One of the readers of this blog pointed out to me that Shirov lost in the first round but he was paired against the 1 point group in the 2nd round. I wrote to John Saunders and he explained that Shirov won his 1st round game. The game which showed up in chessbomb happened to be Navara’s game as black. It was just a technical issue. Below are those 2 actual games from round 1.
[Event “Tradewise Gibratar Chess Festival 2013 -“]
[Date “2013.01.22”]
[White “Shirov, Alexei”]
[Black “Valgmae, Toomas”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “A00”]
[WhiteElo “2708”]
[BlackElo “2218”]
1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. f4 Bg7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Bd3 c5 7. dxc5 dxc5 8. e5 Nd5 9. Nxd5 Qxd5 10. Qe2 Bg4 11. Be4 Qd7 12. Be3 Na6 13. O-O Rab8 14. h3 Bf5 15. Rad1 Qc8 16. Bf2 Bh6 17. Bh4 f6 18. exf6 exf6 19. Bd5+ Kh8 20. g4 Bxg4 21. hxg4 Qxg4+ 22. Qg2 Qxg2+ 23. Kxg2 Bxf4 24. Rfe1 Nb4 25. Bf2 Nxd5 26. Rxd5 Rf7 27. Bxc5 a6 28. Re7 Kg8 29. Rxf7 Kxf7 30. Rd7+ Ke6 31. Rxh7 Rc8 32. Bf2 Rc7 33. Rh8 1-0
[Event “Tradewise Gibratar Chess Festival 2013 -“]
[Date “2013.01.22”]
[Round “1.6”]
[White “Bird, Andrew”]
[Black “Navara, David”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “A00”]
[WhiteElo “2223”]
[BlackElo “2710”]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. d5 b5 5. Bf4 Qa5+ 6. Nc3 exd5 7. cxd5 b4 8. Nb1 d6 9. Nbd2 Nh5 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bh4 g5 12. Bg3 Nxg3 13. hxg3 Bg7 14. Nc4 Qc7 15. Qc2 a5 16. Nfd2 a4 17. Rd1 O-O 18. e3 b3 19. axb3 Na6 20. bxa4 Nb4 21. Qb1 Rxa4 22. Be2 Ra1 23. Qxa1 Nc2+ 24. Kf1 Nxa1 25. Rxa1 Bb7 26. Bf3 f5 27. Kg1 g4 28. Be2 Bxd5 29. Kh2 Rb8 30. Ra6 Bxg2 31. Rha1 Bc6 32. Na5 Bd5 33. Nac4 Bc6 34. Na5 Bb5 35. Bxb5 Rxb5 36. Nac4 d5 37. Nd6 Rxb2 38. Ne8 Qe5 39. Ra8 Rxd2 40. R1a7 Rxf2+ 41. Kh1 Qe4+ 0-1
Thx for the clarification.