Johannes Hermanus Addicks (4 January 1902 – 8 March 1961
) was a Dutch
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
player,
Dutch Chess Championship silver medalist (1936).
Biography
Johannes Addicks was a member of the famous
watchmaker family in Amsterdam. In the 1920s and 1930s he was one of the leading Dutch chess players, participant in several international chess tournaments held in the Netherlands.
In 1925, in
simultaneous exhibition Johannes Addicks defeated the future world chess champion
Alexander Alekhine.
Johannes Addicks played for Netherlands in the
Chess Olympiad:
* In 1931, at fourth board in the
4th Chess Olympiad
The 4th Chess Olympiad ( cz, 4. Šachová olympiáda), organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female playe ...
in
Prague
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(+8, =4, -4).
References
External links
*
Johannes Addickschess games at 365chess.com
1902 births
1961 deaths
Sportspeople from Amsterdam
Dutch chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors
20th-century chess players
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