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Nigel Short wins Tradewise Gibraltar Masters

Friday, 03 February 2012 03:51

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shortnigel_winner_gibraltar_2012 Congratulations to Nigel Short who has won the Gibraltar Masters following a tense but exhilarating play-off against Women's World Champion Hou Yifan. Nigel won the play-off 1½-½. He receives his winners trophy and cheque for £20,000 from Tradewise CEO James Humphries. Nigel also won the Commonwealth prize of £5000 which was awarded in celebrationof the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. All players from Commonwealth federations were eligible.

The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival took place Tuesday 24th Jan - Thursday 2nd Feb 2012. Peter Svidler, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Michael Adams, Zoltan Almasi, Le Quang Liem, Alexei Shirov and Judit Polgar were amongst the stars. In the final round Hou Yifan drew against Shakhriyar Mamedyarow which allowed Nigel Short to catch her with a fine win against Krishnan Sasikiran. Short went on to beat Hou in a 2 game 10 mins + 5 seconds per move playoff match 1.5-0.5 but could have won the second game had he needed to do so.

HOU Hou Yifan 8/10 with a rating performance of 2872: Photo © Ray Morris-Hill. | http://www.rmhphoto.eu

gib Koneru Humpy (L) 6/10: Photo © Ray Morris-Hill. | http://www.rmhphoto.eu

Sasikaran 7/10: Photo © Ray Morris-Hill. | http://www.rmhphoto.eu

Final Ranking after 10 Rounds (Top 50)

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1
1	GM	Hou Yifan	CHN	2605	8.0	2872.0
2	GM	Short Nigel D wins play-off	ENG	2677	8.0	2838.0
3	GM	Adams Michael	ENG	2724	7.5	2807.0
4	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	AZE	2747	7.5	2783.0
5	GM	Bologan Viktor	MDA	2680	7.5	2734.0
6	GM	Sutovsky Emil	ISR	2703	7.5	2669.0
7	GM	Le Quang Liem	VIE	2714	7.0	2733.0
8	GM	Almasi Zoltan	HUN	2717	7.0	2730.0
9	GM	Howell David W L	ENG	2603	7.0	2725.0
10	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	IND	2700	7.0	2717.0
11	GM	Movsesian Sergei	ARM	2700	7.0	2711.0
12	GM	Svidler Peter	RUS	2749	7.0	2700.0
13	GM	Negi Parimarjan	IND	2641	7.0	2694.0
14	GM	Polgar Judit	HUN	2710	7.0	2693.0
15	GM	Laznicka Viktor	CZE	2704	7.0	2681.0
16	GM	Fridman Daniel	GER	2660	7.0	2632.0
17	GM	Gustafsson Jan	GER	2643	7.0	2628.0
18	GM	Jussupow Artur	GER	2569	7.0	2625.0
19	GM	Salem A R Saleh	UAE	2505	7.0	2621.0
20	GM	Berg Emanuel	SWE	2550	7.0	2603.0
21	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	ARM	2683	7.0	2594.0
22	GM	Kanep Meelis	EST	2509	7.0	2556.0
23	GM	Cabrera Alexis	ESP	2504	7.0	2544.0
24	GM	Gopal G N	IND	2566	6.5	2647.0
25	GM	Shirov Alexei	LAT	2710	6.5	2629.0
26	GM	Brunello Sabino	ITA	2581	6.5	2617.0
27	GM	Kulaots Kaido	EST	2581	6.5	2604.0
28	GM	Erdos Viktor	HUN	2634	6.5	2601.0
29	GM	Zhu Chen	QAT	2472	6.5	2598.0
30	GM	Cramling Pia	SWE	2491	6.5	2591.0
31	IM	Muzychuk Anna	SLO	2580	6.5	2586.0
32	GM	El Debs Felipe De Cresce	BRA	2497	6.5	2582.0
33	GM	Nabaty Tamir	ISR	2563	6.5	2575.0
34	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	BUL	2523	6.5	2571.0
35	IM	Dvirnyy Daniyyl	ITA	2492	6.5	2530.0
36	GM	Del Rio De Angelis Salvador G	ESP	2531	6.5	2528.0
37	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	IND	2652	6.5	2525.0
	IM	Muzychuk Mariya	UKR	2483	6.5	2525.0
39	GM	Iturrizaga Edoardo	VEN	2649	6.5	2510.0
40	IM	Zatonskih Anna	USA	2506	6.5	2502.0
41	GM	Kosintseva Nadezhda	RUS	2537	6.5	2498.0
42	IM	Hunt Adam C	ENG	2462	6.5	2481.0
43	GM	Ikonnikov Vyacheslav	RUS	2531	6.5	2468.0
44		Graf Felix	GER	2367	6.5	2437.0
45	GM	Pavlovic Milos	SRB	2531	6.5	2413.0
46	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	GEO	2535	6.0	2620.0
47	GM	David Alberto	LUX	2598	6.0	2587.0
48	GM	Parligras Mircea-Emilian	ROU	2650	6.0	2582.0
49	GM	Rapport Richard	HUN	2543	6.0	2574.0
50	GM	Koneru Humpy	IND	2589	6.0	2572.0