Tuesday, August 10, 2010

N H Chess Tournament- Rising Stars vs Experience,Amsterdam

Tourney mode:  Scheveningen (every player of one team is playing every player of the other team twice). (10 games)
Experience:   Boris Gelfand,Peter Svidler,Peter Nielsen,Loek van Wely,Ljubomir Ljobojevic.
Rising Stars:  Hikaru Nakamura,Fabiano Caruana,Wesley So,Anish Giri,David Howell
Time mode: 40 moves in 2 H +30 minutes +30 seconds/move starting with move 41 st.
Prize fund:   2,0000 euro for the players of the winning team, 1,000 euro per player for the losing team. if tied 25:25 then 1,500 euro per player. In addition each player receives 500 euro for each point he scores.Special prize for the 'Rising Stars' team: the player with the highest scores will be invited to the 2011 Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament in Nice, provided he scores 50%. In case his scores is below  50% ,he and a partner of his choicewill be invited to attend yhe 2011 Amber as tournament guest.The number three 'Rising Star' will receive a Sony Vaio Notebook.

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