Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012

25 January 2012, Kuala Lumpur – The Gibraltar Masters 2012 is now playing from 24 Jan – 2 February 2012. GM Peter Svidler, GM Judit Polgar, GM Le Quang Liem and GM Hou Yifan are some names that are playing in this year’s tournament.

Masters gets underway

The official website of the tournament reported that the major event of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival - the Gibraltar Masters - got underway at the Caleta Hotel this afternoon. This is the tenth in the series of major international chess events held on the Rock and the second one to be sponsored by Tradewise Insurance.

Pix 1. Board 1, round 1, GM Peter Svidler plays against IM Jovanka Houska, England. (Photo from official website of tournament)

Here is the game between Svidler and Houska of round 1, Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2012 played yesterday, 24 January 2012.

 

Here is another game of round 1 involving American Anna Zatonskih against Gerald Loew, Gibraltar Masters 2012.

Here is a video of the Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012.

Results of Round 1 (up to table 26)

Official website: http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/

Games Of Round 10, Gibraltar Masters 2011

4 February 2011, Kuala Lumpur – Here are three games from round 10, the final round of the 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Masters recently held at the  Caleta Hotel, Gibraltar, from Monday 24 January to Thursday 3 February 2011.

First game is the game between Nigel Short, ended as second in the tournament and Viktor Bologan. The second game is the game between the eventual Gibraltar Masters Champion, Vassily Ivanchuk and Daniel Fridman and the third game is the game between Nadezhda Kosintseva and Michael Adams which ended in a draw.

 
[Event "Gibraltar Masters"] [Site "Gibraltar"] [Date "2011.02.03"] [Round "10.1"] [White "Ivanchuk, Vassily"] [Black "Fridman, Daniel"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D30"] [WhiteElo "2764"] [BlackElo "2655"] [PlyCount "79"] [EventDate "2011.01.25"] [EventRounds "10"] [EventCountry "ENG"] 1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. d4 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 h6 6. Bh4 Ne4 7. Bxe7 Qxe7 8. Bd3 c5 9. O-O Nc6 10. Ne5 Nf6 11. cxd5 Nxe5 12. dxe5 Nxd5 13. Nd2 O-O 14. Ne4 Qc7 15. Nd6 f6 16. Qg4 fxe5 17. Nxc8 Qxc8 18. Qe4 Rf5 19. Bc4 Kh8 20. Bxd5 exd5 21. Qxd5 Qc7 22. Rfd1 Rc8 23. Rd2 c4 24. Rad1 Rff8 25. h3 Rfe8 26. Qe4 Qc6 27. Qc2 c3 28. Rd6 Qc4 29. bxc3 Qxc3 30. Qe4 Qc4 31. Qxb7 Qxa2 32. Rg6 Rg8 33. Rxg7 Qc2 34. Rxg8+ Rxg8 35. Rd6 Qh7 36. Qc6 Qb1+ 37. Kh2 Qf5 38. Rf6 Qg5 39. Rxh6+ Kg7 40. Rd6 1-0



[Event "Gibraltar Masters"] [Site "Gibraltar"] [Date "2011.02.03"] [Round "10.1"] [White "Ivanchuk, Vassily"] [Black "Fridman, Daniel"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D30"] [WhiteElo "2764"] [BlackElo "2655"] [PlyCount "79"] [EventDate "2011.01.25"] [EventRounds "10"] [EventCountry "ENG"] 1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. d4 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 h6 6. Bh4 Ne4 7. Bxe7 Qxe7 8. Bd3 c5 9. O-O Nc6 10. Ne5 Nf6 11. cxd5 Nxe5 12. dxe5 Nxd5 13. Nd2 O-O 14. Ne4 Qc7 15. Nd6 f6 16. Qg4 fxe5 17. Nxc8 Qxc8 18. Qe4 Rf5 19. Bc4 Kh8 20. Bxd5 exd5 21. Qxd5 Qc7 22. Rfd1 Rc8 23. Rd2 c4 24. Rad1 Rff8 25. h3 Rfe8 26. Qe4 Qc6 27. Qc2 c3 28. Rd6 Qc4 29. bxc3 Qxc3 30. Qe4 Qc4 31. Qxb7 Qxa2 32. Rg6 Rg8 33. Rxg7 Qc2 34. Rxg8+ Rxg8 35. Rd6 Qh7 36. Qc6 Qb1+ 37. Kh2 Qf5 38. Rf6 Qg5 39. Rxh6+ Kg7 40. Rd6 1-0


[Event "Gibraltar Masters"] [Site "Gibraltar"] [Date "2011.02.03"] [Round "10.7"] [White "Kosintseva, Nadezhda"] [Black "Adams, Michael"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "C64"] [WhiteElo "2552"] [BlackElo "2723"] [PlyCount "72"] [EventDate "2011.01.25"] [EventRounds "10"] [EventCountry "ENG"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. e5 Ne4 7. O-O d5 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. Be3 O-O 10. Bxc6 bxc6 11. Qc2 Bg4 12. Nfd2 Nxd2 13. Nxd2 f6 14. f4 Qd7 15. Rac1 Rae8 16. Rfe1 fxe5 17. fxe5 Re6 18. Rf1 Rfe8 19. Rce1 Qe7 20. Nf3 Rg6 21. Qd2 Rf8 22. Ng5 h6 23. Rxf8+ Qxf8 24. Rf1 Qe7 25. Nf3 Bf5 26. b4 Be4 27. Ne1 a5 28. a3 axb4 29. axb4 Qe6 30. Rf2 Rg4 31. Nd3 Bxd3 32. Qxd3 Re4 33. Rf4 Rxf4 34. Bxf4 Qe7 35. Qd2 Qh4 36. h3 Kf7 1/2-1/2



Links:

• Official website
  
• TWIC
  
• Games
  
• Chess-results.com

Ivanchuk Wins Gibraltar Masters

4 February 2011, Kuala Lumpur – At the 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar Masters, Ivanchuk Vassily (pix left) overcomed Fridman Daniel in the last 10th round of the chess tournament at Gibraltar. Ivanchuk scored 9/10 pts ahead of his nearest rival, Nigel Short, who ended in second place with 8.5 points.

TWIC reports that The 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival took place at the Caleta Hotel, Gibraltar, from Monday 24 January to Thursday 3 February 2011. The new primary sponsors, Tradewise Insurance Company Ltd, enabled the prize fund to be increased to £126,000, with £17,500 going to the winner of the Gibraltar Masters, £10,000 to the top woman scorer and two extra rating prizes (of £2,000 and £1,000) being awarded to each of two further rating bands (2000-2099 and under 2000) in the Masters. The tournament was powered by previous primary sponsors Gibtelecom.

Vassily Ivanchuk, Michael Adams, Fabiano Caruana, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Viktor Bologan, Krishnan Sasikiran, Alexander Onischuk, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Kiril Georgiev, Pentala Harikrishna and Nigel Short were amongst the top players who competed. Vassily Ivanchuk ran away with the tournament scoring 9/10. Nigel Short was a point clear of the rest of the field with 8.5/10, he lost to Ivanchuk and otherwise conceded just one draw for a score that would have surely won most years.

 

Here is a ninth round game between Nigel Short and Victor Mikhalevski which was duly won by Nigel Short with white.

Links:

• Official website
  
• TWIC
  
• Live games on Susan Polgar’s Website
  
• Chess-results.com

(Pictures are courtesy of John Saunders and gibraltarchesscongress.com)

Ivanchuk Leads Into Final Round, Gibraltar Masters

3 February 2011, Kuala Lumpur – John Saunders of TWIC reports that Vassily Ivanchuk and Nigel Short continued their winning ways in round 9. Ivanchuk won on the black side of a Berlin (maybe, it should read Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation) against Fabiano Caruana and Nigel Short won as white against Victor Mikhalevski. This leaves Ivanchuk on 8/9 half a point clear of Short. The main chasing pack is a further point behind Short.

The top 24 players after the ninth round of the Gibraltar Masters is shown in the table below:-

Here is the ninth round game between Caruana and Ivanchuk during the Gibraltar Masters 2011. The Ruy Lopez – Exchange variation transpired during the game and black won by controlling the second rank with a rook and queen.

Here are some round 9 results for the top 34 boards.





Links:

• Official website
  
• TWIC
  
• Live games on Susan Polgar’s Website
  
• Chess-results.com