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English grandmaster Mickey Adams has won the 8th Gibtelecom Masters after a four-player play-off. Inspite of losing the first game of his semi-final against German GM Jan Gustafsson and having a bad position in the  second game before Gustafsson blundered a piece. Since the scores were equal, it was followed by an Armageddon game, which Adams won. In the other semi-final Indian Grand Master Sandipan Chanda lost to Paco Vallejo Pons of Spain. Sandipan lost the first game but was quite comportable and could have won the second game thus forcing an Armageddon. However he made mistake and drew.Thus Pons qualified to final only to loose to Adams who played in his best form.

India's GN Gopal, Koneru Humpy,scored 7.5 points and 7 points respectively and finished at 8th and 12 positions respectively

The top standings till 7 points.
Final 

Rank	Name	Flags	Score	Fed.	M/F	Rating	TPR	W-We	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1	GM Gustafsson, Jan		7.5	GER	M	2627	2769	+1.88	1	1	1	½	1	½	½	1	½	½
2	GM Adams, Michael		7.5	ENG	M	2694	2764	+0.97	1	1	1	½	1	½	½	½	1	½
3	GM Vallejo Pons, Francisco		7.5	ESP	M	2705	2726	+0.33	1	1	½	½	½	1	1	½	1	½
4	GM Sandipan, Chanda		7.5	IND	M	2622	2720	+1.29	1	1	½	1	½	1	½	½	½	1
5	GM Kamsky, Gata		7.5	USA	M	2693	2719	+0.38	1	1	½	½	1	½	1	½	½	1
6	GM Bacrot, Etienne		7.5	FRA	M	2713	2713	+0.11	½	1	1	1	½	½	½	1	½	1
7	GM Movsesian, Sergei		7.5	SVK	M	2708	2708	+0.07	1	½	1	½	1	½	1	½	1	½
8	GM Geetha Narayanan Gopal		7.5	IND	M	2584	2656	+0.95	1	1	½	1	0	1	½	½	1	1
9	IM Lenderman, Alex		7.5	USA	M	2560	2652	+1.33	1	0	1	1	1	½	1	0	1	1
10	WGM Zhukova, Natalia		7.0	UKR	F	2462	2686	+3.02	1	½	1	½	1	1	½	0	1	½
11	GM Fressinet, Laurent		7.0	FRA	M	2670	2666	+0.04	1	1	1	½	½	½	1	½	½	½
12	GM Koneru, Humpy		7.0	IND	F	2614	2663	+0.77	1	½	1	1	0	1	1	½	½	½
13	GM Halkias, Stelios		7.0	GRE	M	2566	2630	+0.95	1	1	0	1	½	1	1	½	0	1
14	GM Hoffmann, Michael		7.0	GER	M	2508	2630	+1.73	1	1	½	0	1	1	½	½	½	1
15	GM Malakhatko, Vadim		7.0	BEL	M	2549	2590	+0.67	1	½	1	½	1	½	0	1	½	1
16	GM Cheparinov, Ivan		7.0	BUL	M	2660	2568	-0.88	1	½	½	½	1	1	½	½	½	1
17	GM Istratescu, Andrei		7.0	ROU	M	2607	2554	-0.49	1	0	1	1	½	½	1	½	½	1
18	GM Speelman, Jon S		7.0	ENG	M	2525	2551	+0.56	½	1	½	1	1	½	½	½	½	1
19	IM Boskovic, Drasko		7.0	SRB	M	2454	2506	+0.90	1	0	1	½	½	1	1	1	½	½
20	GM Guliyev, Namig		7.0	AZE	M	2516	2505	+0.18	0	1	1	1	1	½	0	1	½	1

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