Lodewijk Prins

Lodewijk Prins, Amsterdam 1965
Association	Netherlands
Born	January 27, 1913 Amsterdam
Died	November 11, 1999
title	International Master (1950) Honorary Grand Master (1982)
Best Elo rating	2410 (July 1971 to July 1973)

Lodewijk Prins (born January 27, 1913 in Amsterdam , † November 11, 1999 ) was a Dutch chess player and chess journalist.

Chess player

Prins represented the Netherlands at all twelve Chess Olympiads between 1937 and 1968 and achieved the second-best individual result on the fourth board in 1939 and on the third board in 1950 . He also played with the Dutch team at the 1936 Chess Olympics in Munich , at the qualifying tournaments for the European Team Championships in 1957, 1965 and 1970 and at the Clare Benedict Cup in 1955 (which the Dutch team won), 1962, 1963 and 1967. In 1965 he won after a playoff against Coen Zuidema the championship of the Netherlands . Other significant successes were first place in Birmingham in 1937 (together with Eliskases ), his victory in 1948 at the Hoogovens tournament in Beverwijk and his first place in 1951 in Madrid.

In 1950 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master , and in 1982 he became Honorary Grand Master . His best historical rating before the Elo was introduced was 2604 in December 1951.

In the Grünfeld-Indian Defense the variant 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Qb3 dxc4 6. Qxc4 0–0 7. e4 Sa6 is named after him.

A line also bears his name in the Sicilian Defense . The move sequence 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. f3 is called the Prins variant.

Chess journalist

Prins was responsible for the chess column in various newspapers.

He also published several books, about

• Master Chess , 1940
• Tournament book Hastings 1944/45
• Tournament book Hastings 1945/46
• Het Schaakphenomeen Capablanca (Capablanca, the chess phenomenon), co-author of Max Euwe
• Amsterdam 1950

Web links

• Literature by and about Lodewijk Prins in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Schaakbond (Dutch)
• Interview with Max Pam, October 1975 (Dutch)
• Compositions by Lodewijk Prins on the Schwalbe's PDB server

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lodewijk Prins' results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Lodewijk Prins' results at Chess Olympia 1936 on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Lodewijk Prins' results in the preliminary rounds of the European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Lodewijk Prins' results at the Clare Benedict Cup on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ^ Sergey Kasparov : Steamrolling the Sicilian. Play for a Win with 5. f3! New In Chess , Alkmaar 2013, ISBN 978-90-5691-435-6 (English).