5 February 2010
Natalia Zhukova and Michael Adams topped their categories
The Gibraltar Gibtelecom Chess Masters has its 2010 winners!
In the overall category, 9 (male) players end the tournament with 7.5 out of 10, but the winner after tie-break is Michael Adams, congratulations to Michael for a deserved win!
Right after that group, in the 7 points group are the two top women of this competition, Natalia Zhukova and Humpy Koneru. Natalia gets the top women’s prize thanks to her higher performance score, of 2686, quite impressive! My best wishes go to both ladies who have performances above 2650!
I shared the third women’s prize, together with 10 other women, all with 6.5 out of 10, just one half point behind the top ladies, and 1 point behind the overall winners (ranking in order of performance):
Antoaneta Stefanova
Pia Cramling
Lela Javakhishvili
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Nana Dzagnidze
Dronavalli Harika
Viktorija Cmilyte
Deysi Cori
Eesha Karavade
Dana Reizniece
Joanna Dworakowska
Then come the group with 6.0/10:
Irina Krush
Jovanka Houska
Katrine Tjolsen
With 5.5/10:
Anna Zatonskih
Tania Sadchev
Elena Sedina
Anna Zozulia
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant
Monica Calzetta
With 5.0/10:
Kruttika Nadig
Iva Videnova
Maria Schoene
4.5: Marina Martsynovskaya
4.0: Szilvia Lochte
3.5: Ingrid Carlsen
3.0: Erie Hansen
2.5: Caroline Jacobsen
2.0: Lovinia Chidi
1.5: Nadja Reci
0.0: Victoria Agdestein
0.0: Margrethe Grodas
Thanks to the organizer for a wonderful hard-fought tournament, which I am sure will keep attracting in the next years the strongest women of the planet!
My last game was very hard fought, but after 6.5 hours I finally managed to win it, it’s nice to finish a tournament on a positive note! 🙂
Posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk
Women’s World Chess Champion
