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Everyone in great spirits at the start of the trip: Yvonne Gerstorff, Gisela
Jäger, Mira Kowalski and Helga Wellerhaus
Hamburg is sometimes called the Venice of the North. Public transportation
includes barges.
You can get to many places in the barges, which have to fit under low bridges
The ship has to go through a number of locks to descend to the level of the
Elbe River
A silhouette of Hamburg Harbour – yes, you actually get to the forest
by ship
On the ship with Stefan Meyer-Kahlen (the Shredder guy), Steffen Giehring (Support),
Thomas Stark (Support), Oliver Reeh (IM, multimedia), Nadja Woisin (Spanish
page), Martin Fischer (Playchess Tournament Director), Jeroen van den Belt
(Programmer) and Gisela Jäger (Shipping).
Company founder and CEO Matthias Wüllenweber
Co-founder and chessbase.com editor Frederic Friedel, regarding the motion
of the ship with suspicion.
André Schulz of chessbase.de and GM Rainer Knaak of ChessBase Magazine
Stanislav Tsukrov, who will soon provide us with Playchess access on mobile
phones (how cool is that!)
Ben Bartels who looks after the ChessBase servers
"Arnold" van den Belt, ChessBase programmer
Gisela Jäger (Shipping and Cheerful Spirits)
Nadja Woisin, who hablas Espanol like a native
The mother of all Playchess SysOps: Gaby Assmann
Holger Lieske (Playchess SysOp) and Hans Frenay (Dutch support). In the background
Frederic Friedel badgers Fritz engine programmer Frans Morsch
Martin Fischer (Playchess TD) and Lutz Nebe (ChessBase Programmer)
Peter Schreiner (Support, Documentation) with Matthias Wüllenweber
Before we embark on the dangerous journey to the source of German bottled water
a hearty lunch in the Forsthaus Friedrichsruh Restaurant in the famous Sachsenwald
Forsthaus Friedrichsruh was the training camp of German boxing legend Max Schmeling,
who won the heavyweight title of the world in 1930 and knocked out Joe Lewis
in 1936. Schmeling died earlier this year at the age of 99.
Into the dark forest we go, armed with deadly GPS systems
Where are those damned satellites? Stefan Meyer-Kahlen and Jeroen van den Belt
search, while ChessBase's commercial CEO Rainer Woisin has a baad feeling about this GPS thing.
Jeroen has the ultimate geek toy: a GPS watch
What dangers lurk for us in these meticulously kept German forests?
The perilous crossing of a forest brook
At times we encountered rugged, almost impassable terrain
At last, in the remote depths of the dark forest, we reach the Bismarck Springs
...and pause to refresh ourselves in the Bismarck Springs restaurant
At the end of this great adventure the trip home on a commuter train.
