Popular
meeting point of chess friends:
the Café De Zon |
Steel blue hours among KWA friends
Again a quite sizeable group of 14 members of the Ken Whyld Association
used the traditional major chess event at Wijk aan Zee – now operating
under the name of Tata tournament – for an informal meeting. Thanks
to the good preparatory work of Guy Van Habberney, Rob Spaans and Ron
Bleeker this time we had a comfortable conference room in the pavilion
free of charge at our disposal. For that explicit thanks to the organization.
(The spitting distance to the toilets inspired Guy and Tony Gillam to
a "KWA toilet-gate", but there was no conspirative affair, more
inspirational.)
The treasurer of the Max Euwe Centrum, Albert Riemens presented a new
donation model to support the MEC which however turned out to be attractive
due to tax savings only for Dutch people. Naturally we can only wish our
friends at Amsterdam "good luck" with this initiative.
Arrived
at Wijk:
(from left) Tony Gillam, Guy Van Habberney,
Jurgen Stigter, Bert Corneth, Bob van de Velde and Henri Serruys. |
As
already mentioned in our little preview,
this time
the KWA was above-average present. |
Afterwards our chairman Guy Van Habberney told about
the plans for 2011, i.e. the official KWA meetings at Bozen in May and
Cleveland in August, as well as the two informal meetings at the house
of Klittich in June and November and on the occasion of the book markets
at the Amsterdam MEC.
Then a short report was given on the cash audit 2009 and 2010 performed
in the morning in the house of Bert Corneth, as well as on the budget
2011.
Michael
Negele with the Tata advertising car |
For
the first time I was "on trial" as treasurer, I thank Bert Corneth,
Henri Serruys and of course my predecessor Guy Van Habberney for the complaisant
confidence. The financial cushion of the KWA is considerable, you will soon
find the corresponding information in the member section.
The currently already realized change of the account from the Netherlands
to the Targobank in Germany was announced as well. [> KWA
Club Account]
The
Pavilion at eventide |
Gennadi
Sosonko commenting the games |
The tournament hall - the rows in the Open have already thinned
out. |
Our chairman speaks... |
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