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Verslag Ronde 5 Matches / Ronde 6 Open
Dit verslag is overgenomen van het Engelstalige liveblog van Peter Boel. 14:38 Round 5/6 has started! A quick start today – Loek van Wely just rewarded Maurice Schippers for his nice black win against Bardhyl Uksini – the best game of round 5. Then the clocks were started. In the…
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Report round 4 Matches & round 5 Open
16:11 Percentages At the start of the 5th round (the 4th round for the matches) Loek van Wely made the percentages public of the moves that were identical with the computer’s first choice in the match games. Match game 2: Ivanchuk 58% Wei Yi 68% Adhiban: 67% Van Foreest…
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Verslag ronde 4 Matches & Ronde 5 Open
Dit verslag is overgenomen van het Engelstalige liveblog van Peter Boel. 16:11 Percentages At the start of the 5th round (the 4th round for the matches) Loek van Wely made the percentages public of the moves that were identical with the computer’s first choice in the match games. Match…
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Report Round 3 Matches & Rounds 3/4 Open
09:22 … and most of us are off! Ten players took a bye for this early third round of the Open (the matches will start as usual at 14.00h this afternoon), which meant the number of players was uneven and Onno Elgersma also has a bye. Unluckily for him, as…
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Verslag Ronde 3 Matches & 3+4 Open
Dit verslag is overgenomen van het Engelstalige liveblog van Peter Boel. 09:22 … and most of us are off! Ten players took a bye for this early third round of the Open (the matches will start as usual at 14.00h this afternoon), which meant the number of players was uneven…
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‘This technology is the basis for the future’
The Hoogeveen Open has 37 live boards, which is unique in the Netherlands. The new software programme livechess 2 that is being used in the Hoogeveen town hall since yesterday was developed by the Belgian software developer Jan Vanhercke, and is connected to the new plastic DGT smartboards. ‘Wood…
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Report Round 2
14:08 Round 2 has started! We’re off again! Today both match games started with 1.e4, which we more or less expected with Wei Yi and Jorden van Foreest playing White. And in spite of Wei Yi’s reputation as a Sicilian slayer, Vasily Ivanchuk did take up the challenge and played…
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Verslag Ronde 2
Dit verslag is overgenomen van het Engelstalige liveblog van Peter Boel. 14:08 Round 2 has started! We’re off again! Today both match games started with 1.e4, which we more or less expected with Wei Yi and Jorden van Foreest playing White. And in spite of Wei Yi’s reputation as a…
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Everyone’s a winner at McDonald’s
The annual McDonald’s chess event in Hoogeveen drew a lot of local youth players yesterday. Sixteen children took part in the bughouse chess tournament in the morning, and twenty participated in the ‘hands and brains’ tournament in the afternoon, where the first player of a duo had to choose a…
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Round 1: Report Peter Boel
14:16 We’ve started! Hoogeveen Chess 2017 has begun! Both the two matches and the Open got the signal from chief arbiter Frans Peeters at 14.03h. 37 brand new DGT smartboards are running to give you all the live games from the Open, and of course the clashes between Vasily Ivanchuk…
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Ronde 1: Verslag Peter Boel
Dit verslag is overgenomen van het Engelstalige liveblog van Peter Boel. 14:16 We’ve started! Hoogeveen Chess 2017 has begun! Both the two matches and the Open got the signal from chief arbiter Frans Peeters at 14.03h. 37 brand new DGT smartboards are running to give you all the live games…
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Coffeehouse Chess
photos: Lennart Ootes The chairman of the tournament committee, Bert van der Haar, welcomed the match players and other visitors to the 21st Hoogeveen Chess Tournament, yesterday afternoon in the Tamboer theatre in Hoogeveen. He especially welcomed the mayor of Hoogeveen, Karel Loohuis, Thierry Baudet, leader of the Dutch political…
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Live boards, anti-cheating, raffles
All the games in the Open group of the Hoogeveen Chess Tournament will also be broadcast live on the website www.hoogeveenchess.nl. The electronic boards are provided by the Dutch company DGT, a leading company in the area of digital chessboards and chess clocks. In Hoogeveen they will be testing a…
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Players’ portraits Hoogeveen 2017
Jorden van Foreest Photo: Lennart Ootes Born: April 30, 1999 in Utrecht. FIDE Rating: 2600 (Augustus 2017) Previous editions: Match 2016 (2.5 – 3.5 lost vs Ivan Sokolov); Match 2015 (2.5 – 3.5) lost vs Jan Timman; Open 2013 (5.5/9); Open 2012 (5/9); Open 2011 (4/9); Open 2010 (4/9); Jorden is…
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Hoogeveen Matches: Ivanchuk-Wei Yi and Van Foreest-Adhiban
The participants for the Hoogeveen Chess Matches are known. World top player Vasily Ivanchuk will play the highly talented Wei Yi from China, on 21-26 October in the town hall of Hoogeveen. The Dutch top talent Jorden van Foreest is paired against the strong grandmaster Adhiban Baskaran from India. …
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Registration 21st Hoogeveen Chess Tournament 2017 opened
The Hoogeveen Chess Tournament will be held from Saturday 21st October through Saturday 28th October 2017. 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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Invasion of India postponed
At the closing ceremony, tournament director Loek van Wely spoke of a very enjoyable jubilee edition, ‘with two top matches with exciting chess, and a strong Open. And this time we had a beautiful art exhibition by Yvon Drummen, who also made the prizes for the matches. I hope everybody…
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Gupta pulls it off again
For a moment things seemed to become tense, but until the last moment he had everything under control. The best player in the Open won the tournament again, just like last year: grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta from India. Photo: Lennart Ootes Half a point against Lucas van Foreest was enough for…
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Hou Yifan finishes with a flash
It happens sometimes: if a player wins a match before time, his attention fades. It happened to Short today, and Hou Yifan struck immediately with an elegant attack. She wasn’t really proud of it, as with accurate play Short wouldn’t have got into trouble. Ivan Sokolov won the other match…
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Again, a Van Foreest
For days we have been desperately asking ourselves who could break the supremacy of the Great Moghuls of Hoogeveen. It took a Van Foreest to do it. Lucas stole a point from Babu Lalith in this penultimate round. The Indian finally lost his self-control and went too far. Abhijeet Gupta…
