One of the most enjoyable chess tournaments that I have ever played in is the annual Bunratty congress in Ireland http://www.bunrattychess.com/.
This tournament is going from strength to strength and this year it attracted some world class Grandmasters; including, Mickey Adams, Nigel Short, Gawain Jones and Andrei Istratescu.
There are a number of reasons why Bunratty attracts so many strong players. Given below are my top five reasons why Bunratty excels…
We were honoured on the final day to be joined by Emanuel Berg who demonstrated his brilliant win against Maxim Vachier-Legrave. This game was later voted the best game of the 2012 tradewise Gibraltar congress.
Thanks to MacauleyPeterson for providing the video. More videos of Gibraltar 2012 and other top chess events can be viewed from Macauley Peterson’s, you tube site.
It was an honour to have a number of Grandmaster’s join us in the commentary room and on this day we were lucky to have Shirov explain his game against Jussupow to us. A very exciting game!
Thanks to MacauleyPeterson for providing the video.
One of the most interesting days of chess was round eight, with two games taking the limelight. You can view the end of them here…
Thanks to MacauleyPeterson for providing the video.
A video of the second playoff game. Nigel Short becomes champion of Gibraltar!
Thanks to MacauleyPeterson for providing the video and also to Mickey Adams for helping me out!
The first playoff game between Yifan Hou and Nigel Short. It must be noted that I had a glass of wine by this stage… Thanks to MacauleyPeterson for providing the video.
This is a video of Yifan Hou’s memorable victory of Judit Polgar. Thanks to MacauleyPeterson for providing the video.
Gibraltar has gone and past and now it is time to reflect on the event.
One thing I should make clear is that, the Gibraltar chess congress is a great event!
All the players were lucky this year as the sun was shinning. I even managed to get a tan on my face, which is in stark contrast to England, where everything seems to be covered in snow!
In the next couple of posts, I will insert some videos that were taken from my commentary. Thanks has to be given to Macauley Peterson who arranged the professional broadcast that you will see.
Just a quick post to let you know that Ginger GM Simon Williams is commentating live on the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Congress daily until Wednesday 1 February. Players include Svidler, Shirov, Mamedyarov, Short, Adams, Polgar, Almasi, Le and many more! Games start at 3pm local time.
The direct link to the live video streaming commentary is http://www.livestream.com/gibchess2012. Interaction via twitter and livestream is encouraged!
February 22nd, 2012 | Author: 
