Fenny Heemskerk

Fenny Heemskerk (3 December 1919, Amsterdamcitation
last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
publisher=McFarland
isbn=0-7864-2353-6
page=167] – 8 June 2007, Amersfoort) was a Dutch female chess master.

She won ten times the female Dutch Chess Championship (1937, 1939, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958 and 1961). Heemskerk won a match against Catharina Roodzant 4.5 : 0.5 in 1937, and lost a match to Sonja Graf 0 : 4 in 1939 in Amsterdam.

She took 8th in Women's World Chess Championship at Moscow 1950 (Lyudmila Rudenko won), [ [http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/49wo$wix.htm World Chess Championship (women) : 1949-50 Title Tournament ] ] tied for 2nd-3rd in Candidates Tournament at Moscow 1952 (Elisabeth Bykova won), [ [http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/52wo$cix.htm World Chess Championship (women) : 1952 Candidates Tournament ] ] took 9th in Candidates Tournament at Moscow 1955 (Olga Rubtsova won), [ [http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/55wo$cix.htm World Chess Championship (women) : 1955 Candidates Tournament ] ] tied for 15-16th in Candidates Tournament at Vrnjacka Banja 1961 (Nona Gaprindashvili won). [ [http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/61wo$cix.htm World Chess Championship (women) : 1961 Candidates Tournament ] ]

She played in the first Women's Chess Olympiad at Emmen 1957 - but, sadly, had to withdraw after only 2 days upon learning her father had died. [ [http://blog.chess.com/batgirl/je-maintiendrai Je Maintiendrai - Chess.com ] ]

Heemskerk was awarded the Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1950, and the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title in 1977.

Fenny Heemskerk was Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau.

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