Fenny Heemskerk

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Fenny Heemskerk 1968.jpg
Fenny Heemskerk, 1968
Association NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
Born December 3, 1919
Amsterdam
Died June 8, 2007
Amersfoort
title International Master of Women (1950)
Grand Master of Women (1978)
Best Elo rating 2040 (July 1972)

Fenny Heemskerk , later also Fenny Haak-Heemskerk , (born December 3, 1919 in Amsterdam , † June 8, 2007 in Amersfoort ) was a Dutch chess player .

Life

As enthusiastic chess players, Heemskerk's parents aroused their interest in playing early on. With her mother, she took part in the Dutch Women's Championship in 1936 and immediately came second. The following year, at the age of 17, she won the first of her ten national championship titles. At the age of 20, Fenny Heemskerk married a chess player, from whom she separated after four years. After that she earned her living as a market woman at weekly markets. Despite a lack of training, she successfully participated in chess tournaments at her own expense. In 1949 Heemskerk received an invitation to the Women's World Cup tournament in Moscow.

She finished 8th with 8 points from 15 games. A relief fund set up in her home country enabled her to sign Lodewijk Prins as a second at the 1952 Moscow Candidates Tournament . Fenny Heemskerk played the tournament of a lifetime. She beat the favorites in rows. While in the lead, she fell ill, had to replay games and still finished second behind the eventual world champion Jelisaweta Bykowa . Heemskerk won the Dutch women's championship in 1937, 1939, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958 and 1961 and took part in the women's chess Olympiads in 1957 , 1963 , 1966 and 1969 with the Netherlands .

After the end of her career, Heemskerk taught chess in schools and adult education centers. In 1978 the world chess federation FIDE appointed her International Grand Master of Women (WGM). In 1950 she was awarded the title of International Women's Champion (WIM).

Web links

Commons : Fenny Heemskerk  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NK algemeen en vrouwen. In: schaken.nl. Retrieved December 14, 2019 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Fenny Heemskerk. In: OlimpBase. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  3. ^ Paul Werner Wagner: Chess master. Fenny Heemskerk. In: Berliner Zeitung of December 14, 2019, p. B 10.
personal data
SURNAME Heemskerk, Fenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haak-Heemskerk, Fenny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch chess player
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2007
Place of death Amersfoort