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Nakamura's speech

PeterDoggers
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The winner was known already when the rest of the tournament was still playing. Therefore a final report of Gibraltar 2008, including Nakamura's speech on video (now complete).

The tournament has finished and there are many successes to mention. Some older participants, like Robert Bellin (scoring a GM norm!) and Jon Speelman (winning 27 rating points!) had fine tournaments.

The other two GM norms were scored by Zong-Yuan Zhao (this you already knew) and Viktorija Cmylite. Max Devereaux, Shen Yang, Zhao Xue, Joachim Thomassen and Ismael Karim scored IM norms.

Don't miss John Saunders's wonderful last report on the tournament website.

On a personal note, I must say I have really enjoyed to be present during the final four rounds of the Gibraltar. It's a special tournament, a personal, social one, where it seems to be easier than normal to meet new friends. I can recommend it to every chess player who is of the opinion that a fine atmosphere is a tournament's biggest asset.

After returning to Amsterdam, I created the final video on the prize giving ceremony, which includes Nakamura's full speech:

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In the video you can see that Mikhalevsky and Ly together won the brilliancy prize for this game:




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Full final standings here.




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Peter Doggers

Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms.

Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools.

Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013.

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