News Archive
NEWS
19/05/2007
Chessclub Groningen had to wait 47 years to become champion of the Dutch Master League for the first time, but sponsor Share Dimension got the first prize in their first year of sponsorship.
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13/05/2007
Share Dimension Groningen team is the new champion of the dutch chess club competiton 2007 !
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11/05/2007
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23/03/2007
Chess Dimension will be broadcasting live our team's match against SO Rotterdam.
The broadcast will start Saturday 24th of March at 12.00 and will cover all 10 games. The match is played at:
De Orient,
Kobehof 5,
3067 MC Rotterdam
Games can be watch by following this link: Round 7
Update 27/03/2007 - Bart Beijer
A difficult win in Rotterdam - Hangen en wurgen in Rotterdam
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20/03/2007
“Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.” (Anatoly Karpov)
Some would say a sport of mind, some others would say that our life is a chess game, and many of us think of chess as two people concentrating to a piece of wooden board with 64 squares. Magnificent some would say. Twice the sphinx in front of you in a deep silence. For the un-initiated many of this world, is like a ritual.
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06/03/2007
Saturday 3rd of March 2007, Share Dimension Groningen surpassed HSG Hilversum with 6 ½ - 3 ½ . Already old news… but we were so glad to read this information on various other websites and on television.
Not called “The battle of champions” for nothing, the participation of the World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, European Champion 2005 Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu, and German Champion Arkadij Naiditsch next to the best Dutch players with Share Dimension or HSG teams, made it a success..
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26/02/2007
see the games and photos from the match, following this link www.chessdimension.com.
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05/02/2007
Share Dimension Groningen played Saturday against ESGOO of Enschede in the national Dutch competition. Our team scored a good 7 ½ to 2 ½ win, which establishes Share Dimension as a strong candidate for winning the competition.
Grand Master Ivanchuk visited Share Dimensions’s offices the next day and was kind enough to give us an in-depth analysis of his game against Oscar Lemmers of ESGOO.
Vassily was very open with his comments and the annotations are truly a chess lesson for every one to follow.
Other Grand Masters, including Sergey Rublevsky, Ivan Sokolov, Tea Lanchava and Daan Brandenburg have also given extensive comments on their corresponding games. We invite you all to follow them on Round 5.
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03/02/2007
Chess Dimension will be broadcasting live our team's match against ESGOO of Enschede.
The broadcast will start Saturday 3rd of February at 13.00 and will cover all 10 games. The match is played at:
't Volbert
Anemoonstraat 20
7531 DC ENSCHEDE
053-435 37 47
Games can be watch by following this link: Round 5
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30/01/2007
On Feb 31, 15:00, the Russian champion Sergey Rublevsky will play in a simultaneous chess event against talented Dutch amateur players. The event is organized by Share Dimension together with “De Toren” Arnhem chess club, and will be held in Arnhem in their clubhouse. The early time slot is chosen so as to enable youngsters to participate as well.
This event is part of Share Dimension’s strategy in promoting and supporting chess activities. “De Toren” chess club is one of fastest growing chess clubs in The Netherlands.
Update 03/02/2007: Fotos, movie and impressions from the game.
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15/12/2006
Chess Dimension will be broadcasting live our team's match against HMC Calder.
The broadcast will start Saturday 16th at 13.00 and will cover all 10 games. The match is played at:
The Hervion College,
Hervensebaan 5,
5232 JL 's-Hertogenbosch.
Games can be watch by following this link: Round 4
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25/11/2006
At chessdimension.com we made a habit of bringing you up to date information from around the world where our top players are playing.
It can not get better than a match Vladimir Kramnik vs Deep Fritz. Man versus machine. Our top player against a computer that can process 20 million operations per second.
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12/11/2006
Share Dimension's Erik van Dijk bespreekt de bevindingen tijdens onze bloedstollende match met LSG Leiden, die gespeeld werd in het Euroborg stadion. In de volksmond ook wel de Groene Kathedraal van voetbalclub FC Groningen.
En in een weekend waarin de plaatselijke FC uit tegen FC Twente klop kreeg met maar liefst 7-1, bleek voor Share Dimension het bezoek aan FC Groningen's thuisbasis niet onverdeeld gunstig. LSG vocht voor wat het waard was en troggelde ons een 5-5 af.
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11/11/2006
Chess Dimension will again be broadcasting live our team's match against LSG.
The broadcast will start Saturday 11th at 13.30 and will cover all 10 games. The match is played in a top location in Groningen and that is the Euroborg stadium.
Games can be watch by following this link: Round 3
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03/11/2006
 | Almost everybody will remember this year´s edition of the Essent Tournament in Hoogeveen as the absolute highlight in the history of this event. I mean, what more can a spectator ask for? The best players ever in the Crown Group (Topalov, Mamedyarov, Polgar and Sokolov), great fighting spirit and no boring draws! Sounds like the perfect tournament, but as I already said: not for everyone. |
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17/10/2006
Tea Lanchava, chessplayer, IM and European vice-champion 2006, gets personal in this article. We get to know her inner thoughts right before the Dutch team championship match (against Amstelveen) on Saturday 14th of October. A really wonderful and emotional story from an international chess master.
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16/10/2006
The European Cup 2006 has just ended, and not surprisingly, Tomsk-400 successfully defended their 2005 Men's title in Fuegen, Austria.
This year's European Cup was truly a special event for Share Dimension. Four of our top players were participating in the tournament.
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13/10/2006
Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik overpowered Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in a series of timed tiebreak matches to win the World Chess Championship in Elista.
Chess Dimension has followed all of the games in this championship, puzzled with all the issues around those games, and we are happy to see that our team member has won the undisputed championship.
Congratulations to Vladimir from all of us here at Chess Dimension and the Groningen Chess Club, both for the victory, and for continuing to play under adverse conditions. The entire sport has emerged victorious as a result.
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12/10/2006
Chess Dimension will be broadcasting live our team's match against Zukertort Amstelveen.
The broadcast will start Saturday 14th at 1 o’clock and will cover all 9 games. The 10th game was played on 29th of September by our Daan Bradenburg. Of course that game was also covered lived here at Chess Dimension.
Games can be watch by following this link: Round 2 KNSB
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29/09/2006
Our October match will be at and against Amstelveen(zukertort). Daan Brandenburg will be away that date because of an important youth championship. Raymonde de Rooy of Amstelveen was so friendly to play his game with Daan tonight. Not just that, the opponents also agreed to allow us to broadcast the event for our Internet and Groningen audience. Writing this (after move 16) we already know that it is a great tactical match and we advise you to follow it live. Follow the game on link on competition, round 2. Enjoy.
EvD
match photo:
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26/09/2006
Of course the whole chess community is already aware of the fact that our star, Vladimir Kramnik, is currently playing Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in a match for the World Title. The match is being played in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia (yep, FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov’s home base). With Vladimir and two other Share Dimension players on his team of seconds (Sergey Rublevsky and Alexander Motylev), it would be a shame if we couldn’t bring you the news here on our website. Sure, there are a lot of other sites bringing the match as well, but we felt obliged to show that the whole Share Dimension team is with our star in his battle for the World Championship 2006.
We will bring you the games live. Comments and analyses by strong grandmasters will be added later, so please check this page regularly for updates.
Erik van Dijk
23/09/2006
Well! We, and many others following this competition, expected a 7-3 or 8-2 shellacking of the Utrecht team...but it did not happen. On the contrary, it was a very hard-fought match that, after a lot of sweat, local matador Yge Visser won the victory for us, 5.5 - 4.5. He played a very nice, illustrative Closed Sicilian that finished in a rook and pawn ending. This game was really one to replay.
Sergey Tiviakov and Jan Werle were the other winning Groningen players. Remarkable, isn't it? In the end the wins came from the locals and not from our visiting stars. That is chess; sometimes these things happen. The 2 losses were Baramidze, who blundered against van Beek in a quiet position, and Erik Hoeksema, in a tough French battle on board 10. All the other games ended in draws, including the game between Smerdon and Ivanchuk on board one. That game was illustrative of the fighting spirit of the visiting Utrecht team. Our highest respect goes to them, but we are happy to keep the first match points in Groningen.
EvD
23/09/2006
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22/09/2006
Share Dimension Groningen games will be broadcast live during home matches, starting tomorrow (Saturday 23rd) against Utrecht. The broadcast will start at 1 o’clock. Our guest IM Tea Lanchava, also part of our first team selection, will guide you through the games.
Also, this Saturday afternoon our selection’s number 1, Vladimir Kramnik, will be busy with chess ‘somewhere else’. He will play the first game in his world championship match against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria. We will, of course, keep you posted and follow that ‘Battle of Titans’ as well. The championship match is even a bit more ‘Share Dimension Groningen’ than you might think: 2 other Groningen players, Sergey Rublevsky and Alexander Motylev, will be part of Kramnik’s team of seconds.
Erik van Dijk - Chairman, Share Dimension
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20/09/2006
As indicated one month ago in our official press release, Share Dimension Groningen aims to become a leading force within the Dutch master class. For that purpose our sponsor, Share Dimension (www.sharedimension.com), enabled the team to hire world class players like Vladimir Kramnik, Dieter-Liviu Nisipeanu, Alexandr Motylev and Arkadij Naiditsch. But our ambitions reach further than ‘just’ becoming a leading force within the Netherlands.
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15/08/2006
The Groningen Chess Club, one of the leading teams in the strong Dutch master class, and financial IT specialist Share Dimension BV, headquartered in Bunnik (the Netherlands), today announced their plans for a broad cooperative agreement.
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