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The Women–Veterans chess tournaments, also known as the Ladies–Veterans chess tournaments or the Dance tournaments, was an annual series of Scheveningen team chess matches held from 1992 to 2001 between a team of top female chess players and a team of veteran former top players. The series was organized by the Max Euwe Association and sponsored by the association's co-founder Joop van Oosterom. It was referred to as the Dance tournaments because each tournament was named after a dance associated with the host city. The series was relatively balanced. The veterans teams' overall score was 6–3 with one tie. They generally had better ratings than the women's teams, but typically only by a relatively small margin under 50 Elo.

Results

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Individual winner
Year Name Location Prize money Team winner Score Women top scorer Score Veterans top scorer Score
1992 Tumba Aruba $75,000 Veterans 39–33 Judit Polgar 7½/12 Lev Polugaevsky 8½/12
1993 Waltz Vienna ? Women 40½–31½ Maia Chiburdanidze 9/12 Vassily Smyslov 6½/12
1994 Palladienne Monte Carlo ? Women 37–35 Judit Polgar
Xie Jun		 7½/12 Vassily Smyslov 8/12
1995 Polka Prague ? Women 26½–23½ Judit Polgar
Pia Cramling		 6½/10 Viktor Korchnoi 5½/10
1996 Foxtrot London ? Veterans 27½–22½ Ketevan Arakhamia 6½/10 Lajos Portisch
Vassily Smyslov		 6½/10
1997 Hostdans Copenhagen ? Veterans 27–23 Ketevan Arakhamia 5½/10 Lajos Portisch 6/10
1998 Can-can Copenhagen ? Tie 36–36 Zhu Chen 7/12 Viktor Korchnoi 9/12
1999 Flamenco Marbella ? Veterans 30½–19½ Maia Chiburdanidze
Xie Jun		 4½/10 Viktor Korchnoi 7½/10
2000 Schuhplattler Munich ? Women 27–23 Nana Ioseliani
Xie Jun		 6½/10 Viktor Korchnoi 7½/10
2001 Klompendans Amsterdam ? Veterans 26–24 Zhu Chen 6/10 Lajos Portisch 6½/10

Scores

Player Team '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 Total %
 Lev Polugaevsky (RUS) V 8½ 8½/12 0.701
 Judit Polgar (HUN) W 7½ 7½ 6½ 21½/34 0.632
 Oscar Panno (ARG) V 7 7/12 0.583
 Susan Polgar (HUN) W 6½ 7½ 7 4½ 25½/46 0.554
 Borislav Ivkov (YUG) V 6½ 5 4½ 4½ 20½/46 0.446
 Vassily Smyslov (RUS) V 6 6½ 8 5 6½ 5½ 4½ 4½ 5 5 56½/108 0.523
 Pia Cramling (SWE) W 6 6½ 5½ 5 6½ 4 33½/64 0.523
 Efim Geller (HUN) V 6 6 12/24 0.500
 Wolfgang Uhlmann (GER) V 5 5/12 0.417
 Alisa Galliamova (RUS) W 5 5½ 2½ 6 4 23/54 0.426
 Maia Chiburdanidze (GEO) W 4 9 5½ 6½ 4½ 29½/56 0.523
 Ketevan Arakhamia (GEO) W 4 5½ 3 6½ 5½ 3½ 28/68 0.411
 Bent Larsen (DEN) V 7½ 3½ 11/24 0.458
 Xie Jun (CHN) W 7 7½ 5 4½ 5 4½ 4½ 6½ 5½ 50/96 0.521
 Sofia Polgar (HUN) W 6 2 3 3½ 14½/42 0.345
 Fridrik Olafsson (ISL) V 4 4/12 0.333
 Andreas Duckstein (AUT) V 2½ 2½/12 0.208
 Vlastimil Hort (GER) V 7½ 4½ 5½ 5½ 7 6½ 4½ 5½ 46½/84 0.554
 Nana Ioseliani (GEO) W 6½ 4 4 3½ 5½ 6½ 5 35/74 0.473
 Boris Spassky (FRA) V 6 5 5½ 4½ 7½ 5½ 34/64 0.531
 Lajos Portisch (HUN) V 5½ 3½ 6½ 6 5 6½ 6½ 39½/74 0.534
 Viktor Korchnoi (SUI) V 5½ 9 7½ 7½ 5½ 35/52 0.673
 Mark Taimanov (RUS) V 3½ 4½ 2½ 3½ 3½ 17½/52 0.337
 Zhu Chen (CHN) W 4 7 4 5 6 26/52 0.500
 Hans Bouwmeester (NED) V 2½ 2½/10 0.250

See also

References

  1. "Dancing". Chess.com. 16 July 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2024.

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