I'm 75 years old now and married with my dearest Toos (born in Zeeland) for over 45 years, we are very glad to have three sons and a daughter, they all are married. Thanks to them we have ten grandchildren; seven boys and three girls. They're called Michiel, Mark, Martijn, Carolien (she loves Daniël), Annemiek (she loves Geoffrey), Taco, Pim, Rik, Dennis and Femke. As you see the family has more activities!!! (Visit the sites of Taco, Pim and Rik, please, the boys love that..!!)
I was a member of the Dutch NBC where I played in the Master class, I am also a fanatic collector of correspondence games from all over the world and I was the proud editor of the wellknown booklet "Schaak!". In 1985 I started creating these chess-bulletins with an electric typewriter, followed soon by my first computer, an Atari 1040 ST! After a while I discovered the power of the Wintel-machines and the wonderful programs Chessbase and Nicbase. I surfed over the Internet with my Pentium II 400 MMX, running under Windows'98. Nowadays I use a AMD 2400+ with Windows XP on it ... powerful enough for me, but I wonder where the Intel/AMD-fight will end? I stopped with paper-version of "Schaak!", but the 120 or even more games of the booklets are free to download now; one issue every two weeks! I'm very glad to be out here on the Internet! For more information you can always mail me ... |
