Press Release Tuesday 22 January 2013
THE FIRST MOVE AT TRADEWISE 2013
The First Move of the 2013 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival Gibraltar Masters tournament took
place this afternoon at the Caleta Hotel. At precisely 3pm (Gibraltar time) James Humpreys head of
Tradewise Gibraltar Insurance Ltd, main sponsor of this event, made the first move on the top
board with top seeded player at this year’s tournament and previous winner in Gibraltar GM
Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) playing against Hristos Zygouris (Greece).
FIRST MOVE 2013 James Humphreys and GM Ivanchuk
Moments later the 245 chess players from some 60 countries then made their opening moves in the
tournament which is being held over the next 10 days. The top woman player this year is Anna
Muzychuk (Slovina).
There are 48 Grandmasters and 36 International Masters. 29 FIDE Masters and 4 women
Grandmasters.
Live streaming with commentary is available every afternoon with commentator GM Simon
Williams and GM Irina Krush. Once again the tournament boasts the latest technology installed by
Gibtelecom a great supporter of the festival in its 11 year history.
HERE ARE THE TOP 12 BOARDS in Round 1
(These games can be followed on our live feed)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
1
129
3
127
5
122
7
126
9
130
11
133
GM Ivanchuk Vassily
Aerni Andreas
GM Adams Michael
CM Urbina Perez Juan Antonio
GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime
Bird Andrew
GM Shirov Alexei
Marttala Thomas
GM Short Nigel D
Semprun Martinez Fernando
GM Yu Yangyi
Sanchez Botella Luis Javier
2758
2206
2725
2214
2711
2223
2708
2217
2696
2201
2688
2196
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Zygouris Hristos
GM Kamsky Gata
Lind Jan-Olof
GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw
Tscharotschkin Michael
GM Navara David
Valgmae Toomas
GM Le Quang Liem
IM Sanchez Castillo Sarai
GM Vitiugov Nikita
Veltkamp Gerben
GM Sutovsky Emil
2218
2740
2217
2723
2200
2710
2218
2705
2212
2694
2200
2684
You can also watch more games on the www.monroi.com website.
Just look for the following on our official website:
Photo caption: by Zelka Malobabic
Alice Mascarenhas, Chess Press Officer
[email protected]
124
2
125
4
131
6
123
8
128
10
132
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