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Eric got 18 FIDE rating points, bringing him 4 points bellow his highest rated ever. Also great result for Lali Agbabishvili 50% gained 48 FIDE rating points that will move her on the 6th spot on Canadian Women list on FIDE website. BC Jason Kenney got 12 Fide rating points and also GM Spraggett (his last game is not done) gain FIDE rated points and depending on the last result he might move on the 3rd place on Canadian Man FIDE list.
Sometimes when that happens it's a good idea to go back and look at the games a player has played in events where he made good results. Then figure out what he's doing different now.
Tradewise 2014 Gibraltar International Chess Festival
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Round Ten and Playoffs
Ivanchuk-Vachier-Lagrave 0.5-0.5
Vitiugov-Zhao 1-0
Cheparinov-Kamsky 1-0
Dreev-Al-Sayed 0.5-0.5
Wei-Adams 0.5-0.5
Rapport-Saigado 0.5-0.5
Adhiban-Short 1-0
Rodshtein-Mareco 1-0
Javakhishvili-Chao 0-1
Edouard-Hansen 0.5-0.5
Muzychuk-Agdestein 0.5-0.5
Tomashevsky-Guijarro*
Cramling-Navara 0-1
Hoang-Dvirnyy 0.5-0.5
Lenderman-Zhukova 0-1
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* White winning but no result recorded on official site
Gibraltar Festival 2014
Round Ten
Feb. 6, 2014
Eduoard, Romain (2658)-Hansen-Eric (2559)
D80 Grunfeld, Stockholm Variation
Both players have 6.5 and so the draw bumps them up to 7.
The finalists are Ivanchuk (8), Vitiugov (8) and Cheparinov (8).
Ivanchuk and Vitiugov go to a two-game blitz with Cheparinov waiting to play the winner. He is said to be sitting in the bar, sipping a Coke and watching on the monitor while the other two beat each other’s brains out. The time limit is 10 min + 10 sec incr.
Then two more games at the time limit of 3 mins + 3 secs/move incr.
Vitiugov-Ivanchuk 1-0
Ivanchuk-Vitiugov 0-1
Ivanchuk lost on time.
Simon Williams has been liberally imbibing glasses of wine and started calling the blitz games like a soccer match. Vitiugov is “The Iceman” playing Chukky.
A quick grandmaster draw? To explain why this wasn’t so, Gata appeared with Simon Williams and Irina Krush.
(Kamsky) - It was a very short game and I thought I had to explain what happened. I have played this before but completely forgot about Qb6. Black has all sorts of playable moves and is up two pawns. Even though I win an exchange, black is up two pawns. There is a lot of risk involved and I had nothing prepared and drew and cut my losses.
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GibChess Twitters
- While Ivanchuk and Vitiugov battle it out Cheparinov can afford to relax with Ivan Salgado at the bar...
- How did they do the draw in Gibraltar? I was in Blackpool in about 1988 when Adams qualified for the Interzonal using Bingo balls
- They picked numbered pieces of paper - Ivanchuk got 3, then Vitiugov 2 and Cheparinov was "left with" the lucky no. 1
- All the credits to Ivanchuk who played a very nice game but Vitiugov's nerves are made of steel !
- Cheparinov had the longest game today so at least there's some justice in that he got the most time to relax.
- Congratulations to Cheparinov! Who would have guessed (his victory) a few days or even hours ago!
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Thursday, 6th February, 2014, 04:35 PM.
The outcome is ridiculous. Cheparinov won an important tournament without playing Ivanchuk, and besides Kamsky, he played much lower rated opponents. Ivanchuck's performance was 100 points over Ivan's. His 8 points are simply worth more that Ivan's. This is how performance is traded on some form of odds.
By my reading, Cheparinov takes the undivided first prize of £20,000. Ivanchuk and Vitiugov split third and fourth prizes, which comes out to £13,000 each. This does seem a bit unfair to Ivanchuk, but the rules were announced well in advance.
By my reading, Cheparinov takes the undivided first prize of £20,000. Ivanchuk and Vitiugov split third and fourth prizes, which comes out to £13,000 each. This does seem a bit unfair to Ivanchuk, but the rules were announced well in advance.
That's right! Ivanchuk loses money from his prize and that is not his fault!
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