Jorden van Foreest
| Jorden van Foreest | |
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Jorden van Foreest, 2017
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| Country | Netherlands |
| Born |
30 April 1999 Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Title | Grandmaster (2016) |
| FIDE rating | 2607 (September 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2615 (September 2016) |
Jhr. Jorden van Foreest (born 30 April 1999) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He was Dutch Chess Champion in 2016.
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.
In 2013, van Foreest won the European U14 Chess Championship with a score of 7½/9 (+6–0=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. He was officially awarded his grandmaster title by FIDE in 2016. 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).
In December 2015, he won the Groningen Chess Festival with a score of 7½/9 (+7–1=1).
In August 2016, he won the Dutch Chess Championship. He scored 5½/7 (+5–1=1) for a performance rating of 2819.
As of 2017, he is coached by two-time Dutch Chess Champion Sergei Tiviakov.
Born in Utrecht on 30 April 1999 and raised in Groningen, van Foreest comes from the noble van Foreest family and has the title of jonkheer. He is the great-great grandnephew of Dirk van Foreest and great-great grandson of Arnold van Foreest. Both Dirk and Arnold were three-time Dutch Chess Champions (Dirk: 1885, 1886, 1887; Arnold: 1889, 1893, 1902).
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