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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.08.12.2007 The Bloemendaal Chess Festival was held Saturday 8 December 2007 in Overveen (Netherlands). The main event was the Lex Jongsma Invitational, a 8 player Round-Robin rapid tournament, organized to celebrate the 40 years jubilee of Lex Jongsma as chess journalist of the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. The 8 players were Lex Jongsma and his chess friends GMs William Lombardy, Fridrik Olafsson and Vlastimil Hort and the Dutch players IM Hans Böhm, Rob Duijn, IM Rob Hartoch and Eddy Scholl. Hort won the tournament. One of the side events was an open rapid tournament (7 rounds, 66 participants), which was won by IM Piet Peelen on 6.5 points, followed by GM Dimitri Reinderman, Thomas Broek and Pieter Roggeveen on 6.0 points. Playing Hall Lex Jongsma Companion of the Order of Orange-Nassau GM Vlastimil Hort (Germany) World top player in the sixties and seventies Winner of the Lex Jongsma Invitational 2007 GM Fridrik Olafsson (Iceland) Former FIDE president GM William Lombardy (USA) World Junior Champion 1957 Second of Bobby Fischer in his 1972 WC match versus Spassky IM Hans Böhm (Netherlands) TV Personality Eddy Scholl (Netherlands) Dutch champion 1970 IM Rob Hartoch (Netherlands) Second place World Junior Championship 1965 Rob Duijn (Netherlands) Local hero Lex Jongsma Chess journalist, chess commentator Spectators watching Hort - Jongsma Fridrik Olafsson & William Lombardy Dimitri Reinderman only GM in Open Rapid Tournamnent