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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.14.01.2011 The opening ceremony of Tata Steel Chess 2011 took place on 14 January. Dr Karl-Ulrich Köhler, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tata Steel Europe, officially opened the tournament in the Chess Pavilion (commentary hall) in Wijk aan Zee. Group A Round 1 Pairings: Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Vladimir Kramnik, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Wang Hao, Hikaru Nakamura vs Alexander Grischuk, Magnus Carlsen vs Levon Aronian, Jan Smeets vs Alexei Shirov, Erwin l’Ami vs Anish Giri and Ruslan Ponomariov vs Viswanathan Anand. Group B Round 1 Pairings: Jon Ludvig Hammer vs Zahar Efimenko, Gabriel Sargissian vs Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Le Quang Liem vs Wesley So, Radoslaw Wojtaszek vs David Navara, Luke McShane vs Wouter Spoelman, Friso Nijboer vs Li Chao b and Vladislav Tkachiev vs Laurent Fressinet. The first round is on Saturday 15 January, 13.30 hours. Photo impression by Frits Agterdenbos. Official Tata Steel Chess Tournament website: www.tatasteelchess.com Opening Ceremony in the Chess Pavilion...Tata Blue, Eye Love You... Dr Karl-Ulrich Köhler Dolf Vos delivering his opening speechDolf Vos is Chairman of the Organizing Committee Magnus Carlsen Viswanathan Anand, Theo Henrar, Jacques Schraven and Karl-Ulrich Köhler Vladimir Kramnik Dolf Vos Levon Aronian First row guests Jeroen van den Berg, tournament director Tom Bottema and Marjan Oudeman meet again. Tom Bottema is Press Officer of Tata Steel Chess. Marjan Oudeman served as Divisional Director of Strip Products, Tata Steel Europe. She left the company in 2010, after a 28 year career at Hoogovens-Corus-Tata Steel Europe. Group A Jan Smeets, Anish Giri and Erwin l'Ami David Navara in Group B Arbiter Cor Roet and partner Jan & Geertje Timman GM Genna Sosonko Chess analyst, chess writer, chess commentator