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Julien Swidurski
Oct 5, 20244 min read
Conquering the NBSB: My Victory in the First Competition Match Against tough competition
In the first competition round of the NBSB evening competition 2024-2025 we now started with 2 teams instead of 1. On September 30th both...
Ralf Weijers
Sep 9, 20242 min read
Wer kann den Kaiser besiegen?
As the season has been kicked off with a simul exhibition, we organized our first internal blitz tournament of the season. With 9 players...
Ralf Weijers
Sep 6, 20242 min read
GM Erwin l'Ami - Litho Knights: 20-0
Ok ok, maybe the title is a bit depressing, but we had a good time :). Last year we'd organized a simultaneous exhibition with WGM Bianca...
Ralf Weijers
Jul 20, 20242 min read
Summer success at Dutch Club Teams Championship
During this year's Dutch Championships they had also organized a number of side events. One of those was the Blitz championship for club...
Pepijn van Hees
Feb 22, 20241 min read
Speed Circuit Sprints on in Leg 2!
On 15 February, the second of the Speed Circuit commenced. This round too was a blitz round, but this time players each got a whopping 5...
Ralf Weijers
Feb 7, 20244 min read
KNSB round 5 - Eyes on the prize
We've played a number of rounds in the KNSB competition by the now and things are looking quite good. So far we've manage to only draw...
Pepijn van Hees
Jan 21, 20242 min read
Blitzing opening to the Speed Chess Circuit!
On 18 January, the first leg of the Litho Knights Speed Circuit 2024 was held. This first round took the form of a blitz tournament where...
Pepijn van Hees
Dec 13, 20231 min read
Internal competition Round 6 & 7 - One more to go
As we are approaching the year end we are also approaching the end of the first internal competitition of the Litho Knights.. On November...
Ralf Weijers
Nov 5, 20231 min read
Fifth round internal competition - Stormy weather
As we were facing very stormy weather last Thursday, the number of players was a bit lower than usual. Also yours truly wasn't playing,...
Ralf Weijers
Nov 5, 20232 min read
Litho Knights cup adventures - Most of the times Goliath wins ...
I was hoping that we would be able to pull a stunt like David vs Goliath or the Gaul vs the Romans, when we entered ourselves in the NBSB...
Ralf Weijers
Oct 20, 20233 min read
Fourth round internal competition - Under pressure
This Thursday (October 19th) we already had our 4th round of the internal competition. As we've played some rounds in the meantime you...
Julien Swidurski
Oct 18, 20235 min read
NBSB competition round 2 - Fresh blood
In the first round of the NBSB competition we started with a number of veterans in the team to allow for a "shock and awe" effect for our...
lithoknights
Oct 10, 20233 min read
Dutch Corporate Chess Championship (NK Bedrijvenschaak) 2023, Rotterdam
On 30th September 2023, the Dutch Corporate Chess Championship was held in Rotterdam. Last year it was the first time ASML participated...
Ralf Weijers
Oct 7, 20233 min read
Third round internal competition - Eye of the needle
After getting used a bit to the time control the competition is now starting to get into full swing. This time without pictures as I was...
Ralf Weijers
Sep 29, 20233 min read
NBSB competition round 1 - First blood, sweat and tears
As a starting club we are still experiencing a lot of "first times". The first time we joined a Corporate tournament, first internal...
Ralf Weijers
Sep 22, 20232 min read
Second round internal competition - Time flies by
Although 25 minutes sound like quite a bit of time to think, it flies by before you know it. Luckily enough the 20 seconds increment is...
Ralf Weijers
Sep 14, 20232 min read
Great results in the Dutch Blitz sauna tournament
On September 9th the Dutch blitz championship was being held in Rotterdam. This year's edition our following members have participated:...
Ralf Weijers
Sep 8, 20231 min read
First round internal competition - Let the games begin!
Yesterday, on September 7th, we have started with the internal competition of the Litho Knights. As we love our abbreviations this is...
lithoknights
Aug 25, 20231 min read
High Tech Fun tournament
During the Youth Olympiad on the High Tech Campus we organized a tournament together with Frits Schalij from ESV and also a High Tech...
Nils Eggink
Jun 22, 20233 min read
Simultaneous Success!
Hi there! My name is Nils Eggink, a recent hobby member in the Litho Knights Chess club. Last week, I participated in the simultaneous...
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