{"id":4157,"date":"2023-01-30T16:21:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T16:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chessentials.com\/Croatia_Bulldogs\/?p=4157"},"modified":"2023-01-30T16:21:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T16:21:27","slug":"meet-the-bulldogs-1-eline-roebers-top-5-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chessentials.com\/Croatia_Bulldogs\/2023\/01\/30\/meet-the-bulldogs-1-eline-roebers-top-5-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Bulldogs #1: Eline Roebers Top 5 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

The games provided in this article can be found in the following lichess study<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Meet The Bulldogs: Series Introduction<\/h1>\n

With the Pro Chess League 2023 Season just around the corner, it is my pleasure to welcome you all to the first edition of the Meet The Bulldogs series, a series of articles\/videos in which I am going to introduce you to the players playing for our team in the Pro Chess League by going over their best 5 games of their careers. In this first study, I am going to cover the games of our youngest member and one of the big chess talents on the horizon, Dutch 16-year-old IM Eline Roebers.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Eline Roebers<\/h1>\n

Eline Roebers<\/a> is a 16-year-old Dutch IM who has been making headlines throughout 2021,2022 and 2023 with her successful and remarkable performances – especially in team events, as well as with her entertaining, energetic, highly tactical, and sparkling play.<\/p>\n

Even though she has been well-known in the Dutch chess circles for a while due to her domination in the Youth competitions and her win at the World Junior U14 Championship in 2020 (held online) and winning the Brugse Meesters Open in Belgium at the age of 15 (which elevated her rating to 2297), the wider chess audience first heard about the name after she distinguished herself at the European Women’s Team Championship held in November 2021, where she won an individual bronze medal on board 2, scoring an impressive 7\/9.<\/p>\n

In 2022, she would continue to rise in the world rankings and achieve great success on the International stage. Apart from winning her second major chess open – Untergrombach Open 2022, she would also win the silver medal for her performance on board 1 in the 2022 Chennai Olympiad, score 5\/7 in the European Women’s Club Cup 2022 and fulfill the requirements for the title of the International Master.<\/p>\n

In 2023, Eline got the opportunity to participate in the prestigious Tata Steel Challenger chess tournament, where she scored the biggest victory of her career by beating the reigning Dutch champion and established grandmaster Erwin L’Ami in the 2nd round of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Eline Roebers Top 5 Games<\/h1>\n

1) Roebers – Osmak, European Women’s Team Championship, 2021<\/h2>\n

As mentioned above, the wider chess audience first heard about Eline’s name after her fantastic performance at the European Women’s Team Championship, 2021, where she scored 7\/9 and won an individual bronze medal on board 2. It would be, therefore, unjust not to mention at least one of her games from that great event.<\/p>\n

Her game against strong Ukrainian IM Julia Osmak was particularly impressive. After a very enterprising opening where she sacrificed a pawn, Eline obtained a very promising – almost winning – position, with a big compensation for the pawn. In these types of positions, the advantage can slip very easily, yet Eline handled it absolutely masterfully.<\/p>\n