Abu Dhabi Masters

[John Moore]

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

[LawrenceCooper]

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?

[Barry Sandercock]

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

[Leonard Barden]

http://adchessfestival.com/live/index.htm

[Barry Sandercock]

Thanks very much, Leonard.

[Paul Dargan]

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

Paul

[Barry Sandercock]

Gawain Jones playing a Grandmasterly game (move 27)

[Mick Norris]

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1 GM Kovalenko Igor 14117908 LAT 2702 although he didn't play round 1 or 2 so may have withdrawn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

[Mick Norris]

Round 3

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

Gawain won

[Mick Norris]

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

[Mick Norris]

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

[Barry Sandercock]

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

[Barry Sandercock]

Gawain won.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

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.

[NickFaulks]

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

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