#about_HansRee
🔹 Hans Ree
🔹 Dutch chess grandmaster and writer
🔹 born: 15 September 1944 in Amsterdam
🔰 Hans Ree is a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. He is a chess columnist for NRC Handelsblad, and contributes to the chess magazines New In Chess and ChessCafe.com. His earlier publications include Een blinde reus, Rode dagen en zwarte dagen and Schaakstukjes.
Ree's more recent offering The Human Comedy Of Chess (Access Publishers Network, 2000) chronicles developments in the chess world in a humorous and occasionally acerbic manner, drawing on material from his columns and insider observations.
🔰 Having previously shared the title of European Junior Champion in 1964/65 and 1965/66, Ree won the Dutch Chess Championship in 1967, 1969, 1971 and 1982. Together with then reigning World Champion Boris Spassky, he was a winner of the Canadian Open Chess Championship in 1971, played in Vancouver. Ree became an International Master in 1968 and an International Grandmaster in 1980.
♦️ A short and memorable game by Hans Ree👇
▪️ Hans Ree vs Jeroen Piket
▪️ TCh-NED Playoffs Rapid (2001), Breda NED, rd 1, May-24
▪️ Queen's Indian Defense: Spassky System (E14)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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🔹 Hans Ree
🔹 Dutch chess grandmaster and writer
🔹 born: 15 September 1944 in Amsterdam
🔰 Hans Ree is a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. He is a chess columnist for NRC Handelsblad, and contributes to the chess magazines New In Chess and ChessCafe.com. His earlier publications include Een blinde reus, Rode dagen en zwarte dagen and Schaakstukjes.
Ree's more recent offering The Human Comedy Of Chess (Access Publishers Network, 2000) chronicles developments in the chess world in a humorous and occasionally acerbic manner, drawing on material from his columns and insider observations.
🔰 Having previously shared the title of European Junior Champion in 1964/65 and 1965/66, Ree won the Dutch Chess Championship in 1967, 1969, 1971 and 1982. Together with then reigning World Champion Boris Spassky, he was a winner of the Canadian Open Chess Championship in 1971, played in Vancouver. Ree became an International Master in 1968 and an International Grandmaster in 1980.
♦️ A short and memorable game by Hans Ree👇
▪️ Hans Ree vs Jeroen Piket
▪️ TCh-NED Playoffs Rapid (2001), Breda NED, rd 1, May-24
▪️ Queen's Indian Defense: Spassky System (E14)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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@Ree-Piket 2001.pgn
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▪️ Hans Ree vs Jeroen Piket
▪️ TCh-NED Playoffs Rapid (2001), Breda NED, rd 1, May-24
🔹 PGN format
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@unitychess
▪️ TCh-NED Playoffs Rapid (2001), Breda NED, rd 1, May-24
🔹 PGN format
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@unitychess
USSR Young Masters' Championship, Dubna 1970.
Seated (L-R): Alburt, Radashkovich, arbiter (x2), Podgaets, Dzindzhichashvili.
Standing: Faibisovich, Kapengut, arbiter, Tukmakov, Kupreichik, Bokuchava, Dvoretsky, Vaganian, Butnorius, Sveshnikov, Romanishin, Razuvaev, Gulko.
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Seated (L-R): Alburt, Radashkovich, arbiter (x2), Podgaets, Dzindzhichashvili.
Standing: Faibisovich, Kapengut, arbiter, Tukmakov, Kupreichik, Bokuchava, Dvoretsky, Vaganian, Butnorius, Sveshnikov, Romanishin, Razuvaev, Gulko.
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Here is the cross-table of the event, which was won by Vaganian, Tukmakov & Kupreichik.
(This photo via http://www.chess-news.ru ; photo credit unknown.)
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(This photo via http://www.chess-news.ru ; photo credit unknown.)
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“If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.”
🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik (1960) “100 Selected Games”
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🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik (1960) “100 Selected Games”
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29.Rcd1!± [A right decision. White avoids the exchange of the rooks and puts his rook behind the 'candidate d5–pawn'.]
29...Ne2 [29...Nc2? 30.d6 exd6 31.exd6 △d7 31...Rcd8 32.d7 Nd4 33.Bg5 △Nf6 33...h6 34.Bxd8 Rxd8 35.Nf6+ Bxf6 36.Rxf6 Ne6 37.b4+–]
30.Bg5!‚ f6? [¹30...Rce8 31.Rfe1 h6 32.Bxh6 Bxh6 33.Rxe2±]
31.exf6 exf6 32.Nxf6+ Bxf6 33.Bxf6 Nc3 34.Rd4 Rcd8 35.Bxd8 Rxf1+ 36.Kg2 Rf7 37.d6 Rd7 38.Bg5 Nxa2 39.Bd2 b5? 40.b4!+– Kf7 41.Rd3 [△Ra3] 1–0
29...Ne2 [29...Nc2? 30.d6 exd6 31.exd6 △d7 31...Rcd8 32.d7 Nd4 33.Bg5 △Nf6 33...h6 34.Bxd8 Rxd8 35.Nf6+ Bxf6 36.Rxf6 Ne6 37.b4+–]
30.Bg5!‚ f6? [¹30...Rce8 31.Rfe1 h6 32.Bxh6 Bxh6 33.Rxe2±]
31.exf6 exf6 32.Nxf6+ Bxf6 33.Bxf6 Nc3 34.Rd4 Rcd8 35.Bxd8 Rxf1+ 36.Kg2 Rf7 37.d6 Rd7 38.Bg5 Nxa2 39.Bd2 b5? 40.b4!+– Kf7 41.Rd3 [△Ra3] 1–0
FIDE World Youth Rapid and Blitz Championships finished in Greece on October 19th. FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich visited the event and awarded the winners during the closing ceremony.