The media team has been prolific, posting around a dozen video clips each day, hosted by IM Tania Sachdev. These mostly consist of short spot-interviews, but there was also an hour-long lecture from Nigel Short on "Becoming a Candidate", and a lively humanising short piece featuring several of the competitors:
Tania followed up with a personal five minute featurette:
Another regular feature of Gibraltar which returned again this year is the "Masterclasses" where one of the participants is invited to present an hour lecture on a theme. This year's guest stars were Russian GM Valentina Gunina, and Armenian-American Varuzhan Akobian.
Another traditional and unique feature of GibChess is the "Battle of the Sexes", which is available in a three minute version of condensed highlights, and a full webcam stream of an hour and forty minutes. Take your pick or watch them both!
In between a post-game interview and a master class is "long story short" a slightly longer but still digestible chat with a celebrity grandmaster. This year host Tania Sachdev talked to Russian GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, and Indian GM (the second after Anand to surpass 2700 Elo) Pentala Harikrishna.
A new initiative this year was a question and answer panel night, hosted by webcast co-host GM Simon Williams, featuring panelists David Howell, Emil Sutovsky, Elisabeth Paehts, Batchimeg Tuvshintugs and Nigel Short.
The list of players who chased Nakamura over the past ten days reads like the who's-who of top chess, with a few exceptions. The name of the French Grand Master Jules Moussard is reasonably new. The 22-year-old has won the youth championships of his age group several times. In 2004, he was split first in the Under-10 World Youth. He equalled Vachier-Lagrave for much of the tournamentat until losing to the French number one, and the English number one Michael Adams in back-to-back games.
John Saunders, reporting from Gibraltar for the official site, provided daily annotated games, which we've aggregated in one place below, along with a slection of player interviews. But there's much much more on the tournament's YouTube channel.
Click or tap a game in the list to switch games
'Prag' did not manage to score a GM norm
Henderson, earned a GM norm, and was mentioned in our post after round seven
Finally, if you can't make it to Gibraltar yourself, you take a mini-tour of the Rock with some of the players in this extensive photo album from house photographer Sophie Triay.
Batchimeg Tuvshintugs, Josefine Heinemann, Valentina Gunina, Irine Kharisma Sukandar, Margit Brokko, Karl Erik Olde, Pavel Tregubov, Alexandra Kosteniuk | Photo: Sophie Triay
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