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Ulrich
Schädler personally cares for the welfare of his guests, on the
left Alain Fayard and Michael Negele having a discussion. |
The start on Thursday evening was literally drowned
in water but that could hardly harm the good mood of the chess friends
and their company gradually drifting in. At least there were some elements
of surprise, so Tony Gillam and John Beasley never met in person before
and we hadn’t reckoned at all on Alain Fayard’s participation.
After all were put up in their hotels and also Lena Jönsson and Calle
Erlandsson finally joined us during the dinner in an Italian restaurant,
the start of the meeting was quite successful.
Tony
Gillam,
John Donaldson and
Toni Preziuso |
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Alain
Fayard together with John Beasley,
in the background
Sue Beasley |
Sue
Beasley and
Marie-Theres Saremba |
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Having
dinner – John Donaldson, Tony Gillam, Marion Oeben-Negele and
right in the front Andreas Saremba can be made out. |
Next morning even more members arrived: Walter Simon, Bernd Ellinghoven
and François Zutter; later on the Swiss "old-timer" of
chess journalism, Alex Crisovan appeared together with his wife, further
guests were Marie-Theres Saremba, Sue Beasley, Marion Oeben-Negele and
Thomas Maeder
from Bern.
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Alex
Crisovan meets
Calle Erlandsson |
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left :
Tony Gillam, Ulrich Schädler, Andreas Saremba, Jurgen Stigter,
Walter Simon and Sue Beasley |
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Calle
Erlandsson,
Michael Negele and
Andreas Saremba |
Marion
Oeben-Negele,
Frau Crisovan and
Toni Preziuso |
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