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Prizes The 6th round has started. Loek van Wely handed out prizes for games from the 5th as well as the 6th round. A prize went to Machteld van Foreest for her nice endgame win over Dylan Achuthan. The other was awarded to Dev Shah for an interesting game with…

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Weer een spectaculaire ronde in de matches vandaag. Alireza Firouzja, die met 3-0 leidde tegen Jorge Cori Tello, speelde te optimistisch met zijn stukken. Ditmaal deed Cori het heel rustig en hij incasseerde een pion, maar pas na een volgende blunder van Firouzja was het echt afgelopen. Zhansaya Abdumalik ging…

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The four match players of Hoogeveen Chess – Alireza Firouzja, Jorge Cori Tello, Zhansaya Abdumalik and Jan Timman, plus Geertje Timman and Ivette Ale Garcia Morales, Jorge Cori’s girlfriend, had a highly interesting afternoon on their free day. They paid a visit to the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy ASTRON.…

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Live blog by Peter Boel Blog will start late in the afternoon This afternoon we are visiting the National Astronomic Institute and the Dwingeloo Telescope with the four match players, who are having a free day. This means there will be no live-blogging until late in the afternoon, when we…

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Na zes ronden in het Hoogeveen Schaaktoernooi zijn er nog tien deelnemers in de running voor de kruisfinales, die donderdag na de 7e ronde beginnen. Javokhir Sindarov en Sipke Ernst speelden een fascinerende partij, die eindigde in remise ondanks het feit dat Ernst een toren tegen twee pionnen voor stond.…

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Two Sicilians again! The two matches started with two Sicilians again. This time Jorge Cori Tello deviated with 2…e6 instead of 2…Nc6 from Game 1. Jan Timman again played the Najdorf, which probably surprised Zhansaya Abdumalik a little. She reacted with 6.h3 and, after 6…e6, pondered for a little while…

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Jan Timman is helemaal terug in de match met Zhansaya Abdumalik. Hij won vandaag in de derde ronde, nota bene met dezelfde opening als in de eerste partij. Ditmaal ging de Kazachstaanse vroeg in de fout en al snel kreeg Timman een geweldige stelling. Ondanks taai verweer trok hij de…

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The bell tolled… … at nine o’clock exactly, so the early 3rd round of the open has just started. Some of the participants are still under way, or trying to wake up. Simon Elgersma is already in the playing room, and he may already have had breakfast with a birthday…

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The bell tolled… … at nine o’clock exactly, so the early 3rd round of the open has just started. Some of the participants are still under way, or trying to wake up. Simon Elgersma is already in the playing room, and he may already have had breakfast with a birthday…

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Yesterday evening we received the message that the 8-year-old girl who made a draw with Lucas van Foreest at the McDonald’s simul is called Imara Hardeman. Congratulations, Imara   The two matches have started! Firouzja and Abdumalik both opened 1.e4, and on both boards a Sicilian has come on the…

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Yesterday evening we received the message that the 8-year-old girl who made a draw with Lucas van Foreest at the McDonald’s simul is called Imara Hardeman. Congratulations, Imara   The two matches have started! Firouzja and Abdumalik both opened 1.e4, and on both boards a Sicilian has come on the…

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In his capacity of chairman of the board of the Hoogeveen Chess Tournament, Bert van der Haar welcomed two mayors – the current one, Karel Loohuis, and the former one, Sytze Faber, who was one of the originators of the event in 1997. He also welcomed chairwoman Marleen van Amerongen…

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Reigning Dutch champion Lucas van Foreest (18) started off the Hoogeveen Chess tournament this morning with a simultaneous display for around 25 local children at McDonald’s in Hoogeveen. It was a nice and lively event, and the young champion conceded one draw to a girl who was 10 years younger…

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Reigning Dutch champion Lucas van Foreest (18) started off the Hoogeveen Chess tournament this morning with a simultaneous display for around 25 local children at McDonald’s in Hoogeveen. It was a nice and lively event, and the young champion conceded one draw to a girl who was 10 years younger…

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(photos by Lennart Ootes) Jan Timman (14 December 1951) For many years, Jan Timman was ‘The Best of the West’ and he won countless tournaments. Just a small selection: he was a 9-time Dutch champion, and won the interzonal tournament in Taxco 1985 and the World Cup tournament in Rotterdam,…

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The Hoogeveen Chess Tournament will be held from Saturday 19th October through Saturday 26th October 2019. 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…

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Matches Open Finals Open groep Live Blogging    

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  The closing ceremony started with the prize-giving of the Amateur 1 group. Here are the winners: 1 Albert Vasse 7 out of 9 2 Christiaan Mol, Jord Ypma 6½ 4 Jan Lootsma, Marcel Struik, Theo Ebels 6 Rating prize: Tijmen Hofstra 6   Albert Vasse is better known as…

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  The closing ceremony started with the prize-giving of the Amateur 1 group. Here are the winners: 1 Albert Vasse 7 out of 9 2 Christiaan Mol, Jord Ypma 6½ 4 Jan Lootsma, Marcel Struik, Theo Ebels 6 Rating prize: Tijmen Hofstra 6   Albert Vasse is better known as…

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FInd all photos here. Today, in an all-decisive final round, Peter Svidler consolidated his match win over Sam Shankland with a fairly quiet draw: 3½-2½. After another long draw between Vladimir Fedoseev and Jorden van Foreest (3-3), the Russian and the Dutchman had to play a tiebreak, which was won…

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