Fenny Heemskerk
Fenny Heemskerk | |
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Woman Grandmaster (1978) | |
Peak rating | 2050 (January 1975) |
Fenny Heemskerk (3 December 1919 in Amsterdam[1] – 8 June 2007 in Amersfoort) was a Dutch chess player.
Biography
She won the female Dutch Chess Championship ten times (1937, 1939, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958 and 1961). Heemskerk won a match against Catharina Roodzant 4.5 : 0.5 in 1937, and lost a match to Sonja Graf 0 : 4 in 1939 in Amsterdam.
She took eighth place in
She played in the 1st Women's Chess Olympiad at Emmen 1957 – but had to withdraw after only two days upon learning her father had died.[6] In 1989, at the age of 70 she participated in the Moscow GMA qualifiers alongside strong male Grandmasters.[7]
Heemskerk was awarded the
In January 1940 Heemskerk married FIDE Master Willem Koomen[8] and soon gave birth to a daughter. The marriage broke up in 1944.[9]
References
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Fenny_Heemskerk_with_daughter_1951.jpg/260px-Fenny_Heemskerk_with_daughter_1951.jpg)
- ^ ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
- ^ "World Chess Championship (women) : 1949–50 Title Tournament". Mark-weeks.com. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
- ^ "World Chess Championship (women) : 1952 Candidates Tournament". Mark-weeks.com. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
- ^ "World Chess Championship (women) : 1955 Candidates Tournament". Mark-weeks.com. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
- ^ "World Chess Championship (women) : 1961 Candidates Tournament". Mark-weeks.com. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
- ^ "Je Maintiendrai - Chess.com". Blog.chess.com. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
- ^ https://www.365chess.com/tournaments/GMA_op_1989/21564
- ^ "Huwelijk Nederlands schaakkampioene". Tijdschrift van den Koninklijken Nederlandschen Schaakbond. 47 (1): 30. January 1940.
- ^ Hageman, Esther (27 June 2007) Fenny Heemskerk 1919–2007. trouw.nl
External links
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- Fenny Heemskerk player profile and games at Chessgames.com