Lucas van Foreest

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Lucas van Foreest
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Lucas van Foreest, 2022
Country Netherlands
Born3 March 2001 (2001-03-03) (age 22)
Hengelo, Netherlands
Title Grandmaster (2018)
FIDE   rating 2529 (January 2024)
Peak rating 2589 (August 2022)

Jhr. Lucas van Foreest (born 3 March 2001) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He won the Dutch Chess Championship in 2019.

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Van Foreest earned the International Master title in 2016 and was awarded the Grandmaster title in 2018, at age 17. A member of the Van Foreest family, his brother Jorden won the Dutch Chess Championship in 2016, and both his great-great grandfather Arnold and great-great granduncle Dirk were three-time Dutch Champions.

Chess career

Van Foreest started playing chess aged "around six, seven". [1]

He achieved his first International Master (IM) norm at the Dutch Team Competition, from September to October 2015. He scored 7/9, which was enough for both the IM norm and Grandmaster (GM) norm. [2] [3] He achieved his second IM norm at the Amsterdam Chess Tournament in July 2016, and his third IM norm at the Hoogeveen Open in October 2016. [2]

In January 2017, he won the top amateur group at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, thus qualifying for the Tata Steel Challengers in 2018. [4] He achieved his second GM norm at the 9th Batavia Chess Tournament in March 2017. He shared first with Bobby Cheng on 6½/9 (+6–2=1), finishing second on tiebreak. [5] [6] He won the Bruges Masters in August 2017. [7]

Van Foreest competed in the Tata Steel Challengers in January 2018, placing eleventh with a score 5½/13 (+3–5=5). [8] He competed at the Open Dutch Championship, held from 24 July to 2 August. He shared first with Erwin l'Ami and Erik van den Doel on 7/9, achieving his third GM norm in the process. [9] He was awarded the GM title by FIDE in October 2018. [3]

As of July 2018, Van Foreest is a student of Sergei Tiviakov. [10]

Van Foreest competed in the Tata Steel Challengers again in January 2019, scoring 6/13 (+2–3=8) for a ninth-place finish. [11] In March, he participated in the European Individual Chess Championship. He placed 60th with 6½/11 (+5–3=3) for a performance rating of 2634. [12] In July, Van Foreest won the Dutch Chess Championship. He tied for first with 5/7 (+3–0=4), and defeated his elder brother Jorden on tiebreak to win the title. [13]

Personal life

Born in Hengelo on 3 March 2001, [14] Van Foreest comes from the noble Van Foreest family and has the honorific of jonkheer . [15] [16] He is the great-great grandson of Arnold van Foreest and great-great grandnephew of Dirk van Foreest. Both Arnold and Dirk were three-time Dutch Chess Champions (Arnold: 1889, 1893, 1902; Dirk: 1885, 1886, 1887). [17]

Lucas has four brothers and one sister. [17] [18] His eldest brother, Jorden (born 1999), became the youngest chess grandmaster in Dutch history at the age of 16, and won the Dutch Chess Championship at age 17 in 2016. [19] His sister, Machteld (born 2007), won the Dutch Girls' U10 Championship at the age of 6 and shared second place in the Dutch Girls' U20 Championship when she was 9. In 2017, she became the first girl ever to win the Dutch U12 Championship. [19] In 2022, she won the Dutch Women's Championship.

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  3. 1 2 Staff writer(s) (2018). "89th FIDE Congress 2018, 26 Sep – 6 Oct, Batumi, Georgia". FIDE.
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