General Information
The Match
Chess Events Maastricht Foundation announces a Complete Chess match between the Dutch Women Grandmasters Zhaoqin Peng (ELO 2402) and Tea Lanchava (ELO 2389). They will play four games in Maastricht, The Netherlands from 31 January - 3 February 2006. Both players may use a computer with ChessBase software during the encounters. We organise a computer match in the Centre Céramique for the sixth and last time. Peng has won the Dutch women championship six times in a row. Lanchava has been the runner-up several times.
Complete Chess
The match will start with two games of Complete Classic Chess. The prescribed opening is the gambit 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Nf3. Similar openings can be found in our reports about the Gambit Match Umansky - Timmerman. The players will continue with Complete Random Chess in the other two games. This means that the initial position of the pieces will be decided by chance. Rules were developed by Count Van Zuylen van Nijevelt and Baron Van der Hoeven long ago. The players use computers like in Advanced Chess, but the time limits of Classic Chess will be applied in all games (40 moves in two hours, followed by 20 in one and finally 15 minutes plus 30 seconds per move). How women can humiliate men in chess, can be found on the following internet page: www.endgame.nl/wbm.htm.
The Players
Zhaoqin Peng (1968), born in China, is an International Grandmaster. She was only the tenth woman to get the GM title. Her current ELO Rating is 2407. She has won the Dutch Championship seven times. Last year she won the title with a fantastic score: 8 out of 10. She has played in several Olympiads and team championships for the Dutch team. In 2004 she won the second prize in the individual European Chamionship in Dresden. She is the number one on the Dutch female rating list. Peng learned to play chess when she was already 12 years old. She lives in Rotterdam.
Tea Lanchava-Bosboom (1975) is an International Women Grandmaster and International Master. She scored her final borm in 2004 on the Island of Man. She became the IM titel in March 2005. Lanchava was born in Georgia and learned to play chess at the age of 5. She played her first world championship 1988 in Timisoara, Romania when she was only 13 years old. She won that U-14 tournament. Two years later, in 1990 she won the U-16 world title in Singapore. Lanchava has played several Olympiads and team championships for The Netherlands. She now lives in Winschoten.