The Venezuelan FM Alexander Hernandez has succeeded in booking the Curacao Chess Festival 2009 on his name with 7.5 points out of 9 (1st prize trophy & $1500) drawing in the last round against the Frenchman Gilles Suez-Panama who hereby ended on a shared 3rd place ...more
The Arubans have successfully booked the first 3 places in the youth group on their name. The Aruban player Juan Pablo de Mey remained unbeaten (8 points with 2 draws) becoming overall champion of the youth group. Angel Centeno another player from Aruba ended on 2nd place overall on 7 points while taking in 1st place in the age group 10-12 years ...more
2nd newsletter CCF 2009
When this second newsletter is put on line, the final results of the tournament will already be there. As a matter of fact, this second newsletter was ready for uploading, but was delayed to await the final results ...more
Interview with Dutch participants
In the following interview we talked about chess and vacation with two Dutch participants. Frits van Gelder lives near Amsterdam (Bussum for the geographically savvy). He regained his taste for chess a few years ago, after not playing for many years, by playing against a young nephew (and all too often losing from him) ...more
1st newsletter CCF 2009
For our visitors of the website of the Curaçao Chess Festival we are presenting our first newsletter. This year brings us quite a few changes from previous years. First there was the global financial crisis that has affected everyone worldwide. Nevertheless, the Curaçao Chess Festival belongs to the survivors of that crisis and we are now cruising along nicely in the ninth edition of this chess tournament ...more
Interview with Anatoly Ostrovskiy & more
Once a year Anatoliy goes on a foreign trip with his son to play chess. These trips have taken him to South America, Asia, Europe and now to Curacao. He finds that Curacao has a European taste ...more
The Venezuelan FM Alexander Hernandez has succeeded in booking the Curacao Chess Festival 2009 on his name with 7.5 points out of 9 (1st prize trophy & $1500) drawing in the last round against the Frenchman Gilles Suez-Panama who hereby ended on a shared 3rd place 
The Arubans have successfully booked the first 3 places in the youth group on their name. The Aruban player Juan Pablo de Mey remained unbeaten (8 points with 2 draws) becoming overall champion of the youth group. Angel Centeno another player from Aruba ended on 2nd place overall on 7 points while taking in 1st place in the age group 10-12 years 
