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Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. Adams vs C Monroy |
 | 1-0 | 29 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | B12 Caro-Kann Defense |
| 2. H Nezad vs Caruana |
| 0-1 | 38 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | E33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical |
| 3. J Mullon vs Ivanchuk |
 | 0-1 | 35 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | C48 Four Knights |
| 4. F Vallejo Pons vs S Melia |
| 1-0 | 48 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | B63 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack |
| 5. C Vernay vs Bologan |
| 0-1 | 50 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | A58 Benko Gambit |
| 6. Onischuk vs I Gaponenko |
| 1-0 | 30 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation |
| 7. E Fernandez Romero vs Nisipeanu |
| 0-1 | 35 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | B40 Sicilian |
| 8. K Georgiev vs N Zhukova |
| 1-0 | 36 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical |
| 9. J Sarkar vs Harikrishna |
| ½-½ | 87 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical |
| 10. Short vs A Slavin |
| 1-0 | 33 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | E10 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 11. K Stokke vs Fridman |
| 0-1 | 36 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | A13 English |
| 12. M Roiz vs D Boskovic |
| 1-0 | 52 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | B36 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto |
| 13. M Andersen vs S Chanda |
| 0-1 | 52 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav |
| 14. R Edouard vs A Wohl |
| 1-0 | 45 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | C60 Ruy Lopez |
| 15. J Bellon Lopez vs V Iordachescu |
| ½-½ | 17 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | A45 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 16. E Berg vs J Thomassen |
| 1-0 | 30 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense |
| 17. I Karim vs V Akobian |
| 0-1 | 27 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | C14 French, Classical |
| 18. Kotronias vs R Bellin |
| 1-0 | 26 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | C45 Scotch Game |
| 19. D Cummings vs G N Gopal |
| 0-1 | 47 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | A15 English |
| 20. V Erdos vs R S Jones |
| 1-0 | 46 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | E70 King's Indian |
| 21. E Karavade vs G Jones |
| ½-½ | 109 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | E92 King's Indian |
| 22. R Felgaer vs M Peek |
| 1-0 | 42 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | B58 Sicilian |
| 23. T Kantans vs V Ikonnikov |
| ½-½ | 29 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | B22 Sicilian, Alapin |
| 24. Andersson vs A A Zaremba |
| 1-0 | 41 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | D13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation |
| 25. N Getz vs Mikhalevski |
| ½-½ | 67 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | C67 Ruy Lopez |
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| Jan-30-11 | | swordfish: http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com is the live link. Short is leading with a perfect score after five rounds. |
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| Jan-30-11 | | diagonal: yep, the oldest *active* top-hundred player (well, yes, it's true: Garri Kasparov is already older than every other player in the current FIDE ELO Top-100 list 01/11), Nigel Short, is leading after half-time with a perfect score five out of five. Thanks to chessgames.com for uploading the games and opening the discussion for the Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2011. Gibraltar, played annually since 2003, is becoming more and more a classic event in the chess calendar. The chess community lives from the unique ambience of an Open with hundreds of members of the chess family playing together, and – possibly maybe - get a chance to test themselves with a real big name! If all the greats are refusing Opens, then there would only rest a very, very small de-facto closed group of ELO 2700+ rated players (there is already a strong tendency to such concentration). I suppose that it's more difficult to defense a high rating in an open event than in a closed (double-) rounded tournament, with well known opponents in advance (and no danger of loosing OTB against a so-called nobody, a female opponent, a rising talent or a an 80-years aged veteran) and enough time to prepare the openings with the engines. And then not to win the Open is already quite a loss for a big shot! Hats off to Ivanchuk, Caruana & Co., the festival headliner this year - or Svidler, Aronian or Nakamura, to mention only a few winners in former Gibraltar Opens. Accidentally, I still wonder whether somebody seeing behind the curtains can figure out the reputated players afraid of playing Chess Opens - and what are their arguments apart from the money, notoriously refusing competing in rated Opens... honesty is sometimes rare... Playing an Open or not reveal one's true character! |
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| Jan-30-11 | | virginmind: position at top board, round six:
[Event "2011 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival"]
[White "Ivanchuk, Vassily"]
[Black "Short, Nigel D"]
[WhiteElo "2739"]
[BlackElo "2690"]
1. d4 e6 2. c4 Bb4+ 3. Nd2 d5 4. Ngf3 Nf6 5. Qa4+ Nc6 6. a3 Bxd2+ 7. Bxd2 Ne4
8. Bf4 g5 9. Be3 f5 10. g3 O-O 11. Rd1 Kh8 12. Bg2 f4 13. Bc1 g4 * 
click for larger view |
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| Jan-30-11 | | siamesedream: Chucky mated Nigel. |
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| Jan-30-11 | | BLarsen1967: Nana Dzagnidze is doing well,today she beat Vallejo Pons in a King's Indian! |
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| Jan-30-11 | | diagonal: Bologan vs. Rapport: draw agreed after 166 moves!
rate of play:
40 moves in 100 minutes plus 20 moves in 50 minutes plus 15 minutes for all remaining moves - with 30 seconds increment per move added from the start. |
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| Jan-30-11 | | Kinghunt: Could this event potentially give Nadezhda Kosintseva another GM norm? Or can opens not give title norms? |
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Jan-31-11
 | | perfidious: <Kinghunt> Open events can give norms, if one faces the right mix of titled players, in a minimum of nine rounds. |
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| Jan-31-11 | | twinlark: <diagonal>
<Playing an Open or not reveal one's true character!> By that yardstick this guy, Sergey A Fedorchuk, has a mountain of character! |
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Jan-31-11
 | | Domdaniel: Peter Svidler plays opens. He's been to the Bunratty tournament in Ireland and is rumoured to be coming back this year. He seems to actually enjoy it. |
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| Jan-31-11 | | diagonal: <twinlark> wow, I didn't get that, Sergey Fedorchuk shows backbone. With my claim or metaphor "Playing an Open or not reveal one's true character", I was primarily focussed on ELO 2700+ rated players (due to rating hyper-inflation already more than 30 Grandmaster), accidentally some top shots are strictly avoiding Open Tournaments, and my hypothesis is, that they are afraid of drawing or doing even worse to clearly lower rated players, subsequently losing a bunch of ELO-points (as it happens at the Olympiad quite often for about or near 2800 ELO-rated players), of course, combined with the pecuniary consequences. Fortunately there are still a lot of fearless competitors, as the mentioned this-year headliner at Gibraltar, Ivanchuk, Svidler and many more! But some big names are in danger of being 'blacklisted'.. |
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| Jan-31-11 | | swordfish: Unknown American Paul Szuper, 2174 ELO, has 4 1/2 and is hanging tough against Russian GM Vyacheslav today. Interesting. |
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| Jan-31-11 | | HowDoesTheHorsieMove: <Diagonal: accidentally some top shots are strictly avoiding Open Tournaments> I think they are doing it on purpose. Perhaps you meant "incidentally". |
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| Jan-31-11 | | twinlark: <diagonal>
I suspect the majority of sub-elite grandmasters participate in opens, Fedorchuk probably being one of the best of that group consistently ranking in the top 100. Most players, including most grandmasters, don't make much money from their profession and don't get invited to the elite tournaments that have significant prizes. I guess our attention is so focused on current and future stars and superstars that we forget about most "rank and file" masters that make up the chess community and that struggle to make ends meet. In this context, it's no surprise that the 2700 players try and stay aloof as a bad result in an Open can be disastrous for their careers. Or to put it another way, in chess you've "made it" once you can stop relying on opens for your livelihood (unless you take up coaching, which means quitting top level competitive chess). That's my take. |
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| Jan-31-11 | | diagonal: <HowDoesTheHorsieMove> thanks for your correction, I meant "incidentally" (sorry, english is foreign language for me). <twinlark> <in chess you've "made it" once you can stop relying on opens> that's the reality, a bad result in an open can be disastrous for your career (or at least a bitter humiliation). I fully agree with your analysis. Respect to those top-players, who nevertheless are facing this challenge with ambitions. |
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| Jan-31-11 | | diagonal: Paul Szuper (2174) vs. Viacheslav Ikonnikov (ELO 2580) draw, despite a gap of more than 400 ELO points, the reputated Grandmaster was under pressure by the unknown American without IM title; well, that can happen in Open Festivals. btw: before the Tradewise Gibraltar Festival, Szuper only had two games in the cg. library ;-) |
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| Jan-31-11 | | BarcelonaFirenze: Did Korchnoi play today? |
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| Jan-31-11 | | twinlark: <BarcelonaFirenze> - Viktor Korchnoi |
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Feb-01-11
 | | Troller: <diagonal> Last summer Pavel Eljanov played the Politiken Cup at a time when he was top-10; second highest-rated player had exactly 100 pts less than Eljanov:
http://www.ksu.dk/politiken_cup/tur... But of course many elite GMs have opportunities to play closed events and in fact I wouldn't say one is morally obliged to participate in Opens. It is also a matter of professional development, i.e. Anand or Carlsen would not learn much from playing a typical Open. I guess most top-25 players are professionals who want to take into account this as well. Some opens, the European Ch, the Aeroflot and to some extent Gibraltar, are strong enough to attract a host of strong GMs. Caruana knows he will get strong opposition here, hence it is not necessarily a poor career decision. |
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| Feb-01-11 | | kia0708: Leaders after 7 rounds:
1. Ivanchuk
2. Nigel Short |
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| Feb-01-11 | | fisayo123: Go Caruana!! |
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Feb-01-11
 | | Penguincw: There are events to bet on : ChessBookie Game |
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| Feb-01-11 | | Don Cossacks: <diagonal>Ikonnikov(2580)-Adams(2733)also ended in a draw. |
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| Feb-02-11 | | diagonal: <Troller> indeed, elite players have more opportunities to play strong closed events, I simply wonder, how Anand, Topalov, Kramnik, Leko & Co. would do in such an Open where you have to beat the Howells (no offense) of this World, and go for a win also with black.. (from chessbookie)
Gibraltar round 9: Caruana vs. Ivanchuk |
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| Feb-02-11 | | acirce: <diagonal> Do you know of any particular reason to think they would do badly? |
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