Gibraltar Chess Festival Final - Sorry so late, been sick.

Trying to catch up on my chess news, lately for me ChesSnooze...been sleeping so much. If not one thing, another...respiratory infection, then ear infection..bah, gets old. But that's what immune-suppression does. Rather put up with this than go on the dreaded Prednisone again.

Anyway, The final standings for the Gibraltar Chess Festival are as follows, I was hoping Nakamura would become a two time champ and show those snubbing him at Corus. Maybe next year.:

1 GM Nakamura USA 2699 ½-½ GM Gashimov AZE 2723
2 GM Svidler RUS 2723 1-0 GM Harikrishna IND 2673
3 GM Avrukh ISR 2645 0-1 GM Milov SUI 2669
4 IM Kozlov RUS 2187 0-1 GM Akobian USA 2619
5 GM Ganguly IND 2614 0-1 GM Berg SWE 2606
6 GM Dzagnidze GEO 2518 ½-½ GM Golod ISR 2575
7 GM Speelman ENG 2536 ½-½ GM Vachier-Lagrave FRA 2696
8 GM Sokolov NED 2657 1-0 GM Del Rio De Angelis ESP 2532
9 GM Roiz ISR 2647 ½-½ IM Papp HUN 2517
10 IM Gordon ENG 2524 ½-½ GM Beliavsky SLO 2646
11 GM Berczes HUN 2513 ½-½ GM Socko POL 2631
12 IM Nezad QAT 2403 GM Gurevich 2624 ½-½
13 GM Stefanova BUL 2557 1-0 IM Arakhamia-Grant SCO 2500
14 GM Cramling SWE 2548 1-0 IM Hammer NOR 2532
15 GM Lopez Martinez ESP 2540 ½-½ IM Cmilyte LTU 2497

This left GM Peter Svidler and GM Vadim Milov tied for first with 8.0 pts of 10, which led to a playoff in which GM Svidler beat GM Milov 2.0-0.0 in a 10 minute + 10 second increment per move format.

Top Players were:
1-2 P Svidler (RUS, won play-off), V Milov (SUI) 8/10

3-6 V Gashimov (AZE), H Nakamura (USA), E Berg (SWE), V Akobian (USA) 7½

7-11 P Harikrishna (IND), N Dzagnidze (GEO), I Sokolov (NED), A Stefanova (BUL), P Cramling (SWE) 7

I will upload the games to the TransWarp website asap.