2014 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival

It is that time of year once again.  Someday I should very much like to travel to Gibraltar and enjoy the balmy Mediterranean breezes.  Right now we're being battered with strong winds, yet more snow (6 inches fell last night but fortunately, it was the light fluffy stuff so it only took me an hour and 15 minutes to clear my driveway with a shovel), and overnight and tomorrow windchills down to 45 below zero F.  Yikes! 

Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival (official website)

Checking out the line-up for the Masters (Open) with 244 players, I am trying to pick out chess femmes along with American players and stopped after the first 100, LOL!

7

2000024

Kamsky, Gata

g

USA

2709

33

8601283

Zhao, Xue

g

CHN

2567

35

14111330

Muzychuk, Anna

g

SLO

2566

37

2021285

Lenderman, Aleksandr

g

USA

2562

45

1700030

Cramling, Pia

g

SWE

2525

49

12801259

Cmilyte, Viktorija

g

LTU

2515

51	12400149	Hoang, Thanh Trang	g	HUN	2511
52	8600031	Xu, Jun	g	CHN	2510
53	14114550	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2503
54	617822	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2501

57

4147855

Pogonina, Natalia

wg

RUS

2495

60	2902257	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2486
61	8603642	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2483

63

8600546

Zhu, Chen

g

QAT

2481

72	4641833	Paehtz, Elisabeth	m	GER	2458
73	8604002	Guo, Qi	wg	CHN	2450

75

14101513

Zhukova, Natalia

g

UKR

2449

78

5007844

Sachdev, Tania

m

IND

2442

79

4900758

Munguntuul, Batkhuyag

m

MGL

2438

82

13601458

Javakhishvili, Lela

m

GEO

2430

89

405094

Houska, Jovanka

m

ENG

2415

93

4196872

Savina, Anastasia

m

RUS

2402

97

623725

Milliet, Sophie

m

FRA

2390

Action starts at 8:00 p.m. on January 27th.   GM Irina Krush, reigning U.S. Women's Champion, will be providing commentary along with GM Simon Williams. 

As you can see from the line-up, some of the best female chessplayers in the world will be competing against top level male talent at Gibraltar.  May the hand of the Goddess be upon the chess femmes and bring them all victory! 

This great tournament always attracts top female chess talent because of the prizes.  There are separate prizes awarded to women and they are also eligible to compete for the Open prizes.  Should you win, you take the best and leave the rest on the table for another player.

Women's Prizes: If there is a tie for the top women’s prize, the tie is resolved in favour of the woman with the highest performance rating, who will receive the prize of £15,000. All other prizes will not be subject to a tie-break and prize money other than the first prize will be divided equally amongst the players.

Open to all Women
1st Prize	£15,000
2nd Prize	£10,000
3rd Prize	£5,000
4th Prize	£3,500
5th Prize	£2,500
6th Prize	£2,000
7th Prize	£1,500
8th Prize	£1,000
9th Prize	£600
10th Prize	£400