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The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014 is going to start tomorrow with challengers/amateurs sections to play the first day and on the next day with masters' ones. See website: http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/
P.S. We can see G.M. Eric Hansen and IM. Aman Hambleton in action.
With 20 GMs rated over 2650, I wonder if this is the strongest of the Gibraltar tournaments?
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Who's Playing - Masters (Open)
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Masters @ 26 Jan 2014 (g=65; m=41; f=19; c=4; wg=8; wm=3). Ratings from 1st Jan 2014.
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Players: 1-70 | 71-140 | 141-210 | 211-end |
Title Country Rating
1 400041 Adams, Michael g ENG 2754
2 623539 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2745
3 14100010 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2739
4 4152956 Vitiugov, Nikita g RUS 2737
5 14102951 Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2733
6 4147235 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2715
7 2000024 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2709
8 5007003 Harikrishna, Pentala g IND 2706
9 309095 Navara, David g CZE 2702
10 738590 Rapport, Richard g HUN 2691
11 400025 Short, Nigel g ENG 2683
12 2806851 Rodshtein, Maxim g ISR 2682
13 8604436 Li, Chao b g CHN 2680
14 310204 Movsesian, Sergei g ARM 2677
15 4100107 Dreev, Aleksey g RUS 2673
16 2905540 Cheparinov, Ivan g BUL 2672
17 2802007 Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2663
18 13900048 Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2661
19 633429 Edouard, Romain g FRA 2658
20 2900017 Georgiev, Kiril g BUL 2653 *
21 1500015 Agdestein, Simen g NOR 2627
22 5002150 Ganguly, Surya Shekhar g IND 2619
23 24126055 Dubov, Daniil g RUS 2614
24 5004225 Sandipan, Chanda g IND 2609
25 8603405 Wei, Yi g CHN 2607
26 1020854 Van Kampen, Robin g NED 2602
27 2257327 Salgado Lopez, Ivan g ESP 2597
28 5018471 Adhiban, B. g IND 2590
29 112275 Mareco, Sandro g ARG 2582
30 813192 Vocaturo, Daniele g ITA 2582
31 817570 Dvirnyy, Danyyil m ITA 2574
32 2107139 Fier, Alexandr g BRA 2572
33 8601283 Zhao, Xue g CHN 2567
34 2107660 Mekhitarian, Krikor Sevag g BRA 2566
35 14111330 Muzychuk, Anna g SLO 2566
36 9301348 Salem, A.R. Saleh g UAE 2564
37 2021285 Lenderman, Aleksandr g USA 2562
38 2606771 Hansen, Eric g CAN 2559
39 2285525 Anton Guijarro, David g ESP 2557 *
40 5015693 Gopal G.N. g IND 2550
41 2600013 Spraggett, Kevin g CAN 2544 *
42 613762 Maze, Sebastien g FRA 2536
43 616834 Libiszewski, Fabien g FRA 2533
44 13602640 Khotenashvili, Bela g GEO 2527
45 1700030 Cramling, Pia g SWE 2525
46 2106981 El Debs, Felipe de Cresce g BRA 2520
47 24125890 Oparin, Grigoriy g RUS 2517
48 411477 Gordon, Stephen J g ENG 2516
49 12801259 Cmilyte, Viktorija g LTU 2515
50 4107012 Antipov, Mikhail Al. g RUS 2511
51 12400149 Hoang, Thanh Trang g HUN 2511
52 8600031 Xu, Jun g CHN 2510
53 14114550 Muzychuk, Mariya m UKR 2503
54 617822 Sebag, Marie g FRA 2501
55 10200037 Rahman, Ziaur g BAN 2499
56 1303422 Gallagher, Joseph G. g SUI 2495
57 4147855 Pogonina, Natalia wg RUS 2495
58 5024854 Debashis, Das m IND 2494
59 2809060 Popilski, Gil g ISR 2492
60 2902257 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2486
61 8603642 Tan, Zhongyi wg CHN 2483
62 2606577 Hambleton, Aman m CAN 2481
63 8600546 Zhu, Chen g QAT 2481
64 2811154 Raznikov, Danny m ISR 2479
65 4626605 Henrichs, Thomas m GER 2477
66 12100196 AL-Sayed, Mohammed g QAT 2476
67 5018137 Ashwin, Jayaram m IND 2473
68 400165 Flear, Glenn C g ENG 2471
69 5030692 Vishnu Prasanna. V g IND 2468
70 1900072 Galego, Luis g POR 2465
Player overview for CAN
CAN
SNo Name Rtg FED 1 2 3 Pts. Rk. Rp K rtg+/- Group
39 GM Hansen Eric 2559 CAN ½ 1 1 2.5 43 2541 10 0.20 Masters
43 GM Spraggett Kevin 2544 CAN 1 1 ½ 2.5 23 2673 10 5.40 Masters
65 IM Hambleton Aman 2481 CAN 0 1 ½ 1.5 154 2125 10 -11.30 Masters
79 IM Porper Edward 2446 CAN 1 ½ 0 1.5 102 2465 10 2.10 Masters
182 Kenney Jason 2112 CAN 0 ½ 1 1.5 157 1820 15 0.30 Masters
206 Kenney David 1999 CAN 0 0 0 0.0 242 1348 30 -32.70 Masters
219 Agbabishvili Lali 1941 CAN ½ 0 ½ 1.0 169 2244 15 10.05 Masters
Pairings of the next round for CAN
Rd. Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
4 10 39 GM Hansen Eric 2559 2½ 2½ GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2715 6
4 14 43 GM Spraggett Kevin 2544 2½ 2½ GM Short Nigel D 2683 12
4 57 65 IM Hambleton Aman 2481 1½ 1½ Gandrud Vegar Koi 2242 141
4 64 79 IM Porper Edward 2446 1½ 1½ CM Rowe Duane 2218 148
4 68 182 Kenney Jason 2112 1½ 1½ FM Fenollar Jorda Manuel 2419 88
4 99 169 Lercel Michal 2150 1 1 Agbabishvili Lali 1941 219
4 117 238 Rygg Snorre 1840 0 0 Kenney David 1999 206
Results of the last round for CAN
Rd. Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
3 5 8 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2707 2 ½ - ½ 2 GM Spraggett Kevin 2544 43
3 22 6 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2715 1½ 1 - 0 1½ IM Porper Edward 2446 79
3 34 90 IM Aloma Vidal Robert 2416 1½ 0 - 1 1½ GM Hansen Eric 2559 39
3 49 137 Rindlisbacher Jan 2250 1 ½ - ½ 1 IM Hambleton Aman 2481 65
3 96 219 Agbabishvili Lali 1941 ½ ½ - ½ ½ Spence David J 2216 150
3 100 243 Edakina Anastasia 1756 ½ 0 - 1 ½ Kenney Jason 2112 182
3 117 206 Kenney David 1999 0 0 - 1 0 Kristinsson Magnus 1741 244
Another Canadian who has great results so far is Lali Agbabishvili with 2/4 and a performance rating of 2314! She is the leading Canadian when is coming to the FIDE points gain so far with 22 points.
Lali Agbabishvili is also a contender for a place in Canadian Women Olympic Team:
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