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Abu Dhabi Masters starts this afternoon at 15.00 our time with David Howell (seeded 1) and Gawain Jones (seeded 11).

John Moore wrote:Abu Dhabi Masters starts this afternoon at 15.00 our time with David Howell (seeded 1) and Gawain Jones (seeded 11).

I can see Gawain in the draw but isn't David at the Gibraltar Junior International?

Which website is the Abu Dhabi one. I can't find the live games.

Thanks very much, Leonard.

Normally a good event ... just missed it this year.

Paul

Gawain Jones playing a Grandmasterly game (move 27)

results

Starting rank
No. Name FideID FED Rtg
1 GM Kovalenko Igor 14117908 LAT 2702 although he didn't play round 1 or 2 so may have withdrawn
2 GM Almasi Zoltan 702293 HUN 2700
3 GM Kryvoruchko Yuriy 14109182 UKR 2697
4 GM Rapport Richard 738590 HUN 2671
5 GM Jobava Baadur 13601520 GEO 2664
6 GM Sjugirov Sanan 4189302 RUS 2664
7 GM Areshchenko Alexander 14109530 UKR 2661
8 GM Shankland Samuel L 2004887 USA 2655
9 GM Akopian Vladimir 13300032 ARM 2647
10 GM Jones Gawain C B 409561 ENG 2647

Round 2
46 GM Harika Dronavalli 2509 1 1 GM Jones Gawain C B 2647 10
live

Round 3

10 GM Jones Gawain C B 2647 1½ 1½ IM Sagar Shah 2456 51

Gawain won

Round 4 on 2015/08/25 playing now

Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 5 GM Jobava Baadur 2664 3 3 GM Salem A.R. Saleh 2595 27
2 35 GM Belous Vladimir 2566 3 3 GM Grandelius Nils 2628 12
3 11 GM Kuzubov Yuriy 2638 2½ 3 GM Kulaots Kaido 2573 31

4 24 GM Kravtsiv Martyn 2599 2½ 2½ GM Jones Gawain C B 2647 10 live

Gawain lost

Round 5: today at 3 pm UK time I think

10 GM Jones Gawain C B 2647 2½ 2½ IM Karavade Eesha 2409 60

live

Gawain won

Gawain Jones--Chanda Sandipan today. Unusual line in the Spanish being played by Sandipan. It looks ok so far though.

Gawain won.

Posting an update here to point out that Gawain Jones finished 0.5 a point behind the joint winners and eighth on tie-break.

Chessbase report:

http://en.chessbase.com/post/grandelius ... sters-2015

Nils Grandelius won on tie-break.

Full results:

http://chess-results.com/tnr178422.aspx ... =30&wi=984

Gawain's performance:

http://chess-results.com/tnr178422.aspx ... 984&snr=10

Not sure what the games were like, but that looks a solid performance.

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: Not sure what the games were like, but that looks a solid performance.

With the white pieces, certainly. Needs to work on Black.