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The second edition of the Jan Hein Donner Memorial Chess Tournament was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in August of 1995. Twelve grandmasters were invited to compete in the round robin event, including (in order of Elo): Alexei Shirov (2695), Valery Salov (2685), Alexander Khalifman (2655), Judit Polgar (2635), Alexander Morozevich (2630), Jeroen Piket (2625), Yasser Seirawan (2625), John Nunn (2615), Julio Granda Zuniga (2605), Jan Timman (2590), Loek Van Wely (2585), and Alexander Huzman (2580). The average rating of the participants qualified the tournament as a Category XVI event. Granda Zuniga and Timman both finished equal first with +4, a half point ahead of clear third Polgar. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 12-24 August 1995 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 Pts
1 Timman * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 7.5
2 Granda 0 * 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 7.5
3 Polgar ½ 1 * 0 ½ 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 7.0
4 Seirawan ½ 0 1 * 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 6.0
5 Huzman ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 6.0
6 Shirov ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 0 1 1 1 6.0
7 Morozevich 0 0 1 0 1 ½ * 0 1 ½ 0 1 5.0
8 Salov ½ ½ 0 1 0 0 1 * ½ ½ 1 0 5.0
9 Nunn 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ * ½ 1 ½ 5.0
10 Khalifman 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * 1 ½ 5.0
11 Piket 1 ½ 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 * ½ 3.0
12 Van Wely 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ * 3.0
Original collection: Game Collection: Amsterdam 1995, by User: suenteus po 147. Game dates (Aug. 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24) from Leidsch Dagblad added 6 Sept 2015 by User: Tabanus.Previous (and first): Donner Memorial Group A (1994) and Donner Memorial Group B (1994). Next (and last): Donner Memorial (1996)
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| Feb-02-23 | | saturn2: One or two days I was in the audience during a nice summer trip to Amsterdam. The funny thing was I continued to London and saw Piket and van Wely in the underground station there. |
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