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Siep Korteling, 42, tells us how he came to take these pictures: "A friend invited me to come along to visit the Corus Chess tournament. Okay, I thought, I have never been there, and although I'm not an active chessplayer anymore (I switched to composing checker problems), Wijk aan Zee was on my list of things-to-do. I'm not a photographer – I wouldn't even call it a hobby. But just before we got in the car I decided to grab my girlfriend's brandnew camera. It turned out to be an awesome instrument. I just held the thing as steady as I could, zoomed in and clicked. Wijk aan Zee turned out to be something I should have done earlier and more often. It's not just the top players, there are 1300 people playing, talking, breathing and sweating chess. And there is Hans Ree. And pea soup."
In the following selection there are a few which contain a special effect. If you move your mouse cursor over the pictures it will change, producing a tiny animation of the image. We did this in cases where Siep had taken two pictures in quick succession. The pictures are marked "mouse over".
Bianca Mühren in her round one game against Natalia Zhukova
Oops, she has spotted something nasty
26-year-old Dutch IM Sipke Ernst (mouse over)
Cuban GM Lazaro Bruzon (mouse over)
Loek van Wely pushing in his final round game against Nigel Short
A distraught Nigel Short after losing that game
The other "Brit" Michael Adams, who finished at plus one
Danish GM Peter Heine Nielsen surfing after a game
17-year-old Dutch hopeful Daniel Stellwagen (mouse over)
Norwegian boy wonder Magnus Carlsen (mouse over)
Reigning wormen's world champion Antoaneta Stefanova (mouse over)
Antoaneta Stefanova and Alexandra Kosteniuk analysing their drawn encounter
A touch of colour – Antoaneta in the press room
Sergey Karjakin, 15, winner of Group B (mouse over)
Super-strong IM Erwin l'Ami, who narrowly missed his GM-norm
GM Harman Jonkman, who maintains our chess
calendar
Natalia Zhukova, with Tea Bosboom Lanchava in the background
Judit Polgar deep in thought
Zeinab Mamedjarova of Azerbaijan
Manuel Bosboom (not the husband of Tea)
Frederic Friedel working in the press room
The two Freds – Friedel and Lucas – discussing pictures and photography
