Press Release
Zhaoqin Peng – Tea Lanchava
Complete Chess Match Maastricht 2006
The 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 (www.chessbase.com) during the encounters. The computer match in the Centre Céramique will be organised 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.
The renowned computer expert and special guest Prof. Dr. H.J. van den Herik will open the match on Tuesday 31 January. 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).
The games will start at 11.00 CET and will be broadcasted live on the website. Jan van Reek will provide live analyses. Pictures of the event and daily reports can also be found on the site.