Peng, Van Kampen win Max Euwe Memorial Chess Group 1 and 2
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hello everyone,
An exciting last round at the Max Euwe Memorial Chess Tournament in Amsterdam had Peng Zhaoqin win Group 1 and Robin Van Kampen win Group 2.
Prize-giving ceremony at the Max Euwe Memorial Chess Tournament in Amsterdam.
At the start of the last round all group 1 players were tied with equal number of points. Only Peng pulled off a nice win against Van der Sterren and an outright tournament win. In group 2, Van Kampen beat Conquest in time trouble and won the first place.
The winners - Robin and Peng
The prizegiving for the Euwe Memorial tournament took place in De Kring and included interesting chess artistic event, lectures, humour, etc.
Final standings
In Group 1 we had Peng Zhaoqin at 3.5 points in six rounds, Pia Cramling and Frederik Olafsson with 3.00 and Van der Sterren at 2.5. In group 2 we had Van Kampen with 4.5, Monika Socko with 4.0, Stuart Conquest with 2.0 and Arakhamia-Grant with 1.5 points in six rounds. You can access the official website at this link. Photos by Nadja Voorham and Bas Beekhuizen.
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All fun at Max Euwe Chess Memorial in Amsterdam
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hello everyone,
Here is the latest chess news update from the Max Euwe Memorial Chess Tournament currently being played in Amsterdam. In Round 5, Fridrik Ólafsson and Paul van der Sterren won their games leaving all four players with 2½ out of 5! Monika Soćko beat Stuart Conquest in group 2 and Robin van Kampen drew against Ketevan Arakhamia. Soćko and Van Kampen lead this group with only one round left.
Paul van der Sterren
Cramling-Peng
The news has been sent to us by tournament director Monique van de Griendt with the English translation being by Marike Dokter. The photos are by Nadja Voorham.
The final round starts on Sunday followed by a cultural chess celebration for the closing ceremony. You can access the official website for all the live updates.
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Max Euwe Memorial Chess Day 4: Girl power day
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hi everyone,
Here is the chess news update from the nice event currently on in Amsterdam - The max Euwe Memorial Chess tournament (Official website: www.euwetoernooi.nl).
On Wednesday, the event finally had all players in attendance and all games ended in convincing wins for white: 4-0.
Van Kampen, who had played with the black pieces in the first two rounds and came close to winning against Conquest and Socko, was eager to win his first game with white against Arakhamia-Grant. She chose a solid Philidor opening, but the strange rook manoeuvre Re8-e5-g5 gave white a pleasant game. Van Kampen won a pawn and converted his advantage convincingly in his nice attacking style. He actually was the only man that won a game against a woman on Wednesday!
Cramling-vdsterren analysis.
Monika Socko
In the game Cramling-Van der Sterren, the position seemed to be quite dull after 16 moves, but like her compatriot Ulf Andersson, Pia Cramling likes these positions and carefully improved her position. Van der Sterren told us after the game that he had underestimated 31. Nc6+! Cramling won a pawn, snatched another one and Van der Sterren resigned.
Girl power in the game Peng-Olafsson as well: in a Kings Indian, both players played for a win, but the audience in the packed commentary room was a bit disappointed when Olafsson offered a repetition of moves. Peng, however, decided to play on and had to calculate when to play the decisive break-through move c4-c5. After she finally found the right moment, on move 43, Olafsson had to resign only a few moves later.
In the longest game of the day, Monica Socko had the upper hand against Stuart Conquest. Socko scored a fine 5,5/9 in the good team championship in Greece last week for her country Poland and seems to be in good form. In a long and complicated endgame she converted her advantage into a full point. Conquest later said he played the Dutch opening, to honor the hosts. It is not always a good idea to be polite, obviously. On the rest day, will be the postponed games Conquest-Arakhamia from round 1 and Olafsson-Cramling from round 2. The games will start at 13.00.
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