CONTENTS Introduction .................................................................................................. 3 Welcome ........................................................................................................ 4 Official program Chess Festival 2014 ........................................................ 5 Commentary sessions .................................................................................. 6 Organization/contact .................................................................................. 6 Locations ........................................................................................................ 7 After chess café Atlantis .............................................................................. 8 Simultaneous exhibitions ............................................................................ 9 NOSBO Grand Prix youth tournament..................................................... 9 Open Raindropchess festival .................................................................... 10 City map ...................................................................................................... 11 Chess & Culture.......................................................................................... 12 The Gift to the University ...................................................................... 12 Erik Satie ................................................................................................... 14 Winter Welfare......................................................................................... 13 Chess psychology .................................................................................... 15 University of Groningen Chess Challenges ........................................... 18 Reinderman – Van Foreest ..................................................................... 18 Paehtz – Haast.......................................................................................... 21 The Open A ‘Grandmaster & Youth’ group ........................................... 25 Fifty two years of international Christmas Chess in Groningen......... 26 Afek’s Brainteasers ..................................................................................... 29 Tournament regulations 2014 ................................................................... 30 Schaakstad Groningen Foundation ......................................................... 33 Partners & Sponsors ................................................................................... 35 Chess Festival Groningen 18–30 december 2014 TOURNAMENT GUIDE INDEX OF ADVERTISERS Absint (Satie).................................... 14 Hampshire Hotels ........................... 20 Antea Group .................................... 24 Hotelschip / Watervast .................. 25 Holland Casino ................................ 28 Nationaal Bus Museum .................. 32 Raindroptime BV ............................. 34 SportsBar ..................................... 16,17 COLOFON Coördinated and supervised by: Jan Colly Composed, edited and designed by: Fons van Hamond Printing: Zalsman BV, Groningen (500 copies) © Stichting Schaakstad Groningen 2014 CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 1 TOURNAMENT GUIDE CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 2 TOURNAMENT GUIDE INTRODUCTION WELCOME The road to 2014 and the celebration of the 400 year jubilee of the Groningen State University. In 2009 the University of Groningen (RUG) celebrated its 395 year existence. I remember very well that already then we spoke about the grand jubilee five years later. Would it not be challenging if ……? In the years thereafter the Groningen Chess Festival flourished and highlights founded the reputation of an interesting tournament for young, talented and (inter)national chess players. This festival with a long tradition was living up to the slogan: “Groningen, City of Talent.” It will not be easy to surpass the tournament of 2013 which was very special, also because of the exiting match between Jan Timman and Anatoly Karpov in the Groninger Museum on the occasion of the Netherlands-Russia Year. But we are not in competition with ourselves. For 2014 we have chosen to involve students as representatives of related universities. ‘Celebrating by giving’ is the motto by which the RUG makes it possible to present a broad international participation. We thank the RUG for this gesture. As a result of this student ‘expansion’ more youth than ever is taken part in the festival, which makes it a remarkable edition. The City of Chess Groningen Foundation’s ambition is the continuation of the Tradition to organize a Tournament in the Christmas period for Top players, a Terrace for Talent and Time to come. Something to be (T)proud of. Or as Hans Böhm, ambassador of the Foundation, says; “TinTinnabulaTing TournamenT”. We are convinced that our mission will be accomplished. With trust we will hand over the organization to our successors in the coming year. Groningen has enough experts to uphold this long tradition of a highly qualitative tournament. The City of Chess Groningen Foundation will focus on the promotion of this sport aiming at the youth and on the development of talent within dedicated chess schools. It will also enhance connections with art and cultural activities. This approach already will be visible during the 2014 festival. For instance as part of the Winter Welfare manifestation and by means of various cultural festivities during the after chess program. A highlight of this new approach takes place during the official opening on December 18th, when a bronze statue will be presented to Prof. Dr. S. Poppema, president of the Groningen State University, a longtime promoter of the tournament and ambassador of chess. This statue enriches not only the State University but also the City of Groningen with an original piece of art, winking at chess. The road to the 2014 edition comes to an end. Let’s celebrate together. Dear chess friends, Welcome to the Chess Festival Groningen in our wonderful town, the capital of the North. I hope that you are ready for our traditional chess tournament. As you may know, 2014 is a very special year for The University of Groningen, as we are celebrating our 400th anniversary. Because of our anniversary, and because of the long-lasting and close collaboration between our university and the Chess Festival organization, we have added a special dimension to this 2014 Chess edition, for we have invited 60 highly-qualified students from our international partner universities as special participants. Sports events are important for social cohesion and human wellbeing. Our Sports Centre offers a perfect environment for a chess tournament. At the Sports Centre, students can not only work out physically by doing a variety of sports, but they can also train their so called ‘soft skills’ in communication and team building, skills that are indispensable for their future careers and personal lives. I am proud to say that the University of Groningen has excellent facilities in place for top athletes. This, among other things, has contributed to the outstanding results of our Olympic Medal winner and World Champion Epke Zonderland (horizontal bars) and Roel Boomstra, the European Draughts Champion. I hope you will enjoy the tournament and the social and cultural activities that have been organized for you to the full. Make new friends, discover the University and the City of Groningen. Prof. dr. Sibrand Poppema, president, University of Groningen Jan Colly, chairman of the City of Chess Groningen Foundation CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 3 TOURNAMENT GUIDE CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 4 TOURNAMENT GUIDE Official program 52nd Chess Festival Groningen, 19th–30th December 2014 27th 20:30 Hampshire Plaza Lecture/workshop Chess psychology by Karel van Delft _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATE TIME LOCATION EVENT 18th 16:30 Province House Official Opening Chess Festival 2014 (until 18:45 hrs; invitation only) 28th 28th 28th 28th 13:00 13:00 13:00 21:00 Sports centre Sports centre Sports centre Café Atlantis Open A, B and C round 7; Compact round 3 Reinderman – Van Foreest, round 6 (final) Paehtz – Haast, round 5 Chess-&popquiz by Dimitri Reinderman _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 19th 10–17h. Hoge der Aa GSV School` 19th 09:30 29th 13:00 29th 13:00 29th 11:00 Nautical event Winter Welfare (also 20 and 21 dec) Youth Chess Challenge (i.c.w. KNSB and Slim.nl) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 21st 11:00-12:00 Sports centre Registration Open A, Open B, Open C 21st 13:00 Sports centre Open A, Open B and Open C round 1 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 22nd 13:00 22nd 13:00 22nd 13:00 22nd 19:00 22nd 20:15 Open A, Open B and Open C round 2 University of Groningen Chess Challenge: Reinderman – Van Foreest, round 1 Sports centre NOSBO Grand Prix youth tournament Academy Building Reception of student-participants (invit. only) Remonstrantse kerk Absint, a performance about life and work of Eric Satie – Dutch version Sports centre Sports centre _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 23rd 23rd 23rd 23rd 13:00 13:00 13:00 13:00 23rd 20:15 Open Groningen Raindropchess Festival Open A, Open B and Open C round 3 Reinderman – Van Foreest, round 2 University of Groningen Chess Challenge Ladies: Elisabeth Paehtz – Anne Haast, round 1 Remonstrantse kerk Absint, a performance about life and work of Eric Satie – English version Sports centre Sports centre Sports centre Sports centre _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 24th 13:00 24th 13:00 24th 13:00 Sports centre Sports centre Sports centre Open A, Open B and Open C round 4 Reinderman – Van Foreest, round 3 Paehtz – Haast, round 2 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 25th Christmas day (no official activities) Sports centre Sports centre Sports centre Open A, B and C round 8; Compact round 4 Paehtz – Haast, round 6 (final) Simul by Dimitri Reinderman _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 30th 11:00 Sports centre Simul by Elisabeth Paehtz and Anne Haast 30th 11:00 Sports centre Open A, B and C round 9; Compact round 5 30th 17:00 Sports centre Official Closing Ceremony Chess Festival 2014 ______________________________________________________________________ Commentary sessions 28th 14:00 IM Hans Böhm 27th 14:00 IM Gert Ligterink 30th 12:00 IM Gert Ligterink 24th 14:00 IM Gert Ligterink 26th 14:00 IM Gert Ligterink 27th 14:00 IM Hans Böhm All sessions take place in the Sports centre (next to the SportsBar). ______________________________________________________________________ Organization & crew: who is who? Organization Committee Jan Colly (tournament director) Jan van Os (general affairs & second tournament director) Roland Kroezen (tournament secretary) Bart Beijer (PR) Aart Strik Alexander van Pelt Zhaoqin Peng Technician Jeroen Bakker Chauffeur Maarten Bakker ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 26th 26th 26th 26th 26th 11:00-12:00 Sports centre Registration Compact tournament 13:00 Sports centre Open A, B and C round 5; Compact round 1 13:00 Sports centre Reinderman – Van Foreest, round 4 13:00 Sports centre Paehtz – Haast, round 3 20:15 Hampshire Plaza Yochanan Afek presents his new book: The almighty queen Website Fons van Hamond Arbiters Aart Strik (chief arbiter) Wim van Beersum Roland Kroezen Jan Schut Salim Shaikh (IND) Crew on behalf of the University of Groningen: Hendrike Schut Jodien Houwers Evert Jan Nienhuis Julia van Leeuwen Albert Koster _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 27th 13:00 27th 13:00 27th 13:00 Sports centre Sports centre Sports centre CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 Open A, B and C round 6; Compact round 2 Reinderman – Van Foreest, round 5 Paehtz – Haast, round 4 5 TOURNAMENT GUIDE Press officers Ben Hummel Fons van Hamond CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 6 TOURNAMENT GUIDE Contact The organization committee can be reached at +31(0)654251546 (Jan Colly), e-mail : [email protected] The arbiters (for urgent messages in case of illness etc.) can be contacted at +31(0)630489857 (Aart Strik). The press officers can be contacted at +31(0)616499637 (Ben Hummel), e-mail: [email protected] From the city centre get on the bus at the Westersingel/A-straat stop. There are three busses per hour. From the Hampshire Hotel at the Radesingel you walk to the Oosterstraat (5 minutes). There you take Citybus 11. Get out at the stop Crematoriumlaan and walk in 5 minutes to the Sports centre. From the University Guesthouse at the Kleine Kromme Elleboog you walk to the A-Kerkhof (3 minutes). There you take Citybus 11. Leave the bus at the stop Crematoriumlaan and walk in 5 minutes to the Sports centre. From the Hampshire Plaza you don’t have to worry at all: the organization offers you free transport in our nine-seat bus. The first shift leaves at the hotel approximately at 11.45 hrs, the last at 12.30 hrs (for the exact schedule check our website or the signs in the hotel). Vice versa this schedule will start from approximately 16.30 hrs. The orther possibility – new this year – is to board onto the historical bus, sponsored by the National Busmuseum in Hoogezand By car: on the Groningen circular (N370) take the Paddepoel / Zernike exit and follow the signs Zernike (Campus). Then turn first left (Blauwborgje). The Sports centre is at the end of the road. Parking is possible across the road [P2] and without costs. Bye In Open B and Open C a bye (half a point) is possible during one of the rounds 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 (so including Boxing day). A bye must be requested before the start of the tournament (for further information check our website). Rate of play For all groups: 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by an extra 30 minutes to finish the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move per player from the start of the game. Playing venue Sports centre University of Groningen. Adress: Blauwborgje 16, 9747 AC Groningen. All groups will play in the Struikhal (turn left after the entrance). You’ll find room to analyse in the nearby restaurant. How to get there Public transport: from NS-station Groningen take Citybus 11. Leave the bus at the Zernikelaan/Nijenborgh stop (this is 400 meters from the Sports centre). CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 7 TOURNAMENT GUIDE Results/rankings/pairings After every round, results, rankings, pairings, round reports, games and photo’s will be available on the tournament’s website: www.schaakstadgroningen.nl. We intend to cover the first 8 games of the Open A and the two matches live on the internet. Games will also be projected on screens and monitors in the SportsBar. ______________________________________________________________________ Bar / restaurant Refreshments are available in the Sports centre’s restaurant, called the SportsBar. A nice and friendly prized buffet is served here every evening. The consumption of alcoholic beverages is strictly prohibited in the players area, while smoking of course is not allowed in any part of the building. AFTER CHESS IN CAFÉ ATLANTIS Chess Café Hooghoudt Atlantis (‘playground for the mind’) traditionally organizes a daily after chess program. All activities will start at 21.00 hrs – except for 26th and 27th December, then we begin at 22.00 hrs. Chess Café Atlantis has moved to a new (and larger) location: Gedempte Zuiderdiep 61, 9711 HC Groningen (tel. 050 3645484). Open: every day from 15:00 hrs (except December 25th). Also check www.cafeatlantis.nl. 21 dec. (Atlantis’s 9th birthday): Aquarius bullet-chess tournament 22 dec.: Pass-on chess (duo chess) 23 dec.: Hands & Brains (visit: www.kennemercombinatie.nl/programm) 24 dec.: Endgame study simul by IM Yochanan Afek (www.afekchess.com) 25 dec.: Christmas day, Atlantis closed 26 dec.: Click Chess 27 dec.: Chess with Hans Böhm 28 dec.: Pop and Chess quiz by GM Dimitri Reinderman 29 dec.: SISSA Christmas Blitz (www.jsvsissa.nl) CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 8 TOURNAMENT GUIDE Grand Prix youth tournament On Monday 22nd December the Chess Festival traditionally will host a big youth event, which is a part of the Grand Prix circuit of our partner the regional Nothern Chess Association [NOSBO]. It is open to children from 6 years upwards, and has a wide range of rating levels. In each group of eight three prizes can be won, which will be handed out by a famous Dutch chess player. The simultaneous exhibitions On December 29th and 30th, during the last rounds of the main tournaments two simuls will take place, both starting at 11.00 hrs. GM Dimitri Reinderman, by then having finished his match will play simultaneously against a limited number of prominent amateur chess players from all over the province, including many of the sponsors who facilitated this edition of the Festival. One day later IM Elisabeth Paehtz will do the same. Both simuls will take place at the main venue of the Chess Festival: the University’s Sports centre. Requests to take part in the simuls can be made by mail to Jan Colly. Grand Prix Schaakstad Groningen 22 december Anatoly Karpov playing simul in 2013, shaking hands with youth talent Jonas Hilwerda (photo S. Warmolts) CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 9 TOURNAMENT GUIDE CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 10 TOURNAMENT GUIDE THE GIFT TO THE UNIVERSITY The City of Chess Groningen Foundation is proud and very grateful for the support troughout the years given by the Municipality Board and the State University Groningen that helped us to keep the traditional Chess Festival alive. The tournament has a strong reputation, both nationally and internationally for the participation of talented young players. The 400 year Jubilee of the Groningen University gives us an excellent opportunity to show our gratitude for the longstanding support. This special year a crowd funding activity resulted in the making of a piece of art that represents the connectivity of the University and the City, with a clear wink to chess. It is a present to the University celebrating its year of birth: a bronze statue. The pictures below show the artist at work and the final result. This initiative has been made possible by a number of anonymous gifts and the persons and institutions named below. We express our deepest thanks to all for contributing to the original piece of art that enriches Groningen. List of Contributors [1] Sport centre (tournament location) [2] Café Hooghoudt Atlantis [3] Hampshire Hotel [4] Hampshire Plaza CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 The Remonstrantse kerk, where the Satie performances will take place, is located in the inner city center (right in the ‘o’ of Groningen). 11 TOURNAMENT GUIDE Bart Beijer Bastiaan Last Ben Warner Bert Feiken Bert van der Haar Bram Abrahamse Cor van Wijgerden Daniel Bies Dick Dalmolen Douglas Mensink Eddy Maas Eddy Roossien Fietie Euwe Fons van Hamond Geert ten Brink Hanneke van Wel Hans Böhm Harke van der Wal Hein Gert Triemstra Henk Bosveld Henk Eising Henk Seijen Henk Smit Henk Vledder Ignace Hendriks Jaap van der Graaf Jan Baljé Jan Boersema Jan Colly Jan van Os Jan Schut Jan Timman CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 Jan Werle Jan Zwier Jeroen Groot Johan Mostertman Jonas Hilverda Jozias Hillenkamp Marcel Pruijt Marco de Jong Piet Mulder Theo Mooijman William Moorlag Wim Fokkens Wim Gorter Wout Knol 12 Aaabee Accountants Anoniem Café Atlantis Argo Chessity Denksportcentrum Gr. FC Groningen Holland Casino KNSB Noorderpoort Schaakstad Groningen Sportsbar Zalsman ZEBS TOURNAMENT GUIDE WINTER WELFARE From 19 up and including 21 december the Chess Festival Groningen will play a role in the so called Winterwelvaart. This is a traditional Dutch event taking place in and around the many canals in the center of Groningen. A lot of historical fishing and sailing ships will host a variety of cultural and art-related activities. Some of the ships will be open to the public. The main location is the Hoge der Aa. Chess ship 'De Mars, this year again hosting a group of some 20 Dutch talented youth players will offer the possibility to play blitz chess on its deck. For more information visit our website or the site of Marketing Groningen. Hotelschip De Mars ______________________________________________________________________ ERIK SATIE Tijdens het Schaakfestival Groningen 2014 is er naast het schaken als sport ook aandacht voor de verbinding van schaken met kunst en cultuur. In dit kader worden twee voorstellingen gegeven in de Remonstrantse kerk te Groningen. Gea Passies en Johanan Havinga verzorgen een muzikaal programma rondom de Franse componist Erik Satie. Met pianomuziek, verhaal en zang, in combinatie met film en dans. De film in de voorstelling speelt zich af in een café waar een schaakspel centraal staat. Gea Passies en Johanan Havinga verzorgen als duo muzikale programma’s rondom de componisten Kurt Weill, Erik Satie en Claude Debussy. In ontwikkeling is een programma over Modeste Moussorgsky. Data: maandag 22 en dinsdag 23 december, aanvang 20.15 uur, entree € 15. Kaarten dienen vooraf besteld te worden via [email protected]. Tijdens de voorstelling van maandag is het verhalende gedeelte in het Nederlands, dinsdag is dat in het Engels. CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 13 TOURNAMENT GUIDE CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 14 TOURNAMENT GUIDE CHESS PSYCHOLOGY Chess has a lot to do with psychology. The science of the brain has many practical implications for chess. How do we process information, how is our self-management and how do we learn and train? In the lecture ‘Chess talent’ Karel van Delft presents a lot of practical aspects and examples. The lecture will be in English. Topics are perception, self-management, talent development, learning, coaching, creativity, communication, organisation, physical aspects, role of parents, didactics, school chess, highly gifted, clothing and social chess (for people with handicaps). The lecture takes two parts of 45 minutes with a break. After this there is more than one hour to ask questions and discuss matters. Questions can also asked beforehand via mail to [email protected]. Karel van Delft is chess teacher for youth, coach, psychologist and journalist. He wrote several books and articles about chess and psychology. In English he published with his son IM Merijn van Delft the book Developing Chess Talent, with a foreword by GM Artur Yusupov. The book is about training, coaching, communication and organisation. It contains e.g. an analysis questionnaire and interviews with GM David Bronstein and GM Jan Timman. On the site www.chesstalent.com one can find a video in which IM Merijn van Delft presents the book. CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 On this site also are some items, e.g. about didactics, nutrition, the article The seventeenth chess piece and 32 videos of trainings of IM Mark Dvoretsky and GM Artur Yusupov in Apeldoorn. Participants of the lecture get a free ebook copy of the book in English, and can also get a free hard copy of the Dutch original book. Information in English about chess and autism is available via www.schaken-en-autisme.nl/englishspanish. In Dutch Karel van Delft published the books Schaaktalent ontwikkelen, Het zeventiende schaakstuk, Schaakideeën and Ik leer schaken. Recently he published Schoolschaken. This book on school chess is about didactics, organisation, research about benefits of chess as education tool as well as about chess for children with handicaps. Karel van Delft writes articles on the site of the Max Euwe Centrum. Besides he coordinates the Facebook group Schaakpsychologie. His Dutch site is www.schaaktalent.nl. In the weblog of this site Karel van Delft writes about his chess experiences. But there is much more. E.g. under the button ‘Joesoepov Schaak Genootschap’ a video of a lecture of GM Sipke Ernst about studying chess openings. 15 TOURNAMENT GUIDE CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 16 TOURNAMENT GUIDE THE UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN CHESS CHALLENGES GM Dimitri Reinderman Dimitri Reinderman (42) was born on August 12th 1972. He started playing chess at an early age and showed some pretty good results in the nineties. In this decade he be became an international grandmaster, and in 1992 he shared the 2nd place in the European Youth Championship under 20 and the 3rd place in the World Youth Championship in the same age category. Together with his 9½ out of 11 in the 1998 Hoogovens B these achievements are perceived by Dimitri as his best results. His golden medal at the fifth board at the 1999 European Team championship clearly holds lesser value to him. In 2007 Reinderman decided to become a chess professional. After participating many times in the Dutch championship his first place in the 2013 edition was well earned. His Elo reached a nice 2619 in 2014 and apart from playing chess Dimitri recently became very active in quite a different branch: the development and presentation of pop quizzes. One of these quizzes will be a side event of the Chess Festval 2014. Furthermore he is One of the highlights of the Chess Festival Groningen 2014 will be the two Invitation matches, both between rising Dutch youth talents and established (grand)masters. These University of Groningen Chess Challenges will take place from 22th up to and including 29th December (see our Program on page 5 for the exact schedules). After the beautiful struggle Jan Timman vs Robin van Kampen in 2009, the two matches in 2011 (Hans Ree - Jorden van Foreest and Martine Middelveld - Anna Maja Kazarian), the match John van der Wiel - Jorden van Foreest in 2012 and the Frisian clash between Jan Werle and dutch youth champion Nick Maatman, this year even two matches have been staged. Thus the Schaakstad Groningen foundation once again meets one of its objectives: to stimulate and facilitate the development of young talented chess players. CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 17 TOURNAMENT GUIDE CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 18 TOURNAMENT GUIDE Jorden van Foreest Jorden van Foreest (14), chess prodigy, is the oldest son in a family of six, all fully dedicated to chess. He plays in the Dutch Meesterklasse League with the his new club SISSA, usually on the first board. In the Chess Festival Groningen he already played two 4-game matches against John van der Wiel and Hans Ree. Both matches ended in clear defeats for the youngster but also taught him valuable lessons. Together with his increasing chess strength this might result in very interesting 6game match against Dutch GM and former Dutch champion Dimitri Reinderman. Jorden expects long games, because Reinderman is known for his calm opening play and avoidance of piece exchanges. This means concentration until the very end of every game. As compared to his last matches Jorden’s victory chances increased. He gained more than 200 Elo points in 2014 nearing the 2500 mark, won a tournament in Mallorca and also scored his 3rd IM-norm, now striving for GM-norms in 2015. His preparation for the match was psychological as well as chess technical. His expectations of the match can be summed up three quotes: “fighting chess”, “a nice match”, and “I’ll give every inch…”. Dimitri Reinderman better comes well prepared. an ardent Magic the Gathering player and ‘likes to stroke his cats’. On the outcome of the match he does not have a clear view. He knows Van Foreest already drew against a few grandmasters, so Jorden is not to be underestimated. ”Ik weet eigenlijk nog niet wat ik van de tweekamp moet verwachten. Maar ik ben in ieder geval van plan om aan mensen met (meer) ervaring met tweekampen tips te vragen over hoe je je moet voorbereiden. Jorden heeft goede resultaten tegen sterke grootmeesters. Twee keer remise tegen Erwin l'Ami, laatst remise tegen Nigel Short... hij kan zich dus goed optrekken aan sterke spelers. Het worden vast leuke partijen! Hoeveel tijd ik momenteel aan schaken besteed? Nou,. minimaal 1225 uur per jaar, want anders zou ik een belastingfraudeur zijn;-) Jorden heeft ondertussen rond de 2450,ikzelf zit in de 2600-range. Wat het verschil is? De vraag impliceert dat er uit resultaten in het verleden (waar rating op gebaseerd is) van alles af te leiden is. Het lijkt me puur een indicatie van speelsterkte (en voorspeller voor resultaten in de toekomst, met enige onzekerheid.) Als foto wil ik erg graag eentje zonder ‘bad hairday’ :)” CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 19 TOURNAMENT GUIDE Man en de Srefidensi Chess Celebration in Suriname gespeeld. Op het WK hoopte ik voor de titel mee te kunnen strijden, maar helaas na een slechte remise in de eerste ronde zat dat er niet meer in en moest ik tevreden zijn met een uiteindelijk 7e plaats. In Isle of Man en Suriname ging het wel weer goed; zo wist ik bijvoorbeeld in Isle of Man remise tegen voormalig wereldkampioen uitdager Nigel Short te spelen. Dit jaar heb ik nog een aantal andere successen behaald. Zo heb ik een toernooi in Mallorca gewonnen met 8 uit 9 en mijn 2e IM norm binnengehaald. In juli van dit jaar heb ik mijn derde IM norm gehaald in het toernooi in Vaujany, Frankrijk. Omdat mijn rating op dat moment al boven de 2400 was, kon ik ook meteen de IM titel aanvragen. Mijn doel voor komend is het behalen van een aantal GM normen. De komende match zal zeker bijdragen aan dat doel.” Jorden in 2010 ” Dimitri is een erg sterke schaker, hij werd Nederlands kampioen in 2013 en speelt jaren op hoog niveau. Omdat hij meestal wat rustigere openingen speelt waarbij weinig stukken worden geruild, krijgt hij lange partijen waarbij het belangrijk is om tot het laatst scherp te blijven. Ik ga er daarom vanuit--en hoop het ook--dat deze match zal bestaan uit lange partijen met veel vechtschaak. Nu de match over zes partijen zal gaan in plaats van vier, zoals mijn vorige tweekampen bij het schaakfestival, zal het vast een leuke match worden. Op de match zelf bereid ik me goed voor. Niet alleen op schaaktechnisch vlak , maar ook op psychologisch gebied ben ik aan het werk voor de match. Over het algemeen denk ik dat ik goede kansen heb als ik hard mijn best doe, maar het zal zeker niet gemakkelijk worden. Ik zal in ieder geval alles uit de kast halen. Ik heb de laatste tijd in ieder geval veel geschaakt. Zo heb ik bijvoorbeeld het WK-Jeugd in Zuid-Afrika het Pokerstars Chess tournament in Isle of CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 Jorden has his own website: www.jorden.vanforeest.com WWW.HAMPSHIRE-PLAZAGRONINGEN.NL WWW.HAMPSHIRE-GRONINGEN.NL 20 | TOURNAMENT GUIDE THE UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN LADIES CHALLENGES Elisabeth Paehtz Germany’s no. 1 female player didn’t have to look far for early coaching. Her father, Thomas Paehtz, was a grandmaster who on three occasions tied for first at the German (or East German) Championship. Elisabeth herself won the German U11 Championship aged 9, became the youngest ever "adult" German Champion in 1999 and went on to crown her junior achievements by winning the World U18 and U20 titles. Paehtz earned the Women’s Grandmaster title in 2001 and the overall International Master title in 2004. She had a baptism of fire when she played for Germany as a 13-year-old at the 1998 Olympiad (1 win, 5 losses) and has gone on to play in every event since, leading the team on first board since 2006. Her best performance was in 2010, when she scored 4 wins, 5 draws and 0 losses. She spent some time as a coach of the Turkish Chess Federation’s junior teams and has been critical of a lack of support from the German Chess Federation. CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 Elisabeth Paehtz (Germany, 29 years young) with an Elo in the 2400 range is what one calls a chess prodigy, a female one. She learned chess at an early stage, and especially the tactical side of it as her father is a ruthless player. She is already 13 years a Woman IGM and since a few years also an IM. IGM would be nice: It is a kind of goal “but it will not change my life in case I wont reach it”. She met her match opponent only once over the board in a Tata Steel tournament. It was a draw, but Anne struck her as an ambitious and fearless player. Maybe her experience counts as an advantage in the upcoming match. Groningen will be new to her as she only visited the Netherlands once in 2012 and our city was not in her schedule then. She liked the nature and fell in love with Amsterdam. Some extensive sports should bring her back in shape for the match. As she will also play the World Mind Games in China in December. And, of course she wants to win the match. 21 TOURNAMENT GUIDE actual strength is. A rating is just an indication. I only see my advantage mainly in experience. It is hard to predict what kind of games we will play as I do not have myself a real preference between tactical or strategical fights. I guess it will be a matter of daily mood, at least in my case. Lately I mainly study openings and do tactical exercises. Between 20102012 I finished a higher education as a foreign language correspondent but eventually I decided not to work in that field, as I cannot imagine to find myself in an office 8 h each day:). I worked with my dad mainly in childhood until the age of 16. I mainly got the tactical skills from him as he was himself a quite attacking and ruthless player.I think I’m on my best concerning flexibility in style and choice of openings plus a general good understanding of structures... Become a GM is a kind of goal but it will not change my life in case I won’t reach it. I used to work with many children in 2011 in Turkey and now only once a year in our home training camp. For me it is important to understand their psychology, fears and wishes. Once you ‘learned’ that it is easy to motivate or stabilize them. There is no general receipt of motivation, it differs from child by child. I have never been to Groningen. I visited Holland basically only in 2012 and I liked the country. Nice nature, good for bysicling and I have to confess, I fell in love with Amsterdam:).” Elisabeth in Tata 2012 (photo Ab Scheel) “ I am expecting an interesting fight and a rather close result. Of course I would like to win the match as I am the higher rated and more experienced player from both of us. Since I will have a pretty rough schedule in December, playing the World Mind Games in China and returning in a rather tired state back home I will surly do some extensive sports and try to regain my energy before start of the match. Technically preparation will be most likely tactics and some study of openings based on her games. I know Anne of course, saw her in many events like Olympiads etc. However we only faced each other once in 2012 during the C-tournament in Wijk an Zee. I remember she caught me in some theoretical line and I had to suffer quite a while before I could finally manage to escape into a draw. Anna seems to me a very ambitious and fearless player, however I haven't studied her games too deeply yet to be sure what kind of style she has. In her young age it is hard to say what her CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 22 TOURNAMENT GUIDE Anne Haast Anne Haast (21) isn’t new to the Groningen Chess Festival. A few years ago she scared every opponent with her aggressive and willful play. Ever since she played many international tournaments. A second place as a 16-year old in the 2009 EC-youth championship is one of her best achievements. Her play matured. Membership of the Dutch female squad in the last two Olympiads resulted in a golden medal for best board performance in the first one. Everybody knew: this is a star still rising. In her last Olympiad performance in Tromso she once again did not disappoint. She scored a WGMnorm. Earlier this year she became Woman Champion of the Netherlands and in September she fell only 6 Elopoints short of the Top-100 on the FIDE-list. Elisabeth en ik hebben één keer eerder tegen elkaar gespeeld, namelijk in 2012 in de C-groep van Tata. Na een verrassing in de opening van mijn kant ontstond een ongeveer gelijke stelling die later ook in remise eindigde. Ik verwacht spannende partijen waarin we er allebei vol voor gaan! Afgelopen zomer heb ik een topzomer gehad en daardoor komen allerlei uitnodigingen binnen. Dat geeft mij de mogelijkheid om mezelf verder te ontwikkelen en daar ben ik natuurlijk erg blij mee. Naast het schaken ben ik bezig met mijn laatste jaar aan de PABO. Momenteel probeer ik de recente toernooien te volgen en mijn tactiek op pijl te houden. De komende tijd ga ik intensiever aan de slag. Note: all four of the participants in the Challenges send us an annoted game. Since there is not enough space in this booklet you can view or download them in PGN from our website. ”Mijn verwachting is dat deze tweekamp een mooie uitdaging voor mij is en ook een goede voorbereiding vormt voor Tata in januari. Ik denk dat het spannende partijen zullen worden en een leuke strijd! Qua voorbereiding vind ik het belangrijk om in ieder geval de speelstijl van Elisabeth te doorgronden, zodat ik weet in welke stellingen ze zich fijn voelt en juist niet. Verder moet ik natuurlijk zorgen dat mijn eigen repertoire in orde is en dat ik fit aan de match begin. Wat ik nu weet is dat mijn tegenstandster al heel wat ervaring heeft en het Duitse damesteam goed weet te versterken. Natuurlijk is ze sterk, maar ze zal dat in ieder geval moeten laten zien om me over te krijgen! She tries to promote female chess. Together with Bianca Muhren and Tea Lanchava she forms the loosely knit Chess Queens. In the world renowned Tata Steel Chess Tournament she will play in the Tata Steel Challengers group as the lowest rated player…but still. And her future… ?! Have we seen a Anne Haast at her peak? Her match with the higher rated Elisabeth Paehtz will be a good test. CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 Mijn herinnering aan Groningen is erg goed! Ik vind het een leuk toernooi en vooral de fijne sfeer rond de kerst is een goede reden om weer eens naar Groningen te gaan.” 23 TOURNAMENT GUIDE CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 24 TOURNAMENT GUIDE A SHORT PREVIEW OF THE OPEN A FIFTY-TWO YEARS OF INTERNATIONAAL CHRISTMAS CHESS IN GRONINGEN At this moment, two weeks to go towards the Chess Festival Groningen 2014, the participants list of the Open A group promises to break all records. The number of players in posession of a FIDE title approaches the fifties, among which up to 20 grandmasters (IGM) and 25 IM’s. In the archives one has to turn back to the 1990’s to find higher amounts of title holders. And they could have been even more, if it wasn’t for the the mere fact that due the ongoing economical crisis the Groningen festival too has to cope with decreasing sponsor budgets. Still, the Chess Festival Groningen has improved its position on the ranking list of international Dutch tournaments to a second place. Tata Steel has to watch out... In the 2014 more than ever the composition of the Open A has a major feature: we traditionally focus on inviting and facilitating talented Dutch youth players. Again a group of some 20 ambitious youngsters is staying on boatel the Mars, where they are coached by a set of professional trainers, in cooperation with the Dutch Chess Federation. € 650 and substantial rating prizes, or in the Open C (rating up to 1800), with a first prize of € 350. On Boxing day (26th of december) the Festival will traditionally double its size, as another 150 chess lovers of all playing strengths will make it to Groningen to enter the five round Groningen Compact tournament. First prize here is € 200 in each group. Daniele Vocaturo (Italy, 2590 GM), one of the strongest ‘students’ in the Open A Let’s conclude with a variant of a proven Groningen City Marketing statement: Other groups All other club (and home) chess players are welcome in the Open B (rating between 2100, 1700), with a first prize of A Chess Festival in the City of Talent – Nothing exceeds Groningen! Groningen, the capital of the North Netherlands which hosted the first strongest post-WWII tournament in 1946. This Groningen tournament in 1946 named the Staunton Memorial was supposed to determinate a possible challenger to play the World Chess Champion Alexander Alekhine. The tournament of Groningen showed the start of the Soviet supremacy in international chess. Mikhail Botvinnik won the event in 1946 with 14½ ahead of Max Euwe 14, Vasily Smyslov 12½, László Szabó and Miguel Najdorf 12. From 1963 until 1987 Groningen hosted the annually the European U20 Championship, in 1993 the PCA World Championship Qualification Open, then in 1997 the FIDE World Championship Challenger knock-out (128 participants); and a regular annually chess festival! The winners of top event were: Niemeyer Tournament (inofficial European U20-Junior Cup): (1962)/1963 Coen Zuidema, 1964 Rob Hartoch, Jørn Sloth, 1965 Hans Ree, Robert Hübner, 1966 Andrew Whiteley, Hans Ree, 1967 Mikhail Steinberg (who sadly died of Leukemia at very young age, he won two full points ahead of Andrew Whiteley and Jan Timman as joint third), 1968 Anatoly Karpov, 1969 Karl-Heinz Maeder, Zoltán Ribli, Rafael Vagnian, 1970 Andras Adorjan, 1971 Zoltán Ribli European Junior Championship: 1972 Gyula Sax, 1973 Oleg Romanishin, 1974 Sergey Makarichiev, 1975 John Nunn, 1976 Alexander Kochiev, 1977 *Mark Diesen, USA (winner), Ľubomír Ftáčnik (as runner-up and European Junior Champion), 1978 Shaun Taulbut, 1979 John Van der Wiel, 1980 Alexander Chernin, 1981 Ralf Akesson, 1982 Curt Hansen, 1983 Jan Ehlvest, 1984 Valery Salov, 1985 Ferdinand Hellers, 1986 Alexander Khalifman, 1987 Vassily Ivanchuk GM Invitation Tournaments (round robin): 1988 Ian Rogers (ahead of Ftacnik, Nunn, Khalifman, Douven, Piket, Lautier, a.o.), 1989 Ian Rogers (ahead of Anand, Azmaiparashvili, Smyslov, Piket, Brenninkmeijer, Hellers, a.o.), 1990 Michael Adams, Alexander Khalifman, Jereon Piket, Ian Rogers (ahead of Shirov, Wahls, Gulko, Arnason, a.o.), 1991 Jereon Piket, Curt Hansen (ahead of Christiansen, I. Sokolov, Dreev, Akopian, Ftacnik, a.o.), 1992 Jeroen Piket (ahead of Beliavsky, Nijboer, Jussupow, C. Hansen, Miles, a.o.), 1993 Michael Adams on tie-break joint with Vishy Anand (PCA WC Qualification Open), 1994 Zoltan Almasi (ahead of Jussupow, Beliavsky, Tiviakov, I. Sokolov, Van Wely, Georgiev, Gulko, Miles, a.o.), 1995 Anatoly Karpov (Koop Tjuchem, ahead of Kamsky, I. Sokolov, Svidler, Adams, Leko, Van Wely, a.o.), 1996 Nigel Short (Koop Tjuchem, ahead of Gelfand, Timman, Van Wely, Leko, Shirov, Svidler, Korchnoi, I. Sokolov, Akopian, a.o.) // Summer 1996 Vasily Smyslov (Staunton Jubilee, Veterans), 1997 Vishy Anand beating Adams in the Final (FIDE WC Challenger knock-out for FIDE WCC Lausanne 1998) // Alisa Galliamova (Women Candidate’s) // Alexander Nenashev (later named Alexander Graf) (Open, clear first), 1998 Tiviakov, Milov (ahead of Almasi, Piket, Yermolinsky, and Asrian, six players, DRR) In these years, always an additional Open was also played, eg. winner in 1991 (Groningen Open): 1.-4. Janis Klovans (winner on tie-break, making his first GM norm at age of 57), Edvins Kengis, Aleksandr Schneider, Stanislav Savchenko (ahead of Kramnik, Tiviakov, Finegold, amongst others) Open: 1999 Sergei Tiviakov (Open 100 players, including 15 GMs, winner as clear first) // Albert Bokros ahead of David Navara (Youth Masters) // Antoaneta Stefanova (Woman GM tournament), 2000 (SO-ON, Open A) Erwin L’Ami // Jan Smeets ?? (SO-ON Mini Open) CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 25 TOURNAMENT GUIDE CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 26 TOURNAMENT GUIDE Round Robin: 2001 (SO-ON) Sipke Ernst, 2002 (Harmonie) Friso Nijboer, 2003 (Harmonie) Friso Nijboer, 2004 (Harmonie) Yuriy Kuzubov (four of ten players with 6/9 joint winners, Kuzubov declared winner on tie-break, above Njiboer, Van der Wiel, IM Yge Visser (GM norm) 2005 (Harmonie) Sipke Ernst, 2006 (Harmonie) Sipke Ernst Open: 2007 Dimitri Mastrovasilis (Harmonie Open A on tie-break, above Stelios Halkias, Sipke Ernst, Ahmed Adly, IM Davit Lobzhanidze), 2008 Merab Gagunashvili (on tie-break above Robin Swinkels, Arkadij Rotstein), 2009 Illya Nyzhnyk (clear first), 2010 Dejan Bojkov (on tie-break, above Illya Nyzhnyk, Mark Bluvshtein, Daan Brandenburg, Sipke Ernst, Robin Van Kampen), 2011 Alexander Kovchan (on tie-break above Robert Hess), 2012 (50th edition) Zaven Andriasian (on tie-break above Alexander Kovchan, Sipke Sipke), 2013 Zaven Andriasian (on tie-break above Erwin L’Ami, Banjamin Bok, Sipke Ernst), 2014 N.N. * In 1976 / 1977 the tournament was combined with the World Junior Chess Championship. The American Mark Diesen won the event, but Ľubomír Ftáčnik finished second and first European. Groningen, Netherlands, 1946 (Staunton Memorial, the first strong post-WWII tournament), 1988 – 1998 Grandmaster Invitation Tournaments, including 1993 PCA World Championship Qualification, Open. International Tournaments in the 1990s. 1997 FIDE knock-out world championship (de-facto qualification to determine a challenger) Schaakstad Groningen Groningen Schaakfestival, 52th edition in 2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Junior_Chess_Championship http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=79918 (Groningen 1946) http://www.brasilbase.pro.br/rot1997w.htm (Groningen 1997 / Lausanne 1998) http://www.chess-international.de/Archive/22097 (in german language) Record winners at Groningen (main tournaments incl. 1946, without exhibition matches): International Invitation GM Tournament: Ian Rogers (3x 1988-90), Jereon Piket (3x 1990-92); Open / GM / IM Tournament: Sipke Ernst (7x winner or co-winner, including 3x round robin) Other winners (selection): Botvinnik, Smyslov, Karpov, Anand, Short, Nunn, Adams, Diesen, Hübner, Ivanchuk, Khalifman, Vaganian, Ehlvest, Salov, Hellers, Almasi, Adorjan, Sax, Ribli, Ree, Hartoch, Tiviakov, Van der Wiel, Nijboer, L’Ami, Van Kampen, Bok, Zuidema. Further prominent players at Groningen: Euwe, Korchnoi, Tartakower, Vidmar, Flohr, Szabó, Denker, Najdorf, Guimard, Boleslavsky, Kotov, O'Kelly de Galway Beliavsky, Jussupopw, Shirov, Svidler, Gelfand, Dreev, Gulko, Kamsky, Akopian, Georgiev, Leko, Lautier, Miles, I. Sokolov, Van Wely, and Jan Timman CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 27 TOURNAMENT GUIDE CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 28 TOURNAMENT GUIDE Tournament regulations Chess Festival Groningen 2014 AFEK’S BRAINTEASERS IM Yochanan Afek, traditionally one of our guests in Groningen and participant in the Open A, provided us with a set of ten chess problems, in various degrees of difficulty, of both Dutch and Russian origin. In all positions white can give mate on his second move. During the tournament you can mail us your solution via the website. Note: nr.10 will be published on the website only. [1] [4] [7] [2] [5] [8] [3] CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 [6] 5. PAIRINGS a) After a round has ended, the same The tournament consists of : Open Group A (>2000) 21-30 December; evening at 20:30 hours the new pairings Open Group B (>1700 & <2100) 21–30/12; will have been determined and published. Open Group C (<1800) 21–30 December; b) Once the pairings have been published, Compact groups (~ 40 players per group) they cannot be changed anymore. c) All pairings will be according to the 26–30 December. The organization can decide to add group rules. Under no condition will there be fixed pairings to make IM or GM norms C to group B, or to give some players a possible. wildcard. d) When a player checks out from a round In the Open Groups A, B and C nine (9) because of special circumstances, he must rounds will be played, in the Compact inform the organization before 19:00 hours Groups five (5) rounds will be played. at the evening before the round. The pairing in the Open A -group is e) When a player checks out later than according to ‘Swiss on rating’. 19:00 hours at the evening before the In the Open groups B and C and the round - for instance because of illness – Compact groups the 1st and 2nd round will the organization may consult a physician. be paired according to 'Swiss on rating’, the following rounds according to ‘Swiss 6. THE RECORDING OF THE MOVES on Buchholz’. Each player is required to record his own 2. TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE moves and those of his opponent, move after move on the score sheet prescribed The players in the Open B and C can take for the competition. a bye in one of the first five rounds. At the conclusion of the game both The players in the Compact groups can players shall sign both score sheets or the take a bye on December 26 (1st round). result form, indicating the result of the All byes (with round number) must be game. reported preferably on the entry form, or The (originals of the) score sheet or the during registration, or by separate e-mail result form must be handed over to the or by telephone, but always before the end arbiters simultaneously. of the registration. A bye will be rewarded with ½ point. 3. BYE [9] 29 4. RATE OF PLAY The tournament is played according to the The rate of play in all groups is: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves; followed FIDE LAWS of CHESS, version July 2014. by 30 minutes for the rest of the game; A copy is available at the playing venue. The default time as mentioned in Article 6.7a with an increment of 30 seconds per move from the start. will be 30 minutes. 1. COMPETITION RULES TOURNAMENT GUIDE CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 30 TOURNAMENT GUIDE Prizes will be rounded up to a multiple of € 5,-. In case of a wrong game result, the pairing for the next round will not be changed if it 11. RATING PROCESSING has been published already. The results in the Open groups as well in 8. PROTESTS ; COMMISSION OF APPEAL the Compact group A and B will be processed for FIDE rating and Dutch A protest against a decision of an arbiter should be submitted in writing within an national rating. The results in the other groups will be hour after the conclusion of the round to processed for Dutch national rating only. the tournament direction. The direction convenes the commission of appeal, which 12. SANCTION consists of three representatives of the players and two substitutes. The decision When a participant leaves the tournament of this commission is binding and will be early or doesn't appear for one or more rounds of play without informing the published before the start of the next tournament organization beforehand, the round. organization committee can double the 9. FINAL RANKING & TIE-BREAK SYSTEMS entry fee for this participant for the next In case of joint finishing the final ranking tournament. This extra paid fee will be will be agreed upon as follows: refunded if the participant concerned has a. (only to determine the tournament winner:) finished this next tournament completely. the results between the players involved in the tie; 13. FINAL PROVISIONS b. Buchholz (sum of opponents’ scores); It is not allowed to drink alcoholic c. Sonneborn-Berger score; beverages in the playing hall, neither to d. progressive score; use electronic devices. e. number of won games; Players are not allowed to use, nor to f. drawing of lots; carry with them in the playing venue, 7. WRONG RESULT electronic devices - switched on - such as In case of an equal number of points prize mobile phones, tablets, laptops or any money will be shared, with the exception other equipment which makes it possible to communicate (or to analyse chess of the youth prize, the ladies’ prize and games). the seniors’ prize. In case of a shared prize the amount of Equipment – switched off - may only be stored in a bag or a coat/jacket at one spot money will never be less than one third during the game. If it becomes clear that (1/3) of the smallest prize in the group. the equipment is switched on, the player’s If a final individual prize is less than one third of the lowest prize in the group, one game is considered to be lost. or more players will lose their prize In cases not foreseen in these regulations the money according to the rules mentioned tournament committee decides after consulting in article 9, until the minimum prize has the arbiters. been reached. 10. PRIZES IN CASE OF JOINT FINISHING CHESS FESTIVAL GRONINGEN 2014 31 TOURNAMENT GUIDE ADVERTISEMENT Het Nationaal Bus Museum is een stichting die zich ten doel stelt historische bussen te verwerven, te restaureren, te onderhouden en te bewaren. Naast autobussen heeft het Museum ook veel memorabilia in haar bezit , zoals uniformen, petten, kaartjesmachines, buskaarten en bushalteborden. Het Museum bezit ook een uitgebreid archief, welke tijdens de openingstijden van het Museum te raadplegen is. 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