Henri Weenink

Henri Gerard Marie Weenink (born October 18, 1892 in Amsterdam ; † December 2, 1931 there ) was a Dutch chess master and chess composer .

Life

Weenink had to interrupt his mathematics studies in 1914 because he was called up for military service in the First World War . He died of tuberculosis .

chess

Weenink learned chess at the age of six. When he was 15 years old, one of his compositions was first published in the Tijdschrift . After the First World War he was the clerk of a chess column in Op te Hoogte and Oprechte Haarlemsche Courant . In 1928 he also became a clerk for chess composition in the Tijdschrift . He was one of the few chess professionals in the Netherlands at the time and took part in the Chess Olympiads in 1927 , 1928 , 1930 and 1931 .

Weenink's book about David Przepiórka was published posthumously in 1932 and contained 130 tasks by his Polish master colleague.

Works

• Het schaakprobleem, ideeën en scholen . 1921
• Eindspelen I-LIV . Margraten 1992 (collection of articles)
• David Przepiórka. A Master of Strategy . Amsterdam 1932

literature

• Dr. M. Euwe , Dr. M. Niemeijer , Dr. A. Rueb & B. J. van Trotsenburg: H. G. M. Weenink . 1932
• Weenink, Hendrik Gerard Marie . In: Harrie Grondijs (Ed.): No Rook Unturned . 2nd edition 2004. ISBN 90-74827-52-7 . Pp. 107-108

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anatoli Jewgenjewitsch Karpow u. a .: Chess - encyclopedic dictionary . Sowjetskaja enzyklopedija, Moscow 1990, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 , p. 153 (Russian)
2. ↑ Biography on chessgames.com . Retrieved September 5, 2009
3. ↑ Jan van Reek; Henk van Donk: History of Endgame Study Composing in the Netherlands and Flanders, Margraten, 1992, p. 25, ISBN 90-72939-12-3
4. ↑ Henri Weenink's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)

Web links

• Compositions by Henri Weenink on the PDB server