Tradewise Gibraltar Chess 2017

Sometimes, the truth really is stranger than fiction and chess really is a funny old game. While the fight was going on to decide the outcome of this year’s Gibraltar Chess Masters, another board was unfortunately taking centre stage, for totally different reasons. This was namely the game of Yifan […check it out!]

The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Masters 2017, has been won by America’s Hikaru Nakamura. That makes it a hat-trick of triumphs on the rock, having won the previous two also, and his fourth Gibraltar title in total. I guess that makes him a rock star … sorry, couldn’t resist! Nakamura had […check it out!]

Veselin Topalov must have been feeling pretty good going into the penultimate round of the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017. In the previous round, he had won with Black in order to join the leaders. Unfortunately for him, his bubble was to burst, as in this round he lost with White […check it out!]

Round eight of the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017, belonged to Bularian Grandmaster Veselin Topalov. The former World Champion took advantage of draws among the leaders in order to close the gap. Veselin played Black against Israel’s Emil Sutovsky and got down to business in a Caro-Kann. Both players were trailing […check it out!]

The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Masters 2017, was beginning to get down to the nitty-gritty. Defending Champion, Hikaru Nakamura shared the lead with David Anton Guijarro and Michael Adams going into this seventh round of ten, but there was still some time for other hopefuls to try to take some points […check it out!]

Round six of the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017, saw the leaders cut in half (from six to three) as some had a bad day and some a very good one. Having a good day, was defending Champion, Hikaru Nakamura, who faced fellow leader, Maxime Lagarde. Nakamura obtained an egde in […check it out!]

Round five of the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters, was played on Friday 28th January. It would be the halfway stage of the ten round Swiss format tournament. Going into the round, Ju Wenjun had been leading together with Emil Sutovsky. In round five they would face each other, but in the […check it out!]

After four rounds, the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters Tournament 2017 was being led by China’s Ju Wenjun and Israel’s Emil Sutovsky. Nine players had led going into the round and would be paired against each other. The exception to this, was Kacper Piorun, who would face Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who was at […check it out!]

Things can change very quickly in chess tournaments. After round one, 115 players had perfect scores, after round two, there were 37. At the end of round three, on Thursday 26th January, there were just nine players on 3/3. One of them, was English Grandmaster, Michael Adams. Adams got the […check it out!]

Round two of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Masters 2017, was played on Wednesday 25th January. It was largely business as expected and saw the top seeds taking 2/2 scores. This did not include world #2, Fabiano Caruana (2827), however, who could only hold the much lower rated Leandro Krysa (2491) […check it out!]