NH Rising Stars vs Experience 2010 (10)
NH Chess Tournament 2010
Mark Crowther - Sunday 22nd August 2010
The 5th NH Chess Rising Stars vs Experience Tournament took place in Amsterdam 12th-22nd August 2010. The experienced Gelfand, Svidler, PH Nielsen, Van Wely and Ljubojevic took on the Rising Stars of Nakamura, Caruana, Wesley So, Giri and Howell.
The tournament finished with the Youth side defeating the Experience 26-24. Boris Gelfand scored 7/10 for the Experience team. Anish Giri lost his final game to allow Hikaru Nakamura to catch him on 6/10. The two had a play-off for a place in next year's Amber tournament. The blitz playoff with a time rate of 3m+2spm saw Nakamura win with a 2-0 score. It wouldn't really surprise me if Giri gets an invitation anyway.
At the closing ceremony it was confirmed that this will be the last edition of the tournament.
The leading scorers for each team Boris Gelfand and Anish Giri drew an interesting game in round 7. Photo © | http://www.nhchess.com/
The 5th NH Chess Tournament, organized by NH Hoteles in close cooperation with the Association Max Euwe of Dutch chess maecenas Joop van Oosterom in Monaco, took place August 12th-22nd 2010 at the NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam.
The NH Chess Tournament was a 'Scheveningen' team tournament between an 'Experience' team and a 'Rising Stars' team. All members of each team play all members of the other team twice, once with the white pieces and once with the black pieces. There was a special prize for the best Rising Star (provided he has a positive score): an invitation to the prestigious 2011 Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament.
The 'Experience' team consisted of Boris Gelfand (Israel, 2739), Peter Svidler (Russia, 2734), Peter Heine Nielsen (Denmark, 2700), Loek van Wely (The Netherlands, 2677) and Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Serbia, 2572). The 'Rising Stars' are Hikaru Nakamura (United States, 2729), Fabiano Caruana (Italy, 2697), Wesley So (The Philippines, 2674), Anish Giri (The Netherlands, 2672) and David Howell (England, 2616).
Official site: http://www.nhchess.com
IM Malcolm Pein Stories
NH Chess Tournament 2010 (Blitz Playoff)
IM Malcolm Pein | Thu Aug 26 10:51:00 2010
NH Chess Tournament 2010 (10)
Nakamura catches Giri for Amber place
IM Malcolm Pein | Wed Aug 25 10:49:00 2010
NH Experience vs Youth 2010 (5)
Honours even in Round 5 of the NH Tournament
IM Malcolm Pein | Thu Aug 19 19:29:00 2010
NH Experience vs Youth 2010 (3)
2nd win for Howell in a row at the NH tournament
IM Malcolm Pein | Tue Aug 17 19:25:00 2010
NH Experience vs Youth 2010 (1)
Howell loses complex queen ending to Gelfand
IM Malcolm Pein | Mon Aug 16 19:23:00 2010
NH Chess Tournament 2010 (Amsterdam NED)
Thu 12th Aug 2010 - Sun 22nd Aug 2010 -
Official Site - Results - Live
NH Tournament (10 players 10 Rds Schev Team TC:120m:30m+30spm(41)) - Games in PGN: Games
Blitz Playoff (2 players 3 Rds Match Indiv TC:3m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Playoff
NH Tournament (10 players 10 Rds Schev Team TC: 120m:30m+30spm(41)) - Games in PGN: Games
| 5th NH Chess Tournament Amsterdam (NED), 2010.08.12 - 2010.08.22 Score: Youth 26 Experience 24 |
|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Name | Ti | FED | Elo | + | = | - | Pts | Gms |
| Experience | Gelfand, Boris | GM | ISR | 2739 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 10 |
| Experience | Svidler, Peter | GM | RUS | 2734 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 5.5 | 10 |
| Experience | Van Wely, Loek | GM | NED | 2677 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| Experience | Nielsen, Peter Heine | GM | DEN | 2700 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| Experience | Ljubojevic, Ljubomir | GM | SRB | 2572 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3.5 | 10 |
| Youth | Nakamura, Hikaru | GM | USA | 2729 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 10 |
| Youth | Giri, Anish | GM | NED | 2672 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| Youth | Caruana, Fabiano | GM | ITA | 2672 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Youth | Howell, David W L | GM | ENG | 2616 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4.5 | 10 |
| Youth | So, Wesley | GM | PHI | 2674 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4.5 | 10 |
Blitz Playoff (2 players 3 Rds Match Indiv TC: 3m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Playoff
| 5th NH Chess Tournament Playoff Amsterdam | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nakamura, Hikaru | - | Giri, Anish | 1-0 | 40 | D00 | Queen's Pawn Game |
| Giri, Anish | - | Nakamura, Hikaru | 0-1 | 26 | E00 | Catalan |
| 5th NH Chess Tournament Playoff Amsterdam (NED), 22 viii 2010 | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Ti | NAT | Rtng | 1 | 2 | Total | Perf | ||||||||
| Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2729 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Giri, Anish | g | NED | 2672 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
