The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Netherlands
This page contains a list of the greatest Dutch Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 4 of which were born in Netherlands. This makes Netherlands the birth place of the 26th most number of Chess Players behind Kazakhstan, and Estonia.
Top 4
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Dutch Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Dutch Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Max Euwe (1901 - 1981)
With an HPI of 72.56, Max Euwe is the most famous Dutch Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 64 different languages on wikipedia.
Machgielis "Max" Euwe (Dutch: [ˈøːʋə]; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 until 1937. He served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978.
2. Jan Timman (b. 1951)
With an HPI of 61.38, Jan Timman is the 2nd most famous Dutch Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 33 different languages.
Jan Timman (born 14 December 1951) is a Dutch chess grandmaster who was one of the world's leading chess players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career, he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The Best of the West". He has won the Dutch Chess Championship nine times and has been a Candidate for the World Chess Championship several times. He lost the title match of the 1993 FIDE World Championship against Anatoly Karpov.
3. Fenny Heemskerk (1919 - 2007)
With an HPI of 49.87, Fenny Heemskerk is the 3rd most famous Dutch Chess Player. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Fenny Heemskerk (3 December 1919 in Amsterdam – 8 June 2007 in Amersfoort) was a Dutch chess player.
4. Jorden van Foreest (b. 1999)
With an HPI of 32.10, Jorden van Foreest is the 4th most famous Dutch Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Jhr. Jorden van Foreest (born 30 April 1999) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He was Dutch Chess Champion in 2016, and won the Tata Steel Masters in 2021. As of September 2023, Van Foreest is the No. 2 ranked Dutch player behind Anish Giri.
People
Pantheon has 4 people classified as Dutch chess players born between 1901 and 1999. Of these 4, 2 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Dutch chess players include Jan Timman, and Jorden van Foreest. The most famous deceased Dutch chess players include Max Euwe, and Fenny Heemskerk. As of April 2024, 2 new Dutch chess players have been added to Pantheon including Fenny Heemskerk, and Jorden van Foreest.
