Joop van Oosterom
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| Full name | Joop van Oosterom | |
| Country |  Netherlands |
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| Born | 1937 Netherlands |
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Joop van Oosterom (born 12 December 1937, Hilversum) is a Dutch billionaire and chess enthusiast. For many years he has staged the annual Melody Amber tournaments in Monaco, where world-class Grandmasters play rapid and blindfold games.
Van Oosterom was a strong correspondence chess player, but suffered a severe stroke some years ago. Nevertheless, he concluded the world correspondence chess championship successfully and became the 18th World Champion in Correspondence Chess. This achievement, however, has been criticized, as at the time of the championship Van Oosterom had hired grandmaster Jeroen Piket as his personal secretary. Chess author Tim Krabbé wrote: "The Turk was operated by William Schlumberger, Mephisto was operated by Isidore Gunsberg, Ajeeb was operated by Harry Pillsbury and Joop van Oosterom is operated by Jeroen Piket."[1] He didn't stop at only one World Correspondence Chess Championship title, he also won the 21th World Championship Final in Correspondence Chess, being the actual Champion of ICCF.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Wereldkampioen delegeren, by Tim Krabbé, originally published in the Algemeen Dagblad, April 2, 2005.
Preceded by Ivar Bern |
World Correspondence Chess Champion 2003–2004 |
Succeeded by Christophe Léotard |
[edit] External links
- Oosterom vs Timmerman 1996 Multimedia annotated game
- Oosterom vs Timmerman 1999 Multimedia annotated game
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