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A breath of fresh air – Leiden Open and the city!

8/2/2016 – In the first part of our report on the 10th Leiden Chess tournament we saw how Roeland Pruijssers played a superb tournament to emerge victorious. In the second part we describe some of the fresh and novel ideas introduced by the organizers and also take you on a trip through the beautiful city of Leiden – using the best mode of transport! Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal tell you everything you need to enjoy the 2017 edition of the tournament!

Roeland Pruijssers wins 10th Leiden Open

7/28/2016 – The Leiden Chess Tournament was into its tenth year and the organizers decided to spice things up by inviting the Dutch GM Loek van Wely to participate in the tournament. Although King Loek was the strongest player at the event, it was GM Roeland Pruijssers who emerged victorious. In the first part of our report from Leiden we have a lot of interesting game analyses, including comments sent to us by the winner himself. Big illustrated report.

David Howell dominates in Leiden

7/29/2015 – Just before the start of the British Championship GM David Howell proved to be in splendid form. He smoothly won an open in Leiden in the Netherlands that took place from 18th to 26th July with 8.5/9. With this result Howell for the first time in his career has more than 2700 elo in the live rating list. But at the start of the tournament he really had to sweat.

Van Wely wins Noteboom Tournament (2)

2/24/2015 – The 75th Daniel Noteboom Weekend Tournament was held in three different groups – for players above the rating of 1900, players between the rating of 1600 and 2000 and players below 1700. The main event was the “Corpus Vierkamp” which had four of Netherlands best chess players pitted against each other in a round-robin tournament. Part two of our tournament report.

Van Wely wins 75th Noteboom Tournament

2/22/2015 – This tournament was held in the Congress Centre of Leiden, Holland, in memory of Daniel Noteboom, a very talented Dutch player who died at the age of 21 in 1932 – leaving the chess world one of the most exciting positions in modern chess theory, the Noteboom Variation. The top group of four GMs was won in a brave effort by Loek van Wely. Big two-part report.

Seventh Leiden Chess Tournament

7/25/2013 – It is one of the strongest Dutch opens, and this this year fielded 75 players, 20 with titles. It was won in a close duel by Indian GM S.P Sethuraman, ahead of his compatriot GM Deep Sengupta, followed by Bosnian GM Predrag Nikolic. Leiden is the beautiful Dutch city where Rembrandt was born, just over 400 years ago. Report by WIM Ioana Smaranda Padurariu.
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