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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.08.11.2006 The 10th Essent Chess tournament was the strongest and most interesting in history. Mamedyarov, the 2005 World Junior Champion, won the Crown Group. The winners of 10 years Hoogeveen: Emil Sutovsky (1997), Judit Polgar (1998), Jan Timman, (1999), Alexander Khalifman (2000), Judit Polgar & Loek Van Wely (2001), Peter Acs (2002), Judit Polgar (2003), Ivan Sokolov (2004), Pentala Harikrishna (2005), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2006). The Essent Chess tournament has grown into one of the most important chess events on the current Dutch chess calendar. In this report we provide you with a lot of photos (by Frits Agterdenbos), mostly portraits of players in the Open Group. Official site = http://www.essentchess.nl/index2006.htm Hoogeveen City Hall, the playing venue (photo 2006-10-23) Glass Chess Pieces in the Crown Group (photo 2006-10-22). Special feature in Hoogeveen is that the players in the Crown Group play with glass pieces. Zhaoqin Peng vs Tatiana Shumyakina and Jan Smeets (photo 2006-10-22) GM Vlastimil Hort (GER) (photo 2006-10-23) GM John Van Der Wiel (NED) (photo 2006-10-23) GM Ian Rogers (AUS) (photo 2006-10-23) GM Semen Dvoirys (RUS) (photo 2006-10-23) Judit Polgar, Mahsa Bitalzadeh (NED) & Veselin Topalov (photo 2006-10-23) GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE) (photo 2006-10-23) Arbiter IM Rob Hartoch (NED) (photo 2006-10-23) Daan Brandenburg (NED) (photo 2006-10-23) GM Jan Smeets (NED) (photo 2006-10-22) FM Babak Tondivar (NED) (photo 2006-10-22) IM Erik Hoeksema (NED) (photo 2006-10-22) IM David Smerdon (AUS) (photo 2006-10-22) Robert Ris (NED) scored his 4th IM norm (photo 2006-10-22) IM Sipke Ernst (NED), the new Dutch GM (photo 2006-10-22) ex WChampion GM Veselin Topalov (BUL) (photo 2006-10-22) IM Martijn Dambacher (NED) (photo 2006-10-22) GM Evgeny Postny (ISR) (photo 2006-10-22) GM Vyacheslav Ikonnikov (RUS) (photo 2006-10-22) WIM Marlies Bensdorp (NED) (photo 2006-10-22) GM Ivan Cheparinov (BUL) (photo 2006-10-22) GM Erwin L'Ami (NED) (photo 2006-10-22) Moulthun Ly (AUS) scored an IM norm (photo 2006-10-22)