Max Warmerdam (born 30 March 2000) is a Dutch

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grandmaster.

Chess career

Warmerdam earned his

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title in 2015, followed by the

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title in 2018. After qualifying through the "top nine-round event" at the 2019 Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Warmerdam was invited to compete at the Tata Steel Challengers in 2020. He placed 12th with 4½/13 (+2–6=5). During the tournament, he defeated the eventual winner,

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, with the black pieces. Warmerdam is coached by

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in the 83rd Tata Steel Masters. Van Foreest won the tournament and Warmerdam received praise for his work as second. When the interrupted

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resumed in April 2021, Warmerdam was a second to

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. In July 2021 Warmerdam won the Ikaros tournament in Greece. In August 2021 he won the Guimarães Open tournament in Portugal. Warmerdam finished clear first in the Guimarães Open with 8/9 (+7–0=2), half-a-point ahead of

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, Guillaume Lamard, and

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. In December 2021 he won the

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, finishing on 5/6 in the final four-player double round-robin. In 2022 en 2023 he became national champion with Schaakstad Apeldoorn. In August 2022 he won the Sparkassen Chess Trophy A-open tournament in Dortmund. In 2022 he played for the first time for the Dutch team in the Chess Olympiad, in Chennai India. In 2023 and 2025 he won the Open Dutch championship Rapid in Helmond. In June 2023 he won the HSG Open tournament in Hilversum. In July 2023 he won the Open Dutch championship in Dieren. In May 2024 he tied for first at the BPB Limburg Open tournament in Maastricht. In June 2024 he won the Teplice Open tournament in the Czech Republic. In January 2025 he competed in the 87th edition of the

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. He defeated

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in round 7, the first time he defeated a player rated above 2800.

Personal life

Born in 2000, Warmerdam is from

Tegelen Tegelen () is a village in the municipality of Venlo, situated in the Netherlands. It was an independent municipality until 2001, when it was merged into the municipality of Venlo. Tiglian The name of the glacial stage of Tiglian (part of the ...

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. As of 2021, he is a student of

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