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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.
Venue: Town Hall Hoogeveen, Raadhuisplein 1, 7901 BP Hoogeveen.
| 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 |
Start of Rounds – Matches: Rounds 1-5 start at 14.00h. Round 6: 12.00h. Hoogeveen Open: Round 1-4, 7 and 8 at 14.00h. Round 5: 9.00h. Round 6: 15.00 h. Round 9: 12.00h. Amateur Group 1: 1st round at 14.30h; other rounds at 14.00h
Registration before the first round: All players are required to check in at the tournament desk before the first round. Open tournament: Saturday 15th October between 12.00-13.00h; Amateur 1: Saturday 15th October between 12.30-13.30h; Amateur 2: Saturday 15th October between 08.30-09.00h. If you do not check in on time, another participant may be paired in your place.
Entry fee: For the Open Tournament €80, free for IGMs and IMs, FMs €50; youth players, born in or after 1998, also pay €50. Entrance fee for either of the amateur tournaments is €50 for all participants.
Sponsors: Gemeente Hoogeveen, Drenthe, McDonald's Hoogeveen.
Accommodation: Private addresses (Bed & Breakfast), pensions or campings: Tourist Information; Hotel Hoogeveen (Tel 0528 26 33 03); Hotel Van der Valk Spier/Dwingeloo (Tel: 0593 56 48 05; Bungalowpark and camping De Westerbergen in Echten, approx. 7km from the town hall (Tel. 0528 25 12 24).
Contact: Tournament administration Chess Tournament Hoogeveen, Postbus 88, 7900 AB Hoogeveen. Email: secretariaat@hoogeveenchess.nl. Bank account: NL67ABNA0610325876
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The big match in Hoogeveen (pronounced Hoch-a-vain) is between Women's World Champion Hou Yifan from China, and former World Championship Challenger Nigel Short. Before her trip to the tournament Yifan stopped over in Hamburg for a few days and visited the ChessBase office. There she participated in a live Q&A on Playchess, Facebook and Twitter. A full report on this one-hour session (with full video) will follow shortly.
My goodness, what a lot of wonderful DVDs! Hou Yifan in the ChessBase office.
Is this one on Emanuel Lasker good? She could take any that caught her fantasy.
Yifan with GM Vidit Gujrathi and ChessBase CEO Matthias Wüllenweber. Vidit, 21, is one of India's brightest young chess stars. He is in Hamburg to record two DVDs on the Caro Kann.
Yifan gets lessons in ChessBase and the ChessBase Account. Of particular interest for her were the Tactics Trainer (see description) and the function "Similar games" (in the in the "Report" tab of ChessBase).
Matthias showed the two GMs some of the functions of the next ChessBase program
You find an appropriate caption to this picture...
After the stopover in Hamburg we drove down to Hoogeveen – an easy three-hour journey. Well, easy until we had to search for the hotel in which the top players are being put up.
The very beautiful hotel Spaarbank Hoeve is hidden at the end of path leading into a forest
This is what the garden park outside the hotel looks like – really!
On our second day in Hoogeveen Yifan's opponent Nigel Short arrived, and shared lunch with us
What is a "git"? Nigel had tweeted a question to Hou in her ChessBase Q&A session two days earlier ...
"#AskYifan @ChessBase Are you going to beat that useless old English git?" Now she knows.
With her is Yifan's mother Wang Qian, one of nicest people we have met
Also in the hotel: top seed and last year's winner Abhijeet Gupta, rated 2626
Third seed GM Lalith Babu, rated 2586. Almost 20% of the Open players are Indian
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