The Hoogeveen Chess Tournament starts on Saturday, October 15 (opening ceremony) and ends on Saturday, October 22 2016. 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 the Dutch city of Hoogeveen. In the chess café, well-known commentators will analyse the games with the audience. The games can also be followed live on Playchess and on the official website.
Hoogeveen Matches: Hou Yifan vs Nigel Short, Jorden van Foreest vs Ivan Sokolov.
Hoogeveen Open: Nine rounds will be played, with space for approximately 84 players who must have 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 €7,500 with a 1st prize of €3,000.
Amateur toernaments: 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 eight rounds. 1st prize for both groups is €250 each.
Rate of play: 40 moves in 90 minutes, 30 minutes extra time + an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
All photos by Lennart Ootes
Short vs. Hou Yifan
We start off with the main event, in which the English player takes the lead just before halftime. The game showed that even a couple of imprecisions in the Catalan are enough to get into real trouble. Short's technique was flawless.
Nigel Short is pretty famous for a certain king march, and today he does it again
Yifan is dealt the first blow, she has a day to prep and try to turn things around
Sokolov - van Foreest
Meanwhile the bloodbath in the other section continues. Sokolov's handling of the King's Indian with white was simply superb.
Good old style relaying
Van Foreest will need to review this book more carefully
How Sokolov got to this position, not even he knows
Open Section
The open section is still dominated by the Indian players. Gupta and Lalith are the clear leaders, a full point ahead of the field. Lalith impressively defeated both Shyam and Ernst. Since Lalith and Gupta have already played each other, they will have to wait and see if one of the other players can knock their rival out of contention with three rounds left to go.
Leonardo Valdes is all the way from Costa Rica! His performance so far has been not good, however
Abhijeet Gupta in clear lead, and clear control
Sipke Ernst is in the pack of close followers
| Rank | Name | Score | Fed. | Rating | TPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GM Gupta, Abhijeet | 5.5 | IND | 2626 | 2812 |
| 2 | GM Lalith Babu M R | 5.5 | IND | 2586 | 2819 |
| 3 | GM Sandipan, Chanda | 4.5 | IND | 2593 | 2469 |
| 4 | GM Shyam, Sundar M. | 4.5 | IND | 2552 | 2517 |
| 5 | GM Ernst, Sipke | 4.5 | NED | 2540 | 2536 |
| 6 | IM Karavade, Eesha | 4.5 | IND | 2421 | 2406 |
| 7 | IM Nitin, S. | 4.5 | IND | 2410 | 2429 |
| 8 | GM Werle, Jan | 4.0 | NED | 2555 | 2508 |
| 9 | GM Debashis, Das | 4.0 | IND | 2478 | 2357 |
| 10 | IM Ten Hertog, Hugo | 4.0 | NED | 2468 | 2366 |
Results taken from the official website - top ten shown
| Date | Matches | Hoogeveen Open | Amateur | Analysis |
| Sat. 15 Oct. | opening | Round 1 (14.00) | R1 (10.00/14.30) | |
| Sun. 16 Oct. | Round 1 (14.00) | Round 2 (14.00) | R2(9.30/14.00) | Jop Delemarre |
| Mon. 17 Oct. | Round 2 (14.00) | Rround 3 (14.00) | R3 (9.30/14.00) | Gert Ligterink |
| Tues. 18 Oct. | Round 3 (14.00) | Round 4 (14.00) | R4 (9.30/14.00) | Hans Bohm |
| Wed. 19 Oct. | Rest day | R5 (9.00) + R6 (15.00) | R5 (9.30/14.00) | |
| Thurs. 20 Oct. | Round 4 (14.00) | Round 7(14.00) | R6 (9.30/14.00) | Cor van Wijgerden |
| Fri. 21 Oct. | Round 5 (14.00) | Round 8 (14.00) | R7 (9.30/14.00) | Robert Ris |
| Sat. 22 Oct. | R6 (12.00), closing | Round 9 (12.00) | R8 (9.30/14.00) | Joris Brenninkmeijer |
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