"In the last round he [Hans Bouwmeester] played against the Chinese top player Zhu Chen. At one point he had a totally won position (several pawns up in the ending) and the lady did not resign. This was probably too much for the veteran and suddenly he said to his opponent: "please be polite". His opponent reacted immediately and told him to be polite and not to speak to her during the game."

"From the first round, he [Viktor Korchnoi] ate a lot of chocolate. This is, of course, not a problem, but he always made so much noise with the chocolate wrappers that the arbiters had to warn him each round to stop it. Several players complained about this."

"...Korchnoi overstepped the time limit. The games were played with the electronic DGT clocks and Korchnoi started to argue with me, asking me whether I was sure that it was not he but his opponent, Zhu Chen, who had overstepped. I tried to explain to him that the DGT clocks show clearly who has exceeded the time control. But I could not convince him and I stopped trying. Then he started to explain quite loudly that the final position was won for him and his opponent, always polite, agreed with him. Finally he argued, again, that he did not understand why he had lost on time. My colleague, Mr. Krause, had the courage to try to explain this to him again, but I told him to do so outside of the playing hall and this is what happened."