The Olympics is over and the world will now focus its full consideration on the primary occasion – the Chess Olympiad!
If one workforce may actually be described because the Chessable workforce, it could be the Netherlands. The Dutch connection at Chessable may be very sturdy, as the complete Open workforce consists of printed authors. We are able to additionally boast that the reigning Dutch Girls’s Champion is our very personal VP of Content material, WFM Maaike Keetman. We even have Geert. Everybody is aware of Geert.
The Netherlands are the 4th seeds at this 12 months’s Olympiad and will probably be bold about their medal probabilities. Led by the fearless GM Anish Giri on board 1, they sport a median ranking of 2687 and will probably be a tricky prospect for any workforce. The ladies’s workforce are the 18th seeds and have 18-year-old IM Eline Roebers, who has already taken down many sturdy grandmasters.
Moreover, veteran Dutch GMs Ivan Sokolov and Loek van Wely will probably be captaining the Romanian and Italian groups respectively. Sokolov will probably be trying to construct on his success in 2022, after captaining Uzbekistan to the gold medal.
So who’re the powerhouses behind Dutch chess?
Effectively, we’re contractually obliged to say Anish first, entrance, up prime and heart – and be sure to understand how nice he’s. He isn’t forcing us to write down this.
GM Anish Giri
This will probably be Anish’s seventh Olympiad for the Dutch workforce. He’s collected 3 particular person bronze medals alongside the best way, twice on board 1. He has scored a large 23 wins, 24 attracts and simply 2 losses on this occasion, setting the usual that the remainder of the workforce should sustain with. If Anish performs the best way he normally does, the workforce could have a fantastic likelihood at a medal.
In his spare time, he has printed 7 Chessable programs, overlaying a Full 1. e4 Repertoire, the Grünfeld towards d4 and three fully totally different responses to e4 (for some motive).
IM Eline Roebers
That is her 2nd Olympiad, after main the Dutch girls on board 1 in 2022, the place she picked up a silver medal with a 2532 efficiency. Since then, she has picked up wins towards GMs Erwin l’Ami, Mustafa Yilmaz and even Hans Niemann – incomes her a popularity as a very fearsome attacking participant.
GM Erwin L’Ami
Earlier this 12 months, Erwin revealed that he had been battling Hodgkin’s illness, a type of most cancers. Regardless of this, he defied the percentages to change into Dutch Champion for the primary time, displaying unbelievable resilience. Erwin has printed 5 Chessable programs, together with a full video model of Dvoretsky’s Endgame Handbook. And in case you haven’t tried his programs but, the probabilities are you’ve already studied one which was edited by his spouse, IM Alina L’Ami, who works as a content material editor at Chessable.
Try this emotional interview with GM Erwin L’Ami, the place he opens up about his current well being issues.
GM Jorden van Foreest
he ultra-creative tremendous GM will play board 2 once more this 12 months. The youngest ever Dutch grandmaster has a peak ranking of over 2700. His work as a second for each Anish Giri and Magnus Carlsen makes him revered as a theoretician who all the time performs for a win. He comes from the van Van Foreest dynasty of chess gamers – his great-great grandfather and great-great uncle have been Dutch champions. The custom continues to at the present time, along with his youthful brother Lucas and youthful sister Machteld each successful the Dutch championship.
His Lifetime Repertoires: Tarrasch Protection course epitomizes his fashion – it’s the proper technique to play ambitiously with the black items.
GM Ivan Sokolov
Supercoach Sokolov is a former 2700 participant in his personal proper, spending a long time battling towards the world’s elite. He’s chargeable for the most effective chess interviews of all time.
These days, he’s higher often called a coach – working for the European Chess Union to create their Superior Syllabus and main the younger Uzbek workforce to gold within the 2022 Olympiad. This 12 months he’s again because the captain of Romania, hoping to repeat that unbelievable efficiency in Chennai.
If you happen to’re trying to put critical work into your sport, then his acclaimed Profitable Chess Middlegames course is among the greatest methods to provide your self a lift.
Stijn van Gestel
Stijn isn’t a grandmaster and he isn’t enjoying on the Olympiad (but) – however he’s chargeable for ensuring Chessable programs have nice audio, so that you’ve most likely benefited from his work!
He hasn’t printed any programs of his personal, but when he did, we will guarantee you that they’d sound excellent.
There are too many to say right here however all programs by Dutch authors are at present on sale – together with programs by GM Max Warmerdam, GM Jan Timman, GM Benjamin Bok and IM Sopiko Guramishvili – try the complete sale right here.
Good luck to the Dutch groups!
