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Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2018 (Games and Results)
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2018
Mark Crowther - Thursday 1st February 2018
Gibraltar Chess Promotion projected onto their Moorish Castle. Photo © | http://www.gibchess.com
The Tradewise Gibraltar Masters took place 23rd January to 1st February 2018. Leading players: Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura, David Navara, Pentala Harikrishna, Le Quang Liem, Nikita Vitiugov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Wang Hao, Michael Adams, Richard Rapport, Ivan Cheparinov, Boris Gelfand, Daniil Dubov, David Howell, Nigel Short, Alexander Motylev, Emil Sutovsky, David Anton Guijarro etc.
There was a seven way tie on 7.5/10. The top four on tie-break went into a playoff for the title. Levon Aronian won the event. Aronian beat Richard Rapport in the semi-finals and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final. MVL defeated defending champion Nakamura in the semi-final.
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2018 (Caleta ENG)
Mon 22nd Jan 2018 - Thu 1st Feb 2018 -
Official Site - Results - Live
Gibraltar Masters 2018 (10 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:100:50:15+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games
Gibraltar Masters TB 2018 (4 players 2 Rds KO Indiv TC:10m+5spm) - Games in PGN: TB Games
Gibraltar Masters 2018 (10 Rds Swiss Indiv TC: 100:50:15+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games
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| Gibraltar Masters 2018 Caleta ENG Mon 22nd Jan 2018 - Thu 1st Feb 2018
Leading Final Round 10 Standings: |
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| Rk | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts | TB1 |
| 1 | 3 | Nakamura Hikaru | USA | 2781 | 7.5 | 2822 |
| 2 | 12 | Rapport Richard | HUN | 2700 | 7.5 | 2763 |
| 3 | 2 | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | FRA | 2793 | 7.5 | 2759 |
| 4 | 1 | Aronian Levon | ARM | 2797 | 7.5 | 2746 |
| 5 | 7 | Vitiugov Nikita | RUS | 2732 | 7.5 | 2731 |
| 11 | Adams Michael | ENG | 2709 | 7.5 | 2731 | |
| 7 | 6 | Le Quang Liem | VIE | 2737 | 7.5 | 2713 |
| 8 | 16 | Howell David W L | ENG | 2682 | 7.0 | 2760 |
| 9 | 31 | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2610 | 7.0 | 2732 |
| 10 | 81 | Debashis Das | IND | 2501 | 7.0 | 2728 |
| 11 | 9 | Duda Jan-Krzysztof | POL | 2724 | 7.0 | 2713 |
| 33 | Oparin Grigoriy | RUS | 2607 | 7.0 | 2713 | |
| 13 | 10 | Wang Hao | CHN | 2711 | 7.0 | 2710 |
| 14 | 32 | Vocaturo Daniele | ITA | 2609 | 7.0 | 2679 |
| 15 | 14 | Gelfand Boris | ISR | 2697 | 7.0 | 2673 |
| 16 | 25 | Sethuraman S.P. | IND | 2646 | 7.0 | 2672 |
| 17 | 19 | Sutovsky Emil | ISR | 2673 | 7.0 | 2668 |
| 18 | 15 | Dubov Daniil | RUS | 2694 | 7.0 | 2658 |
| 19 | 116 | Henderson De La Fuente Lance | ESP | 2429 | 7.0 | 2642 |
| 20 | 93 | Kobo Ori | ISR | 2477 | 7.0 | 2638 |
| 21 | 13 | Cheparinov Ivan | BUL | 2699 | 7.0 | 2634 |
| 22 | 18 | Motylev Alexander | RUS | 2673 | 7.0 | 2633 |
| 45 | Narayanan S. L. | IND | 2573 | 7.0 | 2633 | |
| 24 | 66 | Epishin Vladimir | RUS | 2536 | 7.0 | 2595 |
| 25 | 35 | Bindrich Falko | GER | 2605 | 7.0 | 2594 |
| 26 | 38 | Antipov Mikhail Al. | RUS | 2588 | 6.5 | 2715 |
| 27 | 30 | Gledura Benjamin | HUN | 2612 | 6.5 | 2711 |
| 28 | 24 | Grandelius Nils | SWE | 2647 | 6.5 | 2686 |
| 29 | 65 | Mikhalevski Victor | ISR | 2538 | 6.5 | 2674 |
| 30 | 104 | Cramling Pia | SWE | 2449 | 6.5 | 2659 |
| 31 | 49 | Esipenko Andrey | RUS | 2571 | 6.5 | 2643 |
| 32 | 59 | Deac Bogdan-Daniel | ROU | 2549 | 6.5 | 2639 |
| 33 | 108 | Venkatesh M.R. | IND | 2445 | 6.5 | 2635 |
| 34 | 4 | Navara David | CZE | 2749 | 6.5 | 2633 |
| 35 | 8 | Ivanchuk Vassily | UKR | 2726 | 6.5 | 2619 |
| 36 | 63 | Lalith Babu M R | IND | 2542 | 6.5 | 2600 |
| 37 | 44 | Tregubov Pavel V. | RUS | 2575 | 6.5 | 2599 |
| 38 | 21 | Saric Ivan | CRO | 2664 | 6.5 | 2596 |
| 39 | 5 | Harikrishna P. | IND | 2745 | 6.5 | 2591 |
| 40 | 23 | Akobian Varuzhan | USA | 2647 | 6.5 | 2583 |
| 41 | 36 | Svane Rasmus | GER | 2595 | 6.5 | 2581 |
| 42 | 68 | Swapnil S. Dhopade | IND | 2533 | 6.5 | 2580 |
| 43 | 54 | Lagno Kateryna | RUS | 2556 | 6.5 | 2554 |
| 44 | 102 | Prasanna Raghuram Rao | IND | 2458 | 6.5 | 2549 |
| 45 | 37 | Gopal G.N. | IND | 2593 | 6.5 | 2536 |
| 46 | 71 | Nihal Sarin | IND | 2524 | 6.5 | 2523 |
| 47 | 77 | Kollars Dmitrij | GER | 2505 | 6.5 | 2514 |
| 48 | 61 | Kaidanov Gregory | USA | 2548 | 6.5 | 2498 |
| 49 | 27 | Bosiocic Marin | CRO | 2628 | 6.5 | 2485 |
| 50 | 78 | Batsiashvili Nino | GEO | 2504 | 6.0 | 2615 |
| 276 players | ||||||
Gibraltar Masters TB 2018 (4 players 2 Rds KO Indiv TC: 10m+5spm) - Games in PGN: TB Games
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| Gibraltar Masters TB 2018 Caleta ENG Mon 22nd Jan 2018 - Thu 1st Feb 2018
Leading Final Round 2 Standings: |
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| Rk | Name | Ti | FED | Rtg | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Pts |
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| 1 | Aronian, Levon | GM | ARM | 2797 | = | = | = | 1 | 2.5 |
| 2 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | GM | FRA | 2793 | = | = | = | 0 | 1.5 |
| Semi-Final | |||||||||
| 1 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | GM | FRA | 2793 | = | = | 1 | = | 2.5 |
| 2 | Nakamura, Hikaru | GM | USA | 2781 | = | = | 0 | = | 1.5 |
| 1 | Aronian, Levon | GM | ARM | 2797 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 2 | Rapport, Richard | GM | HUN | 2700 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 8 players | |||||||||
