Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014

This year's Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014 will take place from 27th January to 6th February 2014 in Gibraltar. It will be played as a 10-round Swiss tournament. See schedule below.

History

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

You can see games from previous issues of the Festival with computer analysis at ChessBomb:
Gibraltar festival 2013 (Winner Nikita Vitiugov)
Gibraltar festival 2012 (Winner Nigel Short)
Gibraltar festival 2011 (Winner Vassily Ivanchuk)
Gibraltar festival 2010 (Winner Michael Adams)

All past winners of Gibraltar Chess Festival:

Year	Winner(s)
2003	Kotronias, Vasilios !Vasilios Kotronias, Short, Nigel !Nigel Short
2004	Short, Nigel !Nigel Short
2005	Aronian, Levon !Levon Aronian, Efimenko, Zahar !Zahar Efimenko, Georgiev, Kiril !Kiril Georgiev, Shirov, Alexei !Alexei Shirov, Sutovsky, Emil !Emil Sutovsky
2006	Georgiev, Kiril !Kiril Georgiev
2007	Akopian, Vladimir !Vladimir Akopian
2008	Nakamura, Hikaru !Hikaru Nakamura
2009	Svilder, Peter !Peter Svidler
2010	Adams, Michael !Michael Adams
2011	Ivanchuk, Vassily !Vassily Ivanchuk
2012	Short, Nigel !Nigel Short
2013	Vitiugov, Nikita !Nikita Vitiugov

Women:

Year	Leading Female(s)
2003	Medvegy, Nora !Nora Medvegy
2004	Cramling, Pia !Pia Cramling
2005	Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan !Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant, Cmilyte, Viktoria !Viktorija Cmilyte, Cramling, Pia !Pia Cramling, Radziewicz, Iweta !Iweta Radziewicz, Skripchenko, Almira !Almira Skripchenko
2006	Chen, Zhu !Zhu Chen, Stefanova, Antoeta !Antoaneta Stefanova, Zhukova,Natalia !Natalia Zhukova
2007	Houska, Jovanka !Jovanka Houska
2008	Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan !Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant, Cmilyte, Viktoria !Viktorija Cmilyte, Dronavalli, Harika !Harika Dronavalli, Stefanova, Antoeta !Antoaneta Stefanova
2009	Dzagnidze, Nana !Nana Dzagnidze
2010	Zhukova,Natalia !Natalia Zhukova
2011	Dzagnidze, Nana !Nana Dzagnidze
2012	Yifan, Hou !Hou Yifan[2]
2013	Zhao, Xue !Zhao Xue

Players in 2014

The top players taking part at the Festival this year:

			Title	Country	Rating
1	400041	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2754
2	623539	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2745
3	14100010	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2739
4	4152956	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2737
5	14102951	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2733
6	4147235	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2715
7	2000024	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2709
8	5007003	Harikrishna, Pentala	g	IND	2706
9	309095	Navara, David	g	CZE	2702
10	738590	Rapport, Richard	g	HUN	2691
11	400025	Short, Nigel	g	ENG	2683
12	2806851	Rodshtein, Maxim	g	ISR	2682
13	8604436	Li, Chao b	g	CHN	2680
14	310204	Movsesian, Sergei	g	ARM	2677
15	4100107	Dreev, Aleksey	g	RUS	2673
16	2905540	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2672
17	2802007	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2663
18	13900048	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2661
19	633429	Edouard, Romain	g	FRA	2658
20	2900017	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2653	*
21	1500015	Agdestein, Simen	g	NOR	2627
22	5002150	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	g	IND	2619
23	24126055	Dubov, Daniil	g	RUS	2614
24	5004225	Sandipan, Chanda	g	IND	2609
25	8603405	Wei, Yi	g	CHN	2607
26	1020854	Van Kampen, Robin	g	NED	2602

Full list

Schedule - MASTERS

Date	Time	Round
Tuesday 28 Jan 2014	15.00hrs	Round 1 Masters
Wednesday 29 Jan 2014	15.00hrs	Round 2 Masters
Thursday 30 Jan 2014	15.00hrs	Round 3 Masters
Friday 31 Jan 2014	15.00hrs	Round 4 Masters
Saturday 1 Feb 2014	15.00hrs	Round 5 Masters
Sunday 2 Feb 2014	15.00hrs	Round 6 Masters
Monday 3 Feb 2014	15.00hrs	Round 7 Masters
Tuesday 4 Feb 2014	15.00hrs	Round 8 Masters
Wednesday 5 Feb 2014	15.00hrs	Round 9 Masters
Thursday 6 Feb 2014	11.00hrs	Round 10  Masters (followed by play-off  for 1st Prize if required)

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