Robin van Kampen

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Robin van Kampen, Basel 2014
Association NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
Born November 14, 1994
Blaricum , The Netherlands
title International Master (2009)
Grand Master (2011)
Current  Elo rating 2658 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating 2658 (June 2018)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Robin van Kampen (born November 14, 1994 in Blaricum ) is a Dutch chess player .

Life

Robin van Kampen at the U20 World Cup 2012 in Athens

Robin van Kampen grew up in Bussum in the Dutch province of North Holland . He attended the International School "Alberdingk Thijm" in Hilversum , an IB school, and then the Comenius College in Hilversum.

He was trained by Jop Delemarre and later Vladimir Chuchelov . For Anish Giri , van Kampen was a second from 2011 to 2014 .

For Chess24 van Kampen developed and hosted a seven-hour video series about the King's Indian Defense from the perspective of the player with the black pieces.

successes

Tournaments

Robin van Kampen won several Dutch youth championships: U12 2006, U14 2007, U16 2008 and U20 2009. At the U16 European Championship 2009 in Fermo , he was runner - up behind Gil Popilski . In 2011 he won the Helmut Kohls tournament at the Dortmund Chess Days . At the Dutch individual championship in 2013 in Amsterdam he was third behind Dimitri Reinderman and Wouter Spoelman , ahead of Sergey Tiviakov . Van Kampen finished second in March 2014 at the Open in Reykjavík (behind Li Chao ) and at the Canadian Open Championship in Montreal in July 2014 (behind Sergey Tiviakov). At the Dutch individual championship in 2015 in Amsterdam he was again third, behind Anish Giri and Loek van Wely .

Team chess

For Solingen in the 2018 Bundesliga finals in Berlin

His first club was the Baarnse Schaakvereniging , which he joined at the age of seven. With the Hilversums Schaakgenootschap he won the Dutch team championship in the seasons 2008/09 , 2009/10 and 2010/11 . After Hilversum's relegation in 2011/12 , Robin van Kampen played for Kennemer Combinatie in the 2012/13 season and for the Bussums Schaakgenootschap since the 2014/15 season . He won the Belgian team championship in the 2010/11 season with KSK 47 Eynatten and in the 2014/15 season with L'Echiquier Amaytois , and the British Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) in the 2012/13 , 2013/14 , 2014 seasons / 15 , 2015/16 , 2016/17 and 2017/18 with Guildford A&DC . In the German federal chess league he played for Hamburger SK from 2013 to 2015 , since 2015 he has played for the Solingen chess company , with which he became German team champion in 2016 . Before that he played in the 2nd Bundesliga West for Bochumer SV . In the Icelandic team championship of the 2013/14 season he played for the Reykjavík club GM Hellir . He took part in the European Club Cup 2014 with Skákfélag Huginn .

For the Dutch national team he played on the reserve board at the 2013 European Championships in Warsaw and the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø and on the fourth board at the 2016 Chess Olympiad in Baku .

Title and rating

As a 14-year-old he achieved three standards for receiving the title of International Master : in February 2009 at the Batavia tournament in Amsterdam, which he won despite being only ninth out of ten participants, in the Cappelle-la, which began eight days later -Grande tournament with over-fulfillment and in July of the same year in the Atlantis tournament in Groningen . The title was awarded to him in October 2009. He has been a grandmaster since October 2011. He achieved the standards for this in August 2010 at the BDO tournament in Haarlem with victories against, among others, Maxim Turow and Dimitri Reinderman, in December 2010 at the chess festival in Groningen and in July 2011 at the Helmut Kohls tournament in Dortmund , an accompanying tournament to the Dortmund Chess Days .

In February 2015 he is in fourth place in the Dutch Elo ranking.

Web links

Commons : Robin van Kampen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Interview with Robin van Kampen from March 8, 2013 on chess.com (English)
  2. Player portrait of Robin van Campens at the Chess Olympiad 2014 (English)
  3. List of the Dutch youth champions since 1951 on the website of the Dutch Chess Federation (Dutch)
  4. 39th International Dortmund Chess Days, award ceremony of the Helmut Kohls Tournament 2011 on TeleSchach (with picture)
  5. The Dutch Individual Championship 2013 (Dutch)
  6. Robin van Kampens results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. Robin van Kampens results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. Robin van Kampen's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Open team line-up with individual results - Open Netherlands. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  10. IM application (English)
  11. GM application (English)