Gibraltar Tradewise 2013 Rd 10

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Vitiugov Nikita was the overall winner after 4 players finised with 8/10.

From tournament website

GM Nikita Vitiugov

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'Congratulations to Nikita Vitiugov, winner of the Tradewise Masters after a thrilling play-off final against Nigel Short. He collects the first prize of £20,000 (€23,320). Congratulations also to Chinese GM Zhao Xue has won the top female prize of £12,000. She drew her game after nearly five hours of play against Vassily Ivanchuk and achieved a score of 7½/10.  For the top Masters prize of £20,000 there was a four-way play-off involving Nikita Vitiugov, Nigel Short, Maxine Vachier-Lagrave and Chanda Sandipan.'

Bio
'Vitiugov is 2006 World Junior Chess Vice-Champion^[1] and participant of the Russian Chess Championship (2006^[2] and 2007^[3]). He was a member of the gold-medal-winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship 2009 in Bursa.^[4] In 2011, he tied for 1st-3rd with Evgeny Tomashevsky and Le Quang Liem in the Aeroflot Open.'-Wikipedia Nikita_Vitiugov

Vitiugov is also an accomplished author and wrote The French Defence Reloaded(Chess Stars 2012).

'A completely updated edition which presents a Black repertoire based on the French. 

Here are Vitiugov's own words: “I received, quite unexpectedly, many comments and opinions following the publication of my first book on the French Defence. These were quite varied, both in form and content.

There were renowned experts, who pointed out that some of the variations were not analyzed to perfection. Some meticulous readers looked for, and found (!), possibilities for both sides, which I had omitted in several important, and even not so important, lines. 

There were people who criticized my rather ambitious concept, according to which I tried to present the opening the way I saw it, instead of just following the branches of the database. However, there were also some appreciative comments.(more) NIC The_French_Defence_Reloaded

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Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	RUS	2694	8
2	GM	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	FRA	2711	8
3	GM	Sandipan Chanda	IND	2590	8
4	GM	Short Nigel D	ENG	2690	8
5	GM	Georgiev Kiril	BUL	2643	7.5
6	GM	Adams Michael	ENG	2725	7.5
7	GM	Navara David	CZE	2710	7.5
8	GM	Kamsky Gata	USA	2740	7.5
9	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	UKR	2758	7.5
	GM	Yu Yangyi	CHN	2688	7.5
11	GM	Salgado Lopez Ivan	ESP	2606	7.5
12	GM	Fridman Daniel	GER	2667	7.5
13	GM	Zhao Xue	CHN	2554	7.5
14	GM	Le Quang Liem	VIE	2705	7
15	GM	Jones Gawain C B	ENG	2632	7
16	GM	Felgaer Ruben	ARG	2557	7
17	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	POL	2723	7
18	GM	Shirov Alexei	LAT	2708	7
19	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	BUL	2516	7
20	IM	Gunina Valentina	RUS	2490	7
21	GM	Muzychuk Anna	SLO	2582	7
22	GM	Sutovsky Emil	ISR	2684	7
23	GM	Gallagher Joseph G.	SUI	2499	7
24	GM	Bartel Mateusz	POL	2629	7
25	IM	Kuipers Stefan	NED	2431	7