This is us!
Hey you found us! You will see us throughout the tournament, in case you need someone, this might help you approach the right person!
Our arbiters
Roland Kroezen
Arbiter
Roland is a highly experienced arbiter who carries some weight in our northern Chess community.
Wim van Beersum
Arbiter
Wim never tires of explaining programmes how to function properly. Always has some just solution to pricemoney-related dividence-issues.
Jan van Os
Arbiter – Stand-in.
Jan, as former director, is in the loop on most chess related issues at the tournament. Also one of our chessphotographers.
Erwin Denissen
Arbiter
Erwin is trying extra hard to make the tournament run smoothly as his aim is the IA-title. ‘And he’s well worth the title,’ says IA Aart Strik.
Our Chessfestival team
The bread and butter that make or break the tournament.
Daniel Meijer
Live-host
Erik Hoeksema
Reporter
Hiddo Zuiderweg
Games, Arbiter Stand-in & Know-it-all
Sandro Sweet
Gamechanger
Adds the moves to the pgn-files for none-live-games, assists the Livestreamteam. And does after hours translations of daily reports.
Fons van Hamond
Recordkeeper
Livegames, pgn-files, annotations, and general paperwork. Editor of tournament-books of years gone by. Hardly ever wins the Open B.
