GIBRALTAR OPEN

Sponsored by Gibtelcom in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar and Tradewise, the chess festival organized by Stewart Reubin, then by Steward Conquest has become one of the strongest European Open Swiss tournaments.

The winners were: 2003 Nigel Short and Vasilios Kotronias, 2004 Nigel Short, 2005 Alexei Shirov, Emil Sutovsky, Levon Aronian, Zahar Efimenko and Kiril Georgiev, 2006 Kiril Georgiev, 2007 Vladimir Akopian, 2008 Hikaru Nakamura, 2009 Peter Svidler, 2010 Michael Adams, 2o11 Vassily Ivanchuk, 2012 Nigel Short, 2013 Nikita Vitiugov, 2014 Ivan Cheparinov, 2015 Hikaru Nakamura, 2016 Hikaru Nakamura, 2017 Hikaru Nakamura, 2018 Levon Aronian, 2019 Maxim Artemiev, 2020  David Paravyan.