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After
a pleasant stay in the house Corneth the evening before our kind Bert
is storming under a blue sky – past the fluttering flags –
from the car park near the "Corus pavilion" to the "small
place of the event", the tournament hall "De Moriaan". |
| Time
for the obligatory photo in front of the again very futuristic tournament
poster was a must – chess under control of the robot. |
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After
all there were three book tables in the foyer – eldorado of
each collector – our member Frans Hoynck van Papendrecht –
employee of the bookshop van Stockum in The Hague – had "amply
set" his. |
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we were very crowded – the match of the opponents from Elista
didn’t take place in the rest room but in the middle of this
cluster – of photographers of course! But I couldn’t make
out a Danailov with worn glasses sucking his thumb, just as there
was no LAN cable hanging down from the ceiling ... |
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...
Radjabov and Motylev appeared completely unimpressed while opening
their exciting King’s Indian. |
| At
a little more distance the view of the A and the B group of the grandmaster
tournament was not better as well, but among the "decathletes"
I located a good old friend of our meetings in Amsterdam and in La
Tour-de-Peilz ... |
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