Chris de Ronde
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Chris (Christiaan) de Ronde (born 1912, Schiedam, near Rotterdam – died 1996, Buenos Aires) was a Dutch–Argentine chess master.[1]
He was a champion of Rotterdam. He had studied mathematics in Leyden and Paris. De Ronde had always been leftist, and when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he had felt terribly dejected. The invitation to play in the Buenos Aires Olympiad was a godsend – he may have been the only player there who knew beforehand he was going to stay.[2]
De Ronde played for the Netherlands in the 8th Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939, scoring 8½ in his 14 games.[3] After the tournament, during which World War II had broken out in Europe (September 1939), De Ronde along with many other participants of the Olympiad (Miguel Najdorf, Paulino Frydman, Gideon Stahlberg, Erich Eliskases, Paul Michel, Ludwig Engels, Albert Becker, Heinrich Reinhardt, Jiří Pelikán, Karel Skalička, Markas Luckis, Movsas Feigins, Ilmar Raud, Moshe Czerniak, Meir Rauch, Victor Winz, Aristide Gromer, Franciszek Sulik, Adolf Seitz, Zelman Kleinstein, Sonja Graf, Paulette Schwartzmann, etc.) had decided to stay permanently in Argentina.[4]
He played in Buenos Aires in 1940 , and tied for 12-13th at Buenos Aires (Circulo) 1945 (Miguel Najdorf won).[5]
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