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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.20.05.2006 The Chess Olympiad in Torino (Turin) is about to start. The first round will be on Sunday 21 May 3.00 PM. This photo report by Frits Agterdenbos shows the arrival and the accreditation of the people involved: players, captains, arbiters, organizers, journalists. And it shows the Olympic Village, where almost everybody will be accommodated. More than 2000 people will stay in the Village. Not all organizational matters are solved yet, but what is new? Warming-up time is always needed. Most people are optimistic. “We will survive this Olympiad.” One of the tournament posters Main street in the Olympic Village Players waiting for their accreditation Passport control, a captains job Mr. Cordara doing financial accreditation Members of the Organizing Committee Accreditation Point Accreditation point Players from Mozambique Nigel Short meets old friends Breakfast Saturday morning Main street in the Olympic Village Finding your way in Olympic Chess Apartments in the Residential Zone Bridge connecting the Olympic Village with the Olympic Oval, which is the playing hall Apartments blocks in the Residential Zone A journalists room for living and working The bedrooms are furnished soberly