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TOURNAMENT STANDINGS
Gibraltar Masters Tournament

Nigel Short8/10(+6 -0 =4)[games]
Surya Shekhar Ganguly7.5/10(+6 -1 =3)[games]
Aleksey Dreev7/10(+4 -0 =6)[games]
Pentala Harikrishna7/10(+6 -2 =2)[games]
Peter K Wells7/10(+5 -1 =4)[games]
Tejas Bakre6.5/10(+4 -1 =5)[games]
Murray Chandler6.5/10(+4 -1 =5)[games]
Salvador del Rio de Angelis6.5/10(+5 -2 =3)[games]
John M Emms6.5/10(+4 -1 =5)[games]
Vladimir Epishin6.5/10(+4 -1 =5)[games]
Abhijit Kunte6.5/10(+3 -0 =7)[games]
Alexey Kuzmin6.5/10(+5 -2 =3)[games]
Paul Motwani6.5/10(+4 -1 =5)[games]
Sandipan Chanda6.5/10(+4 -1 =5)[games]
Bojan Vuckovic6.5/10(+4 -1 =5)[games]
Pia Cramling6/10(+4 -2 =4)[games]
Nigel Davies6/10(+4 -2 =4)[games]
Joseph G Gallagher6/10(+4 -2 =4)[games]
Ernesto Inarkiev6/10(+4 -2 =4)[games]
Bogdan Lalic6/10(+2 -0 =8)[games]
Colin McNab6/10(+3 -1 =6)[games]
Jonathan Speelman6/10(+3 -1 =6)[games]
Sarunas Sulskis6/10(+3 -1 =6)[games]
Mohamad Naser Al Sayed5.5/10(+4 -3 =3)[games]
Dibyendu Barua5.5/10(+3 -2 =5)[games]
Juan Bellon Lopez5.5/10(+4 -3 =3)[games]
Daniel Contin5.5/10(+5 -4 =1)[games]
Mark Hebden5.5/10(+4 -3 =3)[games]
Jovanka Houska5.5/10(+4 -3 =3)[games]
Andrew Muir5.5/10(+5 -4 =1)[games]
Aleksandr Poluljahov5.5/10(+4 -3 =3)[games]
Jonathan Rowson5.5/10(+5 -4 =1)[games]
* (91 players total; 59 players not shown. Click here for longer list.)

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
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/...

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 page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 105  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. J Emms vs Short  ½-½942004Gibraltar MastersC90 Ruy Lopez, Closed
2. C Seel vs A Kunte  ½-½292004Gibraltar MastersD02 Queen's Pawn Game
3. C McNab vs C Ward  ½-½122004Gibraltar MastersA38 English, Symmetrical
4. K Arakhamia-Grant vs P Motwani  ½-½322004Gibraltar MastersB18 Caro-Kann, Classical
5. M Hebden vs T Bakre  ½-½442004Gibraltar MastersA46 Queen's Pawn Game
6. M Al Sayed vs D Barua  ½-½402004Gibraltar MastersC11 French
7. R Pogorelov vs Speelman  ½-½272004Gibraltar MastersA14 English
8. S R Mannion vs A Bryn  ½-½452004Gibraltar MastersB27 Sicilian
9. J Shaw vs C Harstad  ½-½372004Gibraltar MastersC69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation
10. T Bakre vs C McNab  ½-½192004Gibraltar MastersB42 Sicilian, Kan
11. A Dunn vs R Pogorelov  ½-½412004Gibraltar MastersA04 Reti Opening
12. D Howell vs A Poluljahov  ½-½302004Gibraltar MastersB40 Sicilian
13. J Bellon Lopez vs B Lalic  ½-½152004Gibraltar MastersD52 Queen's Gambit Declined
14. J Gallagher vs A Stefanova  ½-½162004Gibraltar MastersC78 Ruy Lopez
15. S del Rio de Angelis vs S Sulskis  ½-½262004Gibraltar MastersC41 Philidor Defense
16. N Davies vs A Kuzmin  ½-½252004Gibraltar MastersE63 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation
17. Chandler vs E Inarkiev  ½-½472004Gibraltar MastersB31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation
18. B Vuckovic vs Dreev  ½-½652004Gibraltar MastersB61 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, Larsen Variation, 7.Qd2
19. S Sulskis vs Chandler  ½-½512004Gibraltar MastersB10 Caro-Kann
20. Dreev vs A Kunte  ½-½202004Gibraltar MastersE32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
21. B Lalic vs Short ½-½142004Gibraltar MastersD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
22. Ganguly vs S Chanda  ½-½472004Gibraltar MastersC41 Philidor Defense
23. N Mohota vs Z Naciri  ½-½442004Gibraltar MastersD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
24. I White vs N Speck  ½-½622004Gibraltar MastersB30 Sicilian
25. Epishin vs D Howell  ½-½442004Gibraltar MastersD97 Grunfeld, Russian
 page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 105  PGN Download
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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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