Henri Weenink

Henri Weenink

Henri Gerard Marie Weenink (17 October 1892, Amsterdam2 December 1931) was a Dutch chess player and a problem composer.

He took 2nd, behind Fick, at Amsterdam 1918; tied for 4-5th at Amsterdam 1919 (Richard Réti and Max Marchand won), tied for 3-6th at Rotterdam 1919 (Réti won); shared 2nd, behind Abraham Speijer, at Amsterdam 1919; [http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's "Chess Tournament Crosstables", An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01] took 6th at Amsterdam 1920 (Réti won), [ [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1920amsterdam.htm genova ] ] tied for 2nd-3rd at Amsterdam 1921 ("Quadrangular"), shared 13th at Scheveningen 1923 (System 10+10, Paul Johner and Rudolf Spielmann won), [http://www.olimpbase.org/other/results/23schev.doc] tied for 3rd-4th at Amsterdam 1925 ("Quadrangular"), tied for 2nd-3rd with Salo Landau, behind Max Euwe, at Amsterdam 1929 (NED-ch), [ [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1929amsterd.htm amsterd ] ] tied for 8-9th at Liege 1930 (Savielly Tartakower won), [ [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1930liegi.htm liegi ] ] and won, ahead of Euwe and Spielmann, at Amsterdam 1930. [ [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1930amsterdam.htm amsterdam ] ]

Weenink played four times for Netherlands in Chess Olympiads:
* In the 1st Olympiad at London 1927 (+5 –7 =3);
* In the 2nd Olympiad at The Hague 1928 (+3 –6 =7);
* In the 3rd Olympiad at Hamburg 1930 (+7 –3 =6);
* In the 4th Olympiad at Prague 1931 (+2 –9 =6). [ [http://www.olimpbase.org OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess ] ]

Sadly he died because of tuberculosis at the age of 39. [ [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=10609 No Archiving Spiders Allowed ] ]

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