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Rudy Douven
R Douven 
 

Number of games in database: 335
Years covered: 1977 to 2004
Last FIDE rating: 2389
Highest rating achieved in database: 2445
Overall record: +112 -109 =113 (50.4%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 1 exhibition game, blitz/rapid, odds game, etc. is excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 King's Indian (26) 
    E92 E94 E98 E91 E60
 Queen's Indian (20) 
    E15 E17 E12 E16 E18
 Grunfeld (18) 
    D91 D86 D87 D85 D78
 Queen's Pawn Game (16) 
    A41 A40 E00 A46 D02
 Dutch Defense (12) 
    A90 A88 A81 A89 A84
 Modern Benoni (12) 
    A56 A70 A57 A72
With the Black pieces:
 Caro-Kann (38) 
    B18 B10 B14 B12 B13
 King's Indian (21) 
    E92 E73 E99 E98 E97
 Queen's Indian (16) 
    E12 E15 E14
 Nimzo Indian (15) 
    E54 E20 E32 E24 E48
 Queen's Pawn Game (13) 
    E00 A46 A45 A40 A41
 Sicilian (13) 
    B81 B46 B20 B41 B82
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   J Piket vs R Douven, 1988 0-1
   R Douven vs Van der Wiel, 1989 1/2-1/2
   R Douven vs G Timmerman, 1990 1-0
   Benjamin vs R Douven, 1989 0-1

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Dutch Championship (1988)
   NED-ch sf A (1986)
   Hoogovens Group B (1988)
   Dutch Championship (1986)
   World Junior Championship (1979)
   Hoogovens Group B (1986)
   European Junior Championship 1980/81 (1980)
   Amsterdam OHRA (1987)
   Dutch Championship (1989)
   Lugano Open (1989)
   Charlton Jubilee International (1983)
   European Junior Championship 1979/80 (1979)
   Groningen Open (1989)
   Groningen Open (1994)
   Budapest Spring Open (1989)

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RUDY DOUVEN
(born May-05-1961, 64 years old) Netherlands

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Rudy Douven is an International Master (1986). He was Dutch champion in 1988.

Wikipedia article: Rudy Douven

Last updated: 2021-04-10 13:07:21

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 page 1 of 14; games 1-25 of 335  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. P de Roode vs R Douven  1-0161977Dutch Junior ChampionshipE97 King's Indian
2. K Nagtegaal vs R Douven  1-0401977Dutch Junior ChampionshipA06 Reti Opening
3. R Douven vs E Brouwer  1-0361977Dutch Junior ChampionshipA40 Queen's Pawn Game
4. R Douven vs G de Boer  0-1551977Dutch Junior ChampionshipE91 King's Indian
5. P Bosch vs R Douven  ½-½521977Dutch Junior ChampionshipB12 Caro-Kann Defense
6. R Douven vs F Licher  1-0491977Dutch Junior ChampionshipD91 Grunfeld, 5.Bg5
7. H van der Poel vs R Douven  1-0251977Dutch Junior ChampionshipB14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
8. J Boersma vs R Douven  1-0441977Dutch Junior ChampionshipB14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
9. R Douven vs H van der Scheer  1-0171977Dutch Junior ChampionshipD91 Grunfeld, 5.Bg5
10. R Douven vs Van der Wiel  0-1301978Dutch Junior ChampionshipE97 King's Indian
11. I Gazik vs R Douven  1-0311979World Junior ChampionshipB43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3
12. R Douven vs K Jhunjhnuwala  1-0391979World Junior ChampionshipA56 Benoni Defense
13. R Douven vs Seirawan 1-0381979World Junior ChampionshipE15 Queen's Indian
14. R Douven vs A Negulescu  1-0411979World Junior ChampionshipA56 Benoni Defense
15. G Barbero vs R Douven  ½-½351979World Junior ChampionshipA05 Reti Opening
16. R Douven vs Plaskett  0-1251979World Junior ChampionshipA56 Benoni Defense
17. A Negulescu vs R Douven  ½-½301979European Junior Championship 1979/80A48 King's Indian
18. R Douven vs M Santo-Roman  1-0401979European Junior Championship 1979/80E75 King's Indian, Averbakh, Main line
19. R Douven vs Lobron  0-1411979European Junior Championship 1979/80A72 Benoni, Classical without 9.O-O
20. T van der Heijden vs R Douven  0-1311979European Junior Championship 1979/80A42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System
21. Damljanovic vs R Douven  1-0371979European Junior Championship 1979/80E69 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Main line
22. R Douven vs J O Fries-Nielsen  0-1371979European Junior Championship 1979/80D91 Grunfeld, 5.Bg5
23. R Douven vs G Borg  1-0301979European Junior Championship 1979/80E92 King's Indian
24. G Franzoni vs R Douven  0-1221979European Junior Championship 1979/80A26 English
25. J Yrjola vs R Douven  0-1571979European Junior Championship 1979/80E67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
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Kibitzer's Corner
Oct-31-05  Udit Narayan: One of my favourite poems:

'If'

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

--- Rudyard Kipling

May-21-09  BIDMONFA: Rudy C Douven

DOUVEN, Rudy
http://www.bidmonfa.com/douven_rudy...
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Jan-02-12  acmilan03c1: Name's even longer, it seems (Rudy Clemens Maria Henry Douven). See here, for instance: http://www.maskeret.com/cgi-bin/wiw...
Jan-02-12  Benzol: Is his surname pronounced as "Dowven" or "Doorven"?
Jan-02-12  Gryz: Those are christian names. We don't use those in every day life in the Netherlands. We use them only on official documents, like passports and stuff. In everyday life we only use the first name, or first letter. I noticed that in the USA, people like to use the first letter of their 2nd name. (Middle initial ?) We don't even do that.

Douven is pronounced neither way. I can't think of an English word that has the same sound as our "ou". The sounds of letters and syllables are very similar in many languages. It's just the British and the Americans that have messed it up. If you speak French, then the word "ou" (or) has the same sound as the ou in Douven. Btw, we also use the letters "oe" for exactly the same sound.

Jan-03-12  sneaky pete: <Benzol> I think <Gryz> means the <ou> is pronounced as in the French "Louvre" and "toujours l'amour". I think that's right, but his name isn't spoken anymore since the fateful day he turned his back on chess and indulged in science http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/re..., the fool (or "the foul" if you know what I mean).

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