Daan Brandenburg | |
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| Country | Netherlands |
| Born | November 14, 1987 Lelystad, Netherlands |
| Title | Grandmaster (2011) |
| FIDE rating | 2461 (December 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2538 (July 2011) |
Daan Brandenburg (born November 14, 1987) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.
Daan Brandenburg | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Born | November 14, 1987 Lelystad, Netherlands |
| Title | Grandmaster (2011) |
| FIDE rating | 2461 (December 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2538 (July 2011) |
Daan Brandenburg (born November 14, 1987) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.
Born in 1987, Brandenburg became an International Master in 2007 and earned the Grandmaster title in 2011. [1] He is the No. 28 ranked Dutch player as of June 2018. [2]
In 2014, he began taking classes in the master's degree program in multilingualism at the University of Groningen's Leeuwarden campus. [3]
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