直布罗陀发行《第十届直布罗陀国际象棋节》纪念邮票：
2003年开赛的直布罗陀国际象棋节现在是世界上最负盛名的赛事之一，由于比赛坐落在风景如画西班牙境内的英属直布罗陀半岛，比赛每年都能吸引不少高手前来参赛，象棋节每年举行一届，比赛采用瑞士制，节分为大师组、挑战者组和业余组三项公开赛，共进行9轮比赛。
New Gibraltar Chess Postage Stamps
Gibraltar Post is issuing a set of stamps dedicated to the Gibraltar Chess festival 10th Anniversary.
The Gibraltar International Chess Festival, now one of the most prestigious open tournaments in the world, began as a much smaller event in 2003. Its popularity has grown year on year, and today well over 300 participants, players of all levels, return to the Rock every January, many calling Gibraltar their favourite event on the chess calendar. For eleven days the festival venue, the Caleta Hotel, is transformed into a hive of chess activity.
In a separate development, the first Gibraltar International Junior Chess Festival took place in August, 2011. Children from the UK, Spain, and Gibraltar took part. Over the past decade, thanks to a dedicated teaching programme, many hundreds of children in Gibraltar have received chess tuition at school. One young Gibraltarian, Stephen Whatley, has scored notable tournament successes in the UK, while several other young local players show similar promise, with more juniors keen to follow.
The games featured on the stamps have been specially chosen as representing the best of the many thousands contested in Gibraltar over the past decade. All the players shown are grandmasters. Two are women. Pia Cramling (Sweden) has played in all ten Gibraltar festivals, while Natalia Zhukova (Ukraine) won the top female award in 2010. Michael Adams, Nigel Short (both England) and Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) are all former Gibraltar champions. Viktor Bologan (Moldova) and Fabiano Caruana (Italy) are elite players with aggressive styles popular with the public. Chess legend Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) fought two World Championship matches with arch-rival Anatoly Karpov.
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