Arkadij Naiditsch drew their round 9 game before returning to play-off for the prestige and a further £500 pot (photo: John Saunders)Husband and wife Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Alina Kashlinskaya carried off both the major prizes at the tournament (photo: John Saunders)
Gratulálok a Wojtaszek házaspárnak - Radoszlawnak és Alinának!
Arkadij Naiditsch received his share of the 1st/2nd prizes (£37,500) from tournament organiser Alan Ormsby (photo: John Saunders)
Gratulálok Arkadij Naidtschnak!
Radoslaw Wojtaszek had the honour of making the winner's speech at the prizegiving (photo: John Saunders)
John Saunders reports: the 2018 Chess.com Isle of Man International was won by Radoslaw Wojtaszek of Poland after a play-off match with Arkadij Naiditsch of Azerbaijan. The two players led going into the last round and drew their ninth round game to finish on 7/9 while none of the four players on 6/8 managed to win in order to tie with them. They each take home a cheque for £37,500 with Wojtaszek also receiving a further £500 for winning the blitz play-off. The initial two-game blitz was tied on 1-1 but Wojtaszek chose White in the Armageddon game and duly won. Seven players finished on 6½: Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk (both Russia), Hikaru Nakamura, Jeffery Xiong (both USA), Wang Hao (China), Gawain Jones (England) and Baskaran Adhiban (India).
The overall winner was upstaged by his wife Alina Kashlinskaya in the last round. For one thing it was her 25th birthday. Secondly, she only needed to sit down at her board to complete her requirement for a GM norm. Her next goal was the top women’s prize of £7,000. Her main rival for this was Alexandra Kosteniuk who was soon on top against Sundararajan Kidambi, so Alina would need to win herself in order to secure the prize on her own. This she proceeded to do in trenchant style, beating the talented young US GM Samuel Sevian and making light of the (almost) 200 rating point difference which she conceded to him.
Az első helyet eldöntő 3. játszma:
Erősség | Világos | Sötét |
---|---|---|
Kiváló | 31 | 26 |
Jó | 3 | 7 |
Pontatlanság (?!) | 2 | 2 |
Hiba (?) | 0 | 1 |
Baklövés (??) | 1 | 0 |
Kényszer | 0 | 0 |
Legjobb lépés | 60,0% | 48,3% |
Ö.P.P. | 95,72 | 78,78 |
Átl. kül. | 0,28 | 0,54 |