Jorden van Foreest (30 april 1999)

Jorden van Foreest (30 april 1999)

Het Hoogeveen Schaaktoernooi presenteert van 21 tot en met 27 oktober twee matches van absoluut topniveau. Achtvoudig kampioen van Rusland Peter Svidler komt in het Hoogeveense raadhuis uit tegen de kampioen van de Verenigde Staten, Sam Shankland. Het Nederlandse toptalent Jorden van Foreest speelt tegen de Rus Vladimir Fedoseev, een uitermate creatieve jonge speler die al tegen de wereldtop aanschurkt.
De welbespraakte Peter Svidler (42) kan zich al sinds de negentiger jaren meten met de sterkste schakers op aarde. Hij won talloze toernooien, waaronder liefst achtmaal het Russisch kampioenschap en de World Cup in 2011. Zijn tegenstander Sam Shankland maakte in het afgelopen jaar een enorme sprong en won met fantastisch spel het Amerikaans kampioenschap voor de uitdager van wereldkampioen Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, en voor de cracks Wesley So en Hikaru Nakamura. Een nieuwe clash tussen Rusland en Amerika: echo’s van de legendarische match Fischer-Spassky in 1972!
De nu 19-jarige Jorden van Foreest speelt dit jaar zijn vierde match in Hoogeveen. Vorig jaar won hij voor de eerste keer, tegen de sterke grootmeester Adhiban Baskaran uit India. Van Foreest boekte in het afgelopen jaar opnieuw flinke progressie en versloeg in de Duitse Bundesliga onder meer Baadur Jobava, Andrei Volokitin en Ernesto Inarkiev. In het jeugdwereldkampioenschap werd hij gedeeld vierde. Van Foreest treft de Rus Vladimir Fedoseev, die met zijn 23 jaar al gelouterd is in vele supersterke toernooien en wordt geprezen en gevreesd om zijn briljante vondsten. Fedoseev won in 2017 het sterke Aeroflot Open, werd tweede in het supertoernooi in Dortmund en gedeeld eerste (derde op tiebreak) in het Europees kampioenschap in Minsk. Een flinke kluif voor Jorden!
De matches worden dagelijks vanaf 14.00 uur gespeeld van zondag 21 tot en met zaterdag 27 oktober (op deze dag begint de slotronde om 12.00 uur). Gelijktijdig vindt een sterk open toernooi plaats in het Hoogeveense raadhuis. Dat begint op zaterdag 20 oktober en eindigt op zaterdag 27 oktober (9 ronden; op maandag 22 oktober zijn er twee ronden). Voor dit toernooi, waarin de hoofdprijs 4000 euro bedraagt, hebben zich reeds de grootmeesters Evgeny Romanov (Rusland) en Erik van den Doel aangemeld. Ook Roeland Pruijssers, de winnaar van vorig jaar, komt zijn titel verdedigen.
Op dezelfde dagen als het Open toernooi vinden ook twee amateurtoernooien plaats, het ene ‘s ochtends en het andere ‘s middags.

The Hoogeveen Chess Tournament will be held from Saturday 20th October through Saturday 27th October 2018. The tournament consists of the Hoogeveen Matches, the Hoogeveen Open and two amateur tournaments. All tournaments will take place in the attractive town hall of Hoogeveen. In the chess café, well-known commentators will analyse the games with the audience. The games can also be followed live on this website.
Peter Svidler – Sam Shankland
Jorden van Foreest – Vladimir Fedoseev
In the Hoogeveen Open, 9 rounds will be played. After the 7th round, the top 4 qualifies for the semi-finals and finals to decide the top prizes of the Open tournament. The remaining players of the Open group will play a regular 8th and 9th round. There is space for approximately 84 players with a minimal rating of 2000. The Hoogeveen Open is an international tournament, and consequently (grand-) master norms can be achieved.
There is a total prize fund of € 10,000:
1. € 4,000
2. € 2,000
3. € 1,000
4. € 500
5. € 1,000
6. € 500
7. € 400
8. € 300
9. € 200
10. €100
Group I (= afternoon group): for players with a rating up to 2100. Group II (= morning group): also for players with a rating up to 2100. Each group can contain a maximum of 84 players. They play 8 rounds. 1st prize for both groups is € 250 each.
The results will be submitted to KNSB and FIDE for rating calculations.
The rate of play for the Hoogeveen Open is 40 moves in 90 minutes, 30 minutes extra time + an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.
The rate of play for the Amateur Group I (afternoon group) is 40 moves in 90 minutes, 30 minutes extra time + an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.
The rate of play for the Amateur Group II (morning group) is 90 minutes + 30 seconds extra time per move starting from move 1.
Find the tournament regulations here.
| Date |
Hoogeveen Matches |
Hoogeveen Open |
Amateur Tournament |
| Saturday 20 October 2018 | Opening | 1st round (14.00) | 1st round (10.00 / 14.30) |
| Sunday 21 October 2018 | 1st round (14.00) | 2nd round (14.00) | 2nd round (9.30 / 14.00) |
| Monday 22 October 2018 | 2nd round (14.00) |
3rd round (9.00) + 4th round (15.00) |
3rd round (9.30 / 14.00) |
| Tuesday 23 October 2018 | 3rd round (14.00) | 5th round (14.00) | 4th round (9.30 / 14.00) |
| Wednesday 24 October 2018 | Rest day | 6th round 14.00) | 5th round (9.30 / 14.00) |
| Thursday 25 October 2018 | 4th round (14.00) | 7th round (14.00) | 6th round (9.30 / 14.00) |
| Friday 26 October 2018 | 5th round (14.00) | 8th round (14.00) | 7th round (9.30 / 14.00) |
| Saturday 27 October 2018 |
6th round (12.00) + closing |
9th round (12.00) | 8th round (9.30 / 14.00) |
Matches: rounds 1-5 start at 14.00h. Round 6 starts at 12.00h.
Hoogeveen Open: Round 1-2 and 5-8 at 14.00 hrs. Round 3: 9.00 hrs. Round 4: 15.00 hrs. Round 9: 12.00 hrs.
Amateur Group 1: 1st round at 14.30h; other rounds at 14.00h
Amateur Group 2: 1st round at 10.00h; other rounds at 09.30h
All players are required to check in at the tournament desk before the first round.
Open tournament: Saturday 20th October between 12.00-13.00h
Amateur 1: Saturday 20st October between 12.30-13.30h
Amateur 2: Saturday 20st October between 08.30-09.00h
If you do not check in on time, another participant may be paired in your place.
To register for the event you can use the entry form, at the same time transferring the entry fee on bank account number
NL67ABNA0610325876, in the name of Stichting Schaaktoernooi Hoogeveen, mentioning ‘deelnemersbijdrage’.
The entry fee for the Open Tournament is € 80; entrance is free for IGMs and IMs; FMs pay € 50; youth players, born in or after 2000, also pay € 50.
Entrance fee for either of the amateur tournaments is € 50 for all participants.
For cash payments on October 20th an extra fee of € 5 will be charged.
Only if you have registered as well as paid on time you will be certain of participation.
If your name is not on the participants’ list a week after your registration, please contact us.
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Provincie Drenthe
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Hoogeveen Chess Tournament Hoogeveen
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Het Hoogeveen Schaaktoernooi wordt van zaterdag 20 t/m zaterdag 27 oktober 2018 gehouden. Het toernooi bestaat uit de Hoogeveen Matches, het Hoogeveen Open en twee toernooien voor amateurs.
Peter Svidler – Sam Shankland
Jorden van Foreest – Vladimir Fedoseev
| Datum | Hoogeveen Matches |
Hoogeveen Open |
Amateur toernooi |
| zaterdag 20 oktober 2018 | Opening | 1e ronde (14.00) | 1e ronde (10.00 / 14.30) |
| zondag 21 oktober 2018 | 1e ronde (14.00) | 2e ronde (14.00) | 2e ronde (9.30 / 14.00) |
| maandag 22 oktober 2018 | 2e ronde (14.00) |
3e ronde (9.00) + 4e ronde (15.00) |
3e ronde (9.30 / 14.00) |
| dinsdag 23 oktober 2018 | 3e ronde (14.00) | 5e ronde (14.00) | 4e ronde (9.30 / 14.00) |
| woensdag 24 oktober 2018 | rustdag | 6e ronde (14.00) | 5e ronde (9.30 / 14.00) |
| donderdag 25 oktober 2018 | 4e ronde (14.00) | 7e ronde (14.00) | 6e ronde (9.30 / 14.00) |
| vrijdag 26 oktober 2018 | 5e ronde (14.00) | 8e ronde (14.00) | 7e ronde (9.30 / 14.00) |
| zaterdag 27 oktober 2018 |
6e ronde (12.00) + sluiting |
9e ronde (12.00) | 8e ronde (9.30 / 14.00) |
Gemeente Hoogeveen
Provincie Drenthe
McDonald’s
Sub-sponsoren
!Pet
Van Regteren
Wemmenhove Zuidwolde
Rabobank
Hoogeveen Schaaktoernooi
t.a.v. Jeroen Bottema
E-mail: secretariaat@hoogeveenchess.nl
Internet: http://www.hoogeveenchess.nl
Bankrelatie: ABN AMRO bank, NL67ABNA0610325876

Good morning!
As we’re about to start the final round in less than half an hour, it’s appropriate to tell you something about norm chances. There isn’t very much to say though: German youth player Luis Engel can obtain an IM norm if he beats Orest Gritsak today, with white. And Maurice Schippers is already entitled to apply for the FM title as he has crossed the 2300 mark in this tournament.
Two hours earlier than the previous rounds the final round just started, in the presence of special guest Jan Timman. He is now giving a clock simul in the foyer of the town hall against the 5 winners of the contest in which chess players had to answer a number of tough questions about our national chess legend.

Remarkable: we don’t have a dress code for the finals in the Marriage Room, but still all 4 players appeared in a ‘hoodie’ today.

Dmitrij Kollars with his coach, Jonathan Carlstedt
Ever wondered what happens in the Dragon if Black just keeps pushing his a-pawn, and White just keeps pushing the h-pawn? We’re seeing it in the game O’Gorman-Paszewski today.

18. Rh3?!
A strange attacking move. You would expect the immediate 18.Rxh7 when everything seems to end in a draw: 18…fxg6 (or 18…Lxe5) 19.Rdh1 Bxe5 20.Rh8+ Bxh8 21.Rxh8+ Kxh8 22.Qh6+.
18…h6?!
Black is winning after 18…axb3 19.Rxh7 bxa2 20.Nxa2 fxg6 21.Rdh1 Bxe5 22.Rh8+ Bxh8 23. Rxh8+ Kf7!. But maybe that’s just my engine.
19.Rxh6
Now 19…axb3 doesn’t work due to 20.Rdh1 fxg6 21.Rxg6 and White wins in the attack. However Black plays:
19…fxg6 20.Rxh7
And now he can take the rook on h7 since the king has an escape route via f7. The Polish FM is thinking about it…
Siem van Dael looks winning already against local hero Sander Taams, who is fearlessly playing a sharp Najdorf against the theoretically well-versed youngster. After 20.The1, 21.e6 was a lethal threat, and taking that pawn is not a real remedy…

Siem van Dael
A fairly short draw in the consolation final between Dinara Saduakassova and Thomas Beerdsen, so we have at least one playoff again, later today!

Roeland Pruijssers has built a massive pile up on the black g7-pawn. Kollars has now played 24…g5, which boils down to a desperate and hopeless pawn sacrifice. He could have played 23…g5 one move earlier, with better chances to hold.

Pruijssers and Kollars at the start of their game, with arbiter Huub Blom.
Roeland Pruijssers won the Open by beating 18-year-old Dmitrij Kollars in the final. More on that game later! First the consolation final between Dinara Saduakassova and Thomas Beerdsen.

The 19-year-old Dutchman was attacking in a tricky first game but Saduakassova again defended quite adroitly and won. In the second game she won an exchange but Beerdsen acquired a few strong pawns for it. The crucial moment came on move 38:
Saduakassova-Beerdsen

Here Black could have won by 38…Rc2+ and 39…Rc1. After 38…Rb4+? the game petered out to a draw, which meant third place for the young lady from Kazachstan.
Jan Timman played a clock simul this afternoon against five opponents. He won three games and drew twice.

Half points were gained by Henk Eleveld…

… and Henk van Putten.

Yannick Husers was flagged (!) and Wilko van der Gracht and local player Carolien Slingerland lost their games regularly.
Right after the game the winner of the Open, Roeland Pruijssers, gave the following lines and impressions:
Pruijssers-Kollars

16.Nhf5!?
‘Dmitrij had a tough day yesterday so I decided to complicate a little’, Pruijssers said. ‘I could have played Be3 here or earlier.’
16…Rad8

This is the problem: White has to give the pawn on d3.
17.Be3!?
Pruijssers considered for a long time the sac 17.Bxh6 gxh6 18.Qc1 Re6 and now 19.Qxh6? runs into 19…Bxf2+! 20.Kxf2 Ng4+. But right after the game Pruijssers found 19.d4! exd4 and now 20.Qxh6 Ne8 21.Qg5+ Kf8 (21…Rg6? 22.Rxe8+ Rxe8 23.Nh6+) 22.Qh4 Kg8 leads to a repetition.
17…Bxe3
‘I thought I might be worse after 17…Qxd3 18.Qf3 Bxe3 19.Rxe3 Qd5’, Pruijssers said. ‘But actually it’s not so clear after 20.Nh5!.’
18.Rxe3 Kh7 19.Nh5 Nxh5 20.Qxh5 Qe6 21.Rg3 Rg8 22.Re1 Rde8 23.Re4

23…Qf6?
As we wrote before, here it was time for 23…g5, e.g. 24.Rf3 Qg6 and nothing is decided yet.
24.Reg4 g5 25.Rxg5 Rxg5 26.Rxg5 Rf8 27.Rg7+ Kh8 28.Rg4 Kh7 29.Rh4 Qg6 30.Qf3 1-0
So that meant 8 out of 9 in this tournament for Pruijssers, who rode the almost 10 kilometers from Westerbergen to the tournament hall on his bicycle every day – perhaps an idea for future tournament winners?

The winner of the Open, with a clean sweep in the final.
Stefan Kuipers has won the ‘remainder’ of the Open with a 7 out of 9 score. He was leading the field after his win yesterday, so Xu Xiangyi had to go all out for a win today. He lost a pawn, then worked on an initiative, but Kuipers managed to solve his problems and offered a draw. ‘Of course he refused, and after that he want to far and lost the thread of the game’, Kuipers said.
A very nice performance by the Dutchman, who also won the Leiden Open earlier this year.
Davorin Kuljasovic, Sipke Ernst and Tania Sachdev won their games, and ended the tournament on 6½ points.
Luis Engel just missed an IM norm by drawing against Orest Gritsak, which is not a bad thing in itself of course.

Stefan Kuipers
Robby Kevlishvili gave a nice demonstration of ‘condition chess’ today. The event, where the clock is put on some distance from the board so you have to run after every move, wasn’t held on the Hoogeveen streets due to the weather, but in the foyer of the town hall after Jan Timman had finished his clock simul there.
Kevlishvili started by beating Loek van Wely twice (‘he runs faster and plays better too’, the tournament director had to admit) and after that crushed everyone in sight, except for Thomas Beerdsen who scraped a draw.

Robby Kevlishvili (left) playing Siem van Dael.

Good morning!
As we’re about to start the final round in less than half an hour, it’s appropriate to tell you something about norm chances. There isn’t very much to say though: German youth player Luis Engel can obtain an IM norm if he beats Orest Gritsak today, with white. And Maurice Schippers is already entitled to apply for the FM title as he has crossed the 2300 mark in this tournament.
Two hours earlier than the previous rounds the final round just started, in the presence of special guest Jan Timman. He is now giving a clock simul in the foyer of the town hall against the 5 winners of the contest in which chess players had to answer a number of tough questions about our national chess legend.

Remarkable: we don’t have a dress code for the finals in the Marriage Room, but still all 4 players appeared in a ‘hoodie’ today.

Dmitrij Kollars with his coach, Jonathan Carlstedt
Ever wondered what happens in the Dragon if Black just keeps pushing his a-pawn, and White just keeps pushing the h-pawn? We’re seeing it in the game O’Gorman-Paszewski today.

18. Rh3?!
A strange attacking move. You would expect the immediate 18.Rxh7 when everything seems to end in a draw: 18…fxg6 (or 18…Lxe5) 19.Rdh1 Bxe5 20.Rh8+ Bxh8 21.Rxh8+ Kxh8 22.Qh6+.
18…h6?!
Black is winning after 18…axb3 19.Rxh7 bxa2 20.Nxa2 fxg6 21.Rdh1 Bxe5 22.Rh8+ Bxh8 23. Rxh8+ Kf7!. But maybe that’s just my engine.
19.Rxh6
Now 19…axb3 doesn’t work due to 20.Rdh1 fxg6 21.Rxg6 and White wins in the attack. However Black plays:
19…fxg6 20.Rxh7
And now he can take the rook on h7 since the king has an escape route via f7. The Polish FM is thinking about it…
Siem van Dael looks winning already against local hero Sander Taams, who is fearlessly playing a sharp Najdorf against the theoretically well-versed youngster. After 20.The1, 21.e6 was a lethal threat, and taking that pawn is not a real remedy…

Siem van Dael
A fairly short draw in the consolation final between Dinara Saduakassova and Thomas Beerdsen, so we have at least one playoff again, later today!

Roeland Pruijssers has built a massive pile up on the black g7-pawn. Kollars has now played 24…g5, which boils down to a desperate and hopeless pawn sacrifice. He could have played 23…g5 one move earlier, with better chances to hold.

Pruijssers and Kollars at the start of their game, with arbiter Huub Blom.
Roeland Pruijssers won the Open by beating 18-year-old Dmitrij Kollars in the final. More on that game later! First the consolation final between Dinara Saduakassova and Thomas Beerdsen.

The 19-year-old Dutchman was attacking in a tricky first game but Saduakassova again defended quite adroitly and won. In the second game she won an exchange but Beerdsen acquired a few strong pawns for it. The crucial moment came on move 38:
Saduakassova-Beerdsen

Here Black could have won by 38…Rc2+ and 39…Rc1. After 38…Rb4+? the game petered out to a draw, which meant third place for the young lady from Kazachstan.
Jan Timman played a clock simul this afternoon against five opponents. He won three games and drew twice.

Half points were gained by Henk Eleveld…

… and Henk van Putten.

Yannick Husers was flagged (!) and Wilko van der Gracht and local player Carolien Slingerland lost their games regularly.
Right after the game the winner of the Open, Roeland Pruijssers, gave the following lines and impressions:
Pruijssers-Kollars

16.Nhf5!?
‘Dmitrij had a tough day yesterday so I decided to complicate a little’, Pruijssers said. ‘I could have played Be3 here or earlier.’
16…Rad8

This is the problem: White has to give the pawn on d3.
17.Be3!?
Pruijssers considered for a long time the sac 17.Bxh6 gxh6 18.Qc1 Re6 and now 19.Qxh6? runs into 19…Bxf2+! 20.Kxf2 Ng4+. But right after the game Pruijssers found 19.d4! exd4 and now 20.Qxh6 Ne8 21.Qg5+ Kf8 (21…Rg6? 22.Rxe8+ Rxe8 23.Nh6+) 22.Qh4 Kg8 leads to a repetition.
17…Bxe3
‘I thought I might be worse after 17…Qxd3 18.Qf3 Bxe3 19.Rxe3 Qd5’, Pruijssers said. ‘But actually it’s not so clear after 20.Nh5!.’
18.Rxe3 Kh7 19.Nh5 Nxh5 20.Qxh5 Qe6 21.Rg3 Rg8 22.Re1 Rde8 23.Re4

23…Qf6?
As we wrote before, here it was time for 23…g5, e.g. 24.Rf3 Qg6 and nothing is decided yet.
24.Reg4 g5 25.Rxg5 Rxg5 26.Rxg5 Rf8 27.Rg7+ Kh8 28.Rg4 Kh7 29.Rh4 Qg6 30.Qf3 1-0
So that meant 8 out of 9 in this tournament for Pruijssers, who rode the almost 10 kilometers from Westerbergen to the tournament hall on his bicycle every day – perhaps an idea for future tournament winners?

The winner of the Open, with a clean sweep in the final.
Stefan Kuipers has won the ‘remainder’ of the Open with a 7 out of 9 score. He was leading the field after his win yesterday, so Xu Xiangyi had to go all out for a win today. He lost a pawn, then worked on an initiative, but Kuipers managed to solve his problems and offered a draw. ‘Of course he refused, and after that he want to far and lost the thread of the game’, Kuipers said.
A very nice performance by the Dutchman, who also won the Leiden Open earlier this year.
Davorin Kuljasovic, Sipke Ernst and Tania Sachdev won their games, and ended the tournament on 6½ points.
Luis Engel just missed an IM norm by drawing against Orest Gritsak, which is not a bad thing in itself of course.

Stefan Kuipers
Robby Kevlishvili gave a nice demonstration of ‘condition chess’ today. The event, where the clock is put on some distance from the board so you have to run after every move, wasn’t held on the Hoogeveen streets due to the weather, but in the foyer of the town hall after Jan Timman had finished his clock simul there.
Kevlishvili started by beating Loek van Wely twice (‘he runs faster and plays better too’, the tournament director had to admit) and after that crushed everyone in sight, except for Thomas Beerdsen who scraped a draw.

Robby Kevlishvili (left) playing Siem van Dael.









In het provinciehuis in Assen werden gisteren aantrekkelijke schaak- en damdemonstraties gegeven, voor sponsors van het Hoogeveen schaaktoernooi en andere belangstellenden.
Eerst speelde toernooidirecteur Loek van Wely een scherpe schaakpartij tegen Jan Timman, die in remise eindigde.

“Geen foutloze partij, maar wel interessant”, zei Timman. Beide spelers hadden het extra moeilijk omdat Hans Böhm tussendoor vragen stelde over allerlei zaken behalve schaken.

Hierna waren er diverse kinderen die wel een potje wilden spelen tegen de twee supergrootmeesters, zowel tegen Van Wely…

… als tegen Timman:

Hierna was de beurt aan Wassili Ivanchuk, die na een intensieve schaakweek ging dammen met de jonge Nederlandse wereldtopper Jan Groenendijk. Ivanchuk, die al behoorlijk wat ervaring heeft in damtoernooien, maakte het in de eerste partij Groenendijk behoorlijk moeilijk en deze kwam in tijdnood, maar won tenslotte. Daarna volgde een sneldampartijtje dat Groenendijk overtuigend won, maar in het tweede vluggertje moest de Nederlander weer voluit gaan voor de twee punten.

Ivanchuk vermaakte zich uitstekend op deze middag: “Veel gelachen, veel geleerd.”

Groenendijk vond dat het damniveau van de topschaker behoorlijk was gestegen sinds het laatste toernooi waarop hij hem tegen was gekomen, vorig jaar.
Na deze drie partijen nam Ivanchuk het op tegen twee meisjes – op het dambord!
“Altijd als ik in Nederland kom is het een feestje”, zei Ivanchuk aan het eind van deze geslaagde middag, waarin de Oekraïner de verpersoonlijking vormde van de verbroedering van de schaak- en de damsport – al was het maar voor een dag.

Good afternoon!
We’ve started today with the semi-finals of the Open and the Basque Chess match between Wei Yi and Adhiban Baskaran in the Marriage Room, and the rest of the Open in the big playing hall.

The semifinals both started with a Ruy Lopez.

Dmitrij Kollars (left) and Dinara Saduakassova in the semifinals.
The Basque Chess games aren’t very exciting yet, though they are drawing quite a few spectators. The Chat Chess game between Timman and Van Wely in Assen was a quite spectacular draw. Here it is:
Timman-Van Wely
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 dxc4 5.Bg2 a6 6.O-O b5 7.Ne5 Nd5 8.e4 Nf6 9.Nc3 Bb7 10.d5 Bd6 11.Bf4 O-O

12.Nxf7 Kxf7 13.dxe6+ Kxe6 14.Bh3+ Kf7 15.e5 Bxe5 16.Qxd8 Rxd8 17.Bxe5 Nc6 18.Bxc7 Rd2 19.Rfe1 Nd4 20.Bg2 Bxg2 21.Kxg2 Rxb2 22.Rad1 Ne6 23.Be5 Ng4 24.h3

24…Rxf2+ 25.Kg1 Nxe5 26.Rxe5 Rf3 27.Ne4 Rd3 28.Rf1+ Ke7 29.Nc5 Kd6 30.Nxd3 cxd3 31.Re3 Nc5 32.Rf4 Kc6 33.Rd4 Ra7 34.Kf2 a5 35.Re8 Rc7 36.Re5 b4 37.Ke3 Kb5 38.Rxd3 a4 39.Rd4 a3 40.Re8 Rb7 41.Rc8 b3 42.axb3 a2 43.Ra8 Nxb3 44.Rda4 a1=Q 45.Rxa1 Nxa1 46.Rxa1 Kc5 1/2-1/2
Wei Yi has won his white game in the Basque match with Adhiban. The Indian GM’s knight got stuck on the rim, which was indeed quite dim for him. The knight got caught and the game was lost. The other game was a quite uneventful draw. A short break – and we’re off again!
In the meantime we’ll show you a nice picture of two chess-playing ladies.

A beautiful trick just came on the board in the game Sybolt Strating-Bas de Boer.

Black has aimed his pieces menacingly at g2. White could have defended everything with the cool 21.Qxd5. Strating played the equally cool
21.Rf2
but now Black has a wonderful trick:
21…Nf3+!!
Just let it sink in for a while (as Strating did) and you’ll see that Black is winning in all lines.
Adhiban has just won his white game in the Basque vs Wei Yi in nice attacking style.
Xu Xiangyu and Sipke Ernst have made a pretty quick draw – they’ll have to work hard tomorrow if they want to win a prize in the Open.

Xu Xiangyu
The second Basque game of the second round was also won by Adhiban in a long endgame with opposite-coloured bishops where the Indian GM had two extra pawns. So after leading Wei Yi went down in the end with 1½-2½.
‘It was really crazy’, Adhiban said. ‘With this Basque Chess you get stuck in one game and you forget about the other. My second white game was crushing, in the black game I was somewhat worse but he may have underestimated my counterplay. Then he blundered that pawn on a3, and then lost another. Maybe the endgame was a draw, but it’s very difficult to hold with so little time if I just keep playing around. There had to be a winner in this match, so I just kept playing.’

Adhiban Baskaran, the winner of the Basque Chess mini-match
For Wei Yi it was another disappointment. Probably the Chinese player was the most creative of the four this week, but it didn’t bring him anything in the end.
The young German player Valentin Buckels, whom we have been seeing here for several years already, made a good attempt to join the leaders in the Open with an attacking win over IM Casper Schoppen, who seemed to have landed in the wrong opening.
Buckels-Schoppen

This position is already unpleasant for Black – maybe he should have tried 10…Ng6 here.
10…Bd6
Giving White more time!
11.h5 Bxe5 12.dxe5 N6d7 13.Qg3 f6 14.Nf3 Qe7 15.exf6 Qxf6 16.Ne5 Qe7
It’s already hard to find a useful move for Black.
17.Nxd7 Nxd7 18.h6 g6

And it’s over in a flash:
19.Bxg6 hxg6 20.Qxg6+ Kh8 21.Bd6!
The winning blow – even stronger than 21.Bg5.
21…Rg8 22.Qxg8+ Kxg8 23.Bxe7 1-0
Both semifinal games are captivating fights. In Pruijssers-Beerdsen, despite many tactical tricks along the way, the balance never seems to have been clearly broken.

Young IM Thomas Beerdsen, one of the most active players in the circuit
Dmitrij Kollars has had the upper hand all the time against Dinara Saduakassova. He missed a good chance to keep his grip with 30.Qe4!. After 30.Qxc7 Nd3 Saduakassova fought like a lion and reached a slightly worse rook ending – a pawn down but with active play.
Dinara taking a view from another angle
Today Stefan Kuipers brought the ‘Vorentscheidung’ of his game with Stefan Colijn on the board with a very nice combination:
Kuipers-Colijn

White obtained a winning advantage with the following nice combination:
17.Bxf6 gxf6 18.Rxd6! Qxd6 19.Ne4 Qe5 20.Qh6!

The beautiful point. Due to the threat of 21.Nxf6+ and mate Black has to give his queen:
20…Qxe4 21.Bd3 Qg6 22.Bxg6
And White won after 20 more moves.

Tania Sachdev has been better for most of the game against Davorin Kuljasevic and is still pushing. It may end in a draw, but then she will be on the better end of it.

‘Maggie’ van Foreest has just lost the endgame against Iva Videnova, who played very patiently and in the end closed in on the white king. A pity for our little star! Will she bounce back one more time to end on plus-1?

The winner of the game, Iva Videnova.
Roeland Pruijssers has a winning endgame now. His kingside pawns, helped by rook and king, are faster and more dangerous than Black’s queenside pawns.
Saduakassova on the other hand seems to be holding in a 3 vs 2 rook ending – a theoretical draw, but Kollars may try for a little longer.
Tournament direct Loek van Wely and living chess legend Jan Timman had a great time in the province house in Assen. They had to play a sharp game while Dutch IM and TV personality Hans Böhm was asking them all kinds of non-chess questions. ‘I was winning somewhere’, Van Wely said. ‘But it was a nice show anyway.’ After that the three played blitz with members of the audience.
Later Vasily Ivanchuk played a game of draughts with last years vice World Champion Jan Groenendijk. Although Ivanchuk is a good draughts player who has done well in several tournaments, Groenendijk was too strong for him. After that they also played blitz draughts with visitors.


Tomorrow Timman will give a clock simul at the town hall against five players who have won a contest in which they had to answer a number of questions (chess-technical as well as trivia) about Timman. Then we will see if they know as much about chess as they do about this famous chess player.
Kollars and Sadduakassova are going to pay blitz to decide who gets into the final!
After no less than five highly tense blitz games the young German GM Dmitrij Kollars has reached the final of the Open. Dinara Saduakassova was trailing several times but showed incredible tenacity, especially in Game 2 and 4. In Game 5 Kollars won a pawn but the Kazach top player looked to be holding again. However a quite pointed treatment of the ending brought Kollars victory after all.

The pairings for tomorrow are:
Pruijssers-Kollars (final) and
Saduakassova-Beerdsen