11/30/2010 – It is known as "the tournament with the horse": there is a giant one of the Trojan variety to be seen at the location in the Dutch city of Wolvega, and the first prize includes a live horse – theoretically. Actually the winner gets, in addition to his prize money, a check that allows a local charity to buy a horse for its equestrian therapy. This year's tournament was won by English GM Luke McShane. Report.
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The Third Remco Heite, "the tournament with the horse", took place
from November 26-28 in the Hotel Wolvega Van der Valk in Wolvega, The Netherlands.
Originally the intention that the winner should get a horse as a prize, but
it turned out that you are not allowed to give someone a horse as a gift in
Holland, which is why the winner of the first edition in 2006, Loek van Wely,
was not able to take possession of his new pet. The next winner (in 2008), Bartlomiej
Macieja, donated it to a local charity for handicapped children, which worked
with horses. Now this has become a tradition – that the winner receives,
next to his first prize sum, the amount of money it would take to buy a horse,
and passes this on to the same charity.
Wolvega has one of the best-known horse race tracks in Holland, and a local
transport company, Koster Euro, one of the many sponsors of the Remco Heite
tournament, owns a giant wooden horse, shown in the picture by René Olthof
above. It is the subject of this promotional video (in Dutch).
You do, of course, recognise the purpose of such a horse, which is to hide
the warriors of the Argives, bearing death and fate to the Trojans.
This year's Remco Heite tournament was decided in the very last round, in which
English GM Luke McShane defeated Loek van Wely with the black pieces to take
clear first, with 3.5/5 points.
McShane has been putting pressure on his Dutch opponent for the latter half
of the game, achieving a winning double rook endgame in the process. Now he
issues the final coup de grâce:66...Rxf2+ 67.Rxf2 exf2
68.gxf5+ Kxf5 69.Kxf2 Kf4 0-1.
A very commendable second place was scored by 16-year-old Anish Giri, who
is
slowly consolidating his position as the strongest player in Holland.
Equal on points but beaten by Anish on tiebreaks was Erwin L'Ami
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