Lucas van Foreest

Lucas van Foreest
Lucas van Foreest, 2017
Country Netherlands
Born 3 March 2001 (2001-03-03) (age 17)
Hengelo, Netherlands
Title Grandmaster (2018)
FIDE rating 2499 (October 2018)
Peak rating 2506 (September 2018)

Jhr. Lucas van Foreest (born 3 March 2001) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.

Chess career

Van Foreest started playing chess aged "around six, seven".[1]

He achieved his first international master (IM) norm at the Dutch Team Competition, from September to October 2015. He scored 7/9, which was enough for both the IM norm and grandmaster (GM) norm.[2][3] He achieved his second IM norm at the Amsterdam Chess Tournament in July 2016, and his third IM norm at the Hoogeveen Open in October 2016.[2]

In January 2017, he won the top amateur group at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, thus qualifying for the Tata Steel Challengers in 2018.[4] He achieved his second GM norm at the 9th Batavia Chess Tournament in March 2017. He shared first with Bobby Cheng on 6½/9 (+6–2=1), finishing second on tiebreak.[5][6] He won the Bruges Masters in August 2017.[7]

Van Foreest competed in the Tata Steel Challengers in January 2018, placing eleventh with a score 5½/13 (+3–5=5).[8] He competed at the Open Dutch Championship, held from 24 July to 2 August. He shared first with Erwin l'Ami and Erik van den Doel on 7/9, achieving his third GM norm in the process.[9] He was awarded the GM title by FIDE in October 2018.[3]

Van Foreest is a student of Sergei Tiviakov.[10]

Personal life

Born in Hengelo on 3 March 2001,[11] Van Foreest comes from the noble Van Foreest family and has the honorific of jonkheer.[12][13] 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).[14]

Lucas has four brothers and one sister.[14][15] His eldest brother, Jorden (born 1999), is also a grandmaster and won the Dutch Chess Championship in 2016. 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.[16]

References

  1. ↑ Meet Lucas van Foreest - Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2018 Challenger Tata Steel Chess
  2. 1 2 Title Applications approved by the Presidential Board by written resolution FIDE
  3. 1 2 89th FIDE Congress 2018, 26 Sep - 6 Oct, Batumi, Georgia FIDE
  4. ↑ Tata Steel Chess 2018 field complete ChessBase
  5. ↑ Lucas van Foreest behaalt tweede grootmeesterresultaat OOG
  6. ↑ 9th Batavia tournament won by Cheng and Van Foreest ChessBase
  7. ↑ Lucas van Foreest wint Brugse Meesters OOG
  8. ↑ Jorden van Foreest speelt in laatste ronde remise tegen de winnaar en Lucas van Foreest wint OOG
  9. ↑ Misschien wel het mooiste Open NK Schaken Rheden Nieuws
  10. ↑ Tiviakov: "You have to work hard on chess" ChessBase
  11. ↑ Lucas van Foreest vanforeest.com
  12. ↑ Jonkheer van 17 zet dynastie met schaaktitel voort
  13. ↑ "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.
  14. 1 2 Derakhshani, Dorsa (4 January 2017). "Jorden van Foreest on his career so far". Chess24.
  15. ↑ Een excentriek zetje NRC Handelsblad
  16. ↑ De stelling Van Foreest, een schaakfamilie
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