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🏆 Hoogovens (1979)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Jan Timman, Tony Miles, Ulf Andersson, Lev Polugaevsky, Robert Huebner, Vlastimil Hort, Roman Dzindzichashvili, Gennadi Sosonko, Guillermo Garcia Gonzalez, Hans Ree, Juraj Nikolac, Nona Gaprindashvili

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
Hoogovens (1979)

Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, 19 January - 1 February 1979

Age Elo* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 1 GM Polugaevsky 44 2625 • ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 7½ =2 GM Miles 23 2560 ½ • ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 6½ =2 GM Sosonko 35 2535 ½ ½ • ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 6½ =2 GM Andersson 27 2560 ½ ½ ½ • ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 6½ =5 GM Hübner 30 2595 ½ ½ ½ ½ • 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 6 =5 GM Hort 34 2600 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 • ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 6 =5 GM Timman 27 2625 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ • 1 ½ ½ 1 1 6 =8 GM Dzindzichashvili 34 2595 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 • 0 1 ½ 0 5 =8 IM Ree 34 2480 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 • ½ 0 ½ 5 10 GM Garcia Gonzalez 25 2490 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ • 0 ½ 4 =11 IM Nikolac 46 2450 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 1 • 0 3½ =11 GM Gaprindashvili 37 2405 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ 1 • 3½ ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

Eleven rounds in 14 days, starting on Friday 19 January (66 games). Rest days 22, 26 & 31 January. Polugaevsky won with 7.5/11.

Photo (Andersson vs Polugaevsky): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...
Photo (Timman vs Gaprindashvili): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...

Sources
Tata Steel website (https://history.tatasteelchess.com/...)
Perpetual Check website (https://www.perpetualcheck.com/show...)
*FIDE rating list January 1979 (https://web.archive.org/web/2022112...)
Magyar Sakkélet, 6/1979, p. 144 (https://adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Sak...)
Jaque 87, March 1979, pp. 2-4 (https://www.olimpbase.org/leagueES/...)
Skakbladet, 4/1979, p. 52 (https://danbase.skak.dk/skakbladet/...)
Dutch newspapers (available at https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten)

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 page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 66  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Hort vs Polugaevsky  ½-½131979HoogovensE16 Queen's Indian
2. G Garcia Gonzalez vs Dzindzichashvili  0-1401979HoogovensA35 English, Symmetrical
3. N Gaprindashvili vs J Nikolac 1-0241979HoogovensB18 Caro-Kann, Classical
4. Timman vs H Ree  ½-½361979HoogovensD67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line
5. Huebner vs Miles  ½-½411979HoogovensD25 Queen's Gambit Accepted
6. Sosonko vs Andersson  ½-½181979HoogovensE00 Queen's Pawn Game
7. Timman vs Huebner  ½-½381979HoogovensC91 Ruy Lopez, Closed
8. Polugaevsky vs N Gaprindashvili 1-0351979HoogovensA31 English, Symmetrical, Benoni Formation
9. Andersson vs G Garcia Gonzalez  ½-½191979HoogovensE92 King's Indian
10. Dzindzichashvili vs Hort  ½-½171979HoogovensE17 Queen's Indian
11. Miles vs Sosonko  ½-½171979HoogovensD02 Queen's Pawn Game
12. H Ree vs J Nikolac  0-1481979HoogovensD52 Queen's Gambit Declined
13. Huebner vs H Ree  ½-½331979HoogovensA13 English
14. Sosonko vs Timman  ½-½251979HoogovensD98 Grunfeld, Russian
15. G Garcia Gonzalez vs Miles  ½-½301979HoogovensA31 English, Symmetrical, Benoni Formation
16. N Gaprindashvili vs Dzindzichashvili 1-0411979HoogovensB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
17. Hort vs Andersson  ½-½261979HoogovensB93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4
18. J Nikolac vs Polugaevsky 0-1481979HoogovensA04 Reti Opening
19. Andersson vs N Gaprindashvili 1-0521979HoogovensA30 English, Symmetrical
20. Timman vs G Garcia Gonzalez  ½-½911979HoogovensC18 French, Winawer
21. Dzindzichashvili vs J Nikolac  ½-½401979HoogovensA04 Reti Opening
22. Huebner vs Sosonko  ½-½161979HoogovensA28 English
23. H Ree vs Polugaevsky  ½-½111979HoogovensA36 English
24. Miles vs Hort ½-½401979HoogovensA15 English
25. N Gaprindashvili vs Miles  ½-½321979HoogovensA07 King's Indian Attack
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jan-14-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: Timman's wife gave birth to a daughter during the tournament - his only two losses were after this event :-)
Jan-14-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: In a sense, therefore, it was the antithesis of GLC Chess Challenge (1986), an event won by Glenn Flear, who only appeared because Karpov, then Dorfman did not take part.

Flear was married during the event, which John Nunn noted in his best games collection.

As Nunn wryly commented in 1994: Flear had never had a result to compare to his win, but had not got married since either!

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