10/24/2016 – Abhijeet Gupta won the 2016 Hoogeveen Open after scoring a comfortable 7.5/9. Lalith Babu, who had been leading with Gupta after seven rounds suffered an unfortunate accident to end on the third spot. Sandipan Chanda jumped in with a strong finish to take the runners up position. Lucas van Foreest performed excellently and ended on the fifth spot. The matches saw vistories by both Short and Sokolov respectively. We have pictures, tactics, stories and much more – in our final report from the Hoogeveen Festival 2016.

10/18/2016 – Game two of the matches in Hoogeveen brought more of the same, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. The match between Hou Yifan and Nigel Short once more saw neither player able to get a leg up, for two draws now, but if experience prevailed in game one of the second match with a win by Ivan Sokolov, 17-year-old Jorden van Foreest struck back in game two with a powerful sacrificial attack.

10/17/2016 – The Hoogeveen Festival has started, and brings a number of fun events to watch. The eye-catcher is of course the match between Hou Yfan and ‘old git’ Nigel Short played over six games, with a second match between Dutch talent Jorden van Foreest and Ivan Sokolov. There is also a strong open with a large contingent of Dutch and Indian players. The first match games were fascinating struggles, and Sokolov was the first to draw blood.

10/15/2016 – The first round of this prestigeous tournament begin on Sunday. It has a very stong Open, and two amateur groups. But of greatest interest are the Hoogeveen Matches that pit Women's World Champion Hou Yifan against former WCh Challenger Nigel Short, and young Dutch star Jorden van Foreest against Ivan Sokolov. Earlier this week, on her way to Holland, Yifan was in Hamburg and visited ChessBase. Big illustrated report by Frederic Friedel.

8/22/2016 – In Part I of our report from the Dutch Open in Dieren we mainly focused on the top three players of the tournament – Chanda, l’Ami and Khenkin. In the second part we shed light on participants who finished fourth to eleventh. And we take you on tour of the beautiful city as well as acquaint you with a few inspiring stories from the event. Not to be missed is the deep practical study composed by Yochanan Afek, which you are asked to rack your brain over.

8/19/2016 – The 48th edition of the Dutch Open in Dieren, Netherlands, was won by Sandipan Chanda. He faced stiff competition from Erwin l’Ami and Igor Khenkin, but the Indian grandmaster showed nerves of steel as he won his last round game to take the title by a clear half point. In this article we have some interesting training material for the readers of our newspage. Throughout the report you will be challenged, and at the end of it you are bound to become a stronger chess player.

8/16/2015 – After a few years in the US on a strict regime of study or its frenetic opens, GM Elshan Moradiabadi explains the bliss of not only some deserved rest, but also a change of pace with a classic one-round-a-day as he visited Vlissingen, Holland. With 240 players the lineup included names such as GM Baadur, Loek Van Wely, and more. Here is the report with analysis by GM Moradiabadi.

8/13/2015 – He was the only amateur chess player to become World Champion – the fifth in chess history. After his death in 1981 the city of Amsterdam established a Center with a museum and a modest library containing Euwe’s chess inheritance and books. Now, after 24 years, the city is threatening to withdraw it subsidy. World class players are protesting. Can the Max Euwe Center be saved?

8/16/2014 – Coinciding with the Olympiad, the HZ Chess Tournament was held in Vlissingen, Holland, featuring a very healthy lineup of grandmasters, masters and amateurs, and brought in as its showcase player, Chinese GM Bu Xiangzhi, rated 2707. The tournament was announced as having a maximum of 250 players allowed to play, and the roster was filled up quite easily. An illustrated report.

7/28/2014 – The NK Open, which takes place in Dieren, Holland, between 22 - 31 July dates back 140 years and it has been 46 years since it was held in the current location. It has around 430 players, playing in seven sections; but the GM section gives the opportunity to the Dutch players who place the highest to qualify for the National Dutch championship. A beautiful report by Alina L'Ami.

8/13/2013 – It's a beautiful seaside resort in the south-west of Holland, a fishermen's hamlet that came into existence in the seventh century. Bathed in bright sunshine it is an ideal location for a chess open. 250 players participated – it would have been more if the playing hall had been able to take them. Once again we bring you a beautiful pictorial report by our playing and roving reporter WGM Alina l'Ami.