- Willem Schelfhout
Willem Andreas Theodorus Schelfhout (
May 19 ,1874 –January 8 ,1951 ) was a Dutchchess master.Before
World War I , he took 4th at Leiden 1909 (B tournament), tied for 5-6th at Amsterdam 1910, took 3rd at Hamburg 1910 ("Hauptturnier B"), tied for 7-8th at Cologne 1911 (Moishe Lowtzky won), took 13th at Scheveningen 1913 (Alexander Alekhine won), [ [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1913scheveningen.htm scheveningen ] ] and shared 6th at Mannheim 1914 (the 19thDSB Congress , "Hauptturnier A", B. Hallegua won). [cite web
url=http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=5003
title=Das unvollendete Turnier: Mannheim 1914]During the war (The Netherlands were neutral in WWI), he played in several tournaments, and won at The Hague 1917 ("Quadrangular"). After the war, he took 7th at Amsterdam 1920 (
Richard Réti won), [ [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1920amsterdam.htm genova ] ] and participated a few times inDutch Chess Championship . He tied for 6-8th at The Hague 1919 (Max Marchand won), took 6th at Nijmegen 1921, shared 4th at Amsterdam 1924, took 4th at Utrecht 1926 (all won byMax Euwe ), [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] and took 6th at Rotterdam 1936 (Salo Landau won).Schelfhout drew a mini match with Euwe (1 : 1) in 1923 and lost (0 : 2) to him in 1927, both in Amsterdam. [ [http://www.chessmetrics.com Welcome to the Chessmetrics site ] ]
He represented The Netherlands in
Chess Olympiads at London 1927, The Hague 1928, and Hamburg 1930. [ [http://www.olimpbase.org OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess ] ]During
World War II , he took 3rd at Amsterdam 1940 (VVGA, Euwe won). [ [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1940amsterdamvvga.htm amsterdam ] ]References
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