The squad strength was not limited, so that only a part of the registered players were used. Panfox / De Variant Breda used the most players, namely 19, while Leidsch SG, SMB Nijmegen and Utrecht managed with 12 players each. A total of 143 players were used, 50 of whom did not miss a competition.
The best player of the season with 8 points from 9 games was Friso Nijboer (Hilversums SG), one point less was scored by Ivan Sokolov (Panfox / De Variant Breda), Rudy Douven (Hilversums SG) and Frank Erwich (Leidsch SG). Sokolov played 8 games, Douven and Erwich 9 each. With Paul van der Sterren , Yona Kosashvili (both Hilversums SG), Jan Timman , Rafael Vaganian , Joël Lautier , Ruud Janssen , Joost Hoogendoorn (all Panfox / De Variant Breda), Viktor Kortschnoi and Zbyněk Hráček (both from Rotterdam) achieved nine players 100%, of which van der Sterren was used three times, the others twice each.
The oldest player of the season was Hans Bouwmeester (* 1929), who played for Utrecht, and the youngest player was his team-mate Daniël Stellwagen (* 1987).
Legend
The tables below contain the following information:
No .: Ranking list number
Title: FIDE title at the beginning of the season (rating list from January 2000); 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 January 2000), if the number is in brackets, it is a national rating.
Nation: Nationality according to the rating list from January 2000; AUS = Australia, BEL = Belgium, BIH = Bosnia and Herzegovina, CZE = Czech Republic, ENG = England, FRA = France, GER = Germany, HUN = Hungary, IRQ = Iraq, ISR = Israel, NED = Netherlands, ROM = Romania , RUS = Russia, SUI = Switzerland, SVK = Slovakia, SWE = Sweden, UKR = Ukraine, UZB = Uzbekistan, YUG = Yugoslavia
