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The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival took place 24th January to 2nd February 2017. Leading players: Caruana, Vachier-Lagrave, Nakamura, Ivanchuk, Adams, Svidler, Topalov, Yu Yangyi, Vitiugov, Gelfand, Naiditsch,Matlakov, Cheparinov, Kovalenko, Zvjaginsev, Short, Shankland, Fressinet, Ganguly, Howell, Iturrizaga etc Hikaru Nakamura won the event for the third year running after winning the tie-break. He beat Yu Yangyi in the semi-final of the tie-breaks and then David Anton in the final.

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Gibraltar Masters 2017 Caleta ENG Mon 23rd Jan 2017 - Thu 2nd Feb 2017 Leading Final Round 10 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	FED	Rtg	Pts	TB1
1	24	Anton Guijarro David	ESP	2650	8.0	2859
2	3	Nakamura Hikaru	USA	2785	8.0	2847
3	8	Yu Yangyi	CHN	2738	8.0	2830
4	2	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	FRA	2796	7.5	2804
5	5	Adams Michael	ENG	2751	7.5	2797
6	28	Sutovsky Emil	ISR	2628	7.5	2759
7	13	Cheparinov Ivan	BUL	2689	7.5	2755
8	7	Topalov Veselin	BUL	2739	7.5	2749
9	10	Gelfand Boris	ISR	2721	7.5	2729
10	20	Howell David W L	ENG	2655	7.0	2732
11	38	Ju Wenjun	CHN	2583	7.0	2731
12	16	Short Nigel D	ENG	2675	7.0	2722
13	1	Caruana Fabiano	USA	2827	7.0	2709
	27	Akobian Varuzhan	USA	2633	7.0	2709
15	12	Matlakov Maxim	RUS	2701	7.0	2699
16	11	Naiditsch Arkadij	AZE	2702	7.0	2696
17	9	Vitiugov Nikita	RUS	2724	7.0	2679
18	18	Fressinet Laurent	FRA	2660	7.0	2677
19	21	Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo	VEN	2652	7.0	2675
20	26	Sethuraman S.P.	IND	2637	7.0	2673
21	6	Svidler Peter	RUS	2748	7.0	2671
22	37	Lalith Babu M R	IND	2587	7.0	2640
23	30	Edouard Romain	FRA	2613	7.0	2639
24	58	Stefanova Antoaneta	BUL	2512	6.5	2659
25	42	Deac Bogdan-Daniel	ROU	2572	6.5	2654
26	69	Steinberg Nitzan	ISR	2486	6.5	2644
27	54	Lagno Kateryna	RUS	2530	6.5	2634
28	47	Muzychuk Anna	UKR	2558	6.5	2630
29	23	Piorun Kacper	POL	2651	6.5	2619
30	33	Fridman Daniel	GER	2594	6.5	2617
31	67	Dragnev Valentin	AUT	2492	6.5	2613
32	31	Maze Sebastien	FRA	2613	6.5	2612
33	32	Vocaturo Daniele	ITA	2606	6.5	2611
34	68	Krysa Leandro	ARG	2491	6.5	2609
35	17	Shankland Samuel L	USA	2674	6.5	2603
36	14	Kovalenko Igor	LAT	2684	6.5	2594
37	36	Gledura Benjamin	HUN	2589	6.5	2565
38	70	Santos Ruiz Miguel	ESP	2484	6.5	2564
39	4	Ivanchuk Vassily	UKR	2752	6.5	2562
40	19	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	IND	2657	6.5	2536
41	74	Riff Jean-Noel	FRA	2468	6.5	2517
42	35	Istratescu Andrei	FRA	2593	6.5	2504
43	86	Zatonskih Anna	USA	2443	6.5	2501
44	56	Gunina Valentina	RUS	2524	6.5	2491
45	65	Cuenca Jimenez Jose Fernando	ESP	2492	6.5	2481
46	60	Mikhalevski Victor	ISR	2504	6.5	2430
47	48	Huzman Alexander	ISR	2557	6.0	2592
48	22	Hou Yifan	CHN	2651	6.0	2590
49	40	Gopal G.N.	IND	2579	6.0	2580
50	46	Donchenko Alexander	GER	2559	6.0	2565
255 players

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