Manuel Bosboom is a Dutch

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player.

Chess career

He has achieved wins against World Champion

Garry Kasparov Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein on 13 April 1963) is a Russian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess Elo rating system, ra ...

with the black pieces in a blitz game during the Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee Chess Tournament 1999 and against super-grandmaster

Peter Leko Peter Leko (; born September 8, 1979) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and commentator. He became the world's youngest grandmaster in 1994. He narrowly missed winning the Classical World Chess Championship 2004: the match was drawn 7–7 and s ...

in a classical game in just 26 moves. He is renowned for his ability as a strong blitz player and for his creativity, including an early queen sacrifice in the Queen's Indian. In January 2001, he finished 9th in Group B of the Corus Chess Tournament 2001, where he won against higher-rated grandmasters

Thomas Luther Thomas Luther (born November 4, 1969, in Erfurt) is a German chess player and International Grandmaster of chess. In 2000 he was a member of the German team that won the silver medal in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. Childhood and Youth ...

and Boris Gulko. In January 2007, he finished 8th in Group C of the Corus Chess Tournament 2007, where he scored wins against grandmaster Parimarjan Negi, Edwin van Haastert, grandmaster Peng Zhaoqin, Stellan Brynell, and Thomas Willemze. In January 2009, he finished 10th in Group C of the Corus Chess Tournament 2009, where he managed to win against the group's second seed grandmaster David Howell. In December 2021, Merijn van Delft and Peter Boel wrote ''Chess Buccaneer'', a book covering elements of Bosboom's life and his games. In it, Bosboom names his favorite players as

Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...

Mikhail Tal Mikhail Tal (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet and Latvian chess player and the eighth World Chess Champion. He is considered a creative genius and is widely regarded as Comparison of top chess players throughout history, one ...

, and

Leonid Stein Leonid Zakharovych Stein (; November 12, 1934 – July 4, 1973) was a Soviet Union, Soviet chess Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster from Ukrainian SSR, Ukraine. He won three USSR Chess Championships in the 1960s (1963, 1965, and 1966), and was amo ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bosboom, Manuel Living people 1963 births Dutch chess players Chess International Masters Sportspeople from Zaanstad