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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)  page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 105  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. J Emms vs Short   ½-½ 94 2004 Gibraltar Masters C90 Ruy Lopez, Closed 2. C Seel vs A Kunte   ½-½ 29 2004 Gibraltar Masters D02 Queen's Pawn Game 3. C McNab vs C Ward   ½-½ 12 2004 Gibraltar Masters A38 English, Symmetrical 4. K Arakhamia-Grant vs P Motwani   ½-½ 32 2004 Gibraltar Masters B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 5. M Hebden vs T Bakre   ½-½ 44 2004 Gibraltar Masters A46 Queen's Pawn Game 6. M Al Sayed vs D Barua   ½-½ 40 2004 Gibraltar Masters C11 French 7. R Pogorelov vs Speelman   ½-½ 27 2004 Gibraltar Masters A14 English 8. S R Mannion vs A Bryn   ½-½ 45 2004 Gibraltar Masters B27 Sicilian 9. J Shaw vs C Harstad   ½-½ 37 2004 Gibraltar Masters C69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation 10. T Bakre vs C McNab   ½-½ 19 2004 Gibraltar Masters B42 Sicilian, Kan 11. A Dunn vs R Pogorelov   ½-½ 41 2004 Gibraltar Masters A04 Reti Opening 12. D Howell vs A Poluljahov   ½-½ 30 2004 Gibraltar Masters B40 Sicilian 13. J Bellon Lopez vs B Lalic   ½-½ 15 2004 Gibraltar Masters D52 Queen's Gambit Declined 14. J Gallagher vs A Stefanova   ½-½ 16 2004 Gibraltar Masters C78 Ruy Lopez 15. S del Rio de Angelis vs S Sulskis   ½-½ 26 2004 Gibraltar Masters C41 Philidor Defense 16. N Davies vs A Kuzmin   ½-½ 25 2004 Gibraltar Masters E63 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation 17. Chandler vs E Inarkiev   ½-½ 47 2004 Gibraltar Masters B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation 18. B Vuckovic vs Dreev   ½-½ 65 2004 Gibraltar Masters B61 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, Larsen Variation, 7.Qd2 19. S Sulskis vs Chandler   ½-½ 51 2004 Gibraltar Masters B10 Caro-Kann 20. Dreev vs A Kunte   ½-½ 20 2004 Gibraltar Masters E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 21. B Lalic vs Short ½-½ 14 2004 Gibraltar Masters D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 22. Ganguly vs S Chanda   ½-½ 47 2004 Gibraltar Masters C41 Philidor Defense 23. N Mohota vs Z Naciri   ½-½ 44 2004 Gibraltar Masters D35 Queen's Gambit Declined 24. I White vs N Speck   ½-½ 62 2004 Gibraltar Masters B30 Sicilian 25. Epishin vs D Howell   ½-½ 44 2004 Gibraltar Masters D97 Grunfeld, Russian  page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 105    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   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. 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