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ChessVista.com is the website of chess photographer Frits Agterdenbos. The site provides the international chess community with high quality chess photos and chess news of chess players from international chess events. There will be visual reports and an album with chess photo collections showing all the visual aspects of the chess world.15.05.2006 The competition scheme holds 10 teams with each 10 players playing nine rounds in the Meesterklasse (Premier league). R1-R8 are on eight Saturdays on five different locations spread all over the country, and R9 is on a Sunday: a combined final round with all 100 players together. The top four ranked will go through to the play-offs in a conclusive weekend. On Saturday the semi finals are being held. The winners go on to the final on Sunday, while the losers play a consolation final for third and fourth place. The winner of the final will be called Dutch Club Team Champion. This year’s winner is U-Boat Worx, as usual. HSG lost again the final to finish second. SO Rotterdam (third) won the consolation final beating Hotels.nl (fourth). (Photo report by Frits Agterdenbos) Henk Verstappen’s U-Boat Worx won the championship again. Prelude: Combined final round 9 in Sluiskil Arriving in Sluiskil: Hotels.nl captain Bart Beijer and Tea Bosboom-Lanchava Playing hall Round 9 in Sluiskil 23 April 2006 Yasser Seirawan and Daniel Fridman, round 9, Sluiskil Yge Visser’s draw in round 9 brings him the GM title John Van Der Wiel, LSG (Leiden) Petra Schuurman, Stukkenjagers (Tilburg) Yasser Seirawan, HSG (Hilversum) Tea Bosboom-Lanchava, Hotels.nl (Groningen) Friso Nijboer, HSG (Hilversum) Jeroen Bosch, SO Rotterdam (Rotterdam) Herman Grooten, Stukkenjagers (Tilburg) Jan Smeets, HSG (Hilversum) performance rating 2911 after round 9 Joel Lautier, U-Boat Worx (Breda) in Sluiskil HSG, U-Boat Worx, Hotels.nl and SO Rotterdam are through to the Play-offs. HWP Sas van Gent and Stukkenjagers have been relegated. Zukertort Amstelveen and Utrecht will take their places next year. Play-offs in Enschede The playing hall in Enschede Ljubomir Ljubojevic, HSG (Hilversum) Zhaoqin Peng, SO Rotterdam (Rotterdam) Mikhail Gurevich, U-Boat Worx (Breda) Konstantin Landa, Hotels.nl (Groningen) Sergei Movsesian, U-Boat Worx (Breda) Jan Stomphorst, team captain of HSG (Hilversum) Loek Van Wely – Joel Lautier 1-0 and Yasser Seirawan – Ivan Cheparinov draw Michael Adams, U-Boat Worx (Breda) Ivan Cheparinov, U-Boat Worx (Breda) Laurent Fressinet, U-Boat Worx (Breda) Predrag Nikolic, HSG (Hilversum) Yge Visser, Hotels.nl (Groningen) Zhaoqin Peng and Gert Ligterink analysing their game, which was Ligterink's final game in the club competition. Jonkman & Juliana: Harmen Jonkman sitting in front of a painted portrait of Juliana (Queen of the Netherlands 1948-1980) Dimitri Reinderman, SO Rotterdam (Rotterdam), happy with two draws Official sites: www.schaakbond.nl and especially for play-offs www.esgoo.nl/plof2006/ The higher up sequel, the European Club Cups 2006 (general and women), will take place 7-15 October in Fuegen (Austria). See for more info www.eurochess.org/ (invitation) and www.ecc2006.com/ (official homepage).