The New York Times: Ukraine's Ivanchuk leads Gibraltar Chess Tournament

After a surprising start in which several lower ranked players took the lead of the Tradewise Gibralter Chess Festival, the tournament’s top seed, Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, took the lead Sunday by beating Nigel Short of England. Short, who had a perfect score until he lost, was probably not surprised by the result. He said in the tournament bulletin after Round 5 that he had ““a very long shot for winning this tournament, and I say that as someone who has, in my three years here, won it twice, and come second, once.” Read the story here.