Jeroen Piket (born 27 January 1969) is a Dutch

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grandmaster. He is a four-time Dutch Chess Champion.

Chess career

Born in 1969, Piket earned his

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title in 1986 and his grandmaster title in 1989. He won the Dutch Chess Championship in 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1994. He won the

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in 1994 and shared first at the Tilburg chess tournament with

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in 1996. He placed second at

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in 1997, and won the Biel Chess Festival in 1999. He drew a match against

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held 21 February to 2 March 1999 in

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, by the score 4–4 (all eight games were drawn). The following year he won an internet tournament organised by kasparovchess.com, beating

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in the final. Piket won the Vlissingen Open in 2001, but retired from chess in the same year to become the personal secretary of businessman Joop van Oosterom. A few years later, in 2005, Van Oosterom won the

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World Championship, causing Tim Krabbé to write: " The Turk was operated by William Schlumberger, Mephisto was operated by Isidore Gunsberg, Ajeeb was operated by Harry Pillsbury and Joop van Oosterom is operated by Jeroen Piket."Wereldkampioen delegeren
by Tim Krabbé, originally published in the ''

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'', April 2, 2005.

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