The traditional HN Chess tournament, sponsored by the NH hotels, takes place in Amsterdam from 22th of August to the 1st of September.

In the first round only Jan Smeets managed to defeat his opponent Predrag Nikolic, the rest of the games resulted in draws. Favourites Karjakin and Cheparinov, drew against Ljubojevic and Jussupow. In the second round we expect the game between the leader Smeets and the top ELO of the "experience" team Beliavsky.

All games of the second round are drawn!

The best in the "Rising star" team will get an invitation for the 2008 Monaco rapid and blind tournament.

Round 1:
Beliavsky - Negi 1/2 - 1/2
Nikolic - Smeets 0 - 1
Khalifman - Stellwagen 1/2 - 1/2
Jussupow - Cheparinov 1/2 - 1/2
Ljubojevic - Karjakin 1/2 - 1/2

Round 2:
Smeets - Beliavsky
Stellwagen - Nikolic
Cheparinov - Khalifman
Karjakin - Jussupow
Negi - Ljubojevic

The ‘Experience’ team:
1 Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia, 2653)
2 Predrag Nikolic (Bosnia, 2646)
3 Alexander Khalifman (Russia, 2632)
4 Artur Jussupow (Germany, 2583)
5 Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Serbia, 2550)

‘Rising Stars’ team:
1 Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine, 2678)
2 Ivan Cheparinov (Bulgaria, 2657)
3 Daniel Stellwagen (The Netherlands, 2631)
4 Jan Smeets (The Netherlands, 2538)
5 Parimarjan Negi (India, 2529)

NH Chess Tournamet site: http://nhchess.quinsy.net/