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Mrs. Univé quits chess
The best female chess player of all time, Judit Polgar, won’t sit down at the Univé chess boards in Hoogeveen any more. Last August she announced that she would stop playing chess. The announcement was a bombshell, towards the end of the Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway, where Polgar had starred…
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Böhm and Maatman take on Hoogeveen
The 18th Univé Chess Tournament is rapidly approaching. The opening day of the tournament is already on Saturday, 11th October. On this day, every inhabitant of Hoogeveen can try his luck on the chessboard during two simultaneous displays. In the morning hours the traditional youth simul will be held at…
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Many grandmasters in the town hall
HOOGEVEEN – The 18th Univé Chess Tournament is approaching with great strides. The organization is in tiptop shape. Dutch State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment Jetta Klijnsma will open the event officially on Saturday 11th October, the afternoon Amateur group is fully booked, in the Open group a record…
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Beliavsky also joins Open Group
Another living chess legend will take part in the Open Group of the Univé tournament in Hoogeveen this year. Alexander Beliavsky, born in Ukraine and a citizen of Slovenia since 1996, is a famous player from the generation of Jan Timman. Already in 1975 he became a grandmaster, and he…
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Player profiles
Anish Giri 28 June 1994 The great hope of Dutch chess turned 20 this year. So now he is officially not a talent anymore, and he devotes himself completely to chess. His next goal is to join the world top ten. With resounding successes in, for example, Reggio Emilia 2011/12…
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Oleg Romanishin back in Hoogeveen
Oleg Mikhailovich Romanishin will again play in the Open Group of the 18th Univé Chess tournament this year. The popular grandmaster from Ukraine already took part here in 2004, 2008 and 2009, scoring 6.5, 6 and 5.5 points respectively. The fighter from Lviv will doubtlessly try to reverse this trend…
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Timman and Giri in 18th Univé Chess Tournament
The 18th edition of the Univé Chess festival in Hoogeveen will take place from 11th through 18th October. The tournament organization, led by the new tournament director Loek van Wely, is glad to announce the Univé Matches: Anish Giri versus Alexey Shirov, and Jan Timman versus Baadur Jobava. Thus, the…
