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Jhr. Jorden van Foreest (born 30 April 1999) is a Dutch
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. He was Dutch Chess Champion in 2016, and won the Tata Steel Masters in 2021. Van Foreest is the No. 2 ranked Dutch player behind
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Chess career

Introduced to the game by his father, Van Foreest learned to play chess at the age of six but did not play regularly until he was nine. He graduated from the in 2018 and since then he has been a professional chess player.Jorden van Foreest: 'Ze nemen me nu écht serieus'
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2013–2016

In 2013, Van Foreest won the European U14 Chess Championship with a score of 7.5/9 (+6–0=3). He earned his
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title in 2014 at the age of 15 and secured all the norms needed for the grandmaster title in 2015 at the age of 16. He was officially awarded his grandmaster title by
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in 2016. This makes him the Netherlands' youngest ever grandmaster (
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was awarded the title at a younger age but was not a Dutch player at the time). In September 2015, he competed in the
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. He finished sixth, scoring 8/13 (+5–2=6). In December, Van Foreest won the Groningen Chess Festival with a score of 7.5/9 (+7–1=1). Van Foreest won the Dutch Chess Championship in August 2016. He scored 5.5/7 (+5–1=1) for a
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of 2819.


2017–2020

Van Foreest is coached by three-time Dutch Chess Champion Sergei Tiviakov. From 26 June to 2 July 2017, he competed in the Dutch Chess Championship. He finished seventh, scoring 3/7 (+2–3=2). From 28 October to 6 November, he competed for the Netherlands on board 4 at the 2017
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. He scored 5/7 (+4–1=2) for a performance rating of 2723. From 13 to 25 November, he competed at the
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. He placed fifth with a score of 8/11 (+7–2=2), half a point behind the winner Aryan Tari. From 13 to 28 January 2018, Van Foreest competed in the Tata Steel Challengers. He finished fifth, scoring 7.5/13 (+4–2=7). He competed in the 81st Tata Steel Masters in January 2019, placing thirteenth with 4.5/13 (+3–7=3). In July, Van Foreest shared first in the 2019 Dutch Championship with 5/7 (+3–0=4), losing on tiebreak to his younger brother Lucas van Foreest. At the 82nd Tata Steel Masters in January 2020, Van Foreest placed fourth with 7/13 (+3–2=8).


2021

Van Foreest competed in the 83rd Tata Steel Masters in January, and after 13 rounds was tied for first with
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on a score of 8.5/13 (+4–0=9). After drawing both blitz tiebreakers, Van Foreest won the armageddon game, thus winning the tournament. In the process, Van Foreest increased his Elo rating to 2700+ for the first time in his career, and became the first Dutchman since
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to win Wijk aan Zee. He acted as a second for
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in the
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against
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Personal life

Van Foreest was born in
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on 30 April 1999 and raised in
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, and is a member of the Dutch noble family " Van Foreest" with the honorific of ''
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''. He is the great-great-grandson of
Arnold van Foreest Arnold Engelinus van Foreest (29 June 1863 – 24 June 1954) was a Dutch chess master. The younger brother of Dirk van Foreest, he thrice won Dutch Chess Championship, Dutch Championship in 1889, 1893, and 1902. He is the great-great grandfather ...
and great-great-grandnephew of Dirk van Foreest. Both Arnold and Dirk were three-time Dutch Chess Champions (Arnold: 1889, 1893, 1902; Dirk: 1885, 1886, 1887). Van Foreest is the eldest child of his family and has five siblings: four brothers and one sister. He was born to father Nicky van Foreest who is a professor and faculty of the department of Economics at the University of Groningen and to mother Sheila Timp who is a medical doctor and a programmer. He was homeschooled in his early childhood along with the rest of his siblings. Van Foreest used to play at his local chess clubs after taking an interest in the game at age 9. His younger brother,
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(born 2001), earned the title of grandmaster in 2018. His sister, Machteld (born 2007), won the Dutch Girls' U10 Championship at the age of 6 and shared second place in the Dutch Girls' U20 Championship when she was 9. In 2017, she became the first girl ever to win the Dutch U12 Championship. In 2022, she became the Dutch Women's Champion. She has a
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of 2255 Van Foreest, Machteld FIDE Chess Profile
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