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...
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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)
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| 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 |
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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. |
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Feb-07-04 | | Benzol: <Helloween> Forgive me for my ignorance but whom are you talking about? |
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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... |
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Feb-08-04 | | Benzol: <matein8> Thanks for this one mate. I'll take me awhile to look through this interesting site. |
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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!! |
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Feb-10-04 | | Taidanii: No doubt about it. Nigel certainly tore this one up. |
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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. |
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Feb-26-04 | | Larsker: <azzopardi> Yea, the contributions are very polished on this site - especially today ;-) |
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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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