Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014

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As usual (or maybe it is even stronger this year?) the Masters event includes the likes of Adams, Vachier-Lagrave, Ivanchuk, Vitiugov and very many other elite players! It definitely tells something about the tournament when you see that for example, Navara is “only” 10th by rating 🙂

The pairings of top 10 boards

1 128 FM Sanchez Jerez Emilio Miguel 2287 0 – 0 GM Adams Michael 2754 1

2 2 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2745 0 – 0 Lombaers Peter 2255 136

3 134 IM Lederman Leon 2257 0 – 0 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2739 3

4 4 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2737 0 – 0 IM Haugli Petter 2278 131

5 133 Gukhvat Peter 2268 0 – 0 GM Eljanov Pavel 2733 5

6 6 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2715 0 – 0 Deac Bogdan-Daniel 2289 127

7 129 Sos Andreu Eric 2285 0 – 0 GM Kamsky Gata 2709 7

8 8 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2707 0 – 0 WGM Maisuradze Nino 2279 130

9 132 FM Proudian Armen 2273 0 – 0 GM Harikrishna P. 2706 9

10 10 GM Navara David 2702 0 – 0 Hommerson Paul 2255 135

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Tata Steel Masters 2014

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Aronian
(Photo taken from chess-news.ru)

Aronian lost a very interesting game to van Wely in the last round, but as it was known two days ago (:)) remained on the first place! Giri and Karjakin shared 2nd-3rd.

Results of the last round

Nakamura, H. – Giri, A. ½-½
Naiditsch, A. – Rapport, R. 1-0
So, W. – Caruana, F. ½-½
Gelfand, B. – Harikrishna, P. 1-0
Aronian, L. – Van Wely, L. 0-1
Karjakin, S. – Dominguez, L. ½-½

Final standings with ELO and performance included

1 Aronian, L. 8.0 / 11 2812 2911
2 Giri, A. 6.5 / 11 2734 2809
3 Karjakin, S. 6.5 / 11 2759 2806
4 Caruana, F. 6.0 / 11 2782 2775
5 Dominguez, L. 6.0 / 11 2754 2778
6 So, W. 6.0 / 11 2719 2781
7 Harikrishna, P. 5.5 / 11 2706 2746
8 Van Wely, L. 5.0 / 11 2672 2713
9 Nakamura, H. 5.0 / 11 2789 2703
10 Gelfand, B. 4.5 / 11 2777 2675
11 Rapport, R. 3.5 / 11 2691 2614
12 Naiditsch, A. 3.5 / 11 2718 2612

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