NH Chess Tournament Goes To A Playoff In 10th Round!

23 August 2010, Amsterdam - A fantastic game brewed during the ANISH GIRI vs NAKAMURA game which entered the   playoffs. It appears to be a game of psychology in the chess openings, as towards the middle game, in order to achieve a better end game positionally, NAKAMURA executes the perfect exchange sacrifice!

End position, a win for black and NAKAMURA!

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Here are the current standings of the Rising Stars team vs Experience after the 10th round.

In the tenth and last round of the NH Chess Tournament the Experience team defeated the Rising Stars 3½-1½, but couldn’t prevent the youngsters’ overall win of 26-24. In a blitz play-off for a direct invitation to the 2011 Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament Nakamura beat Giri 2-0.

The NH Chess Tournament took place August 12-22 in hotel Krasnapolsky, in the heart of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. As always, the tournament was a confrontation between a team of five young ‘Rising Stars’ and a team of five ‘Experienced’ grandmasters.

(source: chessvibes.com)

Rising Stars Wins Big In Match Round 3

15 August 2010, Amsterdam – The Rising Stars team won important round 3 matches of the NH Chess Tournament being held from 12 – 22 August 2010.

Match 3 results:
Nakamura – Nielsen   1 - 0
Caruana – Svidler      1 - 0
So – Gelfand            ½ - ½
Giri – Ljubojevic       ½ - ½
Howell – van Wely    1- 0

In the third round of the NH Chess Tournament the Rising Stars swept the Experience team 4-1. Hikaru Nakamura improved his personal score to 2½ from 3 with a win over Peter Heine Nielsen, Fabiano Caruana successfully exploited a strong opening novelty against Peter Svidler, and David Howell posted his second consecutive win in a wild time-trouble fight with Loek van Wely. The overall score after three rounds is 9½-5½ in favour of the Rising Stars.

To read more of the round 3 report, please click here.

Official website: http://www.nhchess.com/index.html

Video Impressions From NH Chess, Amsterdam

14 August 2010, Amsterdam – Here is a video impression from NH Chess Tournament in Amsterdam.

The NH Chess Tournament is a confrontation between a team of five young ‘Rising Stars’ and a team of five ‘Experienced’ grandmasters who can look back on impressive and glorious careers. They play a ‘Scheveningen’ tournament, which means that each player of one team plays against each of the players of the other team. They do so twice, once with the white pieces and once with the black pieces.

The team that collects most points wins the tournament. However, there are additional prizes for individual results, which are specified in the tournament rules below.

The ‘Experience’ team consists of (next to their country their current Elo rating is given):

1 Boris Gelfand (Israel)
2 Peter Svidler (Russia)
3 Peter Heine Nielsen (Denmark)
4 Loek van Wely (The Netherlands)
5 Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Serbia)

And these are the ‘Rising Stars’:

1 Hikaru Nakamura (United States)
2 Fabiano Caruana (Italy)
3 Wesley So (The Philippines)
4 Anish Giri (The Netherlands)
5 David Howell (England)

The players of the ‘Rising Stars’ team can invite a trainer to help them during the tournament. Family members are excluded. The seconds of the ‘Rising Stars’ are (in the same order):

1 Kris Littlejohn (United States)
2 Boris Avrukh (Israel)
3 Richard Bitoon (The Philippines)
4 Vladimir Chuchelov (Belgium)
5 Stephen Gordon (England)

 

Standing After Round 2:

Experience Team 4.5 – 5.5 Rising Stars

The Rising Stars take the lead over the Experience Team after David Howell won his game over Ljubomir Ljubojevic in the last round.

To read more, please click here.