The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Netherlands
This page contains a list of the greatest Dutch Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 374 Chess Players, 2 of which were born in Netherlands. This makes Netherlands the birth place of the 33rd most number of Chess Players behind Moldova and Philippines.
Top 2
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 67.70, Max Euwe is the most famous Dutch Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 61 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 (1951 - )
With an HPI of 53.65, Jan Timman is the 2nd most famous Dutch Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 32 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.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as chess players born between 1901 and 1951. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living chess players include Jan Timman. The most famous deceased chess players include Max Euwe.
