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Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam

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2015/3, in which Ten Geuzendam argued that ‘(only) by accepting (Fischer’s mental) illness as a fact can we forgive his virulent anti-Semitism, his raving paranoia and other delusions, and embrace the chess genius, one of the greatest and most inspiring champions our game has ever seen.’ His article
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Ever since his meeting with American legend Bobby Fischer in Sveti Stefan in 1992, Ten Geuzendam kept a special interest in the 11th Chess World Champion. Following the death of Fischer in 2008, he travelled to Iceland to speak to the people who had been close to Fischer while he lived there. The
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Representing the Monaco-based Association Max Euwe of chess benefactor Joop van Oosterom, Ten Geuzendam was tournament director of the final four editions of the prestigious Amber Rapid and Blindfold Chess Tournament (2008-10 in Nice, 2011 in Monaco) and the final three editions of the NH Rising
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in 1985 and ever since the late 1980s he's been covering top-level chess, reporting from all over the world. Over the years he has interviewed countless grandmasters and other chess personalities. A selection of those interviews appeared in his books
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On two occasions, in 1990 at the Chess Olympiad in Novi Sad and in 1992, at the Chess Olympiad in Manila, Ten Geuzendam was captain of the Dutch national team.
163:(in Dutch) in 2000. From 2007 to 2013 he was one of the editors (together with Allard Hoogland and Rob van Vuure) of the Dutch chess literary magazine 200:
in Moscow. During the match various leading grandmasters joined him as co-commentators: Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Leko, Nigel Short, Peter Svidler and
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Ten Geuzendam made his debut as commentary host for the English live transmission at the 2012 World Championship match between
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in Dutch in 2000), is a romantic account full of stories (but no games) of the legendary chess tournaments in Linares, Spain.
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Website with live video streaming of the World Chess Championship 2012, with ten Geuzendam as a commentator
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Besides his work for New In Chess he has written a lot about chess for the Dutch newspaper
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writer, commentator and organizer. He is the editor-in-chief of
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The Second SWIFT International Chess Tournament, Brussels 1987
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Furthermore, he edited a number of tournament books including
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2008/2. Another extensive article on Fischer appeared in
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Linares! Linares! – A Journey into the Heart of Chess
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Linares! Linares!, A Journey into the Heart of Chess
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chess
New In Chess
New In Chess
New In Chess
New In Chess
Edward Winter
New in Chess
NRC Handelsblad
Vrij Nederland
Vishy Anand
Boris Gelfand
Jan Timman
Jan Timman
Alexander Grischuk
Judit Polgar
Simen Agdestein
Nigel Short
Nigel Short
Jan Gustafsson
"Limburgsch dagblad"
"Brad Darrach and the Dark Side of Bobby Fischer" by Edward Winter
Website of New In Chess
Website with live video streaming of the World Chess Championship 2012, with ten Geuzendam as a commentator
List of reports of ten Geuzendam in New In Chess
Categories
1957 births
Living people
Dutch chess writers

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