Dutch Chess Championship
The Dutch Chess Championship was officially established in 1909, although unofficial champions stretch back to the 1870s.
Early years
# Year City Winner 1 1873 The Hague H.W.B. Gifford 2 1874 Amsterdam A. de Lelie 3 1875 Rotterdam H.W.B. Gifford 4 1876 Gouda J.G.E.A. de Vogel 5 1877 The Hague A. Polak Daniels 6 1878 Amsterdam Marteen Van 't Kruijs 7 1879 Rotterdam C.E.A. Dupré 8 1880 Gouda Henry Edward Bird 9 1881 The Hague Levi Benima 10 1882 The Hague Christiaan Messemaker 11 1883 Rotterdam Levi Benima 12 1884 Gouda Christiaan Messemaker 13 1885 The Hague Dirk van Foreest 14 1886 Utrecht Dirk van Foreest 15 1887 Amsterdam Dirk van Foreest 16 1888 Rotterdam Rudolf Loman 17 1889 Gouda Arnold van Foreest 18 1890 The Hague Rudolf Loman 19 1891 Utrecht Rudolf Loman 20 1892 Amsterdam Robbert van den Bergh 21 1893 Groningen Arnold van Foreest
Rudolf Loman22 1894 Rotterdam Rudolf Loman 23 1895 Arnhem Adolf Georg Olland 24 1896 Leiden Dirk Bleijkmans 25 1897 Utrecht Rudolf Loman 26 1898 The Hague Jan Diderik Tresling 27 1899 Amsterdam Henry Ernest Atkins 28 1900 Groningen Gerard Oskam 29 1901 Haarlem Adolf Georg Olland 30 1902 Rotterdam Arnold van Foreest 31 1903 Hilversum Paul Saladin Leonhardt 32 1904 Leeuwarden Dirk Bleijkmans 33 1905 Scheveningen Frank James Marshall 34 1906 Arnhem Bernard Wolff Beffie 35 1907 Utrecht Jan Willem te Kolsté 36 1908 Haarlem Jan F. Esser
Official championships
The official championship was established in 1909 as a biennial, twelve-player, round-robin tournament. As of 1970, the top five finishers were seeded into the next championship, one player was nominated by the Selection Committee and six came from preliminary qualifying tournaments. Three regional qualifying tournaments of eight to twelve players each were held over four weekends. Grandmasters were not required to qualify to play in the championship.[1] In 1970, annual championships were instituted. In 1935 a championship for women was established.
Notes
- ^ Sunnucks 1970, p. 318. Organization of the championships changed some time after 1967.
References
- Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6 (some player's full names)
- Sunnucks, Anne (1970), The Encyclopaedia of Chess, St. Martin's Press, p. 318, LCCN 78106371
- Whyld, Ken (1986), Chess: The Records, Guinness Books, pp. 107–8, ISBN 0-85112-455-0 (results from 1873 through 1985)
External links
- Dutch Chess Champions
- Historical ratings
- "Jan Smeets wins the Dutch Championship 2008", ChessBase News, 13 April 2008, retrieved 2008-04-17