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The chess.com Isle of Man Masters took place 22nd September to 1st October 2016. The World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen headed up an extremely strong field aided by the sponsorship of the Scheinberg family. Leading players: Carlsen, Kramnik, Caruana, Anand, Nakamura, Adams, Gelfand, Eljanov, Vallejo Pons, Almasi, Naiditsch, Vidit, Howell, Short, Rodshtein, Sutovsky, Leko, Kasimdzhanov, Rapport, Movsesian, Adhiban, Hou Yifan, Gawain Jones, Riazantsev, Akobian, Fressinet, Granda Zuniga, Grandelius, Sargissian, Xiong, Shirov, Bok, Sethuraman, Erwin L'ami, Ivan Sokolov, Bogner, Bindrich, Huschenbeth, Svane, Tregubov, Tari etc A novelty was that the first round draw was entirely random producing the strong pairings Caruana-Kramnik and Adhiban-Gelfand. Magnus Carlsen led throughout to score his first tournament victory since Bilbao 2016 435 days ago). Carlsen finished on 7.5/9 after he forced a quick draw against second placed Hikaru Nakamura who was joined on 7 points by Viswanathan Anand.

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chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG Sat 23rd Sep 2017 - Sun 1st Oct 2017 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	TB1
1	1	Carlsen Magnus	GM	NOR	2827	7.5
2	4	Anand Viswanathan	GM	IND	2794	7.0
	5	Nakamura Hikaru	GM	USA	2781	7.0
4	2	Kramnik Vladimir	GM	RUS	2803	6.5
	3	Caruana Fabiano	GM	USA	2799	6.5
	6	Adams Michael	GM	ENG	2738	6.5
	8	Eljanov Pavel	GM	UKR	2734	6.5
	12	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	GM	IND	2702	6.5
	16	Sutovsky Emil	GM	ISR	2683	6.5
	19	Rapport Richard	GM	HUN	2675	6.5
	31	Shirov Alexei	GM	LAT	2630	6.5
	55	Swapnil S. Dhopade	GM	IND	2532	6.5
13	15	Rodshtein Maxim	GM	ISR	2695	6.0
	17	Leko Peter	GM	HUN	2679	6.0
	18	Kasimdzhanov Rustam	GM	UZB	2676	6.0
	20	Movsesian Sergei	GM	ARM	2671	6.0
	22	Hou Yifan	GM	CHN	2670	6.0
	27	Granda Zuniga Julio E	GM	PER	2653	6.0
	29	Sargissian Gabriel	GM	ARM	2652	6.0
	34	L'ami Erwin	GM	NED	2611	6.0
	37	Bindrich Falko	GM	GER	2598	6.0
	45	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	GM	IND	2568	6.0
	46	Lenderman Aleksandr	GM	USA	2565	6.0
	48	Wagner Dennis	GM	GER	2564	6.0
25	9	Vallejo Pons Francisco	GM	ESP	2716	5.5
	11	Naiditsch Arkadij	GM	AZE	2702	5.5
	13	Howell David W L	GM	ENG	2701	5.5
	14	Short Nigel D	GM	ENG	2698	5.5
	21	Adhiban B.	GM	IND	2670	5.5
	23	Jones Gawain C B	GM	ENG	2668	5.5
	25	Akobian Varuzhan	GM	USA	2662	5.5
	26	Fressinet Laurent	GM	FRA	2657	5.5
	28	Grandelius Nils	GM	SWE	2653	5.5
	30	Xiong Jeffery	GM	USA	2633	5.5
	32	Bok Benjamin	GM	NED	2620	5.5
	36	Bogner Sebastian	GM	SUI	2599	5.5
	38	Huschenbeth Niclas	GM	GER	2596	5.5
	40	Tregubov Pavel V.	GM	RUS	2589	5.5
	41	Tari Aryan	GM	NOR	2588	5.5
	43	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	GM	IND	2573	5.5
	47	Pichot Alan	GM	ARG	2565	5.5
	49	Deac Bogdan-Daniel	GM	ROU	2559	5.5
	50	Donchenko Alexander	GM	GER	2559	5.5
	61	Praggnanandhaa R	IM	IND	2500	5.5
	62	Brown Michael William	IM	USA	2499	5.5
	90	Tarjan James	GM	USA	2412	5.5
	93	Cornette Deimante	IM	LTU	2404	5.5
48	7	Gelfand Boris	GM	ISR	2737	5.0
	24	Riazantsev Alexander	GM	RUS	2666	5.0
	33	Sethuraman S.P.	GM	IND	2617	5.0
160 players

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