25 January 2018

Second Round Games of Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival Played

Favorites keep on losing points.

Photo: Sophie Triay, Official website
Photo: Sophie Triay, Official website

Some unexpected results took place in round of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival as well as in round 1. Thus, rating favorites Nikita Vitiugov, David Anton Guijarro, and Kiril Georgiev lost to their lower-rated opponents, while Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Boris Gelfand, and Alexander Motylev drew their games.  

Traditionally, women are showing great results in Gibraltar: for example, Antoaneta Stefanova defeated Wang Hao, Aleksandra Goryachkina and Anita Gara drew against Vassily Ivanchuk and Pentala Harikrkishna respectively, while Valentina Gunina was offering a tough resistance to Hikaru Nakamura for nearly 8 hours (135 moves), but eventually lost.

35 participants, including the Russians Grugoriy Oparin, Mikhail Antipov and Andrey Esipenko, have scored 2/2.   

Round 3 pairings

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