Dutch Championship starts in Eindhoven

Today the Dutch Championship started at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. In the first round Nijboer beat Van Kampen and Bok upset Reinderman.

The Dutch Championship takes place June 11-20 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The rate of play is 40 moves in 90 minutes followed by 30 minutes to end the game, with 30 seconds increment from move 1.

Venue is the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, a technology center at the site of the former 'NatLab', the Philips Physics Laboratory. Eindhoven is the home town of the world famous Dutch company Philips, and soccer club PSV, of which the 'P' stands for Philips as well, the club's life-long sponsor. The Campus houses a wide variety of high tech companies that collaborate in the development of new technologies, focusing on key technology areas such as microsystems, semiconductor products, Embedded Systems, signal processing and nanotechnology.



This year's The Dutch Championship sees the strongest field ever, which includes reigning champion Anish Giri, but also six-times champion Loek van Wely and one-time champion Jan Smeets. In addition, as many as five of the ten participants have an Elo rating of over 2600. The average rating is 2581. In the women section Zhaoqin Peng defends her Dutch title, and tries to win her 12th (!) championship.





The games start each day at 13.30 CET, except for round 8 on Saturday, June 19th. Then it starts two hours later, to give the players the opportunity to watch the World Cup soccer match Netherlands-Japan, which starts at 13.30! Holland is a football minded country, and so the organization decided to avoid any complications and simply let the participants watch the games.

Therefore the rest day is already after three rounds, on Monday, because... indeed, the national team also plays on that date. The women, who don't have a rest day at all, start their games on Monday at 15.30 as well.

Loek van Wely has a completely different schedule altogether. He was allowed to play in a different tournament on Saturday, and will play his second round game on Monday, also at 15.30, against Robin van Kampen.

Below are all details, pairings and results:

Games round 1

Game viewer by ChessTempo

Two videos (in Dutch)

Links

• Official website
• Games in PGN