Rudolf Loman (14 October 1861 – 5 November 1932) 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 ...

master, the son of

Abraham Dirk Loman Abraham Dirk Loman (16 September 1823, The Hague – 17 April 1897, Amsterdam) was a Dutch theologian. He was a professor from 1856 to 1893. In his later period he belonged to the Dutch radical critics. Life Loman was the son of a minister in ...

. Born in

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, Loman lived in London for a number of years. He played chess for money against rich Englishmen, like his Dutch pupil

Jacques Davidson Jacques Davidson (14 November 1890, in Amsterdam – 13 January 1969, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch chess master. Before World War I, he had lived in London for a number of years. Jacques had played with his father for a stake, he had won, and though ...

. Loman returned to the Netherlands and, in 1912, he became Dutch champion (the 2nd official NED-ch in Delft). He won several unofficial Dutch championships, at Rotterdam 1888, The Hague 1890, Utrecht 1891, Groningen 1893 (jointly), Rotterdam 1894 and Utrecht 1897. In matches he drew with

Paul Saladin Leonhardt Paul Saladin Leonhardt (13 November 1877 – 14 December 1934) was a German chess master. He was born in Posen, Province of Posen, German Empire (now Poland), and died of a heart attack in Königsberg during a game of chess. A player with ...

(+4 −4 =2) at London 1904, lost to

Johannes Esser Johannes "Jan" Fredericus Samuel Esser (13 October 1877 in Leiden – 9 August 1946 in Chicago) was a Dutch plastic surgeon who pioneered innovative methods of reconstructive surgery on soldiers wounded in the First World War. He is thought to ha ...

(+0 −3 =1) in 1913 (the 3rd NED-ch, play-off), and lost to

Edgar Colle Edgard Colle (18 May 1897 – 19 April 1932) was a Belgian chess master. He scored excellent results in major international tournaments, including first at Amsterdam 1926, ahead of Savielly Tartakower and future world champion Max Euwe; firs ...

(+1 −2 =2) at London 1922. He died on 5 November 1932 at

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...

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* 1861 births 1932 deaths Dutch chess players Jewish chess players Jewish Dutch sportspeople Sportspeople from Amsterdam {{netherlands-chess-bio-stub