Corry Vreeken

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Corry Vreeken 1982 Dortmund b.jpg
Corry Vreeken, Dortmund 1982
Association NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
Born December 22, 1928
Enkhuizen
title International Women's Champion (1968)
Honorary Women's Grandmaster (1987)
Current  Elo rating 2080 (December 2019)
Best Elo rating 2180 (July 1989)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Corry Vreeken (born Maria Cornelia Bouwman ; also Corry Vreeken-Bouwman ; born December 22, 1928 in Enkhuizen ) is a Dutch chess player .

Life

In 1948, at the age of 20, she learned to play chess while in hospital. Since 2013 there has been a foundation that bears her name, the Stichting Corry Vreeken . The aim of the foundation is to promote chess, especially youth chess . The foundation is based in Corry Vreeken's place of residence, Maassluis .

successes

Individual championships

She won the Dutch women's individual championship five times: 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966 and 1970. She replaced Fenny Heemskerk , who had dominated Dutch women's chess since the 1930s. At the end of the 1960s, her performance was so respected that even the former world chess champion Max Euwe seconded her . In 1971 she took part in the Ohrid Women's Interzonal Tournament , which was won by Nana Alexandria . Corry Vreeken achieved a 14th place with only 5.5 points from 17 games. Again she was able to apply for a women's world championship in 1976 , at the women's interzonal tournament in Roosendaal . There she was tenth with 5.5 points from 13 games. In 1980 she reached 10 out of 11 in a round-robin tournament in Biel and placed ahead of Gisela Fischdick , among others . In 1981 she came third in Biel. She took part in the International Ladies Chess Tournament 1982 , which took place as part of the 10th Dortmund Chess Days. At this first international women's tournament in the Federal Republic of Germany , which was not organized by the German Chess Federation , she finished third behind Lena Glaz and Zsuzsa Verőci . At the 5th senior women's world championship in 1995 in Bad Liebenzell , she finished 9th, and Nona Gaprindashvili was first .

Corry Vreeken at the 1977 Dutch women's championship in Mijdrecht

National team

Between 1963 and 1982 she took part in chess Olympiads seven times with the Dutch women's national team , with a total of 37 points from 72 games (+25 = 24 −23). She played on the top board five times, only in 1976 and 1978 she played on the second board, with Alexandra van der Mije , formerly Alexandra Nicolau, sitting on the first . For the Dutch national team she also played in various international matches, for example against the FRG in 1967 and against England in 1970, in which she won against Jana Hartston with 1.5: 0.5.

Club chess and rating

In club chess she was active for Volmac Rotterdam for many years as secretary, chairwoman and from 1969 to 1993 as the person responsible for the club magazine. She was instrumental in the search for sponsors. Under her leadership, the club became Dutch team champions ten times in a row. In the late 1960s and early 1970s she played in the first team at Volmac Rotterdam , together with Hans Böhm and Jan Timman . When Jan Timman became club champion in 1969, he won 13 of 14 games and only lost to Corry Vreeken. In the top Dutch league (then Hoofdklasse ) Vreeken was last used in the 1995/96 season . In the 2000s she played team chess for the Schaakvereniging Maassluis in South Holland . She has held the title of International Women's Champion (WIM) since 1968 . In 1987 the World Chess Federation FIDE awarded her the title of Honorary Grand Master of Women (HWGM). Vreeken is listed as inactive at FIDE because she has not played an Elo-rated game since the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee in 2005 , where she played in Group 4C.

Web links

Commons : Corry Vreeken  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 75 years of the Rotterdam Chess Federation (Dutch)
  2. ↑ List of Dutch individual champions (Dutch)
  3. ↑ Interzonal Tournament Ohrid 1971 (English)
  4. ↑ Interzonal Tournament Roosdendall 1976 (English)
  5. ^ Reinhold Hoffmann: 5th World Championship for Seniors 1995 Bad Liebenzell and 1st accompanying Open . ChessOrg-Verlag, Völklingen.
  6. ↑ Corry Vreekens results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ^ Report of the KNSB of April 18, 2005 (Dutch)
personal data
SURNAME Vreeken, Corry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bouwman, Corry; Vreeken-Bouwman, Corry; Bouwman, Maria Cornelia (maiden name); Vreeken-Bouwman, Maria Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch chess player
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Enkhuizen