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Loek Van Wely
Number of games in database: 2,059
Years covered: 1987 to 2009
Current FIDE rating: 2652
Highest rating achieved in database: 2714
Overall record: +649 -456 =704 (55.3%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      250 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Queen's Indian (136)      E15 E12 E17 E19 E16  King's Indian (128)      E97 E94 E91 E92 E90  Queen's Gambit Declined (98)      D37 D38 D31 D35 D30  Nimzo Indian (94)      E20 E32 E34 E21 E39  Slav (86)      D15 D19 D17 D11 D18  Grunfeld (61)      D92 D85 D86 D90 D94	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (407)      B90 B33 B84 B30 B22  King's Indian (145)      E97 E67 E92 E70 E98  Sicilian Najdorf (123)      B90 B96 B97 B93 B92  Sicilian Scheveningen (81)      B84 B82 B80 B81 B85  Grunfeld (51)      D97 D85 D73 D71 D92  Pirc (51)      B07 B09 B08

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Van Wely vs Leko, 1996 1/2-1/2
   Van Wely vs J Torres, 1993 1-0
   Van Wely vs Kiril Georgiev, 1997 1-0
   Van Wely vs Morozevich, 2004 1-0
   Shirov vs Van Wely, 2007 0-1
   Van Wely vs D Jakovenko, 2007 1-0
   Van Wely vs Svidler, 2007 1-0
   Van Wely vs Carlsen, 2006 1/2-1/2
   Van Wely vs Radjabov, 2009 1-0
   Nakamura vs Van Wely, 2009 1/2-1/2

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?]
   FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Grunfeld emotions by Yopo
   Tilburg Fontys 1996 by suenteus po 147
   Rubinstein Memorial 2000 by capybara
   Intel Rapid Chess Grand Prix 1995 - London by amadeus

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LOEK VAN WELY (born Oct-07-1972) Netherlands [what is this?] Loek Van Wely was born October 7, 1972, in the Netherlands. He gradually rose to the top of Dutch chess in the mid-1990's, reaching the final eight in the 1998 FIDE World Championship. Van Wely, who currently resides in Tilburg, won six consecutive Dutch Championships from 2000-2005, and drew a four-game match against the computer program REBEL (Computer) in 2002. Other career highlights include joint second at the 2002 Rubinstein Memorial, 7.5/8 at Amsterdam 2002, and equal fourth at Corus 2003, beating Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, and Evgeny Bareev.

page 1 of 83; games 1-25 of 2,059  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. F Van der Vliet vs Van Wely   1-0 47 1987 NED E69 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Main line 2. Van Wely vs H Polee   1-0 38 1987 NED E97 King's Indian 3. Van Wely vs H De Greef   1-0 55 1987 NED D70 Neo-Grunfeld Defense 4. Van Wely vs H Dalderop 1-0 24 1987 ? B06 Robatsch 5. T Thorhallsson vs Van Wely   ½-½ 32 1988 EU-chJ U20 Arnhem B81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack 6. Van Wely vs T Nielsen   1-0 20 1988 Lyngby op A80 Dutch 7. Van Wely vs Delchev 0-1 48 1988 Arnheim E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights 8. Van Wely vs H Grooten   0-1 53 1988 Sas van Ghent B40 Sicilian 9. R Topakian vs Van Wely   0-1 54 1988 EU-chJ U20 Arnhem B07 Pirc 10. Van Wely vs P Tolk   1-0 47 1988 Eindhoven D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation 11. P Boersma vs Van Wely   1-0 40 1988 NED B08 Pirc, Classical 12. Van Wely vs G Timmerman   0-1 47 1988 Dieren op E91 King's Indian 13. Van Wely vs H Cardon   ½-½ 30 1988 Sas van Ghent E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights 14. C Horvath vs Van Wely   0-1 41 1988 EU-chJ U20 Arnhem B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen 15. J Neumann vs Van Wely   1-0 52 1988 Lyngby op B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen 16. W Tonoli vs Van Wely   ½-½ 34 1988 Sas van Ghent A10 English 17. R Cifuentes-Parada vs Van Wely   1-0 43 1988 Dieren op E73 King's Indian 18. Van De Berg vs Van Wely   0-1 35 1988 Eindhoven B40 Sicilian 19. Van Wely vs Nyholm   1-0 39 1988 Lyngby op A77 Benoni, Classical, 9...Re8, 10.Nd2 20. T Bottema vs Van Wely 1-0 78 1988 Dieren op A48 King's Indian 21. S Farago vs Van Wely   0-1 55 1988 Sas van Ghent E67 King's Indian, Fianchetto 22. Van Wely vs R Djurhuus   0-1 60 1988 EU-chJ U20 Arnhem A90 Dutch 23. Van Wely vs C Overgaard   0-1 40 1988 Lyngby op E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights 24. Van Wely vs Nijboer   0-1 63 1988 NED E92 King's Indian 25. M Thesing vs Van Wely   0-1 33 1988 Dieren op B82 Sicilian, Scheveningen  page 1 of 83; games 1-25 of 2,059    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Van Wely wins | Van Wely loses

< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 15 OF 15 ·  Later Kibitzing > Feb-01-09    Jim Bartle: "It's only half a point ahead of last place, you know." That's one way to spin it. Another would be say he came in ahead of Adams, Ivanchuk and Morozevich. Feb-06-09    tomfoolery: How tall is Van Wely, heightwise? Feb-22-09    waustad: He is having a horrible tournament at the Aeroflot Festival. He has only 2 draws in 5 games, all against lower rated players. Feb-22-09    volvak: He spent all of his good prep at Corus, now the real strength of Van Wely is on show. Feb-22-09    dumbgai: How sad is it to see a Corus A participant getting a bye round at an open for being last in an odd-numbered field? Feb-22-09    zoren: Is his live rating plummeting under 2600? Feb-28-09    Billy Vaughan: I don't think he lost enough points for his 4.5/9 to fall below 2600. Remember, he gained a dozen or so points from his -1 score Corus A. Mar-11-09    trenton: I saw on playchess recently, he's rated 2900+ there and he struggled to beat this 1700 player in 3min blitz Mar-11-09    Granny O Doul: <tomfoolery: How tall is Van Wely, heightwise> 1.90 meters or just just under 6'3". Mar-13-09    jon01: Loek in action: http://www.eurobudva2009.com/pic/13... Mar-19-09    Billy Vaughan: Does he play soccer in the free days of every tournament? Apr-13-09    chessarmenia: This may have been addressed before, but is his name pronounced Van Wely or Wan Vely? Apr-14-09    Open Defence: I think its Fan Wely Apr-26-09    notyetagm: FWIW: I did not see Van Wely's lovely blonde wife with Loek this year at Foxwoods, like I have the past several years. May-19-09    laskersteinitz: Van Wely scored an impressive 7/9 at Foxwoods 2009, ending in sole 3rd place. Nicely done for a GM considered second-rate by some. Jun-06-09    Peligroso Patzer: <laskersteinitz: Van Wely scored an impressive 7/9 at Foxwoods 2009, ending in sole 3rd place. Nicely done for a GM considered second-rate by some.> Although Van Wely has borne the brunt of a great deal of excessive criticism, essentially all of that criticism related to his unworthiness to be invited to elite super-GM events (which criticsm had considerable basis, even if the rhetoric sometimes went a little over the top). It is hard to believe anyone ever would have imagined Van Wely would be anything other than a serious competitor for high placement in an event like Foxwoods Open (2009). Van Wely is currently playing as the #1 seed in the U.S. National Open in Las Vegas. In the first two rounds, he has defeated an FM and an IM: http://www.vegaschessfestival.com/r... Jul-08-09    waustad: He had an entertaining win over Antonio Fernandes at the Donostia festival today. Aug-28-09    jon01: Here's a cool interview with Van Wely: http://www.chessedelic.com/2008/09/... Aug-28-09    Billy Vaughan: Where's everybody calling him Loek Drawn Wely? =7 in the NH tournament, which is pretty good in my opinion. Aug-29-09    chessplanet8: to NotYetaGM: according to chessbase.com report on the NH tournament in Amsterdam 2009, loek van wely's girlfriend is lorena ( presumably lorena zepeda who played foxwoods 2009 like loek ) so he is most likely divorced from his wife. this is like NY post page six, chess edition :) Oct-04-09    dakgootje: wow, he's very cold to radjabov in the interview jon01 linked. don't know to what extend he's wrong or right, but rather harsh in any case. Oct-16-09    KamikazeAttack: Smeet, Tiviakov and that Wely again, I thought I had seen the back of him in super tournaments???? Corus is a joke. Oct-20-09    Billy Vaughan: Here's my fantasy sequence where Loek van Wely becomes world champion: 1. FIDE changes the rules so the world challenger must play black during the whole match. 2. Radjabov becomes world champion. 3. FIDE then changes the rules again and requires the challenger to play white every match. 4. FIDE handpicks van Wely as challenger. 5. Van Wely defeats Radjabov in a dozen KIDs. Oct-25-09    unsound: Meanwhile back in the real world, poor Van Wely lost rather spectacularly to FM Steven Zierk in Reno: http://main.uschess.org/content/vie... Oct-28-09    Billy Vaughan: The real world can be a sobering place. That was a terrific game, at any rate, but does the chess world need to feign surprise every time van Wely loses to an FM? He's practically made it a habit. Jump directly to page #    (enter number from 1 to 15) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 15 OF 15 ·  Later Kibitzing >

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