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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)
Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||
1 | 24 | GM | Anton Guijarro David | 2639 | 6 | ½ - ½ | 5½ | GM | Li Chao B | 2751 | 5 |
2 | 2 | GM | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | 2785 | 5½ | 1 - 0 | 5½ | GM | Bruzon Batista Lazaro | 2666 | 18 |
3 | 4 | GM | Harikrishna P. | 2755 | 5½ | 1 - 0 | 5½ | GM | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | 2642 | 23 |
4 | 6 | GM | Yu Yangyi | 2747 | 5½ | ½ - ½ | 5½ | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | 2639 | 25 |
5 | 8 | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | 2727 | 5½ | ½ - ½ | 5½ | GM | Grandelius Nils | 2635 | 26 |
6 | 11 | GM | Bacrot Etienne | 2697 | 5½ | 1 - 0 | 5½ | IM | Tari Aryan | 2556 | 43 |
7 | 32 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | 2613 | 5½ | ½ - ½ | 5½ | GM | Ni Hua | 2697 | 12 |
8 | 35 | GM | Maze Sebastien | 2591 | 5½ | ½ - ½ | 5½ | GM | Ragger Markus | 2689 | 14 |
9 | 38 | GM | Grigoriants Sergey | 2580 | 5 | 0 - 1 | 5 | GM | Nakamura Hikaru | 2787 | 1 |
10 | 44 | GM | Muzychuk Mariya | 2554 | 5 | ½ - ½ | 5 | GM | Rapport Richard | 2721 | 9 |
11 | 45 | GM | Lalith Babu M R | 2553 | 5 | 1 - 0 | 5 | GM | Short Nigel D | 2684 | 17 |
12 | 55 | GM | Libiszewski Fabien | 2515 | 5 | ½ - ½ | 5 | GM | Kamsky Gata | 2665 | 19 |
13 | 79 | GM | Krush Irina | 2458 | 5 | ½ - ½ | 5 | GM | Jones Gawain C B | 2625 | 28 |
14 | 33 | GM | Lenic Luka | 2611 | 5 | 1 - 0 | 5 | IM | Padmini Rout | 2427 | 91 |
15 | 36 | GM | Sandipan Chanda | 2583 | 5 | ½ - ½ | 5 | IM | Gledura Benjamin | 2515 | 57 |
16 | 56 | GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | 2515 | 4½ | 0 - 1 | 4½ | GM | Jakovenko Dmitry | 2732 | 7 |
17 | 10 | GM | Fressinet Laurent | 2700 | 4½ | ½ - ½ | 4½ | WGM | Tan Zhongyi | 2504 | 62 |
18 | 72 | IM | Ly Moulthun | 2474 | 4½ | ½ - ½ | 4½ | GM | Howell David W L | 2685 | 15 |
19 | 16 | GM | Almasi Zoltan | 2684 | 4½ | 1 - 0 | 4½ | GM | Harika Dronavalli | 2511 | 58 |
20 | 20 | GM | Duda Jan-Krzysztof | 2660 | 4½ | 1 - 0 | 4½ | GM | Zhukova Natalia | 2484 | 69 |
21 | 22 | GM | Sutovsky Emil | 2647 | 4½ | 1 - 0 | 4½ | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | 2500 | 65 |
22 | 73 | WGM | Lei Tingjie | 2474 | 4½ | 0 - 1 | 4½ | GM | Salem A.R. Saleh | 2627 | 27 |
23 | 80 | WGM | Pogonina Natalija | 2454 | 4½ | ½ - ½ | 4½ | GM | Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo | 2624 | 29 |
24 | 30 | GM | Edouard Romain | 2617 | 4½ | 1 - 0 | 4½ | GM | Gunina Valentina | 2496 | 67 |
25 | 34 | GM | Bachmann Axel | 2610 | 4½ | 1 - 0 | 4½ | IM | Prasanna Raghuram Rao | 2460 | 77 |
26 | 37 | GM | Tregubov Pavel V. | 2582 | 4½ | 1 - 0 | 4½ | IM | Anurag Mhamal | 2387 | 115 |
27 | 82 | IM | Kelires Andreas | 2444 | 4½ | 0 - 1 | 4½ | GM | Perez Ponsa Federico | 2577 | 39 |
28 | 40 | GM | Vazquez Igarza Renier | 2572 | 4½ | 1 - 0 | 4½ | IM | Tan Justin | 2446 | 81 |
29 | 84 | IM | Shytaj Luca | 2443 | 4½ | 1 - 0 | 4½ | GM | Donchenko Alexander | 2570 | 41 |
30 | 87 | GM | Akesson Ralf | 2435 | 4½ | 0 - 1 | 4½ | GM | Kosteniuk Alexandra | 2550 | 46 |
31 | 90 | IM | Almagro Llamas Pablo | 2429 | 4½ | ½ - ½ | 4½ | GM | Demuth Adrien | 2535 | 48 |
32 | 114 | FM | Hauge Lars Oskar | 2388 | 4½ | ½ - ½ | 4½ | GM | Handke Florian Dr. | 2533 | 49 |
33 | 126 | FM | Kavutskiy Konstantin | 2360 | 4½ | ½ - ½ | 4½ | GM | Gopal G.N. | 2525 | 51 |
34 | 130 | IM | Wemmers Xander | 2352 | 4½ | 1 - 0 | 4½ | GM | Vishnu Prasanna. V | 2518 | 53 |
35 | 54 | IM | Pichot Alan | 2517 | 4½ | 1 - 0 | 4½ | Siva Mahadevan | 2370 | 123 | |
36 | 96 | IM | Esserman Marc | 2419 | 4 | ½ - ½ | 4 | GM | Anand Viswanathan | 2784 | 3 |
37 | 13 | GM | Naiditsch Arkadij | 2696 | 4 | 1 - 0 | 4 | FM | Neef Maximilian | 2423 | 93 |
...
Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | |
1 | 2 | GM | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | FRA | 2785 | 6,5 | 2837 |
2 | 11 | GM | Bacrot Etienne | FRA | 2697 | 6,5 | 2834 |
3 | 4 | GM | Harikrishna P. | IND | 2755 | 6,5 | 2803 |
4 | 24 | GM | Anton Guijarro David | ESP | 2639 | 6,5 | 2755 |
5 | 14 | GM | Ragger Markus | AUT | 2689 | 6,0 | 2780 |
6 | 33 | GM | Lenic Luka | SLO | 2611 | 6,0 | 2779 |
7 | 1 | GM | Nakamura Hikaru | USA | 2787 | 6,0 | 2750 |
25 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | IND | 2639 | 6,0 | 2750 | |
9 | 8 | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | POL | 2727 | 6,0 | 2744 |
32 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2613 | 6,0 | 2744 | |
11 | 35 | GM | Maze Sebastien | FRA | 2591 | 6,0 | 2726 |
12 | 6 | GM | Yu Yangyi | CHN | 2747 | 6,0 | 2720 |
13 | 12 | GM | Ni Hua | CHN | 2697 | 6,0 | 2712 |
14 | 26 | GM | Grandelius Nils | SWE | 2635 | 6,0 | 2692 |
15 | 5 | GM | Li Chao B | CHN | 2751 | 6,0 | 2683 |
16 | 45 | GM | Lalith Babu M R | IND | 2553 | 6,0 | 2680 |
17 | 57 | IM | Gledura Benjamin | HUN | 2515 | 5,5 | 2713 |
18 | 18 | GM | Bruzon Batista Lazaro | CUB | 2666 | 5,5 | 2693 |
19 | 7 | GM | Jakovenko Dmitry | RUS | 2732 | 5,5 | 2683 |
20 | 43 | IM | Tari Aryan | NOR | 2556 | 5,5 | 2675 |
21 | 9 | GM | Rapport Richard | HUN | 2721 | 5,5 | 2666 |
22 | 28 | GM | Jones Gawain C B | ENG | 2625 | 5,5 | 2664 |
23 | 44 | GM | Muzychuk Mariya | UKR | 2554 | 5,5 | 2652 |
24 | 16 | GM | Almasi Zoltan | HUN | 2684 | 5,5 | 2644 |
30 | GM | Edouard Romain | FRA | 2617 | 5,5 | 2644 | |
26 | 23 | GM | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | IND | 2642 | 5,5 | 2642 |
27 | 40 | GM | Vazquez Igarza Renier | ESP | 2572 | 5,5 | 2634 |
28 | 20 | GM | Duda Jan-Krzysztof | POL | 2660 | 5,5 | 2608 |
29 | 34 | GM | Bachmann Axel | PAR | 2610 | 5,5 | 2605 |
30 | 19 | GM | Kamsky Gata | USA | 2665 | 5,5 | 2603 |
31 | 37 | GM | Tregubov Pavel V. | RUS | 2582 | 5,5 | 2602 |
32 | 46 | GM | Kosteniuk Alexandra | RUS | 2550 | 5,5 | 2585 |
33 | 79 | GM | Krush Irina | USA | 2458 | 5,5 | 2582 |
34 | 36 | GM | Sandipan Chanda | IND | 2583 | 5,5 | 2571 |
35 | 39 | GM | Perez Ponsa Federico | ARG | 2577 | 5,5 | 2569 |
36 | 55 | GM | Libiszewski Fabien | FRA | 2515 | 5,5 | 2553 |
37 | 27 | GM | Salem A.R. Saleh | UAE | 2627 | 5,5 | 2552 |
38 | 22 | GM | Sutovsky Emil | ISR | 2647 | 5,5 | 2540 |
39 | 84 | IM | Shytaj Luca | ITA | 2443 | 5,5 | 2537 |
130 | IM | Wemmers Xander | NED | 2352 | 5,5 | 2537 | |
41 | 54 | IM | Pichot Alan | ARG | 2517 | 5,5 | 2533 |
42 | 72 | IM | Ly Moulthun | AUS | 2474 | 5,0 | 2610 |
43 | 47 | GM | Muzychuk Anna | UKR | 2537 | 5,0 | 2609 |
44 | 80 | WGM | Pogonina Natalija | RUS | 2454 | 5,0 | 2598 |
45 | 51 | GM | Gopal G.N. | IND | 2525 | 5,0 | 2595 |
46 | 38 | GM | Grigoriants Sergey | RUS | 2580 | 5,0 | 2584 |
47 | 62 | WGM | Tan Zhongyi | CHN | 2504 | 5,0 | 2580 |
48 | 42 | GM | Oparin Grigoriy | RUS | 2565 | 5,0 | 2579 |
49 | 48 | GM | Demuth Adrien | FRA | 2535 | 5,0 | 2573 |
50 | 10 | GM | Fressinet Laurent | FRA | 2700 | 5,0 | 2572 |
51 | 64 | WGM | Goryachkina Aleksandra | RUS | 2502 | 5,0 | 2570 |
52 | 15 | GM | Howell David W L | ENG | 2685 | 5,0 | 2567 |
53 | 91 | IM | Padmini Rout | IND | 2427 | 5,0 | 2563 |
54 | 17 | GM | Short Nigel D | ENG | 2684 | 5,0 | 2535 |
55 | 49 | GM | Handke Florian Dr. | GER | 2533 | 5,0 | 2534 |
56 | 114 | FM | Hauge Lars Oskar | NOR | 2388 | 5,0 | 2524 |
57 | 29 | GM | Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo | VEN | 2624 | 5,0 | 2523 |
58 | 70 | IM | Nakar Eylon | ISR | 2479 | 5,0 | 2522 |
59 | 21 | GM | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | IND | 2660 | 5,0 | 2505 |
60 | 13 | GM | Naiditsch Arkadij | AZE | 2696 | 5,0 | 2496 |
61 | 112 | IM | Khademalsharieh Sarasadat | IRI | 2392 | 5,0 | 2477 |
62 | 90 | IM | Almagro Llamas Pablo | ESP | 2429 | 5,0 | 2476 |
63 | 173 | Pinho Paulo | POR | 2197 | 5,0 | 2447 | |
64 | 116 | WIM | Shvayger Yuliya | ISR | 2381 | 5,0 | 2446 |
168 | Fiala Vaclav | CZE | 2217 | 5,0 | 2446 | ||
66 | 126 | FM | Kavutskiy Konstantin | USA | 2360 | 5,0 | 2442 |
67 | 75 | IM | Kashlinskaya Alina | RUS | 2462 | 5,0 | 2408 |
68 | 78 | IM | Galyas Miklos | HUN | 2459 | 5,0 | 2397 |
69 | 89 | GM | Carlsson Pontus | SWE | 2430 | 5,0 | 2393 |
70 | 76 | IM | Carlstedt Jonathan | GER | 2461 | 5,0 | 2356 |
71 | 61 | GM | Zhao Xue | CHN | 2506 | 5,0 | 2348 |
72 | 58 | GM | Harika Dronavalli | IND | 2511 | 4,5 | 2620 |
... 250 players
After seven rounds David Anton Guijarro from Spain was sole leader, after
his draw against Chinese GM Li Chao he shares the lead with three other players.
Anton took no risks against Li Chao. In the main of the Petroff with 5.Nc3 he played very quietly but could not claim any advantage. In fact, it was Black who set the pace but without any tangible results.
Li Chao
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (left, with White) before the start of his game against Bruzon Batista.
On board two Maxime Vachier-Lagrave managed to overcome Bruzon's Berlin and on board three Pentala Harikrishna started a quiet and strong attack with an unorthodox retreat. With this win Pentala Harikrishna has 2758 points on the live-rating list and is now only one point behind Anand who drew against IM Marc Esserman from the US.
India's number two Pentala Harikrishna
Santosh Gujrathi Vidit showed strong chess in Gibraltar
but found no recipe against Pentala Harikrishna
Vishy Anand: Draw again! English Champion David Howell follows the game unfold.
Women's World Champion Mariya Muzychuk drew against Richard Rapport.
Norwegian Champion and GM elect Aryan Tari lost a sharp against Etienne Bacrot.
After a stumbling start Nigel Short seemed to have recovered and with three games in a row reclimbed the top ranks. However, in round eight he suffered another setback against Indian GM Lalith. Short, who was playing with Black, emerged with a difficult position from the opening and and then tried to stir up some trouble - but in vain.
Position after 49.Qc8-c6: Black has three more checks before White's king is safe.
Nigel Short: fighting spirit which was not rewarded.
A nice tactical shot could be seen in the game between Luca Lenic and Rout Padmini:
Black just played 27...Bxc4. How did White decide the game immediately?
(See solution at the end of the article)
Top seed Hikaru Nakamura, who won the tournament in 2015, kept in touch with the leaders by winning with Black against Sergey Grigoriants.
Hikaru Nakamura
Abhijeet Gupta drew in round eight against Ni Hua - in round nine he has to play against Hikaru Nakamura.
Antoaneta Stefanova lost against Dmitry Jakovenko.
Sebastien Maze and Markus Ragger played a quick and unspectacular draw.
Round nine promises to be exciting because the four top players face each other: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave plays with White against his countryman Etienne Bacrot while David Anton Guijarro plays White against Pentala Harikrishna.
Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||
1 | 2 | GM | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | 2785 | 6½ | 6½ | GM | Bacrot Etienne | 2697 | 11 | |
2 | 24 | GM | Anton Guijarro David | 2639 | 6½ | 6½ | GM | Harikrishna P. | 2755 | 4 | |
3 | 1 | GM | Nakamura Hikaru | 2787 | 6 | 6 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | 2613 | 32 | |
4 | 5 | GM | Li Chao B | 2751 | 6 | 6 | GM | Lenic Luka | 2611 | 33 | |
5 | 26 | GM | Grandelius Nils | 2635 | 6 | 6 | GM | Yu Yangyi | 2747 | 6 | |
6 | 25 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | 2639 | 6 | 6 | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | 2727 | 8 | |
7 | 12 | GM | Ni Hua | 2697 | 6 | 6 | GM | Maze Sebastien | 2591 | 35 | |
8 | 14 | GM | Ragger Markus | 2689 | 6 | 6 | GM | Lalith Babu M R | 2553 | 45 | |
9 | 7 | GM | Jakovenko Dmitry | 2732 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Sandipan Chanda | 2583 | 36 | |
10 | 9 | GM | Rapport Richard | 2721 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Tregubov Pavel V. | 2582 | 37 | |
11 | 39 | GM | Perez Ponsa Federico | 2577 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Almasi Zoltan | 2684 | 16 | |
12 | 18 | GM | Bruzon Batista Lazaro | 2666 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Vazquez Igarza Renier | 2572 | 40 | |
13 | 19 | GM | Kamsky Gata | 2665 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Muzychuk Mariya | 2554 | 44 | |
14 | 43 | IM | Tari Aryan | 2556 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Duda Jan-Krzysztof | 2660 | 20 | |
15 | 46 | GM | Kosteniuk Alexandra | 2550 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Sutovsky Emil | 2647 | 22 | |
16 | 23 | GM | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | 2642 | 5½ | 5½ | IM | Pichot Alan | 2517 | 54 | |
17 | 27 | GM | Salem A.R. Saleh | 2627 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Libiszewski Fabien | 2515 | 55 | |
18 | 28 | GM | Jones Gawain C B | 2625 | 5½ | 5½ | IM | Shytaj Luca | 2443 | 84 | |
19 | 57 | IM | Gledura Benjamin | 2515 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Edouard Romain | 2617 | 30 | |
20 | 34 | GM | Bachmann Axel | 2610 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Krush Irina | 2458 | 79 | |
21 | 10 | GM | Fressinet Laurent | 2700 | 5 | 5½ | IM | Wemmers Xander | 2352 | 130 | |
22 | 72 | IM | Ly Moulthun | 2474 | 5 | 5 | GM | Naiditsch Arkadij | 2696 | 13 | |
23 | 15 | GM | Howell David W L | 2685 | 5 | 5 | IM | Carlstedt Jonathan | 2461 | 76 | |
24 | 17 | GM | Short Nigel D | 2684 | 5 | 5 | IM | Galyas Miklos | 2459 | 78 | |
25 | 21 | GM | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | 2660 | 5 | 5 | IM | Almagro Llamas Pablo | 2429 | 90 | |
26 | 75 | IM | Kashlinskaya Alina | 2462 | 5 | 5 | GM | Grigoriants Sergey | 2580 | 38 | |
27 | 89 | GM | Carlsson Pontus | 2430 | 5 | 5 | GM | Oparin Grigoriy | 2565 | 42 | |
28 | 91 | IM | Padmini Rout | 2427 | 5 | 5 | GM | Muzychuk Anna | 2537 | 47 | |
29 | 48 | GM | Demuth Adrien | 2535 | 5 | 5 | WGM | Pogonina Natalija | 2454 | 80 | |
30 | 49 | GM | Handke Florian Dr. | 2533 | 5 | 5 | Pinho Paulo | 2197 | 173 | ||
31 | 51 | GM | Gopal G.N. | 2525 | 5 | 5 | FM | Hauge Lars Oskar | 2388 | 114 | |
32 | 61 | GM | Zhao Xue | 2506 | 5 | 5 | WIM | Shvayger Yuliya | 2381 | 116 | |
33 | 62 | WGM | Tan Zhongyi | 2504 | 5 | 5 | FM | Kavutskiy Konstantin | 2360 | 126 | |
34 | 112 | IM | Khademalsharieh Sarasadat | 2392 | 5 | 5 | WGM | Goryachkina Aleksandra | 2502 | 64 | |
35 | 168 | Fiala Vaclav | 2217 | 5 | 5 | IM | Nakar Eylon | 2479 | 70 | ||
36 | 3 | GM | Anand Viswanathan | 2784 | 4½ | 4½ | Kollars Dmitrij | 2436 | 86 | ||
37 | 31 | GM | Erdos Viktor | 2613 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Akesson Ralf | 2435 | 87 | |
38 | 41 | GM | Donchenko Alexander | 2570 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Esserman Marc | 2419 | 96 | |
39 | 83 | IM | Salomon Johan | 2444 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Al-Sayed Mohammed | 2530 | 50 | |
40 | 53 | GM | Vishnu Prasanna. V | 2518 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Nagy Gabor | 2413 | 102 | |
41 | 103 | FM | Rydl Jiri | 2412 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | 2515 | 56 | |
42 | 58 | GM | Harika Dronavalli | 2511 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Satyapragyan Swayangsu | 2410 | 104 | |
43 | 115 | IM | Anurag Mhamal | 2387 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Bai Jinshi | 2507 | 60 | |
44 | 63 | GM | Khotenashvili Bela | 2502 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Martinez Martin David | 2407 | 106 | |
45 | 65 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | 2500 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Kuipers Stefan | 2399 | 110 | |
46 | 111 | IM | Gaponenko Inna | 2393 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Fodor Tamas Jr. | 2500 | 66 | |
47 | 67 | GM | Gunina Valentina | 2496 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Christiansen Johan-Sebastian | 2374 | 120 | |
48 | 135 | IM | Gara Anita | 2339 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Blomqvist Erik | 2492 | 68 | |
49 | 69 | GM | Zhukova Natalia | 2484 | 4½ | 4½ | Herman Matthew J | 2370 | 122 | ||
50 | 71 | GM | Tarjan James E | 2478 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Paehtz Thomas | 2372 | 121 |
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ChessBase author Tania Sachdev follows the tournament as anchorwoman of "The Day's Play"
Solution to the combination: 28.Qxh6 1-0
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