Lodewijk Prins
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Lodewijk Prins (27 January 1913, Amsterdam – 11 November 1999) was a Dutch chess player and referee of chess competitions. Prins was awarded the International Master title in 1950, and was made an International Arbiter in 1960. In 1982 FIDE made him an honorary Grandmaster.
Prins represented the Netherlands in all Chess Olympiads from 1937 to 1968. He took first place at Hoogovens Beverwijk in 1948 and at Madrid 1951 with 12.5/17, ahead of Steiner, Herman Pilnik, and Ossip Bernstein. Prins qualified for the 1952 Interzonal and was Dutch Champion in 1965.
Prins coauthored several chess books with Max Euwe, including the 1949 biography of Capablanca Het Schaakphenomeen Capablanca and several tournament books.
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- Brace, Edward (1977), An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess, London: Hamlyn Publishing Group, pp. 227, ISBN 1-55521-394-4
- Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland & Company, pp. 341, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
- Keene, Raymond (1977), “Prins, Lodewijk”, in Golombek, Harry, Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Batsford, pp. 247, ISBN 0-517-53146-1
