Louis van Vliet
Louis Moses (Mozes) van Vliet[1] (17 August 1854, Amsterdam[2] – 15 June 1932, London[3]) was a Dutch chess master.
Personal life
Van Vliet was the son of Annaatje Philip van Cleef of Amsterdam and Moses van Vliet, a tailor and merchant originally from Rotterdam.[4] His father died in November 1865 and his mother in June 1868, and as a 13-year-old orphan he moved to England to live with his uncle Edward van Vliet. Another uncle, Eliazer Lion "Leon" van Vliet, was a pawnbroker in San Francisco and Louis moved there in 1884 at the age of 29. He apparently only learned chess from Leon and started playing tournaments. In 1887, when he was considered the "best player of the Pacific Coast", he moved back to London. In 1889 he came to Amsterdam to play his first international tournament, but he remained living in London for the rest of his life.[2]
Chess
He took 4th at Amsterdam 1889 (
He tied for 3rd–4th and took 5th at London 1900 (Teichmann won), took 6th (William Ewart Napier won) and 5th at London 1904 (Teichmann won), tied for 27–28th at Ostend 1907 (B tournament, Ossip Bernstein and Akiba Rubinstein won).[8] Louis van Vliet lost the only game played with Dr. Walter Romain Lovegrove in London in 1912.[9]
His most notable win was a 24-move victory over
References
- ^ Ancestry entry for Annaatje Philip van Cleef
- ^ a b Peter de Jong, News from the Past – Louis van Vliet at chess club.org
- ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
- ^ Genealogy
- ^ I tornei dal 1880 al 1899 at xoomer.alice.it
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2007. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01 - ^ http://www.edochess.ca/players/p489.html Edo Historical Chess Ratings
- ^ I tornei dal 1900 al 1909
- ^ History of San Francisco Chess Archived 10 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Louis van Vliet player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Urcan, Olimpiu G. (2005), Louis van Vliet: Master or Mugger? (PDF), ChessCafe.com
Further reading
- British Chess Magazine, 1932, p. 331, 394