chess.com IoM Masters 2017 - Games and Results

The chess.com Isle of Man Masters took place 22nd September to 1st October 2016. The World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen headed up an extremely strong field aided by the sponsorship of the Scheinberg family. Leading players: Carlsen, Kramnik,

Caruana,

Anand,

Nakamura,

Adams,

Gelfand,

Eljanov,

Vallejo Pons,

Almasi,

Naiditsch,

Vidit,

Howell,

Short,

Rodshtein,

Sutovsky,

Leko,

Kasimdzhanov,

Rapport,

Movsesian,

Adhiban,

Hou Yifan,

Gawain Jones,

Riazantsev,

Akobian,

Fressinet,

Granda Zuniga,

Grandelius,

Sargissian,

Xiong,

Shirov,

Bok,

Sethuraman,

Erwin L'ami, Ivan Sokolov, Bogner,

Bindrich,

Huschenbeth,

Svane,

Tregubov,

Tari etc

A novelty was that the first round draw was entirely random producing the strong pairings Caruana-Kramnik and Adhiban-Gelfand. Magnus Carlsen led throughout to score his first tournament victory since Bilbao 2016 435 days ago). Carlsen finished on 7.5/9 after he forced a quick draw against second placed Hikaru Nakamura who was joined on 7 points by Viswanathan Anand.