Coming up: NH Chess Tournament 2010
16 July 2010, 14.00 CET | Last modified: 8:21 | By Peter Doggers | Filed under: Announcement | Tags:
On August 12, a week earlier than in previous years, the new edition of the NH Chess Tournament starts in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You can watch Boris Gelfand, Peter Svidler, Peter Heine Nielsen, Loek van Wely and Ljubomir Ljubojevic (the Experience team) against Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Anish Giri and David Howell (the Rising Stars) with free admission and expert commentary at the Krasnapolsky Hotel in Amsterdam.
The NH Chess Tournament will take place August 12-22 in hotel Krasnapolsky, in the heart of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. As always, the 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.
The two teams 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. The best player of the ‘Rising Stars’ team will be invited to the 20th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament in March 2011 in Nice, provided he or she scores over 50% in the NH Chess Tournament in Amsterdam.
The playing schedule:
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Every day the games will be commented on by experts in a nice and spacious commentary room to which the admission is free. These sessions start one hour after the start of the round, i.e. at 14.30 hrs, with the exception of the last round when the commentary will start at 13.00 hrs. IMs Hans Böhm, Jop Delemarre, Cor van Wijgerden, Gert Ligterink and GM Genna Sosonko will be doing the commentary (schedule here). At the end of the round, or towards the end, depending on the duration of the games, there will also be a press conference with one of the players in the commentary room.
Just like the last two years, and just like at the Amber tournament in Nice, both Macauley Peterson and yours truly will be providing daily video coverage and live interviews during this tournament. To get everyone warmed up, here’s the playlist of the videos from 2009:
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Strongest field ever!
why nakamurain rising stars he is 23 i think maxime vachier-lagrave was a good idea.nakamura is afalling star not rising one
giri wil show naka who is the future boss.naka is 23 2729 giri 23 2800+ manus 23 2900+
@Afghan: why Nakamura is still a rising star?
First it’s better for him; he can only win a ticket for the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament as a member of that team.
Second: after being last last year, he can still grow I would say…
@Peter: in the text you are referring to an invitation to the march 2010 version of the Amber tournament. Somehow I think there is something wrong there.
Le Quang is Rising Star!
In my opinion Nakamura and Caruana haven’t raised too much lately…
for me… Gelfand is more a rising star than both of them!
Le Quang is another Rising Star
@pp: rising star should be undre 18 even magnus isnot rising star anymore. nakamura is not rising star that is for sure he is 23 and his half of chess life is gone and he is never been WORLD YOUTH CHAMP.he is blitz chess player and blitz is not real chess
Except Nakamura, all the other 4 are competing in the Biel tournament starting in 3 days (July 19th). The line up for that is
: GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA 2723
: GM Evgeny Tomashesvsky RUS 2708
: GM Fabiano Caruana ITA 2697
: GM Wesley So PHI 2674
: GM Dmitry Andreikin RUS 2650
: GM Anish Giri NED 2672
: GM Ngoc Truong Nguyen VIE 2617
: GM Parimarjan Negi IND 2615
: GM Maxim Rodshtein ISR 2609
: GM David Howell ENG 2616
It will be exciting to see Nakamura this year…last year he was suffering from illness (food poisening I believe) and yet he bravely played on. His round 3 game with Beliavsky was classic. I will miss both Smeets and Stellwagon this year. The van Wely-Stellwagon game last year was thrilling.
This is a great tournament…please have the video camera at the ready for Lubo…he is a classic!
I predict a great tournament for both Caruana and Giri…And next year perhaps Robson will be representing the Rising Stars.
Thank you NH hoteles and Association Max Euwe for presenting this tournament.