Berelovich wins 3rd BDO
Has the Dutch chess calendar ever been so busy? Besides the premi?ɬ®re of the Euwe Stimulans and the sequel of the NH Tournament, another Dutch event already saw its third edition this month: the BDO Chess Tournament in Haarlem. Yesterday the tourney finished with a good last round with a lot of fighting games, where GM Aleksandar Berelovich improved his final score in the Premier group some more (he had already secured clear first in the penultimate round) to 7?Ǭ? out of 9, two points more than IM Daan Brandenburg, GM Karel van der Weide and GM Attila Czebe.The BDO Chess Tournament was played 18 - 26 August in the Ambassador City Center Hotel in Haarlem, The Netherlands. [Photo removed.] The rate of play was 40 moves in 2 hours followed by one hour to finish the game. There were two round-robins: the Premier Tournament especially set up for scoring Grandmaster or Master norms (and a first prize of ?¢‚Äö¬¨ 750), and the Challenger Tournament that gives (local) Dutch talents an opportunity to promote to next year's main group (grabbing ?¢‚Äö¬¨ 300 along the way).Final standings BDO Premier Tournament: 1. Aleksandar Berelovich UKR GM 2587 7,5 2. Daan Brandenburg NED IM 2434 5,5 3. Karel van der Weide NED GM 2512 5,5 4. Attilla Czebe HUN GM 2519 5,5 5. Roeland Pruijssers NED IM 2427 5,0 6. Robert Ris NED IM 2395 4,5 7. Xander Wemmers NED FM 2385 3,5 8. Christian Richter GER FM 2412 3,0 9. Yochanan Afek ISR IM 2350 3,0 10. Piet Peelen NED IM 2330 2,0Jeffrey van Vliet won the Challenger group and qualified for the Premier 2008.Here some nice (at least for the winners) fragments from the Premier Tournament:
Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms. Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools. Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013. As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”
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