The squad strength was not limited, so that only a part of the registered players were used. The first team from Panfox / De Variant Breda used the most players, namely 22, while ESGOO Enschede, Utrecht and SC Groningen managed with 14 players each. A total of 139 players were used, 33 of whom never missed a competition. With the withdrawal of DCG Amsterdam, only eight games could be played, with the exception of players who were eligible to play for both the first and second team of Panfox / De Variant Breda. They could play nine games, but with Johannes van Mil only one player succeeded.
The best players of the season with 6 points each were Friso Nijboer (Hilversums SG), Mark van der Werf (SV Zukertort Amstelveen), Hans Klip (SMB Nijmegen), Gerhard Schebler (ESGOO Enschede) and Frans Cuijpers (Panfox / De Variant Breda). Van der Werf played 7 games, the other players named 8 games. With Rafael Vaganian , Joël Lautier , Puck Leijnen (all Panfox / De Variant Breda), Zsófia Polgár (Hilversums SG), Ralf Gommers, Erik van Heeswijk (both SMB Nijmegen), Dorian Rogozenco (Magnus / BSG), Richard Duijn, Sander Los and Gabriel Molinari (all SV Zukertort Amstelveen) achieved ten players 100%, of these Vaganian, Lautier, Polgár, Duijn and Gommers were used twice each, the others named once each.
The oldest player of the season was Hans Bouwmeester (* 1929), who played for Utrecht, and the youngest player was his team-mate Jelmer Jens (* 1982).
Legend
The tables below contain the following information:
No .: Ranking list number
Title: FIDE title at the beginning of the season (rating list from July 1998); GM = Grand Master , IM = International Master , FM = FIDE Master , WGM = Women's Grand Master, WIM = International Women's Master, WFM = Women's FIDE Master, CM = Candidate Master, WCM = Women's Candidate Master
Elo: Elo number at the beginning of the season (rating list from July 1998), if the number is in brackets, it is a national rating.
Nation: Nationality according to the rating list from July 1998; AUS = Australia, BEL = Belgium, BIH = Bosnia and Herzegovina, CHN = China, ENG = England, FRA = France, GER = Germany, HUN = Hungary, ISR = Israel, MDA = Moldova, NED = Netherlands, RUS = Russia, SWE = Sweden, UZB = Uzbekistan, YUG = Yugoslavia
The individual results of the play-off competitions are not included in the individual balance sheets.
The first name of the player I. Johnson (Panfox / De Variant Breda) could not be determined.
A total of six players from Panfox / De Variant Breda were used in both the first and the second team. Your results will be listed separately for both teams.
