NH Chess Tournament
The NH Chess Tournament was a chess tournament that was held in Amsterdam every August from 2006 to 2010 . The venue was the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky , which belongs to the NH Hoteles group of companies. The tournament was financed by the Dutch chess patron Joop van Oosterom .
Two teams, each consisting of five experienced grandmasters and five aspiring talents, played against each other in a double round according to the Scheveningen system . The best player on the youth team received an invitation to the well-endowed Melody Amber tournament the following year.
Participants and Results
2006
The youth team won with 28-22 points.
| Team experience | Team youth |
|---|---|
| Alexander Beliavsky (6.5 points) | Magnus Carlsen (6.5 points) |
| Ljubomir Ljubojević (4.5 points) | Sergei Karjakin (6 points) |
| Ulf Andersson (4 points) | Wang Hao (5.5 points) |
| Artur Jussupow (3.5 points) | Daniël Stellwagen (5 points) |
| John Nunn (3.5 points) | Jan Smeets (5 points) |
2007
The youth team won with 26½-23½ points.
| Team experience | Team youth |
|---|---|
| Artur Jussupow (5.5 points) | Sergei Karjakin (7 points) |
| Predrag Nikolić (5.5 points) | Ivan Tscheparinow (6 points) |
| Alexander Chalifman (5 points) | Jan Smeets (5.5 points) |
| Alexander Beliavsky (4 points) | Daniël Stellwagen (4.5 points) |
| Ljubomir Ljubojević (3.5 points) | Parimarjan Negi (3.5 points) |
2008
The youth team won with 33½-16½ points.
| Team experience | Team youth |
|---|---|
| Simen Agdestein (4 points) | Wang Yue (8.5 points) |
| Yevgeny Bareev (4 points) | Ivan Tscheparinow (7.5 points) |
| Ljubomir Ljubojević (3.5 points) | Fabiano Caruana (6.5 points) |
| Artur Jussupow (2.5 points) | Erwin l'Ami (6 points) |
| Viktor Kortschnoi (2.5 points) | Daniël Stellwagen (5 points) |
2009
The team experience gained with 27½-22½ points.
| Team experience | Team youth |
|---|---|
| Peter Heine Nielsen (6.5 points) | Jan Smeets (6 points) |
| Pjotr Swidler (6 points) | Fabiano Caruana (5 points) |
| Ljubomir Ljubojević (5.5 points) | Daniël Stellwagen (4.5 points) |
| Alexander Beliavsky (5 points) | Hou Yifan (3.5 points) |
| Loek van Wely (4.5 points) | Hikaru Nakamura (3.5 points) |
2010
The youth team won with 26-24 points. The equal points Nakamura and Giri played a playoff over two blitz games , which Nakamura won 2-0.
| Team experience | Team youth |
|---|---|
| Boris Gelfand (7 points) | Hikaru Nakamura (6 points) |
| Pjotr Swidler (5.5 points) | Anish Giri (6 points) |
| Peter Heine Nielsen (4 points) | Fabiano Caruana (5 points) |
| Loek van Wely (4 points) | David Howell (4.5 points) |
| Ljubomir Ljubojević (3.5 points) | Wesley So (4.5 points) |
Best youth player
2006: Magnus Carlsen
2007: Sergei Karjakin
2008: Wang Yue
2009: Jan Smeets
2010: Hikaru Nakamura
Web links
- Homepage ( Memento of December 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), as of December 30, 2010, archived on archive.org