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Erik Van Den Doel
Number of games in database: 293
Years covered: 1993 to 2012
Last FIDE rating: 2582
Highest rating achieved in database: 2609
Overall record: +112 -76 =97 (56.3%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      8 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (73)      B90 B32 B47 B28 B63  Ruy Lopez (23)      C78 C67 C80 C95 C88  French Defense (21)      C11 C18 C10 C17 C12  Sicilian Najdorf (17)      B90  French (11)      C11 C10 C12  Caro-Kann (11)      B12 B14 B18 B17 B15	With the Black pieces:  Ruy Lopez (29)      C67 C84 C77 C88 C65  Queen's Gambit Accepted (22)      D27 D20 D21 D26 D29  Sicilian (14)      B22 B31 B44 B32 B96  Queen's Indian (12)      E15 E12 E14  English, 1 c4 e5 (10)      A20 A28 A22 A29 A21  Scotch Game (9)      C45

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Van der Wiel vs Van Den Doel, 2001 0-1
   E Cekro vs Van Den Doel, 2005 0-1
   Van Den Doel vs A Stefanova, 2001 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Bled Olympiad (2002)
   Dutch Championships (2003)
   36th Olympiad (2004)
   7th European Individual Championship (2006)
   European Individual Championships (2007)

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ERIK VAN DEN DOEL (born May-15-1979) Netherlands [what is this?] International Master (1995); Grandmaster (1998). Winner of the 1999 Neckar Open and the 2006 Noteboom tournament in Leiden. His greatest achievement is considered to be shared first place in the Dutch Championship in 2001. The Dutch Chess Federation awarded him the Membership of Honour for his part in the two victories of the Netherlands in the European Team Championship in 2001 and 2005. Erik played in the Chess Olympiads of 1998, 2002, 2004 and 2006. His list of wins and equal firsts in tournaments - most of them played in the Netherlands - is listed at http://www.erikvandendoel.nl/tourna.... http://www.erikvandendoel.nl/erik_v...

page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 293  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Van Den Doel vs Sadvakasov   1-0 45 1993 Wch U14 C02 French, Advance 2. H P Garcia vs Van Den Doel   ½-½ 21 1993 Haarlem AKN B25 Sicilian, Closed 3. Van Den Doel vs V Malakhov   0-1 59 1993 Wch U14 B27 Sicilian 4. Wojtkiewicz vs Van Den Doel   1-0 32 1994 open E08 Catalan, Closed 5. Van Den Doel vs Glek   ½-½ 42 1995 Wijk Sonnevanck C11 French 6. Ftacnik vs Van Den Doel   1-0 41 1995 Wijk Sonnevanck E15 Queen's Indian 7. I Rogers vs Van Den Doel 1-0 25 1995 It a B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation 8. Van Den Doel vs J Stocek   1-0 61 1995 EU-ch U18 B60 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer 9. Kotronias vs Van Den Doel   1-0 26 1995 It (a) B81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack 10. Van Den Doel vs J Brenninkmeijer   0-1 75 1995 Sonnevanck-A A06 Reti Opening 11. Van Den Doel vs I Rausis   0-1 36 1996 AKN C45 Scotch Game 12. I Farago vs Van Den Doel   ½-½ 65 1996 AKN E12 Queen's Indian 13. Van Den Doel vs J Ye   ½-½ 33 1996 Groningen Koop Tjuchem op B46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 14. Van Den Doel vs M Abeln   1-0 30 1996 AKN B63 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack 15. Ulf Andersson vs Van Den Doel   1-0 63 1997 European ch A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 16. Van Den Doel vs P Nikolic   0-1 85 1997 NLD-ch C88 Ruy Lopez 17. Van Den Doel vs Timman   0-1 42 1997 Ch Netherlands C80 Ruy Lopez, Open 18. Van der Sterren vs Van Den Doel   ½-½ 68 1997 NLD-ch E97 King's Indian 19. I Sokolov vs Van Den Doel   1-0 51 1997 NLD-ch E94 King's Indian, Orthodox 20. G Timoshenko vs Van Den Doel   ½-½ 15 1997 Graz op E60 King's Indian Defense 21. Van Den Doel vs Taimanov   0-1 47 1997 Owens Corning, Wrexham WL B40 Sicilian 22. Van Den Doel vs Van der Wiel   0-1 33 1997 NLD-ch B32 Sicilian 23. Van Den Doel vs Piket   1-0 40 1997 NLD-ch C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 24. Van Den Doel vs Movsesian   0-1 54 1997 Wch U20 B42 Sicilian, Kan 25. Van Den Doel vs A Stefanova   1-0 68 1997 Lost Boys Open, Antwerp BEL B01 Scandinavian  page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 293    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Van Den Doel wins | Van Den Doel loses

Nov-22-05    WannaBe: Photo caption: "I think I am going to throw up." Nov-22-05    dakgootje: Maybe he just has insomnia...;-) Nov-22-05    lostemperor: I just saw him yesterday where he won the local weekendtournament. He's ok now;) Nov-22-05    WTHarvey: Here's some of his quick wins: http://www.wtharvey.com/vddl.html Mar-16-06    EmperorAtahualpa: He won this year's Noteboom-tournament, which is a tournament held in my home-town Leiden. See here: http://lsg-leiden.nl/noteboom/2006/... (page in Dutch) Jun-15-06    BIDMONFA: Erik Van Den Doel VAN DEN DOEL, Erik http://www.bidmonfa.com/van_den_doe... _ Jun-15-06    DeepBlade: <<WannaBe>"I think I am going to throw up."> I had another observation. Did you know its legal to smoke cannabis in The Netherlands? Jun-18-06    DeepBlade: <WTHarvey> Please check the first position, after Bxe6 if Kxe6 Qd5+ you give checkmate, but Black can survive it with Kd7 Jul-14-06    WTHarvey: <DeepBlade> No, Qf5 is mate. :-) Jul-19-10    Tabanus: Homepage: http://www.erikvandendoel.nl/ Placed 4th in the Leiden Open (Holland) 9-18 July 2010: http://www.leidenchess.nl/SwissMast...

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