The Most Famous

Chess Players from Netherlands

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This page contains a list of the greatest Dutchs Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 4 of which were born in Netherlands. This makes Netherlands the birth place of the 30th most number of Chess Players behind Kazakhstan and Estonia.

Top 4 Dutch Chess Players

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Dutchs Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Dutchs Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

  1. #1
    Photo of Max Euwe

    Max Euwe

    1901 - 1981

    HPI 73.6965 langs

    Max Euwe is most famous for being the first person to win the world chess championship three times.

  2. #3
    Photo of Fenny Heemskerk

    Fenny Heemskerk

    1919 - 2007

    HPI 53.2915 langs

    Dutch chess player (1919–2007)

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