Gibraltar Masters (2004) |
The 2nd Gibraltar Masters was a 91-player 10-round Swiss tournament held in the Caleta Hotel, La Caleta, Gibraltar, from 27 January to 5 February 2004, as part of the Gibtelecom Gibraltar Chess Festival. Time control: 100 minutes for the whole game, with 60 seconds added per move from move 1. First to fifth prizes: GBP 4000, 2500, 1500, 1000, 600. The festival also featured two amateur tournaments (Tercentenary Amateurs and BCF Centenary Amateurs). Chief organizer: Stewart Reuben. Chief arbiter: David Welch? Rounds started at 3 pm. Nigel Short won with 8/10, ahead of Ganguly with 7.5/10 and three players with 7/10. Official site: https://web.archive.org/web/2004032...
Regulations: https://web.archive.org/web/2003121...
Standings: https://web.archive.org/web/2010081...
ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/nigel...
BritBase: http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/pgn...
TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...
FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament...
Robert Byrne in The New York Times, 22 February 2004: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/... Previous: Gibraltar Masters (2003). Next: Gibraltar Masters (2005)
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| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
1. J Emms vs Short |
| ½-½ | 94 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | C90 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
2. A Muir vs E D Agdestein |
| 1-0 | 43 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | D09 Queen's Gambit Declined, Albin Counter Gambit, 5.g3 |
3. O B Vea vs D Howell |
 | 0-1 | 50 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | C29 Vienna Gambit |
4. G O'Toole vs S Meenakshi |
| 0-1 | 49 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | B06 Robatsch |
5. N Mohota vs N Davies |
| 0-1 | 62 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | E49 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Botvinnik System |
6. S del Rio de Angelis vs S R Mannion |
| 1-0 | 81 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
7. T Wippermann vs Chandler |
| 0-1 | 48 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | B12 Caro-Kann Defense |
8. B Vuckovic vs J Houska |
 | 1-0 | 30 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | B18 Caro-Kann, Classical |
9. C Seel vs A Kunte |
| ½-½ | 29 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | D02 Queen's Pawn Game |
10. B Lalic vs N Speck |
 | 1-0 | 31 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | D37 Queen's Gambit Declined |
11. C McNab vs C Ward |
| ½-½ | 12 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | A38 English, Symmetrical |
12. S Chanda vs T Vasilevich |
 | 1-0 | 55 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | B42 Sicilian, Kan |
13. D Contin vs J Gallagher |
| 0-1 | 35 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | A22 English |
14. K Arakhamia-Grant vs P Motwani |
| ½-½ | 32 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | B18 Caro-Kann, Classical |
15. A Poluljahov vs J Bellon Lopez |
| 0-1 | 56 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | A07 King's Indian Attack |
16. Ganguly vs M Tissir |
| 1-0 | 47 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation |
17. S Vijayalakshmi vs J Rowson |
| 1-0 | 47 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | B30 Sicilian |
18. M Hebden vs T Bakre |
| ½-½ | 44 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | A46 Queen's Pawn Game |
19. M Al Sayed vs D Barua |
| ½-½ | 40 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | C11 French |
20. R Pogorelov vs Speelman |
| ½-½ | 27 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | A14 English |
21. A Kuzmin vs M Womacka |
| 1-0 | 52 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | A70 Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3 |
22. S Sulskis vs J Shaw |
| 1-0 | 45 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | A07 King's Indian Attack |
23. A Stefanova vs Harikrishna |
 | 1-0 | 46 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted |
24. E Inarkiev vs P Cramling |
| 1-0 | 38 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 |
25. P K Wells vs Epishin |
| 1-0 | 39 | 2004 | Gibraltar Masters | D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav |
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Feb-07-04 | | Helloween: Another excellent showing by the chap. I appreciate his style of play, although his tendency to overlook good opportunites for himself in positions has risen since his WC challenger days. He still plays a very extremely tricky and fighting game to the end. I've seen him swindle a win with a Rook and 2 pawn vs. Bishop, Knight and 4 pawn ending on playchess.com in 3+2 minute blitz! He may be an equally strong annotator/writer. He is a straight-shooter with a strong vocabulary and diction skills. I greatly enjoy his columns. |
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Feb-07-04 | | Benzol: <Helloween> Forgive me for my ignorance but whom are you talking about? |
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Feb-07-04 | | matein8: <Benzol> Lol, I believe he's referring to the winner of the tourney, ND Short. BTW, I found a website of chess advice that you can show the potential coaches of the Auckland chess club: http://www.chessville.com/ The "Instruction" drop down has some good advice. Here's a link to the website of this tourney: http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.c... |
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Feb-08-04 | | Benzol: <matein8> Thanks for this one mate. I'll take me awhile to look through this interesting site. |
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Feb-09-04 | | armtwister: Good that good old Shorty has started playing the main lines again!! ,especially the English Attack which he popularised in the 80's.He's back!! |
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Feb-10-04 | | Taidanii: No doubt about it. Nigel certainly tore this one up. |
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Feb-26-04 | | alfredazzopardi: I am indeed very pleased that I have been registered with your extremely informative and excellent page. Well Done!!! I will definitely become more accustomed with the contents of the site and hope to contribute in a very small way to the already polished contributions. Comgratulations. Regards from Malta. |
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Feb-26-04 | | Larsker: <azzopardi> Yea, the contributions are very polished on this site - especially today ;-) |
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Feb-26-04 | | PinkPanther: <Helloween>
Ummm...how could he swindle that endgame that you were talking about? R+2P against NB+4P is a win for the player with the Knight, Bishop, and 4 pawns. So if he did indeed lose with the Rook and 2 pawns, then it was probably only because he was supposed to. |
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