Impressions from Wijk – Round Seven
25.01.2009
– Our daily reports contain a lot of chess. But we have been frugal with the visuals, bearing in mind the admonition of a young GM that we were publishing too many pictures "of us players, from the front, from the side, from above, from below, thinking, not thinking." To compensate here are some unusual visual impressions from Wijk by Dutch photographer Frits Agterdenbos. Feast your eyes.
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Impressions from Wijk
Photo report by Frits Agterdenbos
Playing venue De Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee
Book sellers in entrance hall
Grandmaster groups A and B
Fabiano Caruana (right) - Jan Werle 1-0
Sergei Karjakin
Alexander Morozevich - Jan Smeets 1-0
Dronavalli Harika
Gata Kamsky - Daniel Stellwagen draw
Abhijeet Gupta
Loek Van Wely - Magnus Carlsen draw
Michael Adams - Teimour Radjabov draw
Alexander Motylev
Oleg Romanishin
Wijk aan Zee at night
All photos and information by courtesy of ChessVista
– Frits Agterdenbos.
Many more pictures are available on this web site.
| Frits Agterdenbos, b. 1960, lives in Heemstede, not far
from Amsterdam, and was one of the leading chess photographers in the
eighties. From 1979–1991 his pictures appeared in several magazins, including
New in Chess, Schakend Nederland, Inside Chess, BCM, Chess, Europe
Echecs and Schach. In 1984 his Dutch book “64 Schaakportretten”
(in English “64 Chess Portraits”) was published. In 1991 he “retired”
as a chess photographer to finish his studies and in 1997 he received
a diploma as an insurance mathematician (actuary). Since 1998 he has been
a self-employed, working under the company name “Acturix”, which is his
actuarial consultancy firm.
Now Frits is back as a chess photographer! In January 2005 he picked
up his old passion, and publications show he still knows how to handle
his camera. He combines his insurance job and chess photography with being
a husband and a father of the beautiful Elena (three years old). You will
find his photos on Chessbase.com, Schaakbond.nl, Schaaklog.nl and Schakers.info,
and many more websites and magazines. You can contact him under
f.agterdenbos (at) acturix.com.
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Previous Agterdenbos photo reports in ChessBase
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