Benjamin Bok (born 25 January 1995) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by

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in 2014. Bok was born in

Lelystad Lelystad () is a municipality and a city in the centre of the Netherlands, and it is the capital of the province of Flevoland. The city, built on reclaimed land, was founded in 1967 and was named after Cornelis Lely, who engineered the Afsluitdi ...

. He is currently attending

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, where he studies Finance and plays on the intercollegiate chess team. He streams regularly on Twitch.

Chess career

He won the FIDE Open in the 2015 London Chess Classic scoring 8 points out of 9. In 2016, he debuted for the Dutch national team at the 2016 Chess Olympiad in

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, Azerbaijan. In 2017, Bok represented the Netherlands at the 2017 European Team Championship on Crete. At the

Chess World Cup 2019 The Chess World Cup 2019 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from 9 September to 4 October 2019. It was won by Azerbaijani grandmaster Teimour Radjabov. He and the runner-up, Ding ...

he defeated Ivan Saric in the first round and was eliminated by Alexander Grischuk in the second round. As of November 2022, he is the 6th-ranked Dutch chess player, and 184th-ranked player in the world. At his peak, he was the 2nd-ranked Dutch chess player, and 50th-ranked in the world.

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