Arthur Wijnans

Arthur Wijnans
Arthur Wijnans
	Euwe (left) against Wijnans (1942)
Full name	Arthur Joseph Wijnans
Country	Netherlands
Born	July 21, 1920; Padang, Indonesia
Died	May 3, 1945 (aged 24); Neustadt in Holstein

Arthur Joseph Wijnans (21 July 1920 in Padang, Indonesia – 3 May 1945, in Neustadt in Holstein) was a Dutch chess player, study composer and member of the Dutch resistance against the Germans in World War II.

He took 3rd in Dutch Chess Championship in 1939, took 4th at Beverwijk 1940 (the 3rd Hoogovens, won by Max Euwe), won at Beverwijk 1941 (the 4th Hoogovens), and shared 2nd, after Arnold van den Hoek, at Beverwijk 1943 (the 6th Hoogovens).^[1] At the end of World War II, he and other winner at Beverwijk, van den Hoek, were transferred to Germany. Wijnans went to Neuengamme concentration camp.^[2] He was killed during the allied bombardment of the Cap Arcona on 3 May 1945.

References

^ Statistics - Tata Steel Chess
^ "All Beverwijk and Wijk aan Zee chess tournaments". Endgame.nl. Archived from the original on 2013-10-28. Retrieved 2014-01-25.

External links

Arthur J Wijnans chess games - 365Chess.com
Jan van Reek: Chess in Beverwijk and Wijk aan Zee (with photograph of Wijnans playing against Euwe)
List NIOD
Wijnans & Cap Arcona

[1] Statistics - Tata Steel Chess

[2] "All Beverwijk and Wijk aan Zee chess tournaments". Endgame.nl. Archived from the original on 2013-10-28. Retrieved 2014-01-25.

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