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It's nice to see Hikaru win this. Good for him!!! He played well.
If it couldn't be a Canadian it's nice to see him win it.
Hi Gary:
From his time in Vancouver, I think most chess players give him an "honourary Canadian chess passport". And from posts I've seen from him, seems Canada has a high priority place in his chess heart.
From his time in Vancouver, I think most chess players give him an "honourary Canadian chess passport". And from posts I've seen from him, seems Canada has a high priority place in his chess heart.
India and China at Gibraltar (from chess24.com)
Feb. 6, 2015 Colin McGourty
Carlsen on the Chinese (at Tata Steel) - I think they’re already very good, they have been for many years, but they’re still struggling to find that one guy who will be one of the very best. But also I think India have more players than China, especially at a youth level, so I think right now it’s probably more likely that India will dominate rather than China. The Chinese will be there for many years and it’s a nice addition.
In Gibraltar both of the biggest countries in the world made their mark:
India
Players: 17, 13 GMs, 2 IMs, 2 WGMs, highest rated 2723, lowest rated 2346
Highlights:
• Indian no. 2 Harikrishna finished unbeaten in the tie for third and had a chance to catch Nakamura if he’d beaten him in the last game.
• Adhiban also finished in the tie for 3rd after scoring 7 wins.
• Sandipan Chanda and Sengupta Deep finished half a point back on 7/10.
• Despite a loss and draw in the last two rounds WGM Padmini Rout finished tied for the 2nd women’s prize (earning £5250) and scored a GM norm.
China
Players: 6, 5 GMs and 1 IM, highest rated 2724, lowest rated 2439
Highlights:
• Hou Yifan became the world’s top-rated woman, won the tournament’s lucrative women’s first prize and finished in the tie for second on 7.5/10.
• Wei Yi crossed 2700 and also finished in the tie for third.
• Ju Wenjun finished in the women’s tie for second with 6.5/10.
So as you can see, Carlsen may have a point. Although the Chinese players had two of the absolute stars of the tournament the weight of numbers (and talent) India managed to bring to the tip of Southern Europe was hugely impressive. As if to emphasize the point, the big announcement at the closing dinner was that former World Champion Viswanathan Anand has already confirmed he’ll be bolstering the Indian contingent in the 2016 Gibraltar Masters! The tournament seems to be going from strength to strength.
Javakhishvili - Edouard: The Exchange Sacrifice That Is Not What It Seems
Andrey Deviatkin, GM
"The game has been played in the last round of the Gibraltar Masters, five rounds later than Nakamura's spectacular victory over Baskaran Adhiban with Black in the same variation. The winner, French GM Romain Edouard, has been awarded the brilliancy prize amounted to £1000. Apart from beauty of the Black's attack, the game is notable for its theoretical meaning: the 'park-style' exchange sacrifice, as we have nearly called in our annotations of Adhiban - Nakamura, in fact contains more poison than it could seem at first glance, thus having a chance of becoming one of the main lines in the QGA."
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