Dutch Chess Championship

The Dutch Chess Championship was officially established in 1909, although unofficial champions stretch back to the 1870s.

Read more about Dutch Chess Championship:  Early Years, Official Championships

Famous quotes containing the words dutch and/or chess:

    “Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head—no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)