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Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2018 – Masters last round

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Seven players tied for 1st place and the first four played a tie-break which was won by Aronian who beat Rapport and then Vachier-Lagrave.

Top 10 results of the last round

GM Aronian Levon 2797 7 ½ – ½ 7 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2781
GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2793 7 ½ – ½ 7 GM Rapport Richard 2700
GM Le Quang Liem 2737 6½ 1 – 0 7 GM Dubov Daniil 2694
GM Vitiugov Nikita 2732 6½ 1 – 0 6½ GM Antipov Mikhail Al. 2588
GM Gupta Abhijeet 2610 6½ ½ – ½ 6½ GM Duda Jan-Krzysztof 2724
GM Wang Hao 2711 6½ ½ – ½ 6½ GM Howell David W L 2682
GM Adams Michael 2709 6½ 1 – 0 6½ GM Grandelius Nils 2647
GM Cheparinov Ivan 2699 6½ ½ – ½ 6½ GM Vocaturo Daniele 2609
GM Oparin Grigoriy 2607 6½ ½ – ½ 6½ GM Gelfand Boris 2697
GM Kobo Ori 2477 6½ ½ – ½ 6 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2726

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Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2018 – Masters 9th round

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Five players lead with 7 points:

GM Nakamura Hikaru USA 2781 7,0
GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime FRA 2793 7,0
GM Rapport Richard HUN 2700 7,0
GM Aronian Levon ARM 2797 7,0
GM Dubov Daniil RUS 2694 7,0

Top 10 results of the 9th round

GM Dubov Daniil 2694 6½ ½ – ½ 6½ GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2793
GM Nakamura Hikaru 2781 6½ ½ – ½ 6½ GM Rapport Richard 2700
GM Aronian Levon 2797 6 1 – 0 6 GM Sethuraman S.P. 2646
GM Howell David W L 2682 6 ½ – ½ 6 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2732
GM Grandelius Nils 2647 6 ½ – ½ 6 GM Wang Hao 2711
GM Gelfand Boris 2697 6 ½ – ½ 6 GM Gupta Abhijeet 2610
GM Navara David 2749 5½ ½ – ½ 6 GM Oparin Grigoriy 2607
GM Le Quang Liem 2737 5½ 1 – 0 5½ FM Esipenko Andrey 2571
GM Duda Jan-Krzysztof 2724 5½ 1 – 0 5½ GM Grigoriants Sergey 2568
GM Moussard Jules 2571 5½ 0 – 1 5½ GM Adams Michael 2709

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