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The NH Chess Tournament is taken place from August 19 to 29 in the NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in the center of Amsterdam. The event is sponsored and organized by the NH hotel chain and the Association Max Euwe, Monaco.
The format is a Scheveningen team tournament with one team called “Experience” (51.8 year old – 2590 average rating) and the other “Rising Stars” (17.6 years old – 2614 average rating). The “Experience” as a team almost qualifies for Social Security and the “Rising Stars” as a team is barely old enough to drive.
Here are the standings with just 3 rounds left:
Rising Stars —- Experience
Carlsen 5 —- Beliavsky 4½
Karjakin 4 —- Jusupov 3½
Wang Hao 4 —- Andersson 2½
Stellwagen 3½ —- Nunn 2½
Smeets 3 —- Ljubojevic 2½ 
More info: http://nhchess.quinsy.net/
It should be mentioned that the “winner” of the Rising Stars team gets an invitation to Amber 2007, where the prizefund is huge.
“It should be mentioned that the “winner” of the Rising Stars team gets an invitation to Amber 2007, where the prizefund is huge.”
It’s a bit unfair because Carlsen would get an invitation anyway if he continues to play like he does.
It doesn’t be a real test for the rising stars because they have a higher rating so it is unfair i think
Online I watched Carlsen destroy Morosevich at the Bien International festival. The game went 42 moves but all of the kibitzers gave it to Carlsen in 30. At 14 hes pretty awesome.
He is 15 Daniel, but definitely awesome!
It should be noted that although credit should be given to the youngster for a strong, the current results are almost exactly what the ratings differential would predict.
Using the FIDE online calculator,
if a 2590 plays a 2614 and scores
19/40, rating change: +2
18.5/40, rating change: -3
18/40, rating change: -8
After 8 rounds, the it’s 22-18 so the veterans are doing about as expected.
Magnus at age 15 has really begun to mature. His play is excellent. He is developing a style. He is not ready for a World Championship Match but he is definitely playing at an over 2700 clip. today Round 8 he won and now his rating is over 2700 for sure. he needs only one point out of the next 2 games to end the tournament at or above 2700 according to the expert estimates which seem to have about a 2 point variance from 2700 to 2702.
Magnus has been playing a lot of chess recently. School vacation must help. but it still must be a heavy schedule.
you can watch the games live from different venues. ICC, Playchess and the official website has the games. they also have the webcam for every game. this is proving very popular.