| Sep-15-03 |
| Ribeiro: He was the fourth player of his country in the Olympiad (1954). Other members: 1) M. Euwe
2) H. Donner
3) N. Cortlever |
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| Sep-16-03 |
| jade: I want to play chess with anyone? |
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| Dec-16-05 |
| EmperorAtahualpa: Can somebody play with <jade> please? He's been waiting for over 2 years now. :) |
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| Dec-16-05 |
| chesscrazy: <EmperorAtahualpa> I don't think he goes on this database anymore. (LOL) |
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| Jan-27-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Lodewijk Prins PRINS, Lodewijk
Champion - Netherlands Championship 1965
http://www.bidmonfa.com/campionats_...
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Feb-02-06
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| Caissanist: Prins seems to have been the favorite whipping boy of his countrymen Hein Donner, who called him "the worst player in the whole world", and said that his style of play was "hideously crooked" and "utter nonsense". Does anyone know what, exactly, Donner meant by this? I don't see anything particularly bizarre or "crooked" about his games. |
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Feb-02-06
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| Calli: <caissist> thats just Donner being Donner. He had open disputes with Prins, Hans Ree etc. I don't know what his psychological problems were. Once he got into it with Tim Krabbe and somebody wrote in the press: "Krabbe' had the honour to be openly insulted by Jan Hein Donner, a feat only bestowed on the strongest players." :-) |
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Feb-03-06
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| Caissanist: Hehe, thanks for that. It seems that Krabbé didn't take it personally, since he writes in http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/...
that Donner was "at his best as a writer when he insulted, and did that to everyone and everything in the Dutch chess world [other than Max Euwe]." |
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| Jan-17-07 |
| Sibahi: One of the thing Donner sais about him is that he has a talent (in writing) to express things in exactly the wrong way !! |
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Aug-20-07
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| Karpova: <"The only thing chess players have in common is chess." Lodewijk Prins, interview with Max Pam, 1972>
http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/q... |
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| Jan-27-08 |
| BIDMONFA: Lodewijk Prins PRINS, Lodewijk
http://www.bidmonfa.com/PRINS%20LOD...
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Jan-27-08
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| lostemperor: I haven't seen this famous quote from Donner about Prins here: "He can't distinguish a knight from a bishop". |
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| Jan-27-08 |
| sneaky pete: Het moeilijkst is voor mij te antwoorden op wat Euwe schreef in <Het Vrije Volk> van 8 december onder de kop: "Reactie Donner onbegrijpelijk'. Hij geeft mij duidelijk ongelijk. 'Lodewijk Prins behoort sinds jaar en dag tot de vooraanstaande Nederlandse spelers en het is verwonderlijk, dat hem de grote worp niet eerder is gelukt.' Het is niet waar, grand maître. Hij kan er niets van. Hij is de zwakste speler van de hele wereld. In een wedstrijd van tien partijen geef ik hem 4 punten vóór. (...)
Beste Lodewijk. Je kunt het ook niet helpen dat je kampioen van Nederland bent geworden. Ze zeggen dat ik me onsportief tegenover je heb gedragen. Je bent kampioen van Nederland geworden en ik wil je daarmee feliciteren. Maar ik ben van mening dat je geen paard van een loper kunt onderscheiden en ik kan het bewijzen ook. Ik daag je uit tot een tweekamp. Je kunt zelf de voorwaarden stellen. Je hebt je drukke werkzaamheden. Je zou je vrij moeten maken. We spelen een tweekamp. Wat er ook gebeurt, het zal zijn tot meerdere glorie van het schaakspel. J. H. Donner, De Tijd, 15 december 1965. |
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Mar-23-08
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| Sem: When in 1950 the World Chess Tournament, planned to be held in Argentina, threatened to fall through, it was Lodewijk Prins who managed to transfer it to Amsterdam. An important tournament, it was won by Miguel (Moshe) Najdorf. |
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| Sep-06-08 |
| myschkin: . . .
Bio (in English):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodewi...
Obituary (in Dutch):
http://www.nieuwsbank.nl/inp/1999/1...
Interview (in Dutch, by Max Pam 1975): http://www.maxpam.nl/archief/prins....
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| Sep-29-08 |
| GrahamClayton: The Prins variation of the Grunfeld Defence is 1. d4  f6 2. c4 g6 3. c3 d5 4. f3  g7 5.  b3 dc4 6. c4 0-0 7. e4 a6Source: David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld "Oxford Companion to Chess", OUP, 1992 |
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Dec-22-08
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| Karpova: From Edward Winter's feature article "Chess: Hitler and Nazi Germany", 2000: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... BCM of May 1943, page 104:
<‘Referring to our remarks in our last issue about L. Prins, Mr Belinfante says there is a much more serious reason why his name does not appear in any tournament. The Germans have barred Jews in occupied countries from playing chess even in private clubs. For the same reason, Landau’s name does not appear anywhere. As nearly all Jews in Holland are in concentration camps or have been sent to Poland, very few, it is feared, will survive the ordeal.’> |
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May-01-09
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| blacksburg: <The acquisition of even a mildly reasonable judgment about a chessgame or position is an extraordinarily lengthy process of reasoning, searching, examining, comparing, rejecting, correcting, evaluating and criticising.> that's why 5 minute games are so great. you don't have to worry about any of that silly stuff :) |
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May-03-09
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| whiteshark: Quote of the Day
" Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game can be fathomed instantly with a shrug and a smile. Then, not only will the game of chess have ceased to exist, but also will the remembrance of frequently missed objectives elicit pity, as a reaction to the shortcomings of a lower organized form of life. " -- Lodewijk Prins |
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Nov-06-09
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| kellmano: Prins' quote of the day today is dead right. |
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Nov-06-09
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| Stonehenge: More dead than right, if you ask me. |
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