However the super IM salvaged two draws against Short and Tiviakov before losing to GM Fernandes in the eighth round. He won 4 games, drew 3 and lost 2. Had it not been a bad start in which he lost to the Angolan, who is rated lower than him, Gwazes performance would have been much better.
He was tied on the 4th position with IM Solomons Deon of South Africa. Short and Fernandes finished with 8 points out of the nine games of play. Tiviakov had 7 points a point behind the winner Short who pipped Fernandes on bucholtz.
Mamombe found the going tough, but he had started very well by drawing against Fernandes and Luis Galego before losing to Gwaze in the third round.
This tourney was one of the toughest hosted on the African soil and will go down in the history as the most interesting yet difficult tournament. Meanwhile Gwaze has to defend the African Individual tourney early next month, the tournament he won in 2007 in Namibia to get a ticket to the World Cup against GM Shirov.
This year he is going back to the World Cup and hope that he will surpass the first round. His schedule is very tight. SA Open is also on the cards next month.
1.6.2011
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Short wins Tourney in Angola
HARARE - Grand Master Nigel Short won the recent CUCA BGI tourney held in Luanda, Angola. Zimbabwes chess sensation Robert Gwaze, who won the tourney last year, failed to successfully defend the title.