................................. The personal blog of Govert Westerveld
Oxyde Chemicals B.V. - Amsterdam
Congresses
Participation of the official cronistas of Blanca in Congresses.
On the 8th November 2007 the two cronistas of Blanca, Ángel Ríos Martínez and Govert Westerveld, inaugurated the International Congress of the Ricote Valley.
The researcher Govert Westerveld, (Monnickendam - Holland, 1947) was a former Dutch Youth Champion of Checkers (1963) and is one of the Official Historians of Blanca (Murcia, Spain). In 2002 he was appointed Fellow of the Real Academia of Alfonso X the Wise at Murcia. He is Hispanist by the International Association (AIH) and by the Asociación de Hispanistas del Benelux (AHBx). He is one of the Official Historians of the Federation Mondiale de Jeu de Dames (FMJD) and one of the Members of the Comité of Historians of the Spanish Chess Federation (FEDA).