Louis van Vliet

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Louis van Vliet (1870 – 15 June 1932) was a Dutch chess master.

He took 4th at Amsterdam 1889 (Amos Burn won), 6-8th at London 1889 (Henry Edward Bird won), took 19th at Manchester 1890 (the 6th British Chess Federation Congress, Siegbert Tarrasch won),[1] took 2nd, behind Rudolf Loman, at London 1891, took 10th at London 1891 (Bird won), took 9th at London 1992 (Emanuel Lasker won), took 5th at London 1893 (Joseph Henry Blackburne won), tied for 2nd-3rd at London 1896 (Richard Teichmann won),[2][3]

He tied for 3rd-4th and took 5th at London 1900 (Teichmann won), took 6th (William Ewart Napier won) and 5th at London 1904 (Teichmann won), tied for 27-28th at Ostend 1907 (B tournament, Ossip Bernstein and Akiba Rubinstein won).[4] Louis van Vliet lost the only game played with Dr. Walter Romain Lovegrove in London in 1912.[5]

Van Vliet died in London on 15 June 1932.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/pagine/itornei1880-99.htm
  2. ^ http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
  3. ^ http://members.shaw.ca/edo2/players/p489.html Edo Historical Chess Ratings
  4. ^ I tornei dal 1900 al 1909
  5. ^ History of San Francisco Chess
  6. ^ Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 441, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6 

[edit] Further reading

  • BCM, 1932, p. 331, 394
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