- Jeroen Piket
Infobox chess player
playername = Jeroen Piket
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birthname = Jeroen Piket
country = NED
datebirth = birth date and age|1969|1|27
placebirth =Leiden , The Netherlands
datedeath =
placedeath =
title = Grandmaster
worldchampion =
womensworldchampion =
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peakrating = 2670 (January 1995)Jeroen Piket (born
January 27 ,1969 inLeiden , The Netherlands) is a retired Dutchchess player who earned the Grandmaster title in 1989. He won theDutch Chess Championship in 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1994. Other notable results include a second place at the Hoogovens tournament 1997. He drew a match againstAnatoly Karpov held 21 February to 2 March 1999 inMonaco , by the score 4–4 (all eight games were drawn). [citation|last=Crowther|first=Mark|date=8 March 1999|title=THE WEEK IN CHESS: Karpov-Piket Match|url=http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic226#4|publisher=London Chess Center] The following year he won an internet tournament organised by kasparovchess.com, beatingGarry Kasparov in the final.Piket retired from chess in 2001 to become the personal secretary of billionaire
Joop van Oosterom . A few years later, in 2005, Van Oosterom won theCorrespondence chess World Championship, causingTim Krabbé to write: "The Turk was operated byWilliam Schlumberger , Mephisto was operated byIsidore Gunsberg ,Ajeeb was operated byHarry Pillsbury and Joop van Oosterom is operated by Jeroen Piket." [ [http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/admag/oosterom.htm Wereldkampioen delegeren] , by Tim Krabbé, originally published in the "Algemeen Dagblad ",April 2 ,2005 .]References
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