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The NH Chess Tournament is a confrontation between a team of five young ‘Rising Stars’ and a team of five ‘Experienced’ grandmasters who can look back on impressive and glorious careers. They play a ‘Scheveningen’ tournament, which means that each player of one team plays against each of the players of the other team. They do so twice, once with the white pieces and once with the black pieces.
The team that collects most points wins the tournament. However, there are additional prizes for individual results, which are specified in the tournament rules below.
The ‘Experience’ team consists of (next to their country their current Elo rating is given):
1 Peter Svidler (Russia, 2726)
2 Peter Heine Nielsen (Denmark, 2668)
3 Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia, 2640)
4 Loek van Wely (The Netherlands, 2622)
5 Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Serbia, 2553)
And these are the ‘Rising Stars’:
1 Hikaru Nakamura (United States, 2701)
2 Fabiano Caruana (Italy, 2649)
3 Jan Smeets (The Netherlands, 2626)
4 Daniel Stellwagen (The Netherlands, 2619)
5 Hou Yifan (China, 2590)
The players of the ‘Rising Stars’ team could invite a trainer to help them during the tournament. Family members were excluded. The seconds of the ‘Rising Stars’ are (in the same order):
1 Kris Littlejohn (United States, -- )
2 Alexander Chernin (Hungary, 2594)
3 Francisco Vallejo (Spain, 2688)
4 Erwin l’Ami (The Netherlands, 2598)
5 Yu Shoateng (China, 2504)
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