Jan Voormans

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Jan Voormans (born June 18, 1944 in Rosmalen ; † November 26, 2011 in 's-Hertogenbosch ) was a Dutch chess and draft player .

chess

Voormans played Nahschach in the highest national league and won several tournaments, for example the Utrecht Open in 1973 and second prize in the Dutch Open in 1981. In 1984 he became Dutch champions with Eindhoven. His highest rating in local chess was 2269 from July 1999 to June 2001.

In correspondence chess , he held the title of International Master .

Since the late 1950s he and his father Jan Voormans senior worked as a solver in the Tijdschrift van de KNSB and Schakend Nederland , where he published some of his own assignments in the 1970s.

Drafts

In the Drafts Voormans also played in the highest national league. He has played against the Draughtsweltmeister Piet Roozenburg , sound Sijbrands and Harm Wiersma undecided. Voormans' active time was from 1966 to 1974.

In August 1975, for family reasons, Voormans decided to compose a draft task that would end with the 35x2 move , in which three women would be beaten. After three months of work, he had completed the task, which ended in a position already analyzed by Juan Garcia Canalejas in 1650 , but did not publish it until 1983 in a local newspaper. In 1987 it was reprinted in the Dutch Draft magazine and became a classic. It is considered the best Canalejas task and one of the ten best drafts tasks.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary on the website of HMC Den Bosch . December 2, 2011. Retrieved January 20, 2012
  2. ^ Obituary: Jan Voormans (18vi1944 - 26xi2011) . In: eg 187, January 2012, p. 10
  3. ↑ Tim Krabbé : Open Chess Diary, Item 252: Three queens . July 10, 2004. Retrieved January 20, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Voormans, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch chess and draft player
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Rose painting
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2011
Place of death 's-Hertogenbosch