Dirk Bleijkmans
Jan Dirk Bleijkmans (Bleykmans) (16 May 1875 – 27 December 1944)[1] was a Dutch chess master.
Bleijkmans was born in Amsterdam as the son of Karel Bleijkmans and Johanna Sophia van Wulften.[2] He twice won unofficial Dutch championship (The Netherland Chess Federation Tourney) at Leiden 1896 and Leeuwarden 1904. He also tied for 2nd-5th, behind Adolf Georg Olland, at Arnhem 1895, took 2nd, behind Arnold van Foreest, at Groningen 1896, shared 2nd, behind Rudolf Loman, at Utrecht 1897. He lost a match to Norman van Lennep (0–3) at Amsterdam 1897,[3] shared 3rd at Amsterdam 1897, tied for 7-8th at The Hague 1898, and took 7th at Haarlem 1901.[4]
He participated in several international tournaments; took 6th at Berlin 1897 (Ignatz von Popiel won), shared 5th at Cologne 1898 (the 11th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier B, Salomon Löwenthal won), tied for 3rd-6th at Amsterdam 1899 (Henry Ernest Atkins won),[5] shared 3rd at Munich 1900 (the 12th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier B, Section I), tied for 16-19th at Hanover 1902 (the 13th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier A, Walter John won), took 11th at Scheveningen 1905 (Frank James Marshall won),[6] and took 6th at Barmen 1905 (Hauptturnier A, Akiba Rubinstein and Oldřich Duras won).[7] Finally, he took 8th at Leiden 1909 (the 1st official Dutch Chess Championship won by Olland).[8]
Bleijkmans was an author of Handleiding voor het schaakspel (1917).[9]
He was the champion of the island Java (now Jawa, Indonesia), and played Alexander Alekhine in a simultaneous game in Batavia (now Jakarta) in 1933.
References[edit]
- ^ Dirk Bleijkmans at chessgames.com
- ^ Amsterdam Bevolkingsregisters 1874-1893[permanent dead link]
- ^ Chessmetrics.com - Bleijkmans, Dirk Archived May 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Edo Historical Chess Ratings - Bleijkmans, Dirk
- ^ "amsterdam". Archived from the original on 2010-12-15.
- ^ "schev". Archived from the original on 2004-01-06.
- ^ "barmenc". Archived from the original on 2004-01-06.
- ^ Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01 Archived July 4, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Max Euwe Centrum - Bibliotheek - Boeken op Auteur". Archived from the original on 2011-02-16. Retrieved 2010-07-20.