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Our last video of the 2013 Gibraltar Chess Festival starts with the play-off between Chanda Sandipan (India), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France), Nigel Short (England) and the eventual winner Nikita Vitiugov (Russia) who is also interviewed. Then we see images of the closing ceremony, hosted by Stuart Conquest. Zhao Xue won the top women's prize. At the end we see Emil Sutovsky … [Read more...] about Gibraltar play-off & closing ceremony video

Irina Krush takes the microphone and interviews participants of the 2013 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. … [Read more...] about Gibraltar Chess Festival: Participants speak

A match-up, on a giant chess set, between the ladies team consisting of Jovanka Houska (England), Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia), Zhao Xue (China), Valentina Gunina (Russia), Tania Sachdev (India) and Viktorija Cmilyte (Lithuania) versus the men: Gata Kamsky (USA), Gawain Jones (England), Emil Sutovsky (Israel), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France), Le Quang Liem (Vietnam) and Kiril … [Read more...] about Gibraltar Chess Festival: Battle of the Sexes

Impressions of the team blitz event held on Thursday night, January 24th at the Caleta Hotel where teams of four, with names such as "Chinese Dragon", "Four Queens", Swiss Attack and "Weapons of mass destruction" played six rounds of quickplay games (5 minuts plus 2 seconds increment per person). Needless to say, it was great fun! … [Read more...] about Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2013: Team Blitz

A short video of the dinner held on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 at the Mons Calpe Suite at the top of the Rock in Gibraltar. Speeches by Brian Callaghan of the Caleta Hotel, Neil Costa, Minister for Tourism, Public Transport, Commercial Affairs and the Port, and Nigel Short, chess grandmaster, former World Championship contender and winner of the Gibraltar Masters in 2012. … [Read more...] about A Chess Dinner at the Top of the Rock