Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:09:57 11/02/05
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On November 02, 2005 at 14:06:13, Albert Silver wrote:
>On October 31, 2005 at 21:50:29, Steve B wrote:
>
>>The Netherlands is a small country with a population of about 16 million
>>
>>Well known as a chess loving country ,their impact in chess in General from
>>World Champion Max Euwe,Jan Timman and the great modern day writers of Hans
>>Ree,JH Donner (a GM) and Tim Krabbe alone would be more then enough for most
>>countries
>
>You are overlooking the World Correspondence Champion Gert Jan Timmermann, who
>won the 15th WC in 2002, and the 2nd place winner, also Dutch, Joop van
>Oosterom. :-)
>
I just saw that Joop van Oosterom has effectively won the 18th WC
(http://tables.iccf.com/world/wcfin/XVIII-wc-final.html) though there is still a
game to finish. One more Dutch WC in chess.
Albert
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