Anand to compete at Gibraltar 2016

The 2016 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival is taking place from January 25th to February 4, at the Caleta Hotel in Gibraltar.

The traditional 10-round Swiss FIDE event s one of the strongest open chess tournaments in the world and its hefty prize fund attracted many top players. The first prize is £20,000, while the best female player will be awarded £15,000.

Top players: Last year’s winner Nakamura, Hikaru USA 2787, Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2785, Anand, Viswanathan IND 2784, Harikrishna, Pentala IND 2755, Li, Chao CHN 2751, Yu, Yangyi CHN 2747, Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS 2732, Wojtaszek, Radoslaw POL 2727, Rapport, Richard HUN 2721, Fressinet, Laurent FRA 2700

Chessdom will provide daily coverage of the event and you can follow the Masters event with analysis here

The opening day

The 2016 Tradewise Chess Festival started its annual adventure when two of our participants, newly weds Radek Wojtaszek and Alina Kashlinskaya, offered simultaneous displays for early arrivals. The simuls began around 8pm on Sunday in the main restaurant. The games provied an ideal warm-up for Amateur and Challenger participants. Married only last July, Radek and Alina were delighted to take part in this traditional curtain raiser. Several players came along to see how they could get on against this special team.

Additionally, the Challengers and Amateur events are also underway and you can replay the games here

Vishy Anand’s first open in many years

Gibraltar Chess 2016 will be Vishy Anand’s first open in many years. Just like Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik who returned to Qatar Masters Open, now Vishy continues the trend. See why the ex-world champion Anand returns to open competitions in this video presented by “The Day’s Play” with host Tania Sachdev.

Participants in the Tradewise Masters (top 100 rated)