Hans Ree

Hans Ree, 2004
Association	Netherlands
Born	November 15, 1944 Amsterdam
title	International Master (1968) Grand Master (1980)
Current  Elo rating	2295 (April 2020)
Best Elo rating	2520 (January 1980)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Hans Ree (born November 15, 1944 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch chess master and chess author.

Chess player

Ree achieved his first international success as a youth when he qualified for the Junior Championship of Europe in 1964/65. He was able to repeat this a year later.

As a result, he won the Dutch championship four times (1967, 1969, 1971, 1982). With the then world champion Boris Spasski , Hans Ree shared 1971 shared the victory in Vancouver ("Canadian Open"). From 1966 to 1984 he took part in the Chess Olympiads ten times in a row . He won the silver medal with the Dutch team in 1976 and achieved the third-best individual result on the first reserve board in 1966. He also took part in the European Team Championships in 1965 and 1983. In 1971 he won a duel against Johannes Hendrikus Donner (+2 = 5 −1). In the top division of the Dutch team championship, the Meesterklasse or Hoofdklasse , he played in the 1969/70 season for Het Oosten Haarlem , in the 1995/96 season for Cap Volmac Rotterdam , from 1998 to 2001 and in the 2008/09 season for the Bussums Schaakgenootschap and in the 2010/11 and 2019/20 seasons for Caissa Amsterdam .

In 1968 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master , and in 1980 he became a Grand Master .

Chess author

Ree has published articles in the NRC Handelsblad as well as in the chess magazines Chess Cafe and New In Chess .

Works

• The Human Comedy of Chess: A Grandmaster's Chronicles . Russel Enterprises, 1999. ISBN 1888690062 .
• My Chess . Russel Enterprises, 2013. ISBN 978-1-936490-67-7 . (Originally published as Mijn schaken , 2010.)

Web links

Commons : Hans Ree  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Rees results at chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Hans Rees results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)