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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.01.12.2006 The 11th Cultural Village Chess Tournament took place 20-29 November 2006 in city of Corus chess Wijk aan Zee (The Netherlands). Tournament set up: 10 player Round-Robin. Elo average: 2386. Basic intention: to offer (young) Dutch players the opportunity to achieve an IM norm. Time control: 100 minutes for the entire game plus 30 seconds a move. The tournament was won by young Dutch IM Thomas Willemze, who won EUR 600 and an invitation to play in Corus-C 2007, next January. Making the tournament a Corus Qualifier is a brilliant move by organizers Bert Kisjes (Cultural Village) and Jeroen Van Den Berg (Corus Chess Tournament). From now on the Cultural Village Chess Tournament will be a lot more in focus of the international chess community. Tournament website: http://www.schakers.info/CVT/outline.html Games: http://www.schakers.info/pgn/CVT06.pgn Official website: http://www.coruschess.com/article.php?s=n119 Wijk aan Zee in Autumn (photo 2006-11-26) Bert Kisjes and the power of Cultural Villages Organizer Bert Kisjes initiated and sponsored in 1987 the first edition of the tournament, which was originally called the Sonnevanck Chess Tournament. In 2003 a new name was given to the event: The Cultural Village Chess Tournament. Bert Kisjes is a strong believer in the power of being together and doing things together, in small scale and in close contact. He believes in the village, contrary to the city, as the best community to be organized in. In a city people have the possibilty to avoid each other, to hide in anonymity. An ‘each man for himself’ culture. There is no need to make contact, not even to greet the people you see. But in a village ‘there is any kind of necessity to talk with everyone.’ There is no way of hiding, of isolating oneself. Being close together, just sitting and talking together to sort things out, organizing small scale cultural activities…. That is the best way to solve problems, to overcome divergence of views, to organize the community. In 1999 Wijk aan Zee proclaimed itself Cultural Village of Europe 1999, initiated by Bert Kisjes. By now there is a Network of 12 Cultural Villages all over Europe. To understand Bert Kisjes' ideas, you should read: > Cultural Village of Europe – Bert Kisjes (1999) Download > New Times for the Villages – Bert Kisjes & Carin Giessen (2002) Download The map of Europe: a network of 12 European Cultural Villages Playing venue is the well-known Wijk aan Zee pub Café De Zon (photo 2006-11-26) (source: 'De normenjacht in Wijk aan Zee' by Johan Hut www.schakers.info Yochanan Afek vs Bianca Muhren and banner of co-sponsor Corus (photo 2006-11-29) Bert Kisjes watching the games (photo 2006-11-26). One can easily recognize Bert Kisjes’ thoughts in the tournament format. At right arbiter Joost Jansen. Jan Willem De Jong (IM norm) vs tournament winner Thomas Willemze (photo 2006-11-26) Bianca Muhren, David Smerdon and Jan Willem De Jong (photo 2006-11-26) Playing Room, round 6 (photo 2006-11-26) Playing Room, round 9 (photo 2006-11-29) Café De Zon (photo 2006-11-26). When you go through the door at right, you are standing in the playing room. Thomas Willemze (photo 2006-11-29) Bianca Muhren (photo 2006-11-29) Wijk aan Zee Skyline with Horse (photo 2006-11-26) Wijk aan Zee Skyline with Corus in the background (photo 2006-11-26) Wijk aan Zee Zeestraat, or Sea Street (photo 2006-11-26) Wijk aan Zee Voorstraat, or For Street (photo 2006-11-26) Café De Zon at night. The sun is still shining (photo 2006-11-26)