Man made

This year’s Isle of Man Masters, sponsored by Chess.com, could claim to be the strongest ever open chess competition. The line-up was formidable, with most of the English Olympiad squad participating, as well as former world champions Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand.
 
As it was, the championship titans failed in their bid to capture the £50,000 first prize. Leading scores were as follows, with Radoslaw Wojtaszek emerging as the title holder after the obligatory playoff: Wojtaszek and Naiditsch Arkadij both scored 7/9 in the main event, ahead of Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk, Hikaru Nakamura, Wang Hao, Gawain Jones, B. Adhiban and Jeffery Xiong, who all scored 6½.
 
Jones-Aronian: Isle of Man 2018
(see diagram 1)
 
England’s Gawain Jones had an excellent result including this win against elite grandmaster Lev Aronian. White is the exchange ahead here but the strong black passed d-pawn complicates the winning task. 35 Bc4 d2 36 Rb1 g6 37 Rb8+ Kg7 38 Rd8 Kf6 39 Be2 Ke5 40 Bf3 Ne6 41 Rd7 Bd4 42 Kg2 Now that White has the d-pawn under control he can activate his king.