The Most Famous
Chess Players from Netherlands
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
Max Euwe
1901 - 1981
HPI 73.6965 langsMax Euwe is most famous for being the first person to win the world chess championship three times.
- #2
Jan Timman
1951 - 2026
HPI 63.8335 langsDutch chess player
- #3
Fenny Heemskerk
1919 - 2007
HPI 53.2915 langsDutch chess player (1919–2007)
- #4
Jorden van Foreest
b. 1999
HPI 32.8417 langsDutch chess player
