Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk (born 26 August 1948) is a Brazilian

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player. He was awarded the title

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in 1978. Van Riemsdijk was also granted the title of

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in 1981. Born in

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, the

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, van Riemsdijk arrived in Brazil on 16 June 1958. He was Brazilian champion in 1970, 1973, and 1988, and Pan American champion in 1977. He played for Brazil in the

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eleven times (1972–1974, 1978–1984, 1988–1994, 1998) and in the

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three times (1971, 1985, 1991). He has written articles for several chess publications, and with Belgian chess player Willem Diederik Hajenius he co-authored the book ''Final Countdown'', a treatise on pawn

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. He has also been a second to Brazilian junior players, and has played as widely as

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(where a brother lives) and

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. His fluency in several languages helps. In 2018 van Riemsdijk was awarded the title of FIDE Trainer and he was appointed captain/coach of the New Zealand women's team for the

43rd Chess Olympiad The 43rd Chess Olympiad ( ka, 43-ე საჭადრაკო ოლიმპიადა, ''43-e sach’adrak’o olimp’iada''; also known as the Batumi Chess Olympiad), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and c ...

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, Georgia. Herman van Riemsdijk's son Marius (b. 1976) is a FIDE

.Van Riemsdijk, Marius, FIDE Chess Profile
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Herman C Van Riemsdijk
chess games at 365Chess.com *
Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk's personal page
(in Portuguese) 1948 births Living people Brazilian chess players Chess International Masters Chess Olympiad competitors Chess writers Chess arbiters Dutch emigrants to Brazil People from Tiel Sportspeople from Gelderland {{Brazil-chess-bio-stub