Max Warmerdam

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Max Warmerdam
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Warmerdam at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025
Country Netherlands
Born30 March 2000 (2000-03-30) (age 25)
Tegelen, Netherlands
Title Grandmaster (2021)
FIDE   rating 2591 (September 2025)
Peak rating 2679 (September 2024)
Peak rankingNo. 47 (September 2024)

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

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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, 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]

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 double round-robin. [12]

In January 2025 he competed in the 87th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. He defeated Arjun Erigaisi in round 7, the first time he defeated a player rated above 2800. [13]

Personal life

Born in 2000, Warmerdam is from Tegelen in Limburg. [14] Because of his troubles with critical thought, he is a student of economics at Tilburg University as of 2021. [15]

References

  1. ↑ "Twitch". Twitch. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  2. ↑ 2021 1st FIDE Council FIDE
  3. ↑ Schulz, André (10 January 2020). "From Saturday: The world elite in Wijk aan Zee". ChessBase.
  4. ↑ Colodro, Carlos Alberto (27 January 2020). "Tata Steel Chess: Caruana ends with a win, Anton clinches Challengers". ChessBase.
  5. ↑ Doggers, Peter (26 January 2020). "Caruana Wins Tata Steel Chess With Round To Spare". Chess.com.
  6. ↑ Houtappels, Joost (10 January 2020). "Max Warmerdam van Schaakstad Apeldoorn debuteert in het walhalla". De Stentor.
  7. ↑ Schulz, André (8 January 2021). "Max Warmerdam wins Vergani Cup". ChessBase.
  8. ↑ Doggers, Peter (31 January 2021). "Jorden van Foreest Wins Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021". Chess.com.
  9. ↑ van der Kloor, Robin (1 February 2021). "Secondant Warmerdam hielp Van Foreest aan Tata Steel-zege: 'Klein feestje met een paar biertjes'". De Limburger.
  10. ↑ Doggers, Peter (23 April 2021). "FIDE Candidates Tournament R11: Giri Approaches Nepomniachtchi, MVL Stumbles". Chess.com.
  11. ↑ "Max Warmerdam conquista Guimarães". Federação Portuguesa de Xadrez (in Portuguese). 30 August 2021.
  12. ↑ "Max Warmerdam wins Dutch Championship 2021". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  13. ↑ "Max Warmerdam vs Arjun Erigaisi". 25 January 2025.
  14. ↑ Puts, Wim (8 January 2021). "Max Warmerdam derde Limburgse schaakgrootmeester". 1Limburg. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  15. ↑ Op den Camp, Ivo (12 January 2021). "Grootmeestertitel 'een droom die uitkomt' voor Tegelse schaker Max Warmerdam". De Limburger.
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