Jeroen Piket

Jeroen Piket
Piket in 2005
Country	Netherlands
Born	(1969-01-27) 27 January 1969 (age 55) Leiden, Netherland
Title	Grandmaster (1989)
FIDE rating	2624 (May 2024)
Peak rating	2670 (January 1995)
Peak ranking	No. 11 (January 1995)

Jeroen Piket (born 27 January 1969) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He is a four-time Dutch Chess Champion.

Chess career

Born in 1969, Piket earned his international master title in 1986 and his grandmaster title in 1989. He won the Dutch Chess Championship in 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1994. He won the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting in 1994 and shared first at the Tilburg chess tournament with Boris Gelfand in 1996. He placed second at Wijk aan Zee in 1997, and won the Biel Chess Festival in 1999. He drew a match against Anatoly Karpov held 21 February to 2 March 1999 in Monaco, by the score 4–4 (all eight games were drawn).^[1] The following year he won an internet tournament organised by kasparovchess.com, beating Garry Kasparov in the final.

Piket won the Vlissingen Open in 2001, but retired from chess in the same year to become the personal secretary of businessman Joop van Oosterom. A few years later, in 2005, Van Oosterom won the Correspondence chess World Championship, causing Tim Krabbé to write: "The Turk was operated by William Schlumberger, Mephisto was operated by Isidore Gunsberg, Ajeeb was operated by Harry Pillsbury and Joop van Oosterom is operated by Jeroen Piket."^[2]

^ Crowther, Mark (8 March 1999), THE WEEK IN CHESS: Karpov-Piket Match, London Chess Center
^ Wereldkampioen delegeren, by Tim Krabbé, originally published in the Algemeen Dagblad, April 2, 2005.

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Chess players for the Netherlands with the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM)
Thomas Beerdsen Benjamin Bok Daan Brandenburg Twan Burg Martijn Dambacher Erik van den Doel Jan Hein Donner Sipke Ernst Max Euwe Jorden van Foreest Lucas van Foreest Anish Giri Ruud Janssen Harmen Jonkman Robin van Kampen Robby Kevlishvili David Klein Erwin l'Ami Koen Leenhouts Friso Nijboer Peng Zhaoqin Jeroen Piket Lodewijk Prins Roeland Pruijssers Hans Ree Dimitri Reinderman Casper Schoppen Jan Smeets Ivan Sokolov Maarten Solleveld Gennadi Sosonko Wouter Spoelman Daniël Stellwagen Paul van der Sterren Robin Swinkels Hugo Ten Hertog Jan Timman Sergei Tiviakov Yge Visser Dennis de Vreugt Liam Vrolijk Max Warmerdam Karel van der Weide Loek van Wely Jan Werle John van der Wiel
See also: List of chess grandmasters Category:Dutch chess players

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