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Jhr. Jorden van Foreest (born 30 April 1999) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He was Dutch Chess Champion in 2016, and won the Tata Steel Masters in 2021. As of May 2022,^[update] van Foreest is the No. 2 ranked Dutch player behind Anish Giri.[1]

Jorden van Foreest
Jorden van Foreest, 2017
Country	Netherlands
Born	(1999-04-30) 30 April 1999 (age 23) Utrecht, Netherlands
Title	Grandmaster (2016)
Years active	2005–present
FIDE rating	2678 (July 2022)
Peak rating	2715 (May 2022)
Ranking	No. 65 (July 2022)
Peak ranking	No. 26 (April 2022)

Chess career

Introduced to the game by his father, Van Foreest learned to play chess at the age of six but did not play regularly until he was nine.[2] He graduated from the Topsport Talent School [nl] in 2018 and since then he has been a professional chess player.[3]

2013–2016

In 2013, Van Foreest won the European U14 Chess Championship with a score of 7.5/9 (+6–0=3).[4][5] 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.[6] He was officially awarded his grandmaster title by FIDE in 2016.[7] 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).[8]

In September 2015, he competed in the World Junior Chess Championship. He finished sixth, scoring 8/13 (+5–2=6).[9] In December, Van Foreest won the Groningen Chess Festival with a score of 7.5/9 (+7–1=1).[10]

Van Foreest won the Dutch Chess Championship in August 2016. He scored 5.5/7 (+5–1=1) for a performance rating of 2819.[11]

2017–2020

As of 2017,^[update] Van Foreest is coached by three-time Dutch Chess Champion Sergei Tiviakov.[12] From 26 June to 2 July 2017, he competed in the Dutch Chess Championship. He finished seventh, scoring 3/7 (+2–3=2).[13] 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.[14] 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),[15] half a point behind the winner Aryan Tari.[16]

From 13 to 28 January 2018, Van Foreest competed in the Tata Steel Challengers. He finished fifth, scoring 7.5/13 (+4–2=7).[17] He competed in the 81st Tata Steel Masters in January 2019, placing thirteenth with 4.5/13 (+3–7=3).[18] In July, Van Foreest shared first in the 2019 Dutch Championship with 5/7 (+3–0=4), losing on tiebreak to his younger brother Lucas van Foreest.[19]

At the 82nd Tata Steel Masters in January 2020, Van Foreest placed fourth with 7/13 (+3–2=8).[3]

2021

Van Foreest competed in the 83rd Tata Steel Masters in January, and after 13 rounds was tied for first with Anish Giri on a score of 8.5/13 (+4–0=9). After drawing both blitz tiebreakers, Van Foreest won the armageddon game, thus winning the tournament.[20] In the process, Van Foreest increased his Elo rating to 2700+ for the first time in his career,[21] and became the first Dutchman since Jan Timman in 1985 to win Wijk aan Zee.[22] He acted as a second for Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2021 against Ian Nepomniachtchi.[23]

Personal life

Van Foreest was born in Utrecht on 30 April 1999 and raised in Groningen, and is a member of the Dutch noble family "Van Foreest" with the honorific of jonkheer.[24][25] 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).[2][11]

Van Foreest is the eldest child of his family and has five siblings: four brothers and one sister.[2] His younger brother, Lucas (born 2001), earned the title of grandmaster in 2018.[26] 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.[12] She has a FIDE rating of 2161 as of August 2021.^[update][27]

References

External links

• Official website
• Jorden van Foreest rating card at FIDE
• Jorden van Foreest player profile at Chess.com
• Jorden van Foreest player profile and games at Chessgames.com

На других языках

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- [en] Jorden van Foreest

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[ru] Ван Форест, Йорден

Йорден ван Форест (нидерл. Jorden van Foreest; род. 30 апреля 1999, Утрехт) — нидерландский шахматист, гроссмейстер (2016).

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