson, Tiger 3.5 SWE 2555
19 GM Hebden, Mark L 3.5 ENG 2540
20 GM Tarjan, James E 3.5 USA 2525
21 GM Boruchovsky, Avital 3.5 ISR 2501
22 GM Smith, Bryan G 3.5 USA 2482
23 IM Van Foreest, Jorden 3.5 NED 2455
24 IM Givon, Asaf 3.5 ISR 2431
25 IM Ferguson, Mark 3.5 ENG 2414
26 FM Kobo, Ori 3.5 ISR 2380
27 IM Ansell, Simon T 3.5 ENG 2370
28 IM Mannion, Stephen R 3.5 SCO 2347
29 FM Duncan, Chris R 3.5 ENG 2319
30 Mindlin, Alon 3.5 ISR 2259
31 GM Granda Zuniga, Julio E 3.0 PER 2674
32 IM Raznikov, Danny 3.0 ISR 2492
33 IM Paehtz, Elisabeth 3.0 GER 2477
34 GM Williams, Simon K 3.0 ENG 2457
35 GM Jedynak, Radoslaw 3.0 POL 2453

...76 players

Players from all over the world came to the Isle of Man. Most of them
will have taken the plane but some obviously prefer to travel by ship.

The spacious playing hall

Nigel Short - with 4.5/6 he still has chances to finish at the very top

English veteran Mark Hebden keeps his fingers crossed, so to speak.

Abijheet Gupta

Laurent Fressinet - with a rating of 2713 number three in France and an excellent poker player

Elisabeth Pähtz, Germany's number one on the women's list

With 3.5/6 things do not really go smoothly for Michael Adams

There's a way to find out what was good and what went bad.

Alina L'Ami

Dutch talent Jorden Van Foreest

ChessBase author Mihail Marin

French GM Anatoli Vaisser

Traveller, Open and opening expert Sergey Tiviakov

Pictures: Fiona Steil-Antoni on the Facebook page of the tournament

Links

The games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download a free Playchess client there and get immediate access. You can also use ChessBase 12 or any of our Fritz compatible chess programs.

 

Topics: Isle of Man
Johannes Fischer was born in 1963 in Hamburg and studied English and German literature in Frankfurt. He now lives as a writer and translator in Nürnberg. He is a FIDE-Master and regularly writes for KARL, a German chess magazine focusing on the links between culture and chess. On his own blog he regularly publishes notes on "Film, Literature and Chess".

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