Team The Hague

In the 9th and ultimate round of the World Cities League 2022, Division 2B, we play London: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/team-the-hague/1395857/games As you can see in the live ranking below, promotion to Division 1 is almost certain for The Hague. A win against London would round off of the season perfectly. Still, next season, matches will be considerably harder. So if you have some chess friends who might join the team and support us next season, try to recruit them for Team The Ha...

In the eighth and pre-ultimate round of the World Cities League 2022, Division 2B, we play Brisbane: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/team-the-hague/1382855/games As you can see from the live ranking below, The Hague heads for promotion to division 1. Only in the most extreme scenarios we can still fail. Brisbane is one of the stronger teams of our league and another win would underscore our ambition. Currently, we have 21 registrations each. Both teams have the potential for a considera...

In the 7th round of the World Cities League 2022, Division 2B, we play Torino: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/team-the-hague/1372827/games As you can see from the live ranking below, we are on track for promotion to Division 1. Our toughest competitor is Brisbane. So next round The Hague vs Brisbane will be particularly important and interesting (we hope). The Russian teams of Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg have withdrawn from the WCL due to the measures taken on chess-com against Russi...

In the 6th round of the World Cities League 2022, Division 2B, we play Minsk: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/team-the-hague/1361565/games Setting up this match was not self-evident. The government of Belarus supports the Russian war in Ukraine, and there were voices that demanded to isolate Belarusian players and teams in the same way as Russian ones. On the other hand, it is well known that there is much sympathy with Ukraine among Belarusian people, and this is confirmed by seeing man...

In the fifth round of the World Cities League 2022, Division 2B, we play Québec: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/team-the-hague/1347905/games The live ranking below says is all: Novosibirsk and The Hague are the most serious contenders for promotion to Division 1, and the ongoing match between these two teams (currently 9-10 in favour of Novosibirsk) will be crucial for the end result in our division. Still, it's five more rounds to go, and our opponent of the current round, Québec, sho...

In the round of 16 of the Cities World Cup 2022 we play Sydney: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/team-the-hague/1339845/games Sydney is a strong team from Division 3 of the World Cities League. Last season, we managed to beat them by 35½-18½, when we were still in the same group of Division 2. However, Sydney's win in the round of 32 against Almaty (just relegated from Division 1) is a clear sign that this teams should not be underestimated. In our 2021 match, we had 27 players each. Let...

In the fourth round of the World Cities League 2022, Division 2B, we play Novosibirsk: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/team-the-hague/1334839/games Upon looking at the live ranking (from https://chessteams.info/) below, he importance of this match is immediately apparent. The Hague and Novosibirsk are currently the only two teams with a perfect score. Winning this match could certainly be a big step towards promotion to Division 1. In our match last season, we had 18 players each and The...

In the third round of the Word Cities League 2022, Division 2B, we play Sofia: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/team-the-hague/1323063/games So far, we've had a good start in the new season. The match against Yekaterinburg will almost certainly result in a win. In the match against Budapest, we are leading with 3 points, but here all results are still possible. Anyway, in the live ranking (see below) we a part of a group of four leaders with two wins. Sofia belongs to this group, too. So ...

In the second round of the World Cities League 2022, Division 2B, we play Budapest: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/team-the-hague/1307941/games The ranking after the first round (see below) is not particularly telling yet, but we certainly had a good start against Yekaterinburg, and Budapest is trailing in their match against Sofia. Currently, it's a nice 18-18 in the registration, but there is more than a week to go until the start of the match, and we hope that still many players will...

In the first round of the World Cities League 2022, Division 2B, we play Yekaterinburg: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/team-the-hague/1297357/games Last season, we played a series of good matches, but with defeats against Belgrade and, in particular, Santa Fe, promotion to Division 1 was beyond reach. Let's give it another try in the new season. Our first opponent is Yekaterinburg from Russia. Incidentally, we played our very first WCL match back in 2016 against them. At that time, we m...