Harmen Jonkman

Harmen Jonkman
Association	Netherlands
Born	May 30, 1975 Beverwijk , The Netherlands
title	International Master (2000) Grand Master (2002)
Current  Elo rating	2385 (April 2020)
Best Elo rating	2520 (April 2002)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Harmen Jonkman (born May 30, 1975 in Beverwijk ) is a Dutch chess master .

Life

In 1991 Jonkman was the U16 youth champion in the Netherlands. In 1995 he achieved his first international success with second place behind Stefan Löffler at the Sonnevanck B tournament in Wijk aan Zee . In the same year Jonkman won the NATO championship in Gausdal . In 1998 he won (together with Mychajlo Holubjew ) in Chemnitz , in 2000 he was the winner in Soest , in 2001 he was third (behind Andrij Maksymenko and Vitali Golod , but in front of, among others, Oleh Romanyschyn , Andrij Wolokitin and Sachar Jefymenko ) in Lviv . In 2002, he was awarded FIDE the Grandmaster title . In 2003 he finished second in the heavily occupied Aeroflot Open B tournament in Moscow , as well as in Cairo in the same year. In 2004 he finished second at the Open German Junior Championship in Deizisau . In 2005 he shared first place in Banyoles and finished second behind Nona Gaprindashvili at the BDO Masters in Haarlem .

Jonkman, who ended his professional career in 2007 and went into the IT industry, was trained for a long time by the Dutch chess legend Theo van Scheltinga . In Germany he was a member of the SV Betzdorf churches. Jonkman played in the Dutch Meester class ( Hoofd class until 1996 ) in the 1995/96 season and from 2001 to 2004 for Rotterdam and from 2004 to 2006 for Hotels.nl Groningen . In the British Four Nations Chess League he played in the 1999/2000 season with White Rose and from 2003 to 2006 for 3Cs , in the French Nationale I in the 2001/02 season at Club de Orcher la Tour Gonfreville . In the Belgian Interclubs Jonkman played in the 2003/04 season for the second team of KSK 47 Eynatten and in the 2006/07 season for Royal Namur Echecs .

Web links

Commons : Harmen Jonkman  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Harmen Jonkman on chessgames.com (English)
• Jonkmans Homepage (English)
• Harmen Jonkman - He has the looks of a proto-Dutchman and the heart of a cosmopolitan - Article and photo series about Jonkman ( Memento from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 6th NATO Chess Championship - 1995
2. ↑ Results for 1995 - 2000: ChessBase Megabase 2007
3. ↑ Galychyna Lviv 2001
4. ↑ Aeroflot Open B 2003
5. ^ 1st Misr Closed 2003
6. ↑ German Open Junior Championship 2004
7. ↑ 8 Ciudad de Banyoles International Open A 2005
8. ↑ BDO Master 2005