Gibraltar 2016 (chess tournament)

Tournament Winner Hikaru Nakamura

Gibraltar 2016 is the 14th international tournament that took place from January 24 to February 4, 2016 .

The winner of the tournament for the second time in a row (and the third in total) was Hikaru Nakamura .

Category : 2nd (average rating 2296)
Chief Arbiter : Stephen Boyd

Content

1 Tournament Regulations
2 Tournament participants
3 Tours
4 tie-break
5 Links

Tournament Rules

The tournament was held according to the Swiss system and consisted of 10 rounds, followed by a playoff to identify the winner.

Time control : 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves, followed by 15 minutes for the remaining moves, with the addition of 30 seconds after each move, starting from the first.

Tournament Participants

257 chess players took part in the tournament, including 34 chess players, whose FIDE rating in January 2016 exceeded 2600:

Hikaru Nakamura , 2787
Maxim Vashier-Lagrave , 2785
Viswanathan Anand , 2784
Pentala Harikrishna , 2755
Li Chao , 2751
Yu Yangyi , 2747
Dmitry Yakovenko , 2732
Radoslav Wojtaszek , 2727
Richard Rapport , 2721
Laurent Fressinet , 2700
Etienne Bacrot , 2697
Ni Hua , 2697

Arkady Naidich , 2697
Marcus Ragger , 2689
David Howell , 2685
Zoltan Almashi , 2684
Nigel Short , 2684
Lazaro Bruson Batista , 2666
Gata Kamsky , 2665
Jan Krzysztof Duda , 2660
Surya Shekhar Ganguli , 2660
Emil Sutovsky , 2647
Sees Santosh Gujrati , 2642
David Anton Giharro , 2639

Panayappan Sethuraman , 2639
Niels Grandelius , 2635
Saleh Salem , 2627
Gawaine Jones , 2625
Eduardo Iturrisaga , 2624
Romain Edouard , 2617
Victor Erdös , 2613
Abhijit Gupta , 2613
Luke Lenich , 2611
Axel Bachmann , 2610

Tour Movement

Leaders after 1st round
A place	Name	Glasses
1 - 112	Hikaru Nakamura	one
	Maxim Vashier-Lagrave
	Pentala Harikrishna
	Li Chao
	Dmitry Yakovenko
	Radoslav Wojtaszek
	Richard Rapport
	Laurent Fressinet
	Etienne Bacrot
	Ni hua

Leaders after round 4
A place	Name	Glasses
one	Marcus Ragger	four
2	Etienne Bacrot	four
3	Maxim Vashier-Lagrave	3½
four	Panayappan Sethuraman
5	Dmitry Yakovenko
6	Radoslav Wojtaszek
7	Harika Dronavalli
8	Luka Lenich
9 - 10	Pentala Harikrishna
9 - 10	Richard Rapport

Leaders after the 7th round
A place	Name	Glasses
one	David Anton Giharro	6
2	Marcus Ragger	5½
3	Maxim Vashier-Lagrave
four	Etienne Bacrot
5 - 6	Pentala Harikrishna
5 - 6	Radoslav Wojtaszek
7 - 8	Panayappan Sethuraman
7 - 8	Abhijit Gupta
9	Lazaro Bruson Batista
10	Yu Yangyi

Leaders after the 2nd round
A place	Name	Glasses
1 - 42	Hikaru Nakamura	2
	Maxim Vashier-Lagrave
	Dmitry Yakovenko
	Radoslav Wojtaszek
	Richard Rapport
	Laurent Fressinet
	Etienne Bacrot
	Ni hua
	Marcus Ragger
	David Howell

Leaders after the 5th round
A place	Name	Glasses
one	Marcus Ragger	4½
2	Etienne Bacrot
3	Pentala Harikrishna
four	Abhijit Gupta
5	Dmitry Yakovenko	four
6	Luka Lenich
7	Maxim Vashier-Lagrave
8	Harika Dronavalli
9	Radoslav Wojtaszek
10	Hikaru Nakamura

Leaders after the 8th round
A place	Name	Glasses
one	Maxim Vashier-Lagrave	6½
2	Etienne Bacrot
3	Pentala Harikrishna
four	David Anton Giharro
5	Marcus Ragger	6
6	Luka Lenich
7 - 8	Hikaru Nakamura
7 - 8	Panayappan Sethuraman
9 - 10	Radoslav Wojtaszek
9 - 10	Abhijit Gupta

Leaders after the 10th round
A place	Name	Glasses
one	Maxim Vashier-Lagrave	8
2	Hikaru Nakamura	8
3	Etienne Bacrot	7½
four	Panayappan Sethuraman
5	Pentala Harikrishna
6	Gawaine Jones
7	Li Chao
8	Emil Sutovsky
9	Marcus Ragger	7
10	Abhijit Gupta	7

Leaders after the 3rd round
A place	Name	Glasses
one	Maxim Vashier-Lagrave	3
2	Dmitry Yakovenko
3	Richard Rapport
four	Etienne Bacrot
5	Marcus Ragger
6	Anna Muzychuk
7	Panayappan Sethuraman
8	Harika Dronavalli
9	Luka Lenich
10	Alexandra Goryachkina

Leaders after the 6th round
A place	Name	Glasses
one	Etienne Bacrot	5
2	Maxim Vashier-Lagrave
3	Marcus Ragger
four	Pentala Harikrishna
5	Abhijit Gupta
6	Richard Rapport
7	Yu Yangyi
8	Lazaro Bruson Batista
9	David Anton Giharro
10	Sees Santosh Gujrati

Leaders after the 9th round
A place	Name	Glasses
one	Maxim Vashier-Lagrave	7
2	Etienne Bacrot
3	Panayappan Sethuraman
four	Hikaru Nakamura
5	Pentala Harikrishna
6	Sebastian Maze
7	David Anton Giharro
8	Li Chao
9	Marcus Ragger	6½
10	Dmitry Yakovenko	6½

Tie-break

Maxim Vashier-Lagrave - Hikaru Nakamura
Armageddon

	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h
8									8
7									7
6									6
5									5
four									four
3									3
2									2
one									one
	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h

41. Ne5 Qc7 , after which Vachier-Lagrave surrendered

Due to the fact that Maxim Vashier-Lagrave and Hikaru Nakamura scored an equal number of points, a tie-break was appointed to identify the winner. Two rapid chess games were played with a time control of 10 minutes per game + 5 seconds per move, ending in draws. After that, two games were played in blitz with a time control of 3 minutes per game + 2 seconds per move, which also ended in draws. Finally, armageddon was played in which Nakamura applied the Berlin defense and defeated Black.

Links

Official Page
Tournament information on chess-results.com