Hoogeveen celebrates chess

by Johannes Fischer
10/20/2015 – The 19th Hoogeveen Chess Festival is an attractive event. This year Dutch legend Jan Timman plays a match against Jorden van Foreest, the youngest Dutch GM of all time. Anna Maja Kazarian, recently crowned U16 European Champion challenges Sopiko Giri-Guramishvili. Moreover, there is a strong open, two amateur events and a tournament in Basque Chess.
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"The Hoogeveen Chess Tournament will be held from Saturday 17h through Saturday 24th October 2015. 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 the games with the audience." (Source: Tournament page)

(From left to right) Jorden van Foreest, Dutch GM and tournament director
Loek van Wely, arbiter Geurt Guijssen, and Jan Timman

Both matches are played over six games and though Timman and van Foreest drew their first two games, they put a lot of fight and excitement into them.

 
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Van Foreest,J2548Timman,J2562½–½2015B12van Foreest-Timman m 20151
Timman,J2562Van Foreest,J2548½–½2015A05van Foreest-Timman m 20152

Jan Timman (Photo: Frans Peeters)

Neither Timman nor van Foreest is a favorite in this match. Timman has 14 elo-points more than his young opponent and is, of course, much, much more experienced, van Foreest might have more energy and will be extremely motivated.

Sopiko Giri-Guramishvili (Photo: Alina l'Ami)

In contrast, in the match between Sopiko Giri-Guramishvili and Anna Maja Kazarian there is a clear favorite: Giri-Gumishvili has 117 elo-points more than Kazarian and in the first two games this difference could be seen. Sopiko Giri-Guramishvili deservedly won both and now leads 2-0 in the match.

 
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Guramishvili,S2365Kazarian,A22481–02015D45Guramishvili-Kazarian m1
Kazarian,A2248Guramishvili,S23650–12015B44Guramishvili-Kazarian m2

Anna Maja Kazarian still has to find her rhythm (Photo: Frans Peeters).

Open Tournament

In the open tournament after four (from nine) rounds four players share the lead with 3.5/4: The Indian GMs Deep Sengupta, Vishnu Prasanna, Das Debashis, and Dutch GM Erwin l'Ami. The four leaders are followed by 15 players with 3.0/4 each.

In this group of 15 players is also top seed GM Abijheet Gupta. In round two he lost a theoretical duel against his well-prepared countryman GM R. Rajpara Ankit.

 
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1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Be2 Bb7 10.Qc2 Nbd7 11.Nd2 Qb6 12.Rd1 Be7 13.Nf1 b4 14.Na4 b3 15.Qd2 Qa6 16.axb3 Nxe4 17.Qc2 Qa5+ 18.Nd2 Nxg3 19.hxg3 cxb3 20.Qxb3 Rb8 21.Qc2 c5 22.d5 exd5 23.Nc3 Nf6 24.Qf5 Qb6 25.Kf1 Kf8 26.Re1 Bc8 27.Qc2 Qxb2 28.Qd3 c4 29.Qd4 Qb6 30.Qe5 Qd6 31.Qd4 Be6 32.f4 Kg7 33.Nf3 Qc5 34.Qd2 Ne4 35.Nxe4 dxe4 36.Nd4 c3 37.Nxe6+ fxe6 38.Qc2 Qd4 39.Rd1 Rb2 40.Qc1 Rd2 0–1
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Gupta,A2629Ankit,R24670–12015D4319th Hoogeveen Open 20152.1

Standings after round 4

Rank Name Score Rating TPR
1 GM l'Ami, Erwin 3.5 2619 2757
2 GM Sengupta, Deep 3.5 2580 2748
3 GM Vishnu Prasanna. V 3.5 2503 2687
4 GM Debashis, Das 3.5 2501 2690
5 GM Gupta, Abhijeet 3.0 2629 2507
6 GM Bok, Benjamin 3.0 2591 2613
7 GM Stocek, Jiri 3.0 2566 2522
8 GM Bogner, Sebastian 3.0 2557 2564
9 GM Gopal G.N. 3.0 2536 2530
10 GM Ernst, Sipke 3.0 2527 2523
11 GM Werle, Jan 3.0 2524 2522
12 GM Shabalov, Alexander 3.0 2522 2497
13 GM Pruijssers, Roeland 3.0 2501 2516
14 GM Ankit, R. Rajpara 3.0 2467 2649
15 GM Neelotpal, Das 3.0 2465 2476
16 FM Kevlishvili, Robby 3.0 2361 2475
17 FM Baskin, Robert 3.0 2338 2364
18 WGM Paulet, Iozefina 3.0 2184 2381
19 Gieben, Stijn 3.0 1955 2473
20 GM Ehlvest, Jaan 2.5 2535 2422
21 GM Halkias, Stelios 2.5 2534 2412
22 GM Pavlidis, Antonios 2.5 2522 2460
23 IM Schroeder, Jan-Christian 2.5 2519 2321
24 FM Dijkhuis, Tycho 2.5 2355 2255
25 IM De Jong, Migchiel 2.5 2328 2316
26 Lecomte, Robin 2.5 2317 2397
27 FM Beerdsen, Thomas 2.5 2313 2294
28 Van Osch, Mees 2.5 2285 2392
29 Schoppen, Casper 2.5 2220 2268
30 Den Hartog, Marijn 2.5 2158 2337

 

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1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0-0 5.0-0 c6 6.d4 d5 7.Qb3 a5 8.cxd5 a4 9.Qa3 Nxd5 10.Nc3 Nb6 11.Bf4 Be6 12.Ne4 N8d7 13.Rac1 h6 14.Rfd1 g5 15.Bd2 f5 16.Nc5 Nxc5 17.Qxc5 Nc8 18.h4 gxh4 19.Nxh4 Qxd4 20.Qxd4 Bxd4 21.Bxh6 Bxb2 22.Rb1 a3 23.Rd2 Re8 24.Rbxb2 axb2 25.Rxb2 Nd6 26.Bf4 Rxa2 0–1
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Heemskerk,W2181Gupta,A26290–12015D7819th Hoogeveen Open 20151.1
L'Ami,E2619Clemens,A21751–02015A6719th Hoogeveen Open 20151.2
Vogel,J2175Bok,B25910–12015A4919th Hoogeveen Open 20151.3
Sengupta,D2580Hulshof,P21751–02015B0619th Hoogeveen Open 20151.4
Van Dorp,F2168Stocek,J25660–12015B2019th Hoogeveen Open 20151.5
Bogner,S2557Mellema,A21621–02015E1619th Hoogeveen Open 20151.6
Den Hartog,M2158Gopal,G25360–12015B5019th Hoogeveen Open 20151.7
Ehlvest,J2535Hortensius,L21541–02015A3519th Hoogeveen Open 20151.8
Gupta,A2629Ankit,R24670–12015D4319th Hoogeveen Open 20152.1
Valdes Romero,L2362L'Ami,E26190–12015A8819th Hoogeveen Open 20152.2
Bok,B2591Neelotpal,D24651–02015C8419th Hoogeveen Open 20152.3
De Jong,M2328Sengupta,D25800–12015D2319th Hoogeveen Open 20152.4
Stocek,J2566Kevlishvili,R2361½–½2015A2819th Hoogeveen Open 20152.5
Lecomte,R2317Bogner,S25570–12015B8419th Hoogeveen Open 20152.6
L'Ami,E2619Werle,J25241–02015E1519th Hoogeveen Open 20153.1
Pavlidis,A2522Bok,B2591½–½2015C9219th Hoogeveen Open 20153.2
Sengupta,D2580Shabalov,A25221–02015B6719th Hoogeveen Open 20153.3
Bogner,S2557Vishnu Prasanna,V2503½–½2015D7819th Hoogeveen Open 20153.4
Debashis,D2501Halkias,S25341–02015A8019th Hoogeveen Open 20153.5
Ernst,S2527Pruijssers,R2501½–½2015B0219th Hoogeveen Open 20153.6
Sengupta,D2580L'Ami,E2619½–½2015C8419th Hoogeveen Open 20154.1
Bok,B2591Debashis,D2501½–½2015B9019th Hoogeveen Open 20154.2
Pruijssers,R2501Bogner,S2557½–½2015B2819th Hoogeveen Open 20154.3
Vishnu Prasanna,V2503Ehlvest,J25351–02015B0319th Hoogeveen Open 20154.4
Ankit,R2467Ernst,S2527½–½2015C5019th Hoogeveen Open 20154.5
Gopal,G2536Pavlidis,A25221–02015C8419th Hoogeveen Open 20154.6

 

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Johannes Fischer was born in 1963 in Hamburg and studied English and German literature in Frankfurt. He now lives as a writer and translator in Nürnberg. He is a FIDE-Master and regularly writes for KARL, a German chess magazine focusing on the links between culture and chess. On his own blog he regularly publishes notes on "Film, Literature and Chess".

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