Tradewise Gibraltar (2011)

PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games) Vassily Ivanchuk, Fabiano Caruana, Michael Adams, Viktor Bologan, Francisco Vallejo-Pons, Krishnan Sasikiran, Nigel Short, Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu, Pentala Harikrishna, Alexander Onischuk, Kiril D Georgiev, Viktor Korchnoi, Romain Edouard, Michael Roiz, Richard Rapport, Daniel Fridman, Giorgi Kacheishvili, Gawain Jones, Chanda Sandipan, Alexandr Hilario Takeda dos Santos Fier, Viorel Iordachescu, Viktor Erdos, Jonathan Speelman, Ulf Andersson, Vasilios Kotronias, Varuzhan Akobian, Victor Mikhalevski, Emanuel Berg, Ruben Felgaer, Ray Robson, Rainer Buhmann, Kaido Kulaots, Geetha Narayanan Gopal, Viacheslav Ikonnikov, Tatiana Kosintseva, Pablo Lafuente, Jean-Pierre Le Roux, Nadezhda Kosintseva, Deep Sengupta, Nana Dzagnidze, Damian Lemos, Antoaneta Stefanova, Joseph G Gallagher, Pia Cramling, Alexis Cabrera, Zhu Chen, Meelis Kanep, Anna Zatonskih, Suri Vaibhav, Victoria Cmilyte, Felipe de Cresce El Debs, Dronavalli Harika, Mohamad Naser Al Sayed, Michael Hoffmann, Ram Soffer, Natalia Pogonina, Anthony Bellaiche, Natalia Zhukova, Irina Krush, Arghyadip Das, Mads Andersen, Ernesto Fernandez-Romero, Drasko Boskovic, Inna Gaponenko, Salome Melia, Dr. Achim Illner, Clovis Vernay, Aleksandar H Wohl, Jean-Baptiste Mullon, Vilka Sipila, Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez, Justin Sarkar, Gabriel Battaglini, Charles Monroy, Husein Aziz Nezad, Andrei Zaremba, Alexei Slavin, Richard S Jones, Robert Bellin, Joachim Thomassen, Dietmar Kolbus, Eesha Karavade, Nils-Ake Malmdin, Kjetil Stokke, Nicolai Getz, Ismael Karim, Tom Weber, Marcel Peek, Monica Calzetta Ruiz, Aryan Tari, Jack Rudd, Peter Dittmar, Toms Kantans, David H Cummings, Julian Estrada Nieto, Konstantinos Nikolaidis, Hendrik Tabatt, Alan Tate, Nikita Meskovs, Espen Forsaa, Rolf Bergstrom, Rafael Montero Melendez, Kambez Nuri, Magnus Wahlbom, Michael Dougherty, Andre Oberhofer, Jaap Vogel, Marc Lacrosse, Leon David Piasetski, Johan Henriksson, Povilas Lasinskas, Per Andreasen, Herve Daurelle, Terence P D Chapman, Eric Vaarala, Anthony Stebbings, Michael Tscharotschkin, Francisco Javier Garcia Jimenez, David Spence, Jorgen Hvenekilde, Louis Sanchez, Joao Avalos Parra, David Collier, Odin Blikra Vea, Hristos Zygouris, Clement Sreeves, Luis Felipe Jaime Montalvan, Alan M Byron, Milan Kandic, Juan Antonio Urbina Perez, Toomas Valgmae, Hans Groffen, Thomas Lochte, Johan Salomon, Samuel Navarrete Espi, Kamal Daoudi, Enrique Osuna Vega, Ali Reza Jaunooby, Andreas Aerni, Paul Szuper, Philip A A Tozer, Fiona Steil-Antoni, Lars Oskar Hauge, Jonathan W Arnott, Claus Seyfried, Thomas Becker, Manuel Montabord, Gilles Suez-Panama, Carlos Vinas Guerrero, Kai Jie Edward Lee plus 84 more players

page 1 of 44; games 1-25 of 1,096  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Adams vs C Monroy 1-0 29 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar B12 Caro-Kann Defense 2. H Nezad vs Caruana 0-1 38 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar E33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 3. J Mullon vs Ivanchuk 0-1 35 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar C48 Four Knights 4. Vallejo-Pons vs S Melia 1-0 48 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar B63 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack 5. C Vernay vs Bologan 0-1 50 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar A58 Benko Gambit 6. Onischuk vs I Gaponenko 1-0 30 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation 7. E Fernandez-Romero vs Nisipeanu 0-1 35 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar B40 Sicilian 8. Kiril Georgiev vs N Zhukova 1-0 36 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 9. J Sarkar vs Harikrishna ½-½ 87 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 10. Short vs A Slavin 1-0 33 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar E10 Queen's Pawn Game 11. K Stokke vs D Fridman 0-1 36 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar A13 English 12. M Roiz vs D Boskovic 1-0 52 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar B36 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto 13. M Andersen vs C Sandipan 0-1 52 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 14. R Edouard vs A H Wohl 1-0 45 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar C60 Ruy Lopez 15. J M Bellon Lopez vs V Iordachescu   ½-½ 17 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar A45 Queen's Pawn Game 16. E Berg vs J Thomassen 1-0 30 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 17. I Karim vs Akobian 0-1 27 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar C14 French, Classical 18. Kotronias vs R Bellin 1-0 26 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar C45 Scotch Game 19. D Cummings vs G N Gopal   0-1 47 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar A15 English 20. V Erdos vs R S Jones 1-0 46 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar E70 King's Indian 21. E Karavade vs G Jones ½-½ 109 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar E92 King's Indian 22. R Felgaer vs M Peek 1-0 42 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar B58 Sicilian 23. T Kantans vs V Ikonnikov   ½-½ 29 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar B22 Sicilian, Alapin 24. Ulf Andersson vs Zaremba 1-0 41 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar D13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation 25. N Getz vs V Mikhalevski ½-½ 67 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar C67 Ruy Lopez  page 1 of 44; games 1-25 of 1,096    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 4 OF 5 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-03-11    HeMateMe: Is Tradewise a multinational of some sort? Do they sponsor a big Open here each year? Feb-03-11    Shams: So, Ivanchuk got 17.5k euros for winning Gibraltar compared to only 10k euros to Nakamura for winning Tata. Interesting. I wonder what Nakamura's appearance fee was, and if Chucky got one for Gibraltar? Feb-03-11    apollokonrad: I am always happy everytime Ivanchuk wins. Feb-04-11    virginmind: what happened to ulf andersson? i was wondering why he's got only one point, only to find out that he only played the first round. he got sick or something? Feb-04-11    PokerPro: see told you Feb-04-11    Intrepid Spiff: <Maatalkko: (...) and first prize on the beautiful island of Gibraltar!> *Island* of Gibraltar? Feb-04-11    Domdaniel: *Beautiful* *Island* of Gibraltar? I suppose it sounds better than "Heavily armed peninsula, with a rock and some apes". It even has its own colonial Governor. Feb-04-11    technical draw: Gibraltar is smaller than what I thought. It's so small that on a map they show a swimming pool. Feb-04-11    14DogKnight: I saw that map tool. Gibralter is only about 1/32ndth of an inch wide Feb-04-11    technical draw: <14DogKnight> lol, I see you're starting early for funniest kibitzer! Feb-04-11    Roger Krueger: Tradewise is new as name sponsor, 2008, 2009 and 2010 were Gibtelecom, not sure who it was before then. 2011 was billed as the 9th. Feb-04-11    zoren: Adams appears to have played too solidly... Feb-04-11    HeMateMe: I'd rather go to Monaco. They have a casino there. Its a Royale expeience. Feb-04-11    technical draw: <HeMateMe> When you get to the Casino go to the roulette wheel and bet on 00 and 7 for me. Feb-04-11    HeMateMe: Wesley Snipes said "Always bet on black" in "Passenger 57". You might want to factor that in? Feb-05-11    technical draw: Wesley Snipes is going to jail for income tax evasion. I'm not taking any advice from him. Feb-05-11    kurtrichards: Snipes thought all along that it was tax avoidance but he was wrong. It was tax evasion according to the Court and he will end up in jail. :) Feb-05-11    crazybird: He is in jail Feb-05-11    technical draw: <On December 9, 2010, Snipes reported to the Federal Correctional Institution McKean near Lewis Run, Pennsylvania. Snipes was nervous about going to prison and admitted his trepidation about doing time. "I think any man would be nervous," Snipes' projected date of release is on July 19, 2013.> I heard he is BFF with Bubba.... Feb-05-11    HeMateMe: He and 'Plax are Bridge partners. Feb-05-11    Domdaniel: <HeMateMe> There are casinos in every half-ass resort along those coasts. My favourites are further north, in Deauville and Ostend. Feb-05-11    kingfu: We here at Chessgames from time to time complain and complain and complain about all these Grandmaster draws. Sometimes I get irked as well. I just noticed that Ivanchuk played NO (ZERO) draws in this tournament! Nine wins and one loss!! Spaseba , Vassily. Let's play Chess. Feb-05-11    perfidious: <kingfu> How do you figure that? He drew with Mikhalevski and Felgaer. Feb-05-11    niemzo: He drew two games and won eight. More impressive, if you ask me. Feb-05-11    kingfu: My bad. perfidious and niemzo are correct and I am wrong. Is it not good when one admits defeat / wrongness? Is that not how we learn? The tournament games made it look like there were no draws. Perception can be a fleeting thing. Of course, there could JUST be a possible link between my being 60+ years old, working 50 hours this week and feeling like yesterday's left over, warmed up , hammered s&&t. A possible accurate reflection: Ivanchuk just goes for it! Sometimes, he plays badly. However, in Gibraltar, he won. He played great Chess. Spaseba, Vassily. And thanks to perfidious and niemzo for pointing out my obvious flaws. Even in old age one must adapt , one must improvise , one must overcome. Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 5) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 4 OF 5 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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