Jan Dirk Bleijkmans (Bleykmans) (16 May 1875 – 27 December 1944) was a Dutch

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

master. Bleijkmans was born in Amsterdam as the son of Karel Bleijkmans and Johanna Sophia van Wulften. 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 Adolf Georg Olland (13 April 1867 – 22 July 1933) was the leading Dutch chess master in the time before Max Euwe. Born in Utrecht, he was a medical doctor. Olland took 3rd at Amsterdam 1887 (Dirk van Foreest won); shared 1st at Amsterdam 1889 ...

, at Arnhem 1895, took 2nd, behind

Arnold van Foreest Arnold Engelinus van Foreest (29 June 1863 – 24 June 1954) was a Dutch chess master. The younger brother of Dirk van Foreest, he thrice won Dutch Championship. He is the great-great grandfather of the siblings Jorden van Foreest, the 2016 Du ...

, at Groningen 1896, shared 2nd, behind

Rudolf Loman Rudolf Loman (14 October 1861 – 5 November 1932) was a Dutch chess master, the son of Abraham Dirk Loman. Born in Amsterdam, Loman lived in London for a number of years. He played chess for money against rich Englishmen, like his Dutch pupil Ja ...

, at Utrecht 1897. He lost a match to Norman van Lennep (0–3) at Amsterdam 1897, shared 3rd at Amsterdam 1897, tied for 7-8th at The Hague 1898, and took 7th at Haarlem 1901. He participated in several international tournaments; took 6th at Berlin 1897 (

Ignatz von Popiel Ignatz (Ignaz, Ignacy) von Popiel (27 July 1863 – 2 May 1941) was a Polish-Ukrainian chess player. Biography Born into a noble family in Drohobych, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary), he began study law at the University of Graz (''Karl-Franzens- ...

won), shared 5th at Cologne 1898 (the 11th

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, ''Hauptturnier B'', Salomon Löwenthal won), tied for 3rd-6th at Amsterdam 1899 (

Henry Ernest Atkins Henry Ernest Atkins (20 August 1872 – 31 January 1955) was a British chess master who is best known for his unparalleled record of winning the British Chess Championship nine times in eleven attempts. He won every year from 1905 to 1911, and ...

won), 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 Walter John (January 1879 – December 1940) was a German chess master. John was born at Thorn (Toruń), German Empire. He took 2nd, behind Curt von Bardeleben in ''Café Kerkau'', and took 4th (Ossip Bernstein won) at Berlin 1902. He won at ...

won), took 11th at Scheveningen 1905 (

Frank James Marshall Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century. Chess career Marshall was born in New York Cit ...

won), and took 6th at Barmen 1905 (''Hauptturnier A'',

Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title Grandmaster (chess), ...

and

Oldřich Duras Oldřich Duras (also Důras; 30 October 1882, Pchery, Bohemia, then Austria-Hungary – 5 January 1957, Prague, then Czechoslovakia) was a leading Czech chess master of the early 20th century. FIDE awarded him the title of International Gran ...

won). Finally, he took 8th at Leiden 1909 (the 1st official

Dutch Chess Championship The Dutch Chess Championship was officially established in 1909, although unofficial champions stretch back to the 1870s. Early years : Official championships The official championship was established in 1909 as a biennial, twelve-player, round-ro ...

won by Olland). Bleijkmans was an author of ''Handleiding voor het schaakspel'' (1917). He was the champion of the island

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(now Jawa, Indonesia), and played

Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine, ''Aleksándr Aleksándrovich Alékhin''; (March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns. By the age of 22, Alekhine was already a ...

in a simultaneous game in

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(now Jakarta) in 1933.

References

External links

Chessgames.com - Dirk Bleijkmans
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