NH Chess Tournament is a confrontation between the team of five young 'rising stars' a team of five' Experienced 'grandmasters, who are recovering from an impressive and wonderful career. The tournament is played Scheveningen system, which means that each player of one team each player plays against other teams. The tournament is a two-wheeled, so each player plays once again black and white with the same opponent.
team who accumulates the most points wins the tournament. There are also awards for individual results.
The team "experience" are playing:
1 Peter Svidler (Russia, 2726)
2 Peter Heine Nielsen (Denmark, 2668)
3 Alexander Beliavsky (Slovakia, 2640) Loek van
4 Wely (Netherlands, 2622)
5 Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Serbia, 2553)
A team "Rising Stars" are playing:
1 Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 2701)
2 Fabiano Caruana (Italy, 2649)
3 Jan Smeets (Netherlands, 2626)
4 Daniel Stellwagen (Holland, 2619), Hou Yifan
5 (China, 2590)
Players "Emerging Stars" could invite a coach to help them during the tournament. Family members were excluded. Coaches "Emerging Stars" are (in the same order): 1
Kris Littlejohn (USA, -) 2
Alexander Chernin (Hungary, 2594) 3
Francisco Vallejo (Spain, 2688)
4 Erwin L'Ami (Holland , 2598)
5 Shoateng Yu (China, 2504)
tournament takes place on dniach20-August 31, 2009, in Amsterdam.
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