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The 9th Gibraltar Masters was a 232-player 10-round Swiss tournament held in the Caleta Hotel, La Caleta, Gibraltar from 25 January to 3 February 2011. It was part of the Gibraltar Chess Festival, since 2011 sponsored by the Tradewise Insurance Company Ltd. Time control: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 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. A tie for first place to be settled in a playoff. First prize: ... [more]
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Player: Vasyl Ivanchuk
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| Game |
| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. J Mullon vs Ivanchuk |
  | 0-1 | 35 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | C48 Four Knights |
| 2. Ivanchuk vs P Lafuente |
| 1-0 | 36 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | D31 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 3. R Felgaer vs Ivanchuk |
| ½-½ | 43 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense |
| 4. Ivanchuk vs V Erdos |
| 1-0 | 60 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | C03 French, Tarrasch |
| 5. Kotronias vs Ivanchuk |
| 0-1 | 37 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | B78 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 10.castle long |
| 6. Ivanchuk vs Short |
| 1-0 | 63 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | E00 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 7. Mikhalevski vs Ivanchuk |
| ½-½ | 52 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | E96 King's Indian, Orthodox, 7...Nbd7, Main line |
| 8. Ivanchuk vs M Roiz |
| 1-0 | 41 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav |
| 9. Caruana vs Ivanchuk |
| 0-1 | 41 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | C69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation |
| 10. Ivanchuk vs Fridman |
| 1-0 | 40 | 2011 | Gibraltar Masters | D30 Queen's Gambit Declined |
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Feb-06-11
 | | Domdaniel: Fiendishly clever, those Russians, talking in secret code. 'Spaseba' is an expression of thanks. Commonly used in the phrase "Spaseba, Masta" when a GM teaches you a lesson. |
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| Feb-06-11 | | Octavia: I heard Ivanchuk go over one of his games. He said: " *** he was better ***he was better *** he made a mistake & I won." Unfortunately I can't remember the actual words or even his opponent, but it was very funny. & yes, the Elo system is flawed ! Apparently, Mr. Elo warned about it already himself. Look at chessbase to see the follow up. |
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| Feb-06-11 | | kingfu: spaseba is "thank you" in Russian. |
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| Feb-06-11 | | acirce: It's "spasibo" (спасибо) rather. |
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| Feb-06-11 | | kingfu: The Russians have a different letter for everything! Thanks, acirce.
I guess I need to go back to school! |
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| Feb-06-11 | | Kinghunt: Does the prize for the best female player go to Melia, who had the most points, or to Nadezhda, who had the highest TPR? |
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| Feb-06-11 | | Billy Vaughan: <Does the prize for the best female player go to Melia, who had the most points, or to Nadezhda, who had the highest TPR?> Nana Dzagnidze, who had both. |
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| Feb-07-11 | | Bratek: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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| Feb-11-11 | | jussu: спасибі. Not that I speak Ukrainian... |
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| Feb-15-11 | | yoozum: It's spelled with an O but pronounced with an A, so "spaseba" would be about right. |
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| Feb-15-11 | | acirce: <yoozum> It's spelled with an о so it's spelled with an o. It's not "Batvinnik", right? |
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| Apr-10-11 | | M.D. Wilson: Pronounced Bortvannik
Korchnoi is Karchnoi |
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| Apr-10-11 | | jussu: <Pronounced Bortvannik > What the heck? |
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| Apr-12-11 | | M.D. Wilson: Yes, Bought or Bort, not Bot |
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| Apr-14-11 | | jussu: No. The second letter o in Botvinnik is to be pronounced very much like a in 'car', but it must very short. By the way, Wikipedia articles often contain prounounciation; so does this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhai... |
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| Apr-24-11 | | M.D. Wilson: You're wrong. My Russian friend says you're wrong. He'd know. |
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Apr-24-11
 | | alexmagnus: Well, it is kind of a very short short, reduced "a". Reduced, that is. If you simply say "Btvinnik" (with an explosive B, so that some kind of noise between B and T comes) you come closer to the true pronounciation than by either "Bo(r)tvinnik" or "Batvinnik". |
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Apr-24-11
 | | perfidious: <acirce: <yoozum> It's spelled with an î so it's spelled with an o. It's not "Batvinnik", right?> Another one is Boris Gulko, which is pronounced Bah-REES Gul-KO. Korchnoi is indeed Karch-NOI. |
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Apr-24-11
 | | Eric Schiller: It is quite simple. In Russian /o/ in unstressed position is pronounced /a/ or even reduced to schwa, just part of phonology. |
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| May-05-11 | | 14DogKnight: just trying out my new avatar |
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Dec-14-17
 | | offramp: <May-05-11 14DogKnight: just trying out my new avatar> Did it work? |
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| Dec-14-17 | | schweigzwang: Show some patience, man. |
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| May-28-19 | | jith1207: How much more should one show? |
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Aug-14-21
 | | Tabanus: The one missing game is Gawain Jones vs Louis Sanchez 1/2 in rd. 4, which for some reason has the same game score as R S Jones vs R Soffer, 2011. Two long games were not scored by Chess-Results (affecting the standings): N Pogonina vs A Oberhofer, 2011 1-0 and D Brown vs D Collier, 2011 1/2. |
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| Nov-28-23 | | popnstart: Chucky had Shorty's number in all time controls! WOW! |
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