Four share win at Limburg Open

GM Nijboer, GM Jones, IM Swinkels and IM Klimov have won an extraordinary warm second edition of the ENCI Limburg Open.

The 2nd ENCI Limburg Open in Maastricht can be summarized as follows: and excellent atmosphere, summer heat and many, many chess players. Almost 400 players came from all over the world to play chess: New-Zealand, Indonesia, Belgium, Germany, France, Sweden, Norway and Russia.

We left the tournament after three rounds and this included a loss by GM Reinderman to the talented Belgian Ringoir, IM Swinkels beating GM Berg and a draw by Kotronias against Konings.

Swinkels continued strongly; after a draw on Sunday morning he crushed GM Epishin, followed bu another sensationa victory: Swinkels schwindeled against GM Reinderman, who was a rook up at some point but couldn’t find a way to stop the Black pawns.

In the same round Klimov beat Kotronias and thus took the lead with Swinkels. They drew each other quickly in the last round, allowing GMs Jones and Nijboer to join them by some fine wins.

ENCI Limburg Open Final Standings (top 30)

Here are some interesting games and some photos:

The playing hall

The top boards

Ringoir-Reinderman

GM Vassilios Kotronias

GM Vladimir Epishin

GM Alexandre Dgebuadze

GM Thomas Luther

Friso Nijboer

GM Dimitri Reinderman

GM Emanuel Berg

GM Gawain Jones

IM Robin Swinkels

IM Sergey Klimov

IM Martijn Dambacher

IM Puchen Wang

IM Emory Tate

IM Eva Moser

Links:

• Tournament website
• Games top boards in PGN