Dutch chess champions
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Messemaker |
Benima, Süssholz, Veraart (visitor), Tresling, Olland, A. van Foreest Pinédo, Loman, Tinholt (visitor), Kothe, D. van Foreest (1887) |
De Klanderij in Leeuwarden A historic tournament hall |
pgn-file of annotated Dutch championship games Information about Van 't Kruijs
Dutch national tournaments started with Amsterdam 1851 and Nijmegen 1858. The need for regular events led to the foundation of a chess federation in 1873. National tournaments were organised annually from that time. Stars of the early days were the strategist Maarten van ‘t Kruijs and tactician Jonkheer Dirk van Foreest. They gained little fame because they never took part in a foreign master tournament.
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Leiden 1909: Esser, Olland, Loman, Leussen, Speijer |
Utrecht 1926: Pannekoek, Meyer, Kersten, Euwe, Van Hoorn, Kloosterboer Hartogenius (arbiter), Fick, Kroone, Loman, A. van Foreest, Schelfhout |
A schism in 1906 was followed by a reconciliation of the federation in 1909. The first official championship was organised in the same year. Max Euwe made his debut in 1919. The importance of the championship grew with his prestige. He won twelve titles in fourteen events. Matches against Landau in 1939, Van den Hoek in 1942, Van Scheltinga in 1948 and Donner in 1955 got a lot of attention. The flamboyant Jan Hein Donner took over Euwe’s superiority in the 1950's, but it was a short reign. His literary feuds with Lodewijk Prins and Hans Ree became legendary. Even Donner had to accept the mastership of Ree after a ‘shadow championship’ match.
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Euwe congratulates Donner in 1954 |
Lodewijk Prins, champion! |
Jan Timman showed a real supremacy in the 1970's. He won seven titles in ten years. Later he gave priority to super tournaments and the world championship’s struggle. Nevertheless, he gained another two titles. Many titles went to players from the Leiden region at the end of the millennium. The autochthonous John van der Wiel, Riny Kuijf and Jeroen Piket started this trend. When the Bosnian refugees Ivan Sokolov and Predrag Nikolic came to their area, they also began to collect titles.
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1987: Assistant, Van der Wiel, Gijssen (judge), Vanheste Boersma - Cardon, Van der Sterren - Kuijf, Ligterink Ree (walking ) - Riemersma, Pieterse-Timman, Sosonko |
Loek van Wely will defeat Fritz in 2000 |
Van Wely - Sokolov in 2004 |
The fighter Loek van Wely gained six titles in the new millennium. Official championship number sixty-four has been played in 2008. A sensation was the triumph by Giri in 2009. He also won in 2011 and 2012.
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| Friso Nijboer is defeated by the young Anish Giri in Haaksbergen 2009 |
Official champions
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1. Leiden 1909: Adolf Olland 2. Delft 1912: Rudolf Loman 3. Amsterdam 1913: Johannes Esser 4. Amsterdam 1919: Max Marchand 5. Nijmegen 1921: Max Euwe 6. Amsterdam 1924: Max Euwe 7. Utrecht 1926: Max Euwe 8. Amsterdam 1929: Max Euwe 9. Den Haag - Leiden 1933: Max Euwe 10. Rotterdam 1936: Salo Landau 11. Amsterdam 1938: Max Euwe 12. Netherlands 1939: Max Euwe 13. Den Haag 1942: Max Euwe 14. Rotterdam 1948: Max Euwe 15. Amsterdam 1950: Max Euwe 16. Enschede 1952: Max Euwe 17. Amsterdam 1954: Jan Hein Donner 18. Den Haag 1955: Max Euwe 19. Amsterdam 1957: Jan Hein Donner 20. Amsterdam 1958: Jan Hein Donner 21. Den Haag 1961: Hiong Liong Tan 22. Den Haag 1963: Frans
Kuijpers 23. Den Haag - A’dam
1965: Lodewijk Prins 24. Zierikzee - Den Haag
1967: Hans Ree |
25. Leeuwarden 1969: Hans Ree 26. Leeuwarden 1970: Eddy Scholl 27. Leeuwarden 1971: Hans Ree 28. Leeuwarden 1972: Coen Zuidema 29. Leeuwarden 1973: Genna Sosonko 30. Leeuwarden 1974: Jan Timman 31. Leeuwarden 1975: Jan Timman 32. Leeuwarden 1976: Jan Timman 33. Leeuwarden 1977: Viktor Korchnoi 34. Leeuwarden 1978: Timman, Sosonko 35. Leeuwarden 1979: Gert Ligterink 36. Leeuwarden 1980: Jan Timman 37. Leeuwarden 1981: Jan Timman 38. Amsterdam-Drachten 1982: Hans Ree 39. Hilversum 1983: Jan Timman 40. Hilversum 1984: John van der Wiel 41. Hilversum 1985: Paul van der Sterren 42. Hilversum 1986: John van der Wiel 43. Hilversum 1987: Jan Timman 44. Hilversum 1988: Rudy Douven 45. Hilversum 1989: Riny Kuijf 46. Hilversum 1990: Jeroen Piket 47. Eindhoven 1991: Jeroen Piket 48. Eindhoven 1992: Jeroen Piket |
49. Eindhoven 1993: Paul van der Sterren 50. Amsterdam 1994: Jeroen Piket 51. Amsterdam 1995: Ivan Sokolov 52. Amsterdam 1996: Jan Timman 53. Rotterdam 1997: Predrag Nikolic 54. Rotterdam 1998: Ivan Sokolov 55. Rotterdam 1999: Predrag Nikolic 56. Rotterdam 2000: Loek van Wely 57. Leeuwarden 2001: Loek van Wely 58. Leeuwarden 2002: Loek van Wely 59. Leeuwarden 2003: Loek van Wely 60. Leeuwarden 2004: Loek van Wely 61. Leeuwarden 2005: Loek van Wely 62. Hilversum 2006: Sergei Tiviakov 63. Hilversum 2007: Sergei Tiviakov 64. Hilversum 2008: Jan Smeets 65. Haaksbergen 2009: Anish Giri 66. Eindhoven 2010: Jan Smeets 67. Boxtel 2011: Anish Giri 68. Amsterdam 2012: Anish Giri |
Twelve titles: Euwe.
Nine titles: Timman.
Six titles: Van Wely.
Four titles: Ree, Piket.
Three titles: Donner, Giri.
Two titles: Sosonko, Van der Wiel, Van der Sterren, Sokolov, Nikolic, Tiviakov, Smeets.
Twenty-six participations in a row: Van der Wiel.
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