Max Warmerdam

Dutch chess grandmaster (born 2000)

Max Warmerdam
Warmerdam at the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2023
Country	Netherlands
Born	30 March 2000 (2000-03-30) (age 24) Tegelen, Netherlands
Title	Grandmaster (2021)
FIDE rating	2654 (June 2024)
Peak rating	2663 (July 2024)
Ranking	No. 79 (June 2024)
Peak ranking	No. 64 (July 2024)

Max Warmerdam (born 30 March 2000) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.^[1]^[2]

Chess career

Warmerdam earned his FIDE master title in 2015, followed by the international master title in 2018. After qualifying through the "top nine-round event" at the 2019 Tata Steel Chess Tournament,^[3] Warmerdam was invited to compete at the Tata Steel Challengers in 2020. He placed 12th with 4½/13 (+2–6=5).^[4] During the tournament, he defeated the eventual winner, David Antón Guijarro, with the black pieces.^[5] As of 2020,^[update] Warmerdam is coached by Loek van Wely.^[6]

From 3 to 7 January 2021, Warmerdam participated in the Vergani Cup. He scored 7/9 to take first place, half-a-point clear of the rest of the field. In this process, he earned his third grandmaster norm.^[7] Later in January, he acted as second to Jorden van Foreest in the 83rd Tata Steel Masters. Van Foreest won the tournament and Warmerdam received praise for his work as second.^[8]^[9] When the interrupted Candidates Tournament resumed in April 2021, Warmerdam was a second to Anish Giri.^[10]

Chess career:

In July 2021 Warmerdam won the Ikaros tournament in Greece.

In August 2021 he won the Guimarães Open tournament in Portugal. Warmerdam finished clear first in the Guimarães Open with 8/9 (+7–0=2), half-a-point ahead of Hans Niemann, Guillaume Lamard, and Stamatis Kourkoulos Arditis.^[11]

In December 2021 he won the Dutch Chess Championship, finishing on 5/6 in the final four-player round-robin.^[12]

In 2022 en 2023 he became with Schaakstad Apeldoorn national champion.

In August 2022 he won the Sparkassen Chess Trophy A-open tournament in Dortmund.

In 2022 he participated for the first time with the Dutch team in the Chess Olympiad in Chennai India.

In June 2023 he won the Open Dutch championship Rapid in Helmond.

In June 2023 he won the HSG Open tournament in Hilversum.

In July 2023 he won the Open Dutch championship in Dieren.

In May 2024 he tied for first at the BPB Limburg Open tournament in Maastricht.

In June 2024 he won the Teplice Open tournament in the Czech Republic.

Personal life

Born in 2000, Warmerdam is from Tegelen in Limburg.^[13] As of 2021, he is a student of economics at Tilburg University.^[14]

References

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^ Schulz, André (10 January 2020). "From Saturday: The world elite in Wijk aan Zee". ChessBase.
^ Colodro, Carlos Alberto (27 January 2020). "Tata Steel Chess: Caruana ends with a win, Anton clinches Challengers". ChessBase.
^ Doggers, Peter (26 January 2020). "Caruana Wins Tata Steel Chess With Round To Spare". Chess.com.
^ Houtappels, Joost (10 January 2020). "Max Warmerdam van Schaakstad Apeldoorn debuteert in het walhalla". De Stentor.
^ Schulz, André (8 January 2021). "Max Warmerdam wins Vergani Cup". ChessBase.
^ Doggers, Peter (31 January 2021). "Jorden van Foreest Wins Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021". Chess.com.
^ van der Kloor, Robin (1 February 2021). "Secondant Warmerdam hielp Van Foreest aan Tata Steel-zege: 'Klein feestje met een paar biertjes'". De Limburger.
^ Doggers, Peter (23 April 2021). "FIDE Candidates Tournament R11: Giri Approaches Nepomniachtchi, MVL Stumbles". Chess.com.
^ "Max Warmerdam conquista Guimarães". Federação Portuguesa de Xadrez (in Portuguese). 30 August 2021.
^ "Max Warmerdam wins Dutch Championship 2021". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
^ Puts, Wim (8 January 2021). "Max Warmerdam derde Limburgse schaakgrootmeester". 1Limburg. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
^ Op den Camp, Ivo (12 January 2021). "Grootmeestertitel 'een droom die uitkomt' voor Tegelse schaker Max Warmerdam". De Limburger.