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| May-30-04 | | Tigran Petrosian: Did he retire? |
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| Jun-09-04 | | salokin: Yes, he did; according to http://www.schakers.info/Hut-column... he stopped. |
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| Jul-05-04 | | ruylopez900: Hmm, does anyone know how close Piket ever got to the WC final? i.e. Candidates matches, interzonal, fourth round FIDE KO, never got involved with the WC stuff... etc. |
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| Jul-05-04 | | acirce: In the FIDE WC's, he was knocked out in the 3rd round both in 1997 and 2000. That's how far he has come according to the site below, which is always a valuable source. http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/979...
http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/a0a... |
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| Jul-05-04 | | ruylopez900: thanks <acirce>, I always heard his name, but he was before my time (when I played chess seriously, only about a year and a half). |
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| Jul-05-04 | | PizzatheHut: What will Piket do for a living after chess? |
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| Jul-05-04 | | ruylopez900: Who knows? But 18 years is a respectable career. |
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| Mar-27-05 | | Eatman: Just curious what did Tim Krabbe mean by his chess diary entry 271 where he says that "Joop van Oosterom, the Dutch billionaire / new World Correspondence Chess Champion, is operated by Jeroen Piket". Seems like an interesting tidbit of information which I haven't seen covered elsewhere. Probably just a rumor, no? |
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| Mar-27-05 | | WMD: Tim's just bitter and twisted. |
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| Mar-27-05 | | maoam: <PizzatheHut: What will Piket do for a living after chess?> He works for Joop Van Oosterom (see http://chesscafe.com/text/hans81.pdf). Amusingly there's a player called Joop Piket in the database, perhaps Krabbe meant they'd literally undergone nightmarish surgery to allow Piket to operate van Oosterom. |
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| Mar-28-05 | | sneaky pete: Jeroen Piket, son of Joop Piket, has been employed (since he retired from chess) as Van Oosterom's personal secretary. Krabbé apparently believes this job includes helping Van Oosterom play his correspondence games. |
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| Apr-08-05 | | Eatman: Hmm, if Piket is Joop's personal secretary then it is actually reasonably to assume he has a fair bit of influence on billionare's games.
From my personal experience with top correspondence chess players, most have not minded discussing their current games, of course keeping the final decision on the move for themselves.
Call it cheating or not, but that's how it goes. |
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Dec-08-05
 | | offramp: Because he is Dutch his name is presumably pronounced exactly as it is spelt, and not, for example, pronounced like Nelson Piquet's last name. |
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| Dec-23-05 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <offramp> It is pronounced as following: "pi" as in "piano". "ket" with the "e" as in "less". Stress the second syllable: Pi-KET. Since I don't know how to pronounce Nelson Piquet's name, is it the same pronounciation as Piket? |
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| Dec-23-05 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <offramp> It is pronounced as following:
"pi" as in "piano". "ket" as in "kettle". Stress the second syllable: Pi-KET. Since I don't know how to pronounce Nelson Piquet's name, is it the same pronounciation as Piket? |
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| Jan-27-06 | | BIDMONFA: Jeroen Piket PIKET, Jeroen
Champion - Netherlands Championship 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994.
http://www.bidmonfa.com/campionats_...
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| Jan-27-07 | | BIDMONFA: Jeroen Piket PIKET, Jeroen
http://www.bidmonfa.com/piket_jeroe...
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Feb-25-07
 | | plang: Just looked at a win by Piket with black (closed Ruy Lopez) against Shirov in the 1997 edition of Linares.
The game is not included in this database. It was a good example of how well Piket could play. |
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| Mar-18-07 | | thatsmate: Perhaps Topalov's name should be added to the list of players Piket has defeated in tournament play. In fact, his record against Topalov is much better than his record vs. Kramnik (6 wins and 11 losses against Topalov, with only 3 wins and 18 losses playing against Kramnik) This is just one example:
Piket vs Topalov, 1999 |
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| Jun-09-07 | | Arribarri: But here in Holland, of course, we pronounce Piquet the same way as Piket!;-) |
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| Oct-06-07 | | ahmadov: Does anyone know why this man does not play professional chess nowadays? |
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| Oct-06-07 | | Karpova: Yasser Sairawan:
<The chess world is full of truly outstanding people and Jeroen is a pearl. He's an honest, forthright person. I've a tremendous respect for his skills as a player and even more for him as a person. Jeroen was fortunate to be born Dutch and to take up the game of chess in a nation that truly appreciates it. Following in the trail blazed by Max Euwe and Jan Timman, Jeroen has been the beneficiary of numerous great Dutch tournament invitations and had a wonderful benefactor in Joop Van Oosterom. Therefore it came as a puzzlement to hear him say in Prague, "So these two games (with Peter Svidler) are my parting gift to the chess world." "What," I asked Jeroen, "are you talking about?" Jeroen then proceeded to tell me that he was retiring as an active grandmaster, that he wouldn't be playing any further major events, only the occasional league, blitz and an exhibition simul and that was it; he was hanging up his spurs.In a concentrated period full of surprises this was a completely unexpected blow from a different direction. I mean, my goodness! If Jeroen, with all his fortunate benefits as a leading Dutch grandmaster – and I don't mean to embarrass him with this mention – was giving up chess, what chance is there that others will pursue chess as a profession? Consider that Jeroen at one time had a rating above 2700, was Champion of Holland many times and is still only 33 years old. That is quite young. (Kasparov is 39 and playing the best chess of his life.) Jeroen explained that with his family, including two small children, he was concerned about their future. He has no pension and who knows in a few years what the situation may be; what if chess continued its steep decline? If there was ever a chance to make a career change, now was the time. Ten years hence, there might be no such option. I was shaken.
I've witnessed so many of America's promising players leave the game – wasn't I considering the same thing myself? – that I refocused yet again. If chess has a future, we need to have complete unity. Goodness gracious, how do you replace such a person as Jeroen Piket? What a loss! The thought of his absence from the chess world troubled me deeply.> http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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| Oct-07-07 | | ahmadov: Thanks for the link, <Karpova>... |
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| Jun-29-08 | | patzer2: <Piket retired from chess in 2001 to become the personal secretary of billionaire Joop van Oosterom. A few years later, in 2005, Van Oosterom won the Correspondence chess World Championship, causing Tim Krabbé to write: "The Turk was operated by William Schlumberger, Mephisto was operated by Isidore Gunsberg, Ajeeb was operated by Harry Pillsbury and Joop van Oosterom is operated by Jeroen Piket."> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeroen... |
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| Jun-29-08 | | MichAdams: Jeroen's elder brother: Marcel Piket |
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