Winner of Gibraltar Chess Festival is GM Ivan Cheparinov

After a series of tie-break matches, the winner of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014 is the Bulgarian GM Ivan Cheparinov.

The Gibraltar Chess Festival took place from 27th January to 6th February 2014 in Gibraltar. It was played as a 10-round Swiss tournament in several categories: Matsers, Challengers, Amateurs.

The Festival was accompanied by other special events such as

• simultaneous displays;
• a series of Masterclasses with popular GMs;
• a Battle of the Sexes rapid match won by the Women's team (2-0);
• blitz pairs event.

Final results - MASTERS

The top performers:

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	Rp	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	3	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	UKR	2739	8.0	2846	2837	8	6.61	1.39	10	13.9
2	4	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	RUS	2737	8.0	2832	2825	7.5	6.48	1.02	10	10.2
3	17	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	BUL	2672	8.0	2742	2737	8	7.12	0.88	10	8.8
4	2	GM	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	FRA	2745	7.5	2807	2798	7.5	6.62	0.88	10	8.8
5	13	GM	Rodshtein Maxim	ISR	2682	7.5	2780	2776	7.5	6.13	1.37	10	13.7
6	14	GM	Li Chao B	CHN	2680	7.5	2735	2731	7.5	6.67	0.83	10	8.3
7	29	GM	Adhiban B.	IND	2590	7.5	2720	2720	7.5	5.70	1.80	10	18.0
8	16	GM	Dreev Aleksey	RUS	2673	7.5	2712	2709	7.5	6.89	0.61	10	6.1
9	68	GM	Al-Sayed Mohammed	QAT	2476	7.5	2672	2669	7.5	4.88	2.62	10	26.2
10	1	GM	Adams Michael	ENG	2754	7.0	2717	2710	7	7.31	-0.31	10	-3.1
11	11	GM	Rapport Richard	HUN	2691	7.0	2709	2705	7	6.61	0.39	10	3.9
12	9	GM	Harikrishna P.	IND	2706	7.0	2705	2702	7	6.88	0.12	10	1.2
13	7	GM	Kamsky Gata	USA	2709	7.0	2693	2691	7	7.03	-0.03	10	-0.3
14	39	GM	Hansen Eric	CAN	2559	7.0	2679	2679	7	5.18	1.82	10	18.2
15	20	GM	Edouard Romain	FRA	2658	7.0	2676	2672	7	6.59	0.41	10	4.1
16	10	GM	Navara David	CZE	2702	7.0	2672	2667	7	7.23	-0.23	10	-2.3
17	6	GM	Tomashevsky Evgeny	RUS	2715	7.0	2668	2666	7	7.44	-0.44	10	-4.4
	15	GM	Movsesian Sergei	ARM	2677	7.0	2668	2665	7	6.93	0.07	10	0.7
19	55	IM	Muzychuk Mariya	UKR	2503	7.0	2654	2654	7	4.86	2.14	10	21.4
20	26	GM	Wei Yi	CHN	2607	7.0	2650	2650	7	6.28	0.72	10	7.2
21	28	GM	Salgado Lopez Ivan	ESP	2597	7.0	2642	2642	7	6.25	0.75	10	7.5
22	22	GM	Agdestein Simen	NOR	2627	7.0	2616	2615	7	7.02	-0.02	10	-0.2
23	37	GM	Salem A.R. Saleh	UAE	2564	7.0	2596	2596	7	6.43	0.57	10	5.7
24	67	IM	Henrichs Thomas	GER	2477	7.0	2569	2566	7	5.59	1.41	10	14.1
25	34	GM	Zhao Xue	CHN	2567	7.0	2566	2561	7	6.75	0.25	10	2.5
26	77	GM	Zhukova Natalia	UKR	2449	7.0	2558	2553	7	5.41	1.59	10	15.9

Full list

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