Exhibition “Dutch Chess Art” opens august the 17th during The Euwe Stimulus Tournament
Former Fide President Olaffson is one of the players
At Thursday evening august the 16 th, the Euwe Stimulus Tournament has started. It will be an invitational tournament in the format of a 9 Round Robin. The following ten players have confirmed their participation. They are listed in order of their FIDE-rating of July 2007.
IGM Dibyendu Barua 2462 India
IM Willy Hendriks 2420 the Netherlands
IGM Oscar Panno 2457 Argentina
IM Helgi Dam Ziska 2408 Faroe Islands
IGM Friðrik Ólafsson 2452 Iceland
IGM Nona Gaprindashvili 2364 Georgia
Vincent Rothuis 2441 the Netherlands
IM Puchen Wang 2348 New Zealand
IM Amon Simutowe 2421 Zambia
WGM Bianca Muhren 2334 the Netherlands
Without any doubt, Max Euwe is the most important person in the history of Dutch chess. Not only was he World Champion, he also wrote countless books and articles, published world wide. Also, as a chess official he played an important role. He was president of FIDE, the world chess federation, from 1970 until 1978. In that role he saved the exciting match between Robert Fischer and Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, 1972.
More details: see the tournaments website http://www.euwe-stimulans.nl/
Beside the tournament, there will be a comprehensive exhibition of Dutch Chess art.
In the summer of 2005, Margreet Wevers and Geert van Tongeren (both coming from and living in The Netherlands) got the idea to do something with the combination of chess and art. They called this project and the company: Schaakkunst (schaak=chess and kunst=art).
Schaakkunst made contact with several artists who use the theme chess in their work.
Schaakkunst organized his first exhibition in April of 2006. After that there was a fast progress. Meanwhile they are often present at chess-tournaments with few or many works of chess-art. Organizations of tournaments are very pleased with this, because players and visitors can see more than only the combat at the chessboard. For example: Schaakkunst was present in Hilversum during the Dutch Championship Chess and they were present at the Corus Chess Tournament in January of 2007.
In the meantime about 14 more artists did join this original initiative.
With the new artists and their chess-art, http://www.schaakkunst.nl/ became a large site with many various art-works. Most of the work shown is for sale and can be found at the (also in English) online shop http://www.chess-art.eu/. At this shop one can find beautiful chess-sets and many smaller articles, like calendars, artprints, chess-art-wine, etc. All nice things to get or give as a present.
Specially for clubs and company’s, Schaakkunst design and produce chess-notation-booklets, diary’s and so on, according the wishes of the client.
We’ll show you some of the artworks you’re able to see if you visit the Euwe Stimulus Tournament.
More details: see the tournaments website http://www.euwe-stimulans.nl/
Very nice stuff. How did you find out about this event? No one else reported it.