Rising Stars vs. Experience
August 20-31, 2009
NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, Dam 9, Amsterdam
The NH Chess Tournament, organized by NH Hoteles in close cooperation with Association Max Euwe, Monaco, is a ‘Scheveningen’ team tournament between an ‘Experience’ team and a ‘Rising Stars’ team. All members of each team play all members of the other team twice, once with the white pieces and once with the black pieces.
The ‘Experience’ team consists of Peter Svidler (Russia), Peter Heine Nielsen (Denmark), Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia), Loek van Wely (The Netherlands) and Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Serbia).
The ‘Rising Stars’ are Hikaru Nakamura (United States), Fabiano Caruana (Italy), Jan Smeets (The Netherlands), Daniel Stellwagen (The Netherlands) and Hou Yifan (China).
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Nakamura is still a rising star? Huh? He’s already a star.
At least this time, the experienced team stands a good chance of winning…
Nice to see that Ljubo still plays.