Month: February 2016

A date for your diary: Saturday 30th of January 2016. Round five of the Tradewise Gibraltar International Chess Tournament. Much to the shock of many, (most infact, if not all), Former World Champion, Viswanathan Anand would lose. Not only would he lose, but he would lose with the white pieces. […check it out!]

Round four of the Tradewise Gibraltar International Chess Tournament 2016, was played on Friday the 29th of January. A rather quiet affair by comparison of the earlier rounds, (which is not surprising now that ratings and scores are beginning to balance out), it would see a mere two decisive games […check it out!]

The Tradewise Gibraltar International Chess Tournament 2016, continued with round three being played on Thursday 28th January. The round would see Viswanathan Anand continue his winning ways, notching up a point against Xiangyu Xu. Actually, the former World Champion made extremely light work of it. The problem with Black’s game […check it out!]

Round Two of the Tradewise Gibraltar International Chess Tournament 2016, was played on Wednesday January 27th. Obviously, because of the nature of the Swiss format, some pairings saw some players vastly out-rated and this made for another bloody round. Viswanathan Anand notched up his first full point in round 2, […check it out!]

The Tradewise Gibraltar Interational Chess Tournament 2016, got underway on Tuesday, January 26th. At 3pm, at the Caleta Hotel, on its famous rock, James Humphreys (Chairman of Tradewise Insurance Limited, the event’s main sponsor) made the first move of 1.d4 in the game of top seed, Hikaru Nakamura. And with […check it out!]