Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival
Written by Administrator
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Date: January 24 - February 3
Prize fund: £126,000. First prize - £17,500; best woman - £10,000
The Masters section will feature some of the leading male chess players and 7 out of 10 top female grandmasters. The names speak for themselves:
Name (Men)
FIDE rating
World Rank
Ivanchuk, Vassily
2764
9
Adams, Michael
2723
23
Caruana, Fabiano
2721
25
Vallejo Pons, Francisco
2698
40
Bologan, Viktor
2693
44
Sasikiran, Krishnan
2690
45
Onischuk, Alexander
2689
46
Nisipeanu, Liviu Dieter
2678
59
Georgiev, Kirill
2669
72
Harikrishna, Pentala
2667
74
Short, Nigel
2658
89
Fridman, Daniel
2655
94
Roiz, Michael
2649
100-102
Name (Women)
FIDE rating
World Rank (Women)
Yifan, Hou
2602
3
Kosintseva, Tatiana
2570
4
Kosintseva, Nadezhda
2552
5
Dzagnidze, Nana
2550
6
Stefanova, Antoaneta
2546
7
Cmilyte Victoria
2526
9
Dronavalli, Harika
2520
10
Cramling, Pia
2516
12
Zhu, Chen
2495
18
Zatonskih, Anna
2493
19
Krush, Irina
2483
23
Pogonina, Natalia
2472
27
Gaponenko, Inna
2466
30
Shen, Yang
2455
36
Melia, Salome
2449
42
Zhukova, Natalia
2441
46
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