Some great chess videos and updates from Gibraltar Chess Festival R8

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Hello everyone,

Here are some great videos from the Gibraltar Chess Festival but first, the chess news updates from the event.

The 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival is taking place from Tuesday, 24th January to Thursday, 2nd February 2012 at the Caleta Hotel in Gibraltar. The event is the tenth in the series held on the Rock, the second to be sponsored by Tradewise Insurance with technical support by Gibtelecom. 

Top standings after eight rounds

Rk.	Ti.	Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	Perf
1	GM	Hou Yifan	CHN	2605	6.5	2859.0
2	GM	Adams Michael	ENG	2724	6.5	2843.0
3	GM	Short Nigel D	ENG	2677	6.0	2790.0
4	GM	M Shakhriyar	AZE	2747	6.0	2778.0
5	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	IND	2700	6.0	2750.0
6	GM	Almasi Zoltan	HUN	2717	6.0	2748.0
7	GM	Howell David W L	ENG	2603	6.0	2737.0
8	GM	Movsesian Sergei	ARM	2700	6.0	2726.0
9	GM	Gopal G N	IND	2566	6.0	2720.0
10	GM	Svidler Peter	RUS	2749	6.0	2714.0
11	GM	Bologan Viktor	MDA	2680	6.0	2708.0
12	GM	Negi Parimarjan	IND	2641	6.0	2692.0
13	GM	Shirov Alexei	LAT	2710	6.0	2691.0
14	GM	Akobian Varuzhan	USA	2617	6.0	2649.0
15	GM	Rapport Richard	HUN	2543	6.0	2646.0
16	GM	Salem A R Saleh	UAE	2505	6.0	2623.0
17	GM	Le Quang Liem	VIE	2714	5.5	2718.0
18	GM	Polgar Judit	HUN	2710	5.5	2679.0
19	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	GEO	2535	5.5	2653.0
20	GM	Brunello Sabino	ITA	2581	5.5	2652.0
21	GM	Fridman Daniel	GER	2660	5.5	2622.0
22	FM	Kuipers Stefan	NED	2391	5.5	2611.0
23	GM	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	FRA	2699	5.5	2610.0
24	GM	Kulaots Kaido	EST	2581	5.5	2608.0
25	GM	Zhu Chen	QAT	2472	5.5	2606.0
26	GM	Erdos Viktor	HUN	2634	5.5	2605.0
27	GM	Gustafsson Jan	GER	2643	5.5	2601.0
28	GM	Cramling Pia	SWE	2491	5.5	2597.0
29	IM	Muzychuk Anna	SLO	2580	5.5	2592.0
30	GM	Sutovsky Emil	ISR	2703	5.5	2586.0
31	GM	Nabaty Tamir	ISR	2563	5.5	2582.0
32	IM	Dvirnyy Daniyyl	ITA	2492	5.5	2541.0
33	GM	Iturrizaga Edoardo	VEN	2649	5.5	2509.0
34	GM	DA Salvador G	ESP	2531	5.5	2501.0
35	GM	Womacka Mathias	GER	2455	5.5	2399.0

Excerpt from the Gibraltar Chess Festival live commentary: The exciting climax of Round 8 with dual-game commentary on Hou Yifan vs. Le Quang Liem and Artur Jussupow vs. Alexei Shirov. GM Simon Williams comments.

Grandmaster Shirov during the live commentary in Gibraltar, and this fantastic game, a sure candidate for the "Best Game" Prize.





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