Jan Smeets

Jan Smeets at the tournament in Wijk aan Zee 2013
Association	Netherlands
Born	April 5, 1985 Leiden
title	International Master (2002) Grand Master (2004)
Current  Elo rating	2585 ​​(August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2669 (July and September 2010)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Jan Smeets (born April 5, 1985 in Leiden ) is a Dutch chess player .

Life

He comes from Oegstgeest and learned to play chess from his father at the age of six. Jan Smeets took part in numerous national and international youth tournaments and was considered one of the greatest talents in the Netherlands. Since 2004 he has had the title of Grand Master . One of his best tournament results was a shared second place in group B of the Corus chess tournament in 2005. At the Junior World Championships U20 in 2005, he came in fifth. In April 2008 he won the national championship of the Netherlands in Hilversum . In August 2009 he qualified with his result (6 points from 10 games) at the NH Chess Tournament in Amsterdam as the best young player for the Melody Amber 2010 tournament . In June 2010 he became Dutch champion for the second time in Eindhoven .

At the European individual championship in 2012 in Plovdiv , Smeets took 14th place and qualified for the 2013 World Chess Cup , in which he failed in the first round to Maxim Matlakov . In 2012, Smeets won the World Cup of Cities with the selection of Hoogeveen . He is number 5 in the Dutch ranking (as of December 2014). Smeets is studying economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam .

National team

With the Dutch national team, Smeets took part in the 2008 , 2010 and 2012 Chess Olympiads and the 2009, 2011 and 2013 European Team Championships .

societies

In the Netherlands he played for the Leidsch Schaakgenootschap until 2003 , from 2004 to 2011 for the Hilversums Schaak Genootschap , with which he became Dutch team champion in 2008 , 2009 , 2010 and 2011 . From 2012 to 2017 Smeets played for En Passant Bunschoten-Spakenburg and became Dutch team champion in 2013 , 2014 and 2016 , and since 2019 he has played again for the Leidsch Schaakgenootschap . Jan Smeets has been playing in the German Bundesliga since 2003 for the Solingen chess company , with whom he became German team champion in 2016 , in Sweden for Lunds ASK , with whom he became Swedish team champion in 2011 , and in Belgium in the 2003/04 season for the second team of the KSK 47 Eynatten and from 2004 to 2006 for the Koninklijke Brugse Schaakkring . He won the Spanish team championship in 2010 with CA Escuela Int. Kasparov-Marcote Mondariz .

Web links

Commons : Jan Smeets  - Collection of Images

• Jan Smeets at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Final result of the European Championship 2012 at chess-results.com
2. ↑ Jan Smeets' results at the World Cups of Cities on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Jan Smeets' results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Jan Smeets' results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)