Jorden van Foreest

Jorden van Foreest
Jorden van Foreest, 2017
Country Netherlands
Born (1999-04-30) 30 April 1999
Utrecht, Netherlands
Title Grandmaster (2016)
FIDE rating 2617 (October 2018)
Peak rating 2641 (June 2018)

Jhr. Jorden van Foreest (born 30 April 1999) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He was Dutch Chess Champion in 2016.

Chess career

Introduced to the game by his father, Van Foreest learned to play chess at the age of 6 but did not play regularly until he was 9.[1]

In 2013, Van Foreest won the European U14 Chess Championship with a score of 7½/9 (+6–0=3).[2][3]

He earned his international master title in 2014 at the age of 15 and secured all the norms needed for the grandmaster title in 2015 at the age of 16.[4] He was officially awarded his grandmaster title by FIDE in 2016.[5] This makes him the Netherlands' youngest ever grandmaster (Anish Giri was awarded the title at a younger age but was not a Dutch player at the time).[6]

In September 2015, he competed in the World Junior Chess Championship. He finished sixth, scoring 8/13 (+5–2=6).[7]

In December 2015, Van Foreest won the Groningen Chess Festival with a score of 7½/9 (+7–1=1).[8]

In August 2016, he won the Dutch Chess Championship. He scored 5½/7 (+5–1=1) for a performance rating of 2819.[9]

As of 2017, Van Foreest is coached by two-time Dutch Chess Champion Sergei Tiviakov.[10] From 26 June to 2 July 2017, he competed in the Dutch Chess Championship. He finished seventh, scoring 3/7 (+2–3=2).[11] From 28 October to 6 November, he competed for the Netherlands on board 4 at the 2017 European Team Chess Championship. He scored 5/7 (+4–1=2) for a performance rating of 2723.[12] From 13 to 25 November, he competed at the World Junior Chess Championship. He placed fifth with a score of 8/11 (+7–2=2),[13] half a point behind the winner Aryan Tari.[14]

From 13 to 28 January 2018, Van Foreest competed in the Tata Steel Challengers. He finished fifth, scoring 7½/13 (+4–2=7).[15]

Personal life

Born in Utrecht on 30 April 1999 and raised in Groningen, Van Foreest comes from the noble Van Foreest family and has the honorific of jonkheer.[16][17] He is the great-great grandson of Arnold van Foreest and great-great grandnephew of Dirk van Foreest. Both Arnold and Dirk were three-time Dutch Chess Champions (Arnold: 1889, 1893, 1902; Dirk: 1885, 1886, 1887).[1][9]

Jorden is the eldest child of his family and has five siblings: four brothers and one sister.[1] His eldest brother, Lucas (born 2001), earned the title of grandmaster in 2018.[18] His sister, Machteld (born 2007), won the Dutch Girls' U10 Championship at the age of 6 and shared second place in the Dutch Girls' U20 Championship when she was 9. In 2017, she became the first girl ever to win the Dutch U12 Championship.[10] She has a FIDE rating of 2132 as of April 2018.[19]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Derakhshani, Dorsa (4 January 2017). "Jorden van Foreest on his career so far". Chess24.
  2. ↑ 23rd European Youth Chess Championship 2013 – Open U14
  3. ↑ Final Ranking after 9 Rounds
  4. ↑ 4th quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2015
  5. ↑ Van Foreest, Jorden FIDE Chess Profile
  6. ↑ Top-40 Nederlandse schakers. 27: Jorden van Foreest
  7. ↑ Staff writer(s) (15 September 2015). "FIDE World Junior U20 Championship (Open)". Chess Results.
  8. ↑ Silver, Albert (4 January 2016). "Groningen Festival won by Jorden van Foreest". ChessBase.
  9. 1 2 McGourty, Colin (30 August 2016). "17-year-old Van Foreest wins Dutch title". Chess24.
  10. 1 2 De stelling Van Foreest, een schaakfamilie
  11. ↑ "Dutch Championships (2017)". Chessgames.com.
  12. ↑ Staff writer(s) (6 November 2017). "European Team Chess Championship 2017 Open Section". Chess Results.
  13. ↑ Staff writer(s) (25 November 2017). "World Junior under 20 Championship 2017 (150309): Van Foreest Jorden". Chess Results.
  14. ↑ Staff writer(s) (25 November 2017). "World Junior under 20 Championship 2017 (150309)". Chess Results.
  15. ↑ Staff writer(s) (28 January 2018). "Results of Tata Steel Challengers 2018". Tata Steel Chess.
  16. ↑ Jonkheer van 17 zet dynastie met schaaktitel voort
  17. ↑ "Een wonderlijk Gronings schaakgezin" (in Dutch). Het talent zit in het bloed bij de familie Van Foreest – van het adellijk geslacht, met het predicaat jonkheer.
  18. ↑ Van Foreest, Lucas FIDE Chess Profile
  19. ↑ Van Foreest, Machteld FIDE Chess Profile
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