Гибралтар январь 2016

LIVE games - Challengers A & Amateurs A

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Chall A & Amat A Rnd 3, 09.45

Tradewise Masters Round 2 - 15.00 Wednesday 27

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January 27, 2016 | Chronicle Staff

Tradewise off to a great start

253 chess players from all over the world took their places yesterday at the start of the fourteenth edition of the Tradewise Gibraltar International Chess Tournament.

At precisely 3pm James Humphreys, Chairman of Tradewise Gibraltar Insurance Ltd, main sponsor of the event made the first move on the top board for top seeded player, World No. 6 and US No.1, Hikaru Nakamura.

In his First Round game Nakamura played former British Champion Robert Bellin.

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The Day's Play - Episode 2

Follow the action from the most exciting open chess tournament in the world.

In episode 2, International Master Tania Sachdev takes at a look at the opening ceremony and talks to top players Vishy Anand and Hikaru Nakamura.

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Opening Ceremony and drawing of lots

The Opening Ceremony and drawing of lots took place at 20.30 on Monday in the main restaurant.

Masters LIVE!

Follow the LIVE round 1 action direct from the Caleta Hotel starting at 15.00 Tuesday with our top commentary team headed by GM Simon Williams and IM Elisabeth Paehtz. Round 1 pairings here.

The Day's Play - Episode 1

Follow the action, and get your daily dose of The Day's Play highlighting all the events in the most exciting open chess tournament in the world - The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2016.

In episode 1, International Master Tania Sachdev takes at a look at some of our top players.

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Challenger and Amateur Rd1 Photos

You will see them here there and everywhere around the Caleta during the festival - our official photographers that is, Sophie Triay with her Canon EOS 5D and John Saunders with his Nikon D600.

Their galleries accessible from the menus above will be overflowing with new pictures every day. So brush up, smile and be ready ... anything can or might happen!

Radek and Alina gave opening simuls

24.1.16 - The 2016 Tradewise Chess Festival started its annual adventure when two of our participants, newly weds  Radek Wojtaszek and Alina Kashlinskaya, offered simultaneous displays for early arrivals.

The simuls began around 8pm on Sunday in the main restaurant. The games provied an ideal warm-up for Amateur and Challenger participants.

Married only last July, Radek and Alina were delighted to take part in this traditional curtain raiser. Several players came along to see how they could get on against this special team.

Free bus travel for Tradewise participants Chess players coming to the 2016 Tradewise Festival can enjoy free bus travel around the Rock, courtesy of the Gibraltar Bus Company Ltd, and Calypso Transport Ltd.   The former operate seven services around the Rock, while the latter run a link between the city centre and the frontier and airport. This generous offer of hospitality is a popular move, and the organisers of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival extend their thanks to both Companies on behalf of all participants.

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Press Release 14 January 2016 - by John Saunders (@JohnChess) There are just eleven days to go before the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival (#TGCF) begins – and this year, our 14th, promises to be bigger and better than ever.     Vishy Anand, Hikaru Nakamura and Maxime Vachier Lagrave   Voted overall best tournament of the year by the Association of Chess Professionals last year, as well as being voted the world’s best Swiss System event for the last three years, the #TGCF has become the blueprint for top tournaments everywhere, with the broadest possible range of standards represented, from world champions down to the humblest beginners.   Our main tournament, the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters is open to all-comers. And when we say ‘open’, we mean that literally: if you know how to play chess and pay the entry fee - you can take part!   Read more ... Photos | Wikipedia

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Morning Events still open You can still enter one of our popular Challenger B or Amateur B events. Please note that entries received after Friday 15 January will incur the late entry fee of £50 per event.

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Gibraltar border 23.1.16 - For participants travelling daily across the border, the queue can be viewed via Livestream. Please note that there may be a lag of up to one minute as measured against real time. There is also a useful Twitter feed.

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The Day's Play 2016 Follow the action, and get your daily dose of The Day's Play highlighting all the events in the most exciting open chess tournament in the world - The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2016. Presented by International Master Tania Sachdev.   Follow us on

NewStatesman Gibraltar | 19 January 2016   All systems checked by Guy Clapperton The annual chess tournament is coming to Gibraltar with events starting on the 25th. It’s also something of a technology coup, explains Guy Clapperton.   On 24th January a number of chess players will gather in Gibraltar to register for a world class tournament that begins the following day. The Tradewise Chess Festival 2016 starts on the 26th, with £185,000 prize money at stake – but there’s more to it than a simple competition.   “Sponsorship by Gibtelecom (still a co-sponsor with principal sponsors Tradewise) led to ground-breaking advances in chess webcasting, which have revolutionised the coverage of chess worldwide and involved a huge web audience in following the play,”explained the spokesman.   Full story here ...

Late fee surcharge

Please note that entries received after Friday 15 January will incur the late entry fee of £50 per event but you can still enter one of our popular morning events online. More about 'How to Enter'.

ACP continues the cooperation with Gibraltar Chess Festival

18.1.16 - ACP continues the cooperation with the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival by introducing the traditional ACP Prize in the event.

The prize will be awarded to the highest-placed ACP Premium Member in the Masters tournament who didn't win any of the regular or category prizes. The amount of the prize will match the amount of the last regular prize paid in the main tournament, for a sum not exceeding 1000 pounds.

In order to be eligible for a prize, a player has to issue/confirm his/her 2016 Membership before Jan 27 | See more here

- Emil Sutovsky

Entries update

05.1.16 - We are pleased to update the entry lists again and will be doing so regularly over the next few weeks. We are still accepting entries for the popular morning events but please note that any received after Friday 15 January will incur the late entry fee surcharge of £50 per event! You can still enter a morning event online here.

Malaga to Gibraltar Bus Transfer

03.1.16 - The organisers offer a special transfer service from Malaga Airport. Buses will leave Malaga Airport for Gibraltar from 12.00hrs to 17:00hrs on Sunday 24 and Monday 25 January returning from Gibraltar to Malaga Airport on the morning of 5 February, commencing at around 7am. The cost will be £30 per person return trip. You must contact Peter Purland as soon as possible with arrival times and flight numbers if you wish to make use of this service.

Brochure 2016

10.11.15 - The Tradewise Festival colour brochure for 2016 is now published.

The entry form, tournament regulations, visa & travel details, schedules and much more, are included.

Leading entrants already include former World Champion Viswanathan Anand,  Hikaru Nakamura,  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Chao b  Li,  Radoslaw Wojtaszek,   Pentala Harikrishna,Yangyi Yu,  Laurent Fressinet, Laurent, Hua Ni, David Howell, Richard Rapport,  Markus Ragger, Etienne Bacrot,  Nigel Short, Gata Kamsky ... more