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🏆 Gibraltar Masters (2004)

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
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: ... [more]

Player: Jonathan Speelman

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. R Pogorelov vs Speelman  ½-½272004Gibraltar MastersA14 English
2. Speelman vs A Hagesaether  1-0512004Gibraltar MastersD02 Queen's Pawn Game
3. J Emms vs Speelman  ½-½182004Gibraltar MastersE54 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System
4. Speelman vs D Contin  1-0522004Gibraltar MastersA15 English
5. A Stefanova vs Speelman  ½-½212004Gibraltar MastersE06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3
6. Speelman vs M Al Sayed  1-0252004Gibraltar MastersE54 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System
7. Ganguly vs Speelman 1-0312004Gibraltar MastersB17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation
8. Speelman vs B Vuckovic  ½-½282004Gibraltar MastersA46 Queen's Pawn Game
9. A Muir vs Speelman  ½-½312004Gibraltar MastersA41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6)
10. Speelman vs B Lalic  ½-½112004Gibraltar MastersD27 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical
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Kibitzer's Corner
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.

Feb-07-04  Benzol: <Helloween> Forgive me for my ignorance but whom are you talking about?
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...

Feb-08-04  Benzol: <matein8> Thanks for this one mate. I'll take me awhile to look through this interesting site.
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!!
Feb-10-04  Taidanii: No doubt about it. Nigel certainly tore this one up.
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.
Feb-26-04  Larsker: <azzopardi> Yea, the contributions are very polished on this site - especially today ;-)
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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