Gibraltar Chess Festival

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Vassily Ivanchuk at the Caleta Hotel (he was the highest ranked player there in 2013)

The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival is a chess tournament played annually at the Caleta Hotel in Gibraltar since 2003.

In 2012, special stamps were issued to commemorate tenth edition of the chess festival.^[1]

Games from previous issues of the Festival with computer analysis are available at ChessBomb: 2013,^[2] 2012,^[3] 2011,^[4] 2010.^[5]

Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014^[6]^[7]^[8] took place from 27 January to 6 February 2014.

List of winners

Since 2007, the Masters has had a tie-break for first place.

Year	Winner(s)	Leading Female(s)
2003	Kotronias, Vasilios !Vasilios Kotronias Short, Nigel !Nigel Short	Medvegy, Nora !Nora Medvegy
2004	Short, Nigel !Nigel Short	Cramling, Pia !Pia Cramling
2005	Aronian, Levon !Levon Aronian Efimenko, Zahar !Zahar Efimenko Georgiev, Kiril !Kiril Georgiev Shirov, Alexei !Alexei Shirov Sutovsky, Emil !Emil Sutovsky	Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan !Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant Cmilyte, Viktoria !Viktorija Cmilyte Cramling, Pia !Pia Cramling Radziewicz, Iweta !Iweta Radziewicz Skripchenko, Almira !Almira Skripchenko
2006	Georgiev, Kiril !Kiril Georgiev	Zhu, Chen !Zhu Chen Stefanova, Antoeta !Antoaneta Stefanova Zhukova,Natalia !Natalia Zhukova
2007	Akopian, Vladimir !Vladimir Akopian	Houska, Jovanka !Jovanka Houska
2008	Nakamura, Hikaru !Hikaru Nakamura	Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan !Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant Cmilyte, Viktoria !Viktorija Cmilyte Dronavalli, Harika !Harika Dronavalli Stefanova, Antoeta !Antoaneta Stefanova
2009	Svilder, Peter !Peter Svidler	Dzagnidze, Nana !Nana Dzagnidze
2010	Adams, Michael !Michael Adams	Zhukova,Natalia !Natalia Zhukova
2011	Ivanchuk, Vassily !Vassily Ivanchuk	Dzagnidze, Nana !Nana Dzagnidze
2012	Short, Nigel !Nigel Short	Yifan, Hou !Hou Yifan^[9]
2013	Vitiugov, Nikita !Nikita Vitiugov	Zhao, Xue !Zhao Xue
2014	Cheparinov, Ivan !Ivan Cheparinov	Muzychuk, Mariya !Mariya Muzychuk

References

↑ chess base Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, Chessbase News, accessed 30 January 2013
↑ Gibraltar festival 2013 http://chessbomb.com/o/2013-gibraltar/
↑ Gibraltar festival 2012 http://chessbomb.com/o/2012-gibr/
↑ Gibraltar festival 2011 http://chessbomb.com/o/2011-gibraltar/
↑ Gibraltar festival 2010 http://chessbomb.com/o/2010-gibraltar/
↑ Official page http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/
↑ ChessBomb blog http://blog.chessbomb.com/2014/01/tradewise-gibraltar-chess-festival-2014.html
↑ The Week in Chess http://www.theweekinchess.com/chessnews/events/tradewise-gibraltar-masters-2014
↑ http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7892

External links

Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Website

v t e Major recurring international chess tournaments

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Other present	Australian Masters Biel chess tournament Canadian Open Chess Championship Capablanca Memorial Carlos Torre Repetto Memorial Chigorin Memorial Gibraltar Chess Festival Hastings International Chess Congress Lublin Grandmaster Tournament Paul Keres Memorial Tournament Rubinstein Memorial South African Open U.S. Open Chess Championship Vlissingen chess tournament

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Major past	American Chess Congress Carl Schlechter Memorial Tournament DSB Congress General Government chess tournament IBM international chess tournament Konex chess tournament Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament Lone Pine International Mar del Plata chess tournament Max Euwe Memorial Tournament Monte Carlo chess tournament Netanya chess tournament Phillips & Drew Kings Piatigorsky Cup San Sebastián chess tournament Silesian Chess Congress Tilburg chess tournament Triberg chess tournament Vidmar Memorial

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