The 2014 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival will take place from Monday 27th January to Thursday 6th February, 2014.

The Festival will consist of five events: Masters, Challengers Wk1 (U2250), Challengers Wk2 (U2250), Amateurs Wk1 (U1900) and Amateurs Wk2 (U1900). Last year winner was GM Nikita Vitiugov.

Currently top rated players in Masters are:

Adams Michael ENG 2761
Kamsky Gata USA 2741
Ivanchuk Vassily UKR 2731
Vachier-Lagrave Maxime FRA 2722
Vitiugov Nikita RUS 2719
Movsesian Sergei ARM 2699
Li Chao b CHN 2693
Short Nigel ENG 2684
Edouard Romain FRA 2665
Sutovsky Emil ISR 2660
Muzychuk Anna SLO 2585
Zhao Xue CHN 2579
Maze Sebastien FRA 2557
Wei Yi CHN 2551
Gopal G.N. IND 2527
Libiszewski Fabien FRA 2520
Cramling Pia SWE 2515
Sebag Marie FRA 2510
Cmilyte Viktorija LTU 2505
Hoang Thanh Trang HUN 2493
Muzychuk Mariya UKR 2478

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