Ruud Janssen (chess player)

Ruud Janssen, 2012
Association	Netherlands
Born	May 1, 1979 Venray , The Netherlands
title	International Master Grandmaster (2011)
Current  Elo rating	2534 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2536 (January 2020)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Ruud Janssen (born May 1, 1979 in Venray ) is a Dutch chess player .

Career

Ruud Janssen, 2004

With the Dutch junior national team, he took part in the 1996 Glorney Cup in Glenalmond, Scotland. The team takes third place. He won the Dutch individual junior championship three times in a row: 1996 in Arnhem , 1997 and 1998 in Leiden . In 1998 he won the international ECI youth tournament in Sas van Gent . In 2003 he won the Nova College tournament in Haarlem ahead of Vladimir Jepischin and Merab Gagunashvili .

Ruud Janssen and Ulf von Herman , Final of the German Chess League 2014 in Eppingen

He received the title of International Master in 1999 and has held the title of Grand Master since October 2011 . He achieved the GM standards in the 2nd Bundesliga West in the 2006/07 season, at the 17th International Open in August 2008 in Kavala and at the BDO Chess Premier Tournament in August 2011 in Haarlem . His Elo rating is 2467 (as of September 2014), his highest to date was 2529 in April 2009. He was 13th in the Dutch Elo ranking.

Club chess

He plays club chess in the Netherlands for the Bussums Schaakgenootschap , before that he played for De Toren Arnheim and the Hilversum club HSG , with which he became Dutch champions in 2008 , 2009 , 2010 and 2011 ; He used to play in the Netherlands for Utrecht and before that for Panfox Breda (from 2000 Ordina Breda ), with whom he became champions in 1997 , 1999 , 2000 and 2002 . In Belgium he played for Gent in the 2002/03 season .

In Germany he played from the 1997/98 season to the 2001/02 season at SV Erkenschwick 23 , then for one season at White Lady Borbeck , from 2003 to 2005 again at Erkenschwick and from the 2005/06 season to the 2015/16 season for SK Turm Emsdetten , with whom he played in the 1st Bundesliga from the 2008/09 season .

Web links

Commons : Ruud Janssen  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Ruud Janssen on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Titles approved in Krakow, Poland , October 26, 2011 (English)
2. ↑ GM title application to FIDE (English, PDF file; 155 kB)
3. ^ Index card Ruud Janssen at the Dutch Chess Federation (Dutch)