Sim! É novo recorde do mundo entre os Grande-Mestres. A situação caricata ocorreu na ultima ronda do Gibraltar Masters. Hou
Yifan estava a jogar de brancas no 17º tabuleiro contra o GM Indiano Lalith Babu.
Ela chegou 25m após as partidas começarem e começou a jogar rápido...
Hikaru Nakamura venceu o Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2016 !!! Ele já o tinha vencido o ano passado mas este ano deu bem mais luta. Este ano, após 9 rondas, estavam 8 jogadores em 1º lugar... Ganhando na ultima ronda a David Anton, ele qualificou-se para o tie-break contra Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Onde, depois de 4 empates, Nakamura ganhou o 5º jogo e o Torneio !
Já decorre a todo o vapor a edição 2016 do Tradewise Gibraltar Open, em Gibraltar.
Para o Financial Times o Tradewise Gibraltar Open "is the strongest
and best-organised event of its kind in the world".
O torneio Masters
no qual jogam Vishy Anand, Hikaru Nakamura,
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Yu Yangyi e tantos outros "gigantes" do cadrez mundial, começou a 25 de Janeiro e vai até 4 de Feveiro.
Hou Yifan foi a vencedora do torneio feminino, arrecadando um prize money de
£15,000. Do 2º ao 5º lugar ficaram: Rout Padmini
(India), Anna Muzychuk (Ukraine), Ju Wenjun (China) e
Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) 6½.
Aqui fica a classificação final c/ crosstable, com os quatro portugueses em destaque !
1.d4 f5 2.Bg5 c6 3.e3
Qb6 4.Nd2
Turning the opening into a gambit. It has been
played a number of times, with varying degrees of
success. 4...Qxb2 5.Rb1 Qc3 6.g4!? In general
White has scored quite well with 6.Bd3 here, but
here she decides to raise the stakes still further.
6...Qa5 7.gxf5 Qxf5 8.h4 Qa5 That makes six
queen moves in the first eight moves. Danny Gormally,
writing on Twitter, commented "White has a huge lead
in development. I don&'t think he'd do this against
another top GM." 9.Nh3 g6 10.Bd3 d6 11.Qf3 Nd7
Finally Black moves a minor piece. Rating health
warning: don't try this sort of thing until your
rating reaches 2700. 12.h5 Ndf6 Black can't
sensibly do anything about his pawn weakness on g6,
for example 12...gxh5?? 13.Qxh5+ Kd8 14.Bxe7+ and
the much-travelled queen drops off. But he can
safely jettison it and walk to freedom on the
queenside. 13.hxg6 hxg6 14.Bxg6+ Kd8 15.Bf4 Kc7
16.Ng5 Rxh1+ 17.Qxh1 Bh6 18.Qh4 Bd7
(diagram)
Black has succeeded
in unravelling his position. However, he has yet to
demonstrate an edge. 19.Bd3?! Black assumes
the initiative after this. Instead, 19.c4 maintains
some sort of momentum against the black king. For
example, if 19...Qxa2 20.c5 and the d6–pawn is under
further pressure. 19...Nd5 20.Ne6+ Bxe6 21.Bxh6
Nc3 22.Ra1 Qb4 The threat is simply Qb2 rounding
up the rook. 23.Kf1 Nxa2 24.Rd1 Nc3 25.Re1 Nxh6
26.Qxh6 Bd7 27.f3 a5 There isn't much to be done
about the threat of pushing the a-pawn all the way.
28.Kf2 a4 29.Qg5 Rh8 30.Qg3 Nd5 31.Rd1 c5 32.Bc4
Nc3 33.Re1 b5
0‑1
A sua 13ª edição decorre de 27 de Janeiro até ao próximo dia 5 de Fevereiro. Envolve um Congresso e vários torneios em várias categorias, sendo a que tem maior impacto e sendo conhecido por ser sempre um dos maiores e mais fortes Open do Mundo ! O Open de MASTERS !
Um Open que tem um balúrdio em prémios. Com certeza, um dos maiores do Mundo também.
Mais de 70 GMs, com total de mais de 110 titulados.
Mais de 45 países representados !
Open to all
Category Prizes
1st Prize
£20,000
Rating Range
1st Prize
2nd Prize
2nd Prize
£16,000
2550-2649
£3,000
£2,500
3rd Prize
£12,000
2450-2549
£2,500
£1,500
4th Prize
£10,000
2350-2449
£2,000
£1,000
5th Prize
£8,000
2250-2349
£2,000
£1,000
6th Prize
£6,000
2150-2249
£2,000
£1,000
7th Prize
£4,000
2050-2149
£2,000
£1,000
8th Prize
£3,000
Under 2050
£2,000
£1,000
9th Prize
£2,000
Note: a player not appearing for their last round game is ineligible for a rating prize.
A player may not win more than one complete prize from this table.
10th Prize
£1,000
11th Prize
£1,000
12th Prize
£1,000
Open to all Women
1st Prize
£15,000
2nd Prize
£10,000
3rd Prize
£5,000
4th Prize
£3,500
5th Prize
£2,500
6th Prize
£2,000
7th Prize
£1,500
8th Prize
£1,000
9th Prize
£600
10th Prize
£400
Nesta edição, o torneio MASTERS conta com a participação de 4 audazes Portugueses:
Manuel Curado
Pedro Godinho
Vitor Morais
Luis Bouxo
Boa sorte !
Classificação c/ crosstable, após ronda 5 (de 10) :