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Schuhplatter Chess Tournament
July 1, 2004
The Schuhplatter Chess Tournament was the 9th of the Veterans vs. Ladies series, sometimes called the Dance Tournaments, sponsored by Joop J. van Oosterom and the Association Max Euwe. It was held in the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany on July 4th through 15th, 2000.

The Ladies team comprised of:
Zhu Chen (China)
Alisa Galliamova (Russia)
Nana Ioseliani (Georgia)
Xie Jun (China)
Sofia Polgar (Israel)
and was captained by Ljubomir Ljubojevic

The Veterans team comprised of:
Hans Bouwmeester (The Netherlands)
Vlastimil Hort (Germany)
Victor Korchnoi (Switzerland)
Vassili Smyslov (Russia)
Mark Taimanov (Russia)
and Vlastimil Hort also captained the team

While this tournament format is meant to be fun, the chess players, being competitors to the bone, take it quite seriously. Geurt Gijssen, in the Arbiter's notebook at Chess Cafe gives a few insights into the actions, reactions and interactions of these players:
"In the last round he [Hans Bouwmeester] played against the Chinese top player Zhu Chen. At one point he had a totally won position (several pawns up in the ending) and the lady did not resign. This was probably too much for the veteran and suddenly he said to his opponent: "please be polite". His opponent reacted immediately and told him to be polite and not to speak to her during the game."
* * * * *
"From the first round, he [Viktor Korchnoi] ate a lot of chocolate. This is, of course, not a problem, but he always made so much noise with the chocolate wrappers that the arbiters had to warn him each round to stop it. Several players complained about this."
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"...Korchnoi overstepped the time limit. The games were played with the electronic DGT clocks and Korchnoi started to argue with me, asking me whether I was sure that it was not he but his opponent, Zhu Chen, who had overstepped. I tried to explain to him that the DGT clocks show clearly who has exceeded the time control. But I could not convince him and I stopped trying. Then he started to explain quite loudly that the final position was won for him and his opponent, always polite, agreed with him. Finally he argued, again, that he did not understand why he had lost on time. My colleague, Mr. Krause, had the courage to try to explain this to him again, but I told him to do so outside of the playing hall and this is what happened."
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Veterans vs. Ladies
Schuhplatter Chess Tournament
Hotel Bayerischer Hof - Munich, Germany
July 4th-15th 2000

Vassily
Smyslov


Viktor
Korchnoi


Vlastimil
Hort


Hans
Bouwmeester


Mark
Taimanov


Alisa
Galliamova-Ivanchuk

draw



draw
Korchnoi 0-1



draw
draw



Galliamova 1-0
Galliamova 0-1



Galliamova 1-0
Taimanov 0-1



Galliamova 0-1
6.0

Nana
Ioseliani

draw



draw
draw



Korchnoi 1-0
draw



draw
Ioseliani 0-1



Ioseliani 1-0
Ioseliani 1-0



Ioseliani 0-1
6.5

Sophia
Polgar

Smyslov 0-1



draw
Korchnoi 1-0



Korchnoi 0-1
Polgar 1-0



Hort 1-0
Polgar 1-0



draw
Taimanov 1-0



Taimanov 0-1
3.0

Xie
Jun

Xie Jun 1-0



draw
draw



Korchnoi 1-0
Xie Jun 0-1



draw
draw



Xie Jun 0-1
draw



Xie Jun 1-0
6.5

Zhu
Chen

draw



draw
Zhu Chen 0-1



Korchnoi 0-1
draw



Hort 1-0
draw



Bouwmeester 1-0
Zhu Chen 1-0



Zhu Chen 0-1
   5.0  
5.0 7.5 4.5 2.5 3.5

Veterans = 23.0 pts.           The games in pgn format          Ladies = 27.0 pts.

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