1975 Netherlands v England (European Team Ch'ship), 20-21 December, Vlissingen

	Netherlands	Elo	Rd 1	Rd 2	Great Britain	Elo
1b	Jan Timman	2510g	1-0	½-½	Raymond D Keene	2505m
2w	Gennadi Sosonko	2470m	½-½	½-½	William R Hartston	2475m
3b	Jan Hein Donner	2485g	½-½	0-1	Anthony J Miles	2435m
4w	Hans Bohm	2300m	0-1	1-0	Michael F Stean	2370m
5b	Hans Ree	2470m	½-½	1-0	A Jonathan Mestel	2290
6w	Gert Ligterink	2365	½-½	0-1	Andrew J Whiteley	2380
7b	Frans Kuijpers	2445m	½-½	0-1	Simon Webb	2385
8w	Coenraad Zuidema	2445m	1-0	½-½	Robert Bellin	2375
			4½-3½	3½-4½
20-21 December 1975			8-8		Vlissingen

European Team Championship, Preliminary Group 6, Final Table

European Team Ch Prelim Group 6		1	2	3	4	Game Points
1	England	&;	8	13	12½	33½
2	Netherlands	8	&;	10½	12½	31
3	Wales	3	5½	&;	9½	18
4	France	3½	3½	6½	&;	13½

BCM, February 1976, p67

ENGLAND QUALIFIES FOR THE EUROPEAN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL!

Netherlands - England, Vlissingen, 20-21 December 1975 by Raymond Keene

After the previous matches against Wales and France, the English team arrived in Vlissingen needing to score only 7/16 in order to qualify for the final in Moscow in 1977 (since the preliminary group is decided on game, not match points). Actually, we tied 8-8 and won the group convincingly as well as achieving the aim of qualification.

Nearly all the games were very hard fought, for example my [RDK's] two games with Timman lasted for a total of 16 hours!

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File Updated

Date	Notes
27 April 2026	First upload of 12 games and 4 stubs. Not to be confused with the 1975 Anglo-Dutch match which was held a couple of months earlier.