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    Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner (July 6, 1927 – November 27, 1988) was a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. Donner was born in The Hague and won the...
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    State on 21 December 2018. The Donner family has produced a number of Calvinist judges. Piet Hein Donner's father, André Donner, was a judge at the European...
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  • field adopted: Series Three (1977-78) First Prize: £1250 Participants: Jan Hein Donner, Bill Hartston, Werner Hug, Anatoly Karpov (winner), Bent Larsen, Tony...
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    Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, Jan Timman, Anatoly Karpov, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Vladimir Kramnik, Garry Kasparov...
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  • Austrian sculptor Helmut Donner (born 1941), Austrian high jumper Jan Donner, Dutch politician, Minister of Justice Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess grandmaster...
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    player Jan Hein Donner and the jurist André Donner, and the grandfather of the former Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Piet Hein Donner. "Mr.Dr...
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    President of the Council of State. André Donner's brother Jan Hein Donner was a chess grandmaster. André Donner studied law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam...
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    Championship Frank Marshall vs Arthur William Dake New York, NY (1931) Jan Hein Donner vs Savielly Tartakower, Amsterdam (1950), Amsterdam NED, rd 15, Nov-30...
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    Grandmaster status, making him the Netherlands' third after Max Euwe and Jan Hein Donner. In the same year he won the Dutch Championship for the first time...
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  • where he places his queen en prise to a pawn. 1978: Liu Wenzhe vs Jan Hein Donner, Buenos Aires. "The Chinese Immortal"; at China's first olympiad, the...
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    brilliant theoretician and teacher in the history of the game." GM Jan Hein Donner called Nimzowitsch "a man who was too much of an artist to be able...
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    professed a general hatred for Jews from at least the early 1960s. Jan Hein Donner wrote that at the time of the Bled 1961 chess tournament, "He idolized...
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    that square. Fischer vs. Donner, 1966 In the diagram, from a game between future world champion Bobby Fischer and Jan Hein Donner, White had a probably winning...
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    to the exhibitor by an arbiter or intermediary. Dutch grandmaster Jan Hein Donner offered the following advice to a player taking a board at a simultaneous...
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  • Germany), Miguel Najdorf (Argentina), Borislav Ivkov (Yugoslavia), and Jan Hein Donner (Netherlands). Interest in the tournament was unusually high for a...
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    11/15). Harrachov 1966 2nd, behind Semen Furman. Venice 1967 4th= (Jan Hein Donner won). Solingen 1968 3rd= (Levente Lengyel won). Vršac 1969 1st. Amsterdam...
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    grandmasters, he finished with a score of 3/9 (with only one win, against Jan Hein Donner). He died in the Wilhelminenspital in Ottakring, Vienna on April 3...
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    Landau in 1936, when Euwe, then world champion, did not compete; and Jan Hein Donner in 1954. He became the world amateur chess champion in 1928, at The...
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    Gijón International Chess Tournament in 1956, ahead of Klaus Darga and Jan Hein Donner, and in the same year won at Copenhagen with 8/9. Larsen became an...
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  • 1959 national champion and played in three Olympiads. 27 November Jan Hein Donner (born 1927): Dutch Grandmaster who won the Dutch Championship in 1954...
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    a stunning queen sacrifice a top Western Grandmaster, the hapless Jan Hein Donner of The Netherlands, in just 20 moves. Since then, China has made rapid...
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    a score of 2430 points, sharing 3rd place at that time (behind Jan Hein Donner and Jan Timman, together with Hans Bouwmeester, Hans Ree and Coen Zuidema)...
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    took the Dutch Chess Championship at The Hague in 1961, defeating Jan Hein Donner on the way. In 1962, he was co-winner of the traditional IBM international...
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  • and for second–third with World Champion Tigran Petrosian, behind Jan Hein Donner, in Venice, 1967. However, Evans' first, and what ultimately proved...
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  • greats of his time: Robert James Fischer, Bent Larsen, Efim Geller, Jan Hein Donner, Arturo Pomar, Jonathan Penrose, or mentioned Oscar Panno. Keller was...
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    Jan Hein Donner behind Borislav Milić) and 3rd place (in 1958, together with Aleksandar Matanović and Gideon Ståhlberg behind Max Euwe and Jan Hein Donner)...
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  • (House of Frankenstein, The Grapes of Wrath), heart and kidney failure. Jan Hein Donner, 61, Dutch chess grandmaster and writer, gastric hemorrhage. Yasin...
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    for 8-9th at Beverwijk 1948 (Prins won); took 4th at Beverwijk 1950 (Jan Hein Donner won). He took 4th at Amsterdam 1950 (15th NED-ch, Euwe won); tied for...
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    won a quadrangular event at Leiden 1970 with 7/12, a point ahead of Jan Hein Donner, who was followed by Larsen and Botvinnik, the latter of whom was making...
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    Zonal of 1960, where he shared first place with Svetozar Gligorić, Jan Hein Donner and Lajos Portisch; at Torremolinos 1961 (first with Gligoric); Malaga...
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