Jeroen Piket

Jeroen Piket
Association	Netherlands
Born	January 27, 1969 Leiden
title	International Master (1986) Grand Master (1989)
Current  Elo rating	2624 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2670 (January 1995)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Jeroen Piket (born January 27, 1969 in Leiden ) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.

Life

Piket learned chess at an early age from his father Joop (* 1940), who is a master at the game. Piket also has a brother, Marcel (* 1966), who became a FIDE champion .

Pikat's great talent for chess quickly made itself felt. Early on, he was considered the greatest talent in the Netherlands after Jan Timman . In 1989 he became a grandmaster . From 1990 to 1994 he won the state championship four times in a row .

Michael Adams - Jeroen Piket at the Dortmund Schachtagen 2000

Among his greatest international tournament successes winning the part Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 1994. In 1996 won Piket the traditional tournament of Tilburg (together with Boris Gelfand ), 1999 the traditional tournament of Biel / Bienne .

In 2001 Piket gave up professional chess as a surprise and moved to Monaco as the secretary of Joop van Oosterom , who later became the 18th correspondence chess world champion . Piket played his last tournament game in 2003 in the Dutch team championship, so he is listed as inactive at FIDE.

National team

Piket took part in the 1988 , 1990 , 1992 , 1994 , 1998 and 2000 Chess Olympiads with the Dutch national team. He reached third place with the team in 1988. He also took part in the 1989 World Team Championships and the 1992, 1999 and 2001 European Team Championships. In 2001 he became European champion with the Dutch team and achieved the third-best result on the second board.

societies

In the Netherlands, Piket played for Volmac Rotterdam until 1996, with whom he came third in the European Club Cup in 1988 , and from 1996 to 2003 for the Hilversums Schaakgenootschap. In the German Bundesliga he played from 1996 to 2003 for the Solingen SG 1868 , with which he became German team champion in 1997 , he won the French team championship in 2002 with CEMC Monaco. In 1998 and 1999 he took part in the European Club Cup with ŠK Bosna Sarajevo and won it in 1999.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 80.
2. ↑ Dortmund Chess Days 1994
3. ↑ Jeroen Pikets results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Jeroen Pikets results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Jeroen Pikets results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ ^{a b} Jeroen Pikets results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)

Web links

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