Lucas van Foreest
| Lucas van Foreest | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Lucas van Foreest, 2017 | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Born | 3 March 2001 (age 23) Hengelo, Netherlands |
| Title | Grandmaster (2018) |
| FIDE rating | 2505 (May 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2506 (September 2018) |
Jhr. Lucas van Foreest (born 3 March 2001) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.
Chess career
Van Foreest started playing chess aged "around six, seven".[1]
He achieved his first international master (IM) norm at the Dutch Team Competition, from September to October 2015. He scored 7/9, which was enough for both the IM norm and grandmaster (GM) norm.[2][3] He achieved his second IM norm at the Amsterdam Chess Tournament in July 2016, and his third IM norm at the Hoogeveen Open in October 2016.[2]
In January 2017, he won the top amateur group at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, thus qualifying for the Tata Steel Challengers in 2018.[4] He achieved his second GM norm at the 9th Batavia Chess Tournament in March 2017. He shared first with Bobby Cheng on 6½/9 (+6–2=1), finishing second on tiebreak.[5][6] He won the Bruges Masters in August 2017.[7]
Van Foreest competed in the Tata Steel Challengers in January 2018, placing eleventh with a score 5½/13 (+3–5=5).[8] He competed at the Open Dutch Championship, held from 24 July to 2 August. He shared first with Erwin l'Ami and Erik van den Doel on 7/9, achieving his third GM norm in the process.[9] He was awarded the GM title by FIDE in October 2018.[3]
Van Foreest is a student of Sergei Tiviakov.[10]
Personal life
Born in Hengelo on 3 March 2001,[11] Van Foreest comes from the noble Van Foreest family and has the honorific of jonkheer.[12][13] He is the great-great grandson of Arnold van Foreest and great-great grandnephew of Dirk van Foreest. Both Arnold and Dirk were three-time Dutch Chess Champions (Arnold: 1889, 1893, 1902; Dirk: 1885, 1886, 1887).[14]
Lucas has four brothers and one sister.[14][15] His eldest brother, Jorden (born 1999), is also a grandmaster and won the Dutch Chess Championship in 2016. His sister, Machteld (born 2007), won the Dutch Girls' U10 Championship at the age of 6 and shared second place in the Dutch Girls' U20 Championship when she was 9. In 2017, she became the first girl ever to win the Dutch U12 Championship.[16]
References
- ^ Meet Lucas van Foreest - Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2018 Challenger Tata Steel Chess
- ^ a b Title Applications approved by the Presidential Board by written resolution FIDE
- ^ a b 89th FIDE Congress 2018, 26 Sep - 6 Oct, Batumi, Georgia FIDE
- ^ Tata Steel Chess 2018 field complete ChessBase
- ^ Lucas van Foreest behaalt tweede grootmeesterresultaat OOG
- ^ 9th Batavia tournament won by Cheng and Van Foreest ChessBase
- ^ Lucas van Foreest wint Brugse Meesters OOG
- ^ Jorden van Foreest speelt in laatste ronde remise tegen de winnaar en Lucas van Foreest wint OOG
- ^ Misschien wel het mooiste Open NK Schaken Rheden Nieuws
- ^ Tiviakov: "You have to work hard on chess" ChessBase
- ^ Lucas van Foreest vanforeest.com
- ^ Jonkheer van 17 zet dynastie met schaaktitel voort
- ^ "Een wonderlijk Gronings schaakgezin" (in Dutch).
Het talent zit in het bloed bij de familie Van Foreest – van het adellijk geslacht, met het predicaat jonkheer.
- ^ a b Derakhshani, Dorsa (4 January 2017). "Jorden van Foreest on his career so far". Chess24.
- ^ Een excentriek zetje NRC Handelsblad
- ^ De stelling Van Foreest, een schaakfamilie
External links
- Lucas van Foreest player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Lucas van Foreest rating card at FIDE