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Louis Stumpers

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D94		Grunfeld (3 games)
B59		Sicilian, Boleslavsky Variation, 7.Nb3 (2 games)
D31		Queen's Gambit Declined (2 games)
D45		Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav (2 games)
E60		King's Indian Defense (2 games)
E21		Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights (2 games)
C65		Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense (2 games)

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LOUIS STUMPERS (born Aug-30-1911, died Sep-27-2003, 92 years old) Netherlands [what is this?] Frans Louis Henri Marie Stumpers was born in Eindhoven, Netherlands, on 30 August 1911. (1) He was champion of the Eindhoven Chess Club in 1938, 1939, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1961 and 1963, (2) and champion of the North Brabant Chess Federation (Noord Brabantse Schaak Bond, NBSB) in 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1967. (3) Stumpers participated in five Dutch Chess Championships, with his high-water mark a fourth place finish in 1948, (4) and represented his country at the 1st European Team Championship in Vienna in 1957 (two games, vs Josef Platt and Max Dorn). (5) From 1945 until about 1956, he was first Secretary and then Chairman of the NBSB. (3) Stumpers was a physicist, and worked for the Philips company as an assistant from 1928. During 1934-1937, he studied at the University of Utrecht, where he took the master's degree. (6) In 1938 Stumpers was again employed at Philips, (6) and at a tournament in 1942, he supplied the hungry chess players with food from his employer. (3) After the war, Stumpers made a career in physics, with patents and awards on information ("radio") technology. He received degrees from several universities and colleges, including in Poland and Japan. (1, 3, 6) Stumpers retired from Philips in 1972, but continued teaching, (6) partly as professor at the University of Utrecht (1977-1981). (7) He was also Vice President (1975-1981) and Honorary President (1990-2003) of URSI, the International Union of Radio Science. (8) Louis Stumpers married Mieke Driessen in 1954. They had five children, three girls and two boys. (6) 1) Online Familieberichten 1.0 (2016), http://www.online-familieberichten...., Digitaal Tijdschrift, 5 (255), http://www.geneaservice.nl/ar/2003/... 2) Eindhovense Schaakvereniging (2016), http://www.eindhovenseschaakverenig... 3) Noord Brabantse Schaak Bond (2016), http://www.nbsb.nl/pkalgemeen/pk-er... Their main page: http://www.nbsb.nl. 4) Schaaksite.nl (2016), http://www.schaaksite.nl/2016/01/01... 5) Olimpbase, http://www.olimpbase.org/1957eq/195... 6) K. Teer, Levensbericht F. L. H. M. Stumpers, in: Levensberichten en herdenkingen, 2004, Amsterdam, pp. 90-97, http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/DL/levensber... Also available at http://www.hagenbeuk.nl/wp-content/... 7) Catalogus Professorum Academiæ Rheno-Traiectinæ, https://profs.library.uu.nl/index.p... 8) URSI websites (2016), http://www.ursi.org/en/ursi_structu... and http://www.ursi.org/en/ursi_structu... Suggested reading: Eindhovense Schaakvereniging 100 jaar 1915-2015, by Jules Welling. Stumpers' doctoral thesis Eenige onderzoekingen over trillingen met frequentiemodulatie (Studies on Vibration with Frequency Modulation) is found at http://repository.tudelft.nl/island... This text by User: Tabanus. The photo was taken from http://www.dwc.knaw.nl. Last updated: 2022-04-04 00:17:13

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page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 63  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. L Stumpers vs J Lehr 1-0 19 1932 Eindhoven D18 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch 2. L Prins vs L Stumpers   1-0 39 1936 NED-ch prelim B20 Sicilian 3. E Sapira vs L Stumpers 0-1 25 1938 NBSB-Flanders D94 Grunfeld 4. L Stumpers vs E Spanjaard   1-0 55 1938 NED-ch prelim E02 Catalan, Open, 5.Qa4 5. A J Wijnans vs L Stumpers   1-0 36 1939 NED-ch B05 Alekhine's Defense, Modern 6. J van den Bosch vs L Stumpers   ½-½ 58 1939 NED-ch A48 King's Indian 7. L Stumpers vs S Landau 0-1 41 1939 NED-ch D33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 8. H van Steenis vs L Stumpers   1-0 25 1939 NED-ch B02 Alekhine's Defense 9. L Stumpers vs H Kramer   0-1 36 1940 Hilversum E25 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch 10. L Stumpers vs S Landau   ½-½ 34 1940 Hilversum D31 Queen's Gambit Declined 11. A van den Hoek vs L Stumpers   1-0 27 1941 Bondswedstrijden B10 Caro-Kann 12. T van Scheltinga vs L Stumpers 1-0 35 1942 NED-ch12 D94 Grunfeld 13. W Wolthuis vs L Stumpers   ½-½ 52 1946 NED-ch prelim I C58 Two Knights 14. L Stumpers vs J H Marwitz   1-0 40 1946 NED-ch prelim I D31 Queen's Gambit Declined 15. G Fontein vs L Stumpers   ½-½ 26 1946 NED-ch prelim I D94 Grunfeld 16. L Stumpers vs H van Steenis 0-1 24 1946 NED-ch prelim I D28 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical 17. C van den Berg vs L Stumpers   1-0 58 1946 NED-ch prelim I D19 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch 18. L Stumpers vs Euwe 0-1 30 1946 NED-ch prelim I E60 King's Indian Defense 19. L Stumpers vs N Cortlever   ½-½ 50 1946 NED-ch prelim I E60 King's Indian Defense 20. L Stumpers vs H Grob 1-0 60 1947 Baarn Group B A55 Old Indian, Main line 21. L Stumpers vs H van Steenis   0-1 33 1947 Baarn Group B D23 Queen's Gambit Accepted 22. Tartakower vs L Stumpers 1-0 24 1947 Baarn Group B D74 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O 23. V Soultanbeieff vs L Stumpers   ½-½ 46 1947 Baarn Group B D96 Grunfeld, Russian Variation 24. L Stumpers vs A Vinken   0-1 33 1948 NED-ch sf E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights 25. L Prins vs L Stumpers   ½-½ 30 1948 NED-ch sf D02 Queen's Pawn Game  page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 63

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ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 217 OF 277 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-04-14    Landman: <RedShield> Yes, I was thinking of Lembit Oll. Tal's final rating was 2520, although Caissa clearly believed otherwise as in his final game he defeated the World Champion. Tal vs Kasparov, 1992 Jan-04-14    RedShield: Yes, I believe Tal was top 10 in the ELO ratings as late as 1988, but he tailed off significantly in those last years. What was Stein's final rating? According to Chessmetrics, he was in the world's top 10 at the time. Jan-04-14    kellmano: <Shams: <Petrosianic><But the really amazing thing is that even being that far away, the sun exerts enough pull on it to keep it in orbit.> True. Gravity is a great example of an everyday phenomenon that we just forget is mind-blowing > What are you talking about? If gravity is mind-blowing, then so is everything. Perhaps you were being sarcastic and I missed it. Jan-04-14    kellmano: I mean extension in space, or the existence of minds, is far more confusing. Jan-04-14    Shams: <Landman> I'm unclear if you are saying whether the second-highest rating at death must, like Fischer's, also be inactive. Jan-04-14    RedShield: Q: Who had the highest active rating after death? A: Geza Maroczy Jan-04-14    Shams: <kellmano> I wasn't being sarcastic. <It has been said, of course, that everything under the sun begins "oddly" and ends "oddly" and *is* "odd": a perfect rose is "odd", so is an imperfect rose, so is the rose of ordinary rosy good looks growing in your neighbor's garden. I know about the perspective from which everything appears awesome and mysterious. Reflect upon eternity, consider, if you are up to it, oblivion, and everything that is is a wonder. Still and all I would submit to you, in all humility, that some things are more wondrous than others, and I am one such thing.> Philip Roth, "The Breast" Jan-04-14    Landman: <RedShield> Stein's final rating was 2605 on the July 1973 list. Good point about Maroczy. <Shams> I intended to include both active and inactive ratings. Jan-05-14    kellmano: <Shams> A conjecture - The more fundamental a thing is, the more odd it is. Some support: The oddest thing of all is how there is something rather than nothing. Jan-05-14    ughaibu: The oddest thing, is that oddness is quantifiable. Jan-08-14    Sneaky: <The player with the highest (inactive) FIDE rating at death was Bobby Fischer. 2780, a record that will hopefully stand forever.> Won't that record inevitably be crushed, when any number of retirees pass on? I suppose Kasparov might take the game up in his 70s and surprise us all, but that will just delay matters. The record might last surprisingly long, but I can't imagine it sticking forever. Jan-08-14    diceman: <Sneaky: <The player with the highest (inactive) FIDE rating at death was Bobby Fischer. 2780, a record that will hopefully stand forever.> Won't that record inevitably be crushed, when any number of retirees pass on? I suppose Kasparov might take the game up in his 70s and surprise us all, but that will just delay matters. The record might last surprisingly long, but I can't imagine it sticking forever.> We need a chess CPI so we can adjust ratings for inflation! Jan-08-14    Landman: <Sneaky> I suppose if Kasparov never plays rated games again, he'd beat Fischer's record 30 or so years from now. I'd rather that not happen. Top GMs typically continue to play here and there well into advanced age. Jan-11-14    Phony Benoni: If nobody was around to hear the Big Bang, did it make a noise? Jan-11-14    Landman: Sadly, my trivia question now has a different answer. RIP Vugar Gashimov 2737 This draw appears to have been his last game: V Gashimov vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2012 His last victory was the day prior: Negi vs V Gashimov, 2012 Jan-12-14    RedShield: Stein was the easily highest ranked. On the July 1973 list, his 2605 rating was good enough for =12-14th (with R.Byrne and Geller). Since Fischer and Botvinnik were de facto retired, he was on the cusp of top 10. Jan-13-14    Landman: <RedShield> True. Had the rating system existed in 1946, Alekhine would have been #1 or #2 behind Botvinnik. Jan-26-14    Sneaky: Maybe this isn't the best page for this, but here is a position I copied from a recent episode of the American forensic crime drama "Bones" in which we're treated to that classic Hollywood cliche: Check! says the antagonist, Checkmate! says the hero. click for larger view White to play. It's a blur, but it looks like the actress just moved her rook from somewhere to d6. The hero (Dr. Sweets) played 1.Qc8+, to which the actress said "You made a mistake--CHECK!" as she played …Qg8+. Then Sweets plays 2.Ng6# and casually announces "Mate". Isn't that just picture perfect? Question: is this from a real game, or published in a book, or something? I doubt a trashy TV show like Bones found a chess composer to make a position just for their show. (But who knows? At least they didn't set up the boards wrong!) Second question: Wasn't it really a cheapo shot? Wouldn't 2…Rc8 leave Black winning? Jan-26-14    al wazir: <Sneaky: Wouldn't 2…Rc8 leave Black winning?> No, 2...Rc8 is illegal since the ♘ on g6 is checking. But if you mean 1...Rc8 then you're right. Jan-27-14    Shams: What do these men have in common? Francis Bacon Johannes Kepler John Milton Athanasius Kircher Gottfried Leibniz Emanuel Swedenborg Immanuel Kant Johann Goethe Thomas Young Alexander Humboldt John Stuart Mill Joseph Leidy Jan-27-14    HeMateMe: They've never been in my kitchen? Writers who published something, in their time(s) which changed the nature of how man views himself? Jan-27-14    Shams: <HeMateMe> I'll give you points for referencing the Cliff Claven on "Jeopardy!" episode of _Cheers_. <Writers who published something, in their time(s) which changed the nature of how man views himself.> Not a bad try, but I'm wanting something more specific. Jan-27-14    HeMateMe: They've never been in my refrigerator? All advanced at an early age, prodigies, all are published authors (duh), men of science, university educated. None are atheists. Jan-27-14    Shams: <HeMateMe> No. The list is close to exhaustive if that helps. Jan-27-14    HeMateMe: They all dated European super models? Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 277) search thread:    ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 217 OF 277 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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