Joop van Oosterom

Joop van Oosterom ( born December 12, 1937 in Hilversum ) is a Dutch entrepreneur, chess player and Carambolageliebhaber. A two-time correspondence chess world champion.

Life

In 1955 he was in chess youth champion of the Netherlands and occupied at the Youth World Cup in the same year in Antwerp the 7th Place - The winner was the world chess champion Boris Spassky later. In the World Student Championship in Leningrad in 1960 van Oosterom scored 7 points from 13 games. Instead to pursue a career as a professional chess player, he founded after completing his studies in 1966, the IT company Volmac. In 1988 he sold his interest in it. With assets of just over 1 billion euros it one of the richest ten Dutch.

Correspondence Chess

Since he hardly had time for tournament chess during his working life and could only play a few games in team fights for his club HSG Hilversum, he turned increasingly to the correspondence chess. There he won the Dutch championship in 1980, 1982, he was second behind Gert Jan Timmerman. For the Netherlands, he played Board 1 in the 1988 European Team Championship ( 5.5 points from 8 games) and 1992 board 2 in the Correspondence Chess Olympiad ( 10 points from 12 games). He was appointed Correspondence Chess Grandmaster in 1993. After he reached the 2nd place behind Timmerman at the 15th World Championships concluded in 2002, succeeded him in 2005 at the 18th World Championship, winning the title by a margin of 1.5 points. At the 21st Correspondence Chess World Championship in 2007 he succeeded his second title. He scored 10 points in 14 games. With an Elo rating of 2712 ( out of 252 games) van Oosterom leads the current ICCF World Ranking (as of January 2011).

By his own admission he stand at correspondence chess the " fastest computers and the best Grand Master " as a counselor available. Although this is permissible under the rules of correspondence chess, criticized the Dutch grandmaster Hans Ree in NRC Handelsblad, van Oosterom had his successes bought by it. Tim Krabbé even noted that the games were played in reality by Jeroen Piket. The former correspondence chess world champion Horst Rittner ( for the GDR, 1971) reported that he was as well as other participants of tournaments that van Oosterom took part, warned by anonymous letters from Holland: According to van Oosterom occupy two Dutch grandmasters, whom he converted $ 500 would pay per train.

Game

The following game won Van Oosterom in the final of the 18th Correspondence Chess World Championship.

Van Kempen - Van Oosterom

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 4.Nxd4 the English Attack in the Najdorf Variation, ECO Code B90 6 .. Be6 8.f3 Be7 9 e5 7.Sb3. Dd2 0-0 10.0-0-0 Qc7 11.g4 Nbd7 12.g5 Sh5 13.Sd5 Lxd5 14.exd5 a5 a4 15.Kb1 16.Sc1 f6 17.g6 a3 hxg6 18.Dg2 19.Dxg6 axb2 20.Sb3 f5 21.Lh3 after 21.Dxh5 TXA2 have black strong attack 21 .. Sb6 22.Dxh5 Sc4 23.Lxf5 Txf5 24.Dxf5 SXE3 25.Dd3 Sc4 Black decided not to take the rook on d1, and continue playing on King attack 26.Sd2 Sxd2 Qa5 28.a3 27.Txd2 Dc5 29.Kxb2 White has finally managed to eliminate the dangerous b2 pawn, but with his next train opens Black crucial the long diagonal for his bishop 29 .. e4 30.Db3 Bg5 31.Te2 Lf6 32.c3 Re8 ext3 33.Td2 34.Ka2 b5 35.Tc2 Kh7 36.Thc1 Te3 37.Tb2 Bxc3 38.Dxb5 Dd4 39.Tbc2 Kh6 40.h4 Te2 41.Kb3 Ld2 42.Tf1 De3 White gives up, 0-1.

Patron

Van Oosterom also active as a patron. In the Netherlands, he sponsored as early as the 1970s, the club Volmac Rotterdam. From 1992 to 2011 he taught in his adopted hometown of Monaco after his daughter Melody Amber named, highly doped chess tournaments from that pit world class player in rapid chess and blindfold chess. He also organized competitions of the best female chess players against the elderly, for which he also undertook former World Champion Vasily Smyslov and Boris Spassky like, as well as the NH Chess Tournament, played at the young talents against experienced grandmasters.

From 1994 to 2011 he taught also in Monaco and the neighboring Nice one of the highly doped most three-band tournaments, Crystal Kelly tournament ( named after his other daughter), of the world and had among the players the rank of a small, albeit unofficial, world Cup. It was an invitational event which was attended by the best three-cushion players in the world. Among other things, the world champion, " Mr. 100 " Raymond Ceulemans, Torbjörn Blomdahl, Dick Jaspers and Frédéric Caudron.

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