Friso Nijboer (born May 26, 1965) is a Dutch chess player. He achieved the title of Grandmaster in 1996. Nijboer won the

Vlissingen Chess Tournament The Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament (or HZ Tournament) is an annual international chess tournament which takes place in Vlissingen, Netherlands.Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and ...

s (1996–2006) with an overall performance of +18−14=21.

Notable games

* This game was played in the 2006

Dutch Chess Championship The Dutch Chess Championship was officially established in 1909, although unofficial champions stretch back to the 1870s. Early years : Official championships The official championship was established in 1909 as a biennial, twelve-player, round-ro ...

with Nijboer as White and Grandmaster

Jan Timman Jan Timman (born 14 December 1951) is a Dutch chess grandmaster who was one of the world's leading chess players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career, he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as ...

as Black. The game followed the

chess opening A chess opening or simply an opening is the initial stage of a chess game. It usually consists of established theory; the other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. Many opening sequences have standard names such as the "Sicilian Defens ...

known as the

Poisoned Pawn The Poisoned Pawn Variation is any of several series of opening moves in chess in which a pawn is said to be "poisoned" because its capture can result in a positional loss of or a loss of . Sicilian Defense, Najdorf The best known of thes ...

Variation of the

French Defense The French Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: :1. e4 e6 This is most commonly followed by 2.d4 d5, with Black intending ...c5 soon after, attacking White's and gaining on the . The French has a reputation for solidity ...

: Nijboer vs. Jan Timman
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 Qc7 8. Qxg7 Rg8 9. Qxh7 cxd4 10. Ne2 Nbc6 11. f4 Bd7 12. Qd3 dxc3 13. Nxc3 a6 14. Rb1 Rc8 15. h4 Nf5 16. Rh3 Ncd4 17. h5 Qc5 18. Rxb7 Nb5 19. Ne4! Timman had overlooked 19.Ne4 and abruptly resigned: * This game also took place in the 2006 Dutch Chess Championship. Nijboer's opponent,

Erwin L'Ami Erwin l'Ami (born 5 April 1985 in Woerden) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. Early years l'Ami learned to play chess at the age of five, when his father introduced him to the moves and then took him to the local chess club. Chess career At Gausd ...

, entered the more rarely seen Veresov Attack, Dutch System opening: Erwin L'Ami vs. Nijboer
1.d4 f5 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bf4 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 a6 6.Ne5 c5 7.g4 fxg4 8.Nxg4 Nc6 9.Bh3 Nxg4 10.Bxg4 Be7 11.dxc5 0-0 12.Na4 e5 13.Bg3 Bxc5 14.Bf3 Be6 15.Nxc5 Qa5+ 16.c3 Qxc5 17.0-0 Rad8 18.Re1 Qb5 19.Qe2 Qa4 20.b3 Qa5 21.Rac1 Qc7 22.Red1 Qf7 23.Bg4 Bxg4 24.Qxg4 Rd6 25.Rd2 h5 26.Qe2 g5 27.h3 Rf6 28.Rcd1 h4 29.Bh2 Rf3 30.Qf1 Kh8 31.Qg2 g4 32.hxg4 h3 33.Qf1 Qg6 34.Kh1 Qxg4 35.a4 Rxe3 36.fxe3 Rxf1+ 37.Rxf1 Qe4+ 38.Kg1 Qxe3+ 39.Rdf2 d4 40.Kh1 Qe4+ 41.Kg1 Qg6+ 42.Kh1 dxc3 43.Re1 c2

Publications

Nijboer has written four main different chess publications on opening theory:http://www.newinchess.com/Friso_Nijboer-pa-52.html Books by Friso Nijboer * ''Tactics in the Chess Opening 1: Sicilian Defence''. Interchess BV, Alkmaar 2003, * ''Tactics in the Chess Opening 2: Open Games''. Interchess BV, Alkmaar 2005, * ''Tactics in the Chess Opening 3: French Defence and other Half-Open Games,'' Interchess BV, Alkmaar 2005, * ''Tactics in the Chess Opening 4: Queen's Gambit (Trompowsky & Torre),'' Interchess BV, Alkmaar 2006,

References

External links

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Frisco Nijboer at 365Chess.com
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