Robin Swinkels (born April 6, 1989) is 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 ...

grandmaster.

Chess career

In July 2008, he played an underwater chess match against Hans Böhm as part of the Curaçao Chess Festival. In January 2010, he participated in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, where he defeated

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, Nils Grandelius, Mariya Muzychuk, Sjoerd Plukkel, and

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. In 2017, he played for DJK Aachen in the Chess Bundesliga, where he defeated Alexander Belezky in the first round. He was one of the four players who qualified for the finals in the 2021 Dutch Chess Championship, though was defeated by eventual winner Max Warmerdam.

References

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