| Gibraltar Masters (2018) |
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The 16th Gibraltar Masters was a 276-player 10-round Swiss open held in the Caleta Hotel, La Caleta, Gibraltar, from 23 January to 1 February, 2018, as part of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. This year had a notably strong line-up with top seeds including Aronian, Nakamura, Harikrishna, Vitiugov, Vachier-Lagrave, Navara, Le Quang Liem, and Ivanchuk. Time control: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves and 50 more minutes for the next 20 moves, then 15 more minutes until the end of the game, with 30 seconds added per move from move 1. Tournament director: Stuart C Conquest. Chief arbiter: Laurent Freyd. Number of games played: 1320 + 10 = 1330. After 10 rounds, seven players ended on 7.5 points. The rules stipulated a single winner, and only allowed the four players with the best tournament rating performance to proceed to the playoff stage. In the playoff, the winners of the semifinals were Levon Aronian, who beat Richard Rapport, and Maxime Vachier Lagrave, who beat Hikaru Nakamura, thus ending the American's hope of a fourth successive Gibraltar title and a fifth in total. Aronian won both rapid games, but Vachier-Lagrave needed a further pair of blitz games to qualify for the tie-break final, after the two rapid games ended in a draw. The final showdown was thus between Aronian and Vachier-Lagrave. They drew the two scheduled rapid games (with 10 minutes each, and an extra 2 seconds added after each move) and then the first blitz game (3 minutes each plus an add-on of 2 seconds). Finally Aronian managed to win the second blitz game to clinch overall victory, see Gibraltar Masters (Tiebreaks) (2018). Official site: https://web.archive.org/web/2017122...
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| Feb-02-18 | | JPi: <PhilFeeley> Thanks! |
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| Feb-02-18 | | siamesedream: Congratulations to <GM Levon Aronian> for winning Tradewise Gibraltar Tournament 2018. |
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| Feb-02-18 | | ChessHigherCat: <PhilFeely> Maybe it's just me but I find Chessbomb should get the "worst web designer" prize and gibchess should get the best. <WorstPlayerEver>: When you said you thought gibchess was the "sheetiest" website ever, did you mean the "@#$%tiest"? <JPi> I would have been happy if either Aronian or MVL had won. They're both geniuses and seem like very nice people. Have you ever played MVL? |
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| Feb-02-18 | | SometimesGood: <ChessHigherCat: <SometimesGood: Leva vpered i tol'ko vpered!!!?>
Lev forward and only forward! I can tell what it means based on Russian but I don't even know what language it is. Is that Serbian?> Yes it's Russian. Leva speaks Russian perfectly. This is a remnant of glorious Soviet epoch which we all miss... well sometimes:) |
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| Feb-02-18 | | SometimesGood: Naka had 5 white and 5 blacks, MVL and Levon 6 whites and 4 blacks, if I'm not mistaken. In open tournaments this is huge. 2750+ will always score against 2450ish when playing white. |
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| Feb-02-18 | | JPi: <ChessHigherCat> Yes one time, without board, we analysed a Queen ending he had played a day before vs a friend in Japan at Kobe. We were at a coffee shop waiting our Shinkansen for Tokyo (We nearly missed it!). Every years I use to play simultaneous games blindfold but I admit easily that the speed by which he explained the ressources of both sides impress me a lot. I felt like I was on a bike while he was driving a race car. |
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| Feb-02-18 | | SometimesGood: Naka seems to me is broken in rapids/blitz. Is it the result of his loss to Magnus? very often over-preparation fires back. |
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| Feb-02-18 | | ChessHigherCat: <JPi: Yes one time, without a board, we analysed a Queen ending he had played a day before vs a friend in Japan at Kobe. We were at a coffee shop waiting for our Shinkansen for Tokyo (We nearly missed it!). Every year I used to play simultaneous games blindfold, but I readily admit that the speed with which he explained the resources of both sides impressed me a lot. I felt like I was on a bike while he was driving a race car.> Very impressive. The closest I can come to that is always playing <as if> I were playing simultaneous games blindfold :-) |
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| Feb-02-18 | | JustAnotherMaster: Yes <sometimesgood> MC definitely broke him at bullet, his last hold on hope, now he is like a destroyed fighter after having doing his best and getting destroyed, he has nothing worthy left. Sauron was just too strong and Naka was never up to the challenge but believed he was, that will break you, well along with being absolutely beaten down to an inch of his life by MC over and over again in Blitz and Bullet. |
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| Feb-02-18 | | JustAnotherMaster: <devere: Aronian wins first prize; and that is real money, not just a trophy.>
MC made that just for playing one game in Tata...tata |
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| Feb-02-18 | | Mendrys: <MC definitely broke him at bullet, his last hold on hope, now he is like a destroyed fighter after having doing his best and getting destroyed, he has nothing worthy left.>.... and yet he ties for first with 7.5/10 at Gibralter. Give me a break. |
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| Feb-02-18 | | Boomie: <and yet he ties for first with 7.5/10 at Gibralter.> After which, Naka climbed one slot to 7th in the live ratings. Yep, he's a broken man alright...heh. |
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| Feb-03-18 | | SandyJames: That player from India - Hemant Del Sharma is from Delhi and somehow that Del has got into his middle name!! Lolzzzz |
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| Feb-03-18 | | JustAnotherMaster: Finishing 6th in Gilbralter...things are looking up H-Bomb LMAO |
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| Feb-03-18 | | mike1: All the players on top of this leader board are so much stronger a player than I am (2250 Elo) and most other players here on CG... Some comments are just....
Why is nobody saying something about the playoff rules?? 4 places for 7 players based on performance rating??
Surely playing a game of poker was fairer! |
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| Feb-03-18 | | WorstPlayerEver: "I won the tournament!"
(With 50 others lol) |
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| Feb-03-18 | | SometimesGood: <JustAnotherMaster: Yes <sometimesgood> MC definitely broke him at bullet, his last hold on hope, now he is like a destroyed fighter after having doing his best and getting destroyed, he has nothing worthy left.> Yes, Naka was the best in 4th generation, but Magnus is a 5th generation fighter. Time to go for ramming! |
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| Feb-03-18 | | SometimesGood: saying this I would prefer Naka's personality to Magnus, not a big fun of these type of guys. Still have to acknowledge his superiority. As human beings I would prefer Wesley, Vishy, Ding and Levon. Add to these Asian guys Adams whose personality is just awesome. |
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| Feb-03-18 | | Boomie: It would have been easy to have three rapid matches with the highest TPR seeded into to second round. But after all, this is an open tournament and how they decide who gets the trophy is not all that important. |
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| Feb-03-18 | | JimNorCal: Wow, I like GM So so much more, now that I blocked some annoying commenters! |
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| Feb-03-18 | | john barleycorn: <JimNorCal: Wow, I like GM So so much more, now that I blocked some annoying commenters!> Yes, if you cannot handle it, ignore it. The issue will not go away but you can have a happy life. |
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| Feb-03-18 | | Absentee: First they fight you, then they laugh at you, then they ignore you, then they win. |
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| Feb-04-18 | | WorstPlayerEver: Buy Wesley Soap! |
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| Feb-04-18 | | Justin Flint: https://vimeo.com/71346622 |
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