Gibtelecom Masters 2008
Prize List
Main Prizes
(£12,000; £8,000; £5,000; £3,000; £2,000; £1,500; £1,000; £500.)
1st Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 8 £12,000 (Won play off 2-0)
2nd Xiangzhi Bu (China) 8 £8,000
3rd = Alexander Areshchenko (Ukraine), Victor Bologan (Moldova), Zahar Efimenko (Ukraine), Mikhail Gurevich (Turkey), Hua Ni (China), Hao Wang (China) 7½ - £1,857 each
3rd+GP Geetha N Gopal (India) 7½ £2,000
Relative Rating achievements (£2,000; £1,000 each)
2500-2599:
Hristos Banikas (Greece) 1.36 £1,857, Emanuel Berg (Sweden) 1.19 £1,000
2400-2499:
Jonathan Speelman (England) 2.70 £2,000, Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) 2.38 £1,000
2300-2399:
Joachim Thomassen (Norway) 2.80 £2,000, Robert Bellin (England) 2.49 £1,000
2200-2299:
Espen Forsaa (Norway) 1.74 £2,000, Mark Lyell (England) 0.87 £1,000
Under 2200:
Oleg Kozlov (Russia) 2.60 £1,500, Lasse Ostebo Lovik (Norway) 2.60 £1,500
Seniors (£1,000)
Algimantas Butnorius (Lithuania) 6½ £1,000
Juniors (£600, £400)
Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukraine) 6½ £500
Harika Dronavalli (India) 6½ £500
Women's Prizes (£5,000; £2,500; £1,500)
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (Scotland), Viktorija Cmilyte (Lithuania), Harika Dronavalli (India), Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) 6½ - £2,250 each
Women's Relative Rating achievement (£1,000 each)
2250-2349:
Masha Klinova (Israel) 0.34 £1,000
2150-2249:
Ioulia Makka (Greece) 0.67 £1,000
Under 2150:
Lin Jin Jorgensen (Norway) 2.50 £1,000
Best Game Prize (£1,000)
Moulthun Ly (Australia), Victor Mikhalevski (Israel) £500 each
Grandmaster Norms
Robert Bellin (England)
Victorija Cmilyte (Lithuania)
Zong-Yuan Zhao (Australia)
International Master Norms
Yang Shen (China)
Xue Zhao (China)
Joachim Thomassen (Norway)
Maxim Devereaux (England)
Ismail Karim (Morocco)
