Today a little extra from the Noteboom Tournament. GM Jan Smeets sent us the full score of his decisive game against the final winner, GM Predrag Nikolic. We 'talked together' the variations he added to the main moves. >> open in new window
Last weekend the 67th edition of the Noteboom tournament took place in Leiden and Chessvibes was there ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú a personal report. Three good reasons to play in the Noteboom tournament:1. Toughness training. The Noteboom tournament is a weekender,...
In the glorious past grandmaster games still had something invincible, something you would look at with respect and would not dare giving your opinion about. Grandmaster games were something very complicated, something you should not show to begin...
Seventeen-year-old Roeland Pruijssers made his third IM norm in Groningen with a full point overscore, passing the 2400 mark in the process and thereby becoming International Master! Sipke Ernst won the Harmonie Chess Tournament with an impressive...
During the Christmas celebration in our chessclub HSK I asked the well-known endgame expert & grandmaster Karsten M?ɬºller whether he would be interested to occasionally & spontaneously contribute to the interesting project Doggers-schaak (about ...
Zoals eerder beloofd, zouden we hier nog terugkomen op het weekendtoernooi van Apeldoorn, midden september, vanwege de interessante partij Ernst-Van Delft. Ondertussen heb ik een analyse gemaakt van de partij, die helaas te snel tot een einde kwam...
Ik moet mijn Aeroflotanalyses nog afmaken, heb inmiddels ook een toernooi in Reykjavik gespeeld, maar wil bij dezen alvast berichten van mijn belevenissen in Birmingham. Samen met Evi [Zickelbein, Merijns vriendin ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú red.] deed ik mee aan he...
