Dirk Bleijkmans
Dirk Bleijkmans (Bleykmans) (1875 – ?) was a Dutch chess master.
He twice won unofficial Dutch championship (The Netherland Chess Federation Tourney) at Leiden 1896 and Leeuwarden 1904. He also tied for 2nd-5th, behind Adolf Georg Olland, at Arnheim 1895, took 2nd, behind Arnold van Foreest, at Groningen 1896, shared 2nd, behind Rudolf Loman, at Utrecht 1897. He lost a match to Norman van Lennep (0–3) at Amsterdam 1897,[1] shared 3rd at Amsterdam 1897, tied for 7-8th at The Hague 1898, and took 7th at Haarlem 1901.[2]
He participated in several international tournaments; took 6th at Berlin 1897 (Ignatz von Popiel won), shared 5th at Cologne 1898 (the 11th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier B, Salomon Löwenthal won), tied for 3rd-6th at Amsterdam 1899 (Henry Ernest Atkins won),[3] shared 3rd at Munich 1900 (the 12th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier B, Section I), tied for 16-19th at Hanover 1902 (the 13th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier A, Walter John won), took 11th at Scheveningen 1905 (Frank James Marshall won),[4] and took 6th at Barmen 1905 (Hauptturnier A, Akiba Rubinstein and Oldřich Duras won).[5] Finally, he took 8th at Leiden 1909 (the 1st official Dutch Chess Championship won by Olland).[6]
Bleijkmans was an author of Handleiding voor het schaakspel (1917).[7]
He was the champion of the island Java (now Jawa, Indonesia), and played Alexander Alekhine in a simultaneous game in Batavia (now Jakarta) in 1933.
References
- ↑ Chessmetrics.com - Bleijkmans, Dirk
- ↑ Edo Historical Chess Ratings - Bleijkmans, Dirk
- ↑ http://storiascacchi.altervista.org/storiascacchi/tornei/1851-99/1899amsterdam.htm
- ↑ http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1905schev.htm
- ↑ http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1905barmenc.htm
- ↑ Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
- ↑ http://www.maxeuwe.nl/opauteur.html