2/2/2016 – In round seven of the Tradewise Gibraltar Open all games at the top boards were drawn, except one: David Anton won against Richard Rapport to become sole leader with 6.0/7. Half a point behind follows a group of 15 players with 5.5/7 each. Viswanathan Anand played against the Hungarian talent Benjamin Gledura and suffered his second loss in the tournament.
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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.
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.
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