Essent Chess Tournament, Hoogeveen, Netherlands, October 11th-19th.
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Essent Chess Tournament 2002 took place October 11th-19th in Hoogeveen, Netherlands.
/Images/Players/Small/Acs1.jpg" align="left" alt="Peter Acs" border=0> The young players became the winners of the tournaments: the round robin Peter Acs (Hungary), open Evgeny Alekseev (Russia)
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There were several tournaments among them: double round robin event and strong open.
The participants of the round robin : Alexander Khalifman 2690 RUS, Judith Polgar 2685 HUN, Loek Van Wely 2681 NED and Peter Acs 2591 HUN.
Final standings:
1. Peter Acs 4.0
2-3. Judith Polgar, Alexander Khalifman 3.0 each
4. Loek Van Wely 2.0
The players of the open include: Evgeny Alekseev 2593 RUS, Semen Dvoiris 2567 RUS, Ian Rogers 2557 AUS, Friso Nijboer 2556 NED, Peter Kiriakov 2553 RUS, Mikhail Brodsky 2547 UKR, Evgeny Shaposhnikov 2544 RUS, Alexander Riazantsev 2543 RUS, Sergey Ionov 2538 RUS and others.
Final standings:
1. Evgeny Alekseev 7.0
2. Semen Dvoiris 6.5
3. Vlastimil Hort 6.5
4. Ian Rogers 6.5
5. Dennis De Vreugt 6.5
6. Alexander Riazantsev 6.0
7. Alexei Bezgodov 6.0
8. Friso Nijboer 5.5
9. Ivan Cheparinov 5.5
10. Michail Brodsky 5.5
11. Alexander Goloshchapov 5.5
12. Evgeny Shaposhnikov 5.5
13. Maarten Solleveld 5.5
14. Sergey Ionov 5.5
15. Yge Visser 5.5
16. Jakub Filipek 5.5
17. Mark Quinn 5.5
18. Geert Vanderstricht 5.5
etc.
/Java/2002/Essentround/viewer.html"> View games (round robin)
/Java/2002/Essentround/essentround.zip"> Games in PGN (round robin)
/Java/2002/Essentopen/viewer.html"> View games (open)
/Java/2002/Essentopen/essentopen.zip"> Games in PGN (open)
Internet site: www.hoogeveen.nl/essent-chess/index-begin.htm