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THE UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN CHESS CHALLENGES
One of the highlights of the Chess GM Dimitri Reinderman
Festival Groningen 2014 will be the Dimitri Reinderman (42) was born on
two Invitation matches, both between August 12th 1972. He started playing
rising Dutch youth talents and chess at an early age and showed
established (grand)masters. These some pretty good results in the
University of Groningen Chess nineties. In this decade he be became
Challenges will take place from 22th an international grandmaster, and in
up to and including 29th 1992 he shared the 2nd place in the
December (see our Program on page 5 European Youth Championship
for the exact schedules). under 20 and the 3rd place in the
World Youth Championship in the
After the beautiful struggle Jan same age category. Together with his
Timman vs Robin van Kampen in 9½ out of 11 in the 1998 Hoogovens B
2009, the two matches in 2011 (Hans these achievements are perceived by
Ree - Jorden van Foreest and Martine Dimitri as his best results. His golden
Middelveld - Anna Maja Kazarian), medal at the fifth board at the 1999
the match John van der Wiel - Jorden European Team championship clearly
van Foreest in 2012 and the Frisian holds lesser value to him.
clash between Jan Werle and dutch
youth champion Nick Maatman, this In 2007 Reinderman decided to
year even two matches have been become a chess professional. After
staged. participating many times in the Dutch
championship his first place in the
Thus the Schaakstad Groningen 2013 edition was well earned. His Elo
foundation once again meets one of reached a nice 2619 in 2014 and apart
its objectives: to stimulate and from playing chess Dimitri recently
facilitate the development of young became very active in quite a different
talented chess players. branch: the development and presen-
tation of pop quizzes. One of these
quizzes will be a side event of the
Chess Festval 2014. Furthermore he is
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