Exhibition Match
Thursday, October 17, 2013: FIDE IM Twan Burg versus ICCF GM Ron Langeveld
FIDE IM TWAN BURG versus CORRESPONDENCE CHESS WORLD CHAMPION AND ICCF GM RON LANGEVELD
We are glad to announce that an exhibition match between these two great players has started on October 1st, 2013.
It is played in the ICCF Webserver under ICCF rules.
Our own World Champion Ron Langeveld needs no introduction.
There will be some live commentary provided by FIDE GM Anish Giri, we will be posting his interesting and expert comments as we receive them.
Visitors may follow the games live without any move delay here:
Burg - Langeveld
Langeveld - Burg
FIDE IM Twan Burg has kindly provided us with a short biography:
I am 23 years old and live in Schijndel (NED). My hobbies are soccer, gym, and intellectual games.
I learned chess on age 6 and have been very active since then. In won several youth championships, including Dutch U10 and U16. In 2004 I managed to become 3rd in the European Union U14. I scored 5/9 at the European Youth Championships U18 in 2008.
In 2009 I became IM after winning the IM Tournament Cultural Village Wijk Aan Zee(NED). My other norms I scored in Deizisau(Germany), Enschede(NED) and Ohrid (ECC, Macedonia, 7 rounds).
I play for clubs in different countries: Amay (Belgium), SK Turm Emsdetten (Germany), HMC Den Bosch (NED) and Sant Josep de Badalona (CAT).
In 2012 I scored my first GM norm in the GM tournament BDO Haarlem (NED). I am still trying to obtain my other norms. The 2500-mark I have passed already.
I am proud of the strong opponents I have beaten in my chess career: Bacrot, Ni Hua, Romanov and Giri (2x) are among my victims. The games are in Mega2013.
From 2007-2012 I studied Econometrics and Operational Research in Tilburg University. The Master was called Mathematical Economics.
Last year I have been focussing on chess only. In the beginning of 2014 I hope to start a job.
In the recent years I have become increasingly active as a chess author/journalist. I publish on the website of my Dutch club and I write articles on chess news websites schaaksite.nl and newsaboutchess.com.
Since December 2012 I have been playing correspondence chess. I got contacted by Jos van Doorn to play in the Olympiad. The reason was that I have been playing on website jijbent.nl for many years. This is a website where you can play a lot of different games with a thinking time of at least one day per move.
My experiences with CC have been quite good so far. As a beginning OTB player (yes, I am familiar with the terms already) I had some fear for the opponents' engines. Later I discovered that all I had to do was just making good moves and that guys with ICCF 2500 are beatable. Also I like to do research in the openings. Analyzing opening variations has been a hobby for me for many many years.
For my CC future I would like to settle a decent rating and to play important games for the national team. Also in the future it would be nice to enroll in some WC-Cycle. However I try to limit my games, because my main focus will be on my job and OTB chess. So let's see what the future will bring..