1. Erwin l'Ami (1985)

Dutch Chess Player

Erwin l'Ami is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He has emerged along with Jan Smeets Daniel Stellwagen and Jan Werle as one of a new generation of talented young players from...

2. Willem Schelfhout (1874)

Dutch Chess Player

Andreas Theodorus Schelfhout was a Dutch chess master. Before World War I he took 4th at Leiden 1909 tied for 5-6th at Amsterdam 1910 took 3rd at Hamburg 1910 tied...

3. Levi Benima (1838)

Dutch Chess Player

Levi Benima was a Dutch chess master who twice won the Dutch Championship in 1881 in The Hague and in 1883 in Rotterdam. In other tournaments he took 2nd at...

4. Catharina Roodzant (1896)

Dutch Chess Player

Catharina Roodzant was a Dutch female chess master. She won thrice the female Dutch Chess Championship.

5. Norman van Lennep (1872)

Dutch Chess Player

Norman Willem van Lennep was a Dutch chess master. Born into a wealthy family in Amsterdam he dropped out of education early and in 1893 at the age of 20...

6. Joop van Oosterom (1937)

Dutch Chess Player

Joop van Oosterom is a Dutch billionaire chess and billiards enthusiast. For many years he has staged the annual Melody Amber tournaments in Monaco where world-class Grandmasters play rapid and...

7. Nicolaas Cortlever (1915)

Dutch Chess Player

Nicolaas Cortlever was a Dutch chess master. He tied for 7-8th at Rotterdam 1936 ; took 2nd at Amsterdam 1938 ; won at the 2nd Hoogovens Beverwijk 1939 ; tied...

8. Lodewijk Prins (1913)

Dutch Chess Player

Lodewijk Prins was a Dutch chess player and referee of chess competitions. Prins was awarded the International Master title in 1950 and was made an International Arbiter in 1960. In...

9. George Salto Fontein (1890)

Dutch Chess Player

George Salto Fontein was a Dutch chess master. At the beginning of his career he took 3rd at Leiden 1909. Then he tied for 2nd-4th in interrupted Mannheim 1914 chess...

10. Gerard Oskam (1880)

Dutch Chess Player

Gerard Cornelis Adrianus Oskam was a Dutch chess master. He won at Groningen 1900 took 2nd at Leeuwarden 1904 tied for 2nd–3rd at Amsterdam 1905 took 12th at Scheveningen 1905...

11. Adolf Georg Olland (1867)

Dutch Chess Player

Adolf Georg Olland was the leading Dutch chess master in the time before Max Euwe.

12. Daniël Noteboom (1910)

Dutch Chess Player

Daniël Noteboom was a Dutch chess player. Born in Noordwijk Daniël Notebooom gained notice at the 1930 Chess Olympiad at Hamburg scoring 11½/15. After playing at Hastings 1931/2 he soon...

13. Salo Landau (1903)

Dutch Chess Player

Salo Landau was a Dutch chess player who died in a National Socialist German Workers' Party concentration camp.

14. Max Marchand (1888)

Dutch Chess Player

Max Marchand was a Dutch chess master. During World War I he played only in the neutral Netherlands and Denmark. In 1915 he took second in Amsterdam won in Scheveningen...

15. Fenny Heemskerk (1919)

Dutch Chess Player

Heemskerk was a Dutch female chess master. She won the female Dutch Chess Championship ten times.

16. Dirk Bleijkmans (1875)

Dutch Chess Player

Dirk Bleijkmans was a Dutch chess master. He twice won unofficial Dutch championship at Leiden 1896 and Leeuwarden 1904. He also tied for 2nd-5th behind Adolf Georg Olland at...

17. Rudolf Loman (1861)

Dutch Chess Player

Rudolf Loman was a Dutch chess master. Son of Abraham Dirk Loman. Loman had been living in London for a number of years. He played chess for money against rich...

18. Arnold van Foreest (1863)

Dutch Chess Player

Jhr. Arnold Engelinus van Foreest was a Dutch chess master. Younger brother of Dirk van Foreest he thrice won Dutch Championship. He took 8th at The Hague 1878 took 5th...

19. Arnold van den Hoek (1921)

Dutch Chess Player

Arnold Johannes van den Hoek was a Dutch chess master. In August 1942 v. d. Hoek Adriaan de Groot and Nicolaas Cortlever tied for first place in the qualifier of...

20. Henri Weenink (1892)

Dutch Chess Player

Henri Gerard Marie Weenink was a Dutch chess player and a problem composer. He took 2nd behind Fick at Amsterdam 1918/19; tied for 4-5th at Amsterdam 1919 tied for 3-6th...

21. Jan F. Esser (1877)

Dutch Chess Player

Johannes Jan Fredericus Samuel Esser was a Dutch plastic surgeon who pioneered innovative methods of reconstructive surgery on soldiers wounded in the First World War. He is thought to have...

22. Jacques Davidson (1890)

Dutch Chess Player

Jacques Davidson was a Dutch chess master. Before World War I he had lived in London for a number of years. Jacques had played with his father for a stake...

23. Jan Willem te Kolsté (1874)

Dutch Chess Player

Jan Willem te Kolsté was a Dutch chess master. Te Kolsté participated many times in unofficial and official Dutch championships and won at Utrecht 1907. He also took 4th at...

24. Henk Temmink (1952)

Dutch Chess Player

Henk Temmink is a Dutch chess player. As profession he is a math teacher in Landgraaf. In 1986 and 1988 he became the champion of Limburg and is master ICCF....

25. Theo van Scheltinga (1914)

Dutch Chess Player

Tjeerd Daniel van Scheltinga was a Dutch chess player. FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 1950. Van Scheltinga was one of the leading Dutch players from 1936 to...

26. Louis van Vliet (1854)

Dutch Chess Player

Louis van Vliet was a Dutch chess master.

27. Haije Kramer (1917)

Dutch Chess Player

Haije Kramer was a Dutch chess master and theoretician. He began his chess career during World War II. He took 4th at Baarn 1940 took 3rd at The Hague 1940...

28. Daniël Stellwagen (1987)

Dutch Chess Player

Daniël Stellwagen is a Dutch chess Grandmaster. In 1999 he won the Dutch Junior Championship and won silver both at the World Junior Championship and the European Junior Championship. In...

29. Hans Ree (1944)

Dutch Chess Player

Hans Ree is a Dutch Grandmaster of chess and is a columnist and chess writer for the NRC Handelsblad. He contributes to the leading chess magazines New In Chess and...

30. Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk (1948)

Dutch Chess Player

Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk is a Brazilian chess player. He was Brazilian Champion in 1970 1973 and 1988 and Pan American Champion in 1977. He was awarded the International Master...

31. Gert Ligterink (1949)

Dutch Chess Player

Gert Ligterink is a Dutch chess player. He was awarded the International Master title in 1977 and won the Dutch Chess Championship in 1979. He played for the Netherlands in...

32. Jan Timman (1951)

Dutch Chess Player

Jan Timman is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career he...

33. Friso Nijboer (1965)

Dutch Chess Player

so Nijboer is a Dutch chess player. He achieved the title of Grandmaster in 1996. Nijboer won the Vlissingen Chess Tournament in 2002 and 2005 and won the 3rd Nancy...

34. Paul van der Sterren (1956)

Dutch Chess Player

Paul van der Sterren is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He won the Dutch Chess Championship twice in 1985 and 1993. In 1993 he qualified for the Candidates Tournament for the...

35. Dirk van Foreest (1862)

Dutch Chess Player

Jhr. Dirk van Foreest was a Dutch chess master. Elder brother of Arnold van Foreest he thrice won Dutch Championship in 1885 1886 and 1887. He also took fifth place...

36. Gert Jan Timmerman (1956)

Dutch Chess Player

Gert Jan Timmerman is a Dutch chess player most famous for being the fifteenth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess 1996–2002. Before becoming the fifteenth World Correspondence Champion he won...

37. Loek van Wely (1972)

Dutch Chess Player

Loek van Wely is a chess Grandmaster from the Netherlands. He won the Dutch Chess Championship six times straight from 2000 through 2005. He was rated among the world's top...

38. Dimitri Reinderman (1972)

Dutch Chess Player

Dimitri Reinderman is a Dutch chess Grandmaster with an Elo rating of 2542. He shares the 3rd position with Sipke Ernst on the rating list of the KNSB The Royal...

39. Adriaan de Groot (1914)

Dutch Chess Player

Adrianus Dingeman de Groot was a Dutch chess master and psychologist who conducted some of the most famous chess experiments of all time in the 1940s-60. In 1946 he wrote...

40. Sergei Tiviakov (1973)

Dutch Chess Player

Sergei Tiviakov is a naturalised Dutch chess Grandmaster. Tiviakov won the Dutch Chess Championship in 2006 and 2007. In 2008 in Plovdiv he won the European Individual Chess Championship with...