The
Dutch Team Championship sports strong GMs from all over the world. The playoffs
themselves take place in May, this time on May 20th and 21st, with the following
four teams:
- HSG Hilversum, with Ljubojevic, Seirawan, Rogers, Nijboer,
Stellwagen, L'Ami, De Vreugt. etc.
- ZZICT, with Van Wely, Movsesian, Van den Doel, Chuchelov,
Timman, Van der Wiel, etc.
- VastNed Doettling, with Schmaltz, Reinderman, etc.
- ING/ESGOO, with Feygin, Schebler, Hausrath, etc.
For the playoffs the rules allow the top-scoring team to pick its first opponent
among the other three. VastNed Rotterdam was the lucky team, and their
unlucky choice was ING/ESGOO Enschede. The latter usually ends up
in fourth place, but this time they defeated the leading team in the semifinals.
In the second encounter ZZICT Breda beat HSG Hilversum. In
the finals ZZICT trounced ING/ESGOO Enschede 8½-1½. Hilversum came third with
a convincing victory over Rotterdam.
Finals
| Bd. |
ZZICT Breda |
ING/ESGOO Enschede |
8¼-1½ |
| 1. |
Van Wely, Loek (GM, NED, 2651) |
Lemmers, Oscar (IM, NED, 2379) |
1-0 |
| 2. |
Chuchelov, Vladimir (GM, BEL, 2593) |
Koster, Ramon (NED, 2258) |
1-0 |
| 3. |
Van den Doel, Erik (GM, NED, 2599) |
Hausrath, Daniel (IM, GER, 2452) |
1-0 |
| 4. |
Timman, Jan (GM, NED, 2576) |
Feygin, Michail (IM, UKR, 2471) |
½-½ |
| 5. |
Van der Wiel, John (GM, NED, 2526) |
Kroeze, Frank (FM, NED, 2384) |
½-½ |
| 6. |
Hoogendoorn, Joost (FM, NED, 2377) |
Hoffmann, Michael (IM, GER, 2444) |
1-0 |
| 7. |
Werle, Jan (IM, NED, 2438) |
Spoelman, Wouter (NED, 2249) |
1-0 |
| 8. |
Delemarre, Jop (IM, NED, 2464) |
Bolwerk, Peter (NED, 2280) |
1-0 |
| 9. |
Cuijpers, Frans (IM, NED, 2489) |
Schebler, Gerhard (IM, GER, 2471) |
1-0 |
| 10. |
Blees, Albert (IM, NED, 2389) |
Bitalzadeh, Ali (NED, 2229) |
½-½ |
Place three
| Bd. |
HSG Hilversum |
VastNed Rotterdam |
7½-2½ |
| 1. |
Ljubojevic, Ljubomir (GM, SCG, 2569) |
Winants, Luc (GM, BEL, 2497) |
½-½ |
| 2. |
Seirawan, Yasser (GM, USA, 2621) |
Schmaltz, Roland (GM, GER, 2522) |
1-0 |
| 3. |
L'Ami, Erwin (IM, NED, 2478) |
Doettling, Fabian (GM, GER, 2532) |
½-½ |
| 4. |
Rogers, Ian (GM, AUS, 2582) |
Bosch, Jeroen (IM, NED, 2445) |
½-½ |
| 5. |
Stellwagen, Daniel (IM, NED, 2503) |
Piket, Marcel (FM, NED, 2343) |
1-0 |
| 6. |
De Vreugt, Dennis (GM, NED, 2472) |
Reinderman, Dimitri (GM, NED, 2521) |
½-½ |
| 7. |
Nijboer, Friso (GM, NED, 2578) |
Timmerman, Gert (FM, NED, 2354) |
1-0 |
| 8. |
Vedder, Henk (NED, 2363) |
Carlier, Bruno (IM, NED, 2415) |
1-0 |
| 9. |
Pliester, Leon (IM, NED, 2382) |
Gulbas, Cemil (FM, BEL, 2363) |
1-0 |
| 10. |
Douven, Rudy (IM, NED, 2416) |
Van Harreveld, Frenk (FM, NED, 2284) |
½-½ |
Picture Gallery
Shhhhhh.... Chess in a library
Dutch chess legend Jan Timman playing for the winning team ZZICT Breda
Thinking for HSG Hilversum: American GM Yasser Seirawan
German GM Roland Schmaltz, a.k.a. Hawkeye on the chess server
Friso Nijboer (GM, NED, 2578) playing for Hilversum
Young talent Daniel Stellwagen (17), part of the Hilversum team
Top Dutch GM Loek van Wely, board one of the winning team
Belgian GM Luc Winants preparing for his game against...
... the man with the watch, GM Ljubomir Ljubojevic from Serbia and Montenegro
Actually it is very simple, Jan: first a six-man tournament with Kasparov,
then the winner plays the winner of Kramnik vs Leko. Then we have unity!
All pictures by Jeroen van den Belt
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