Arnold Johannes van den Hoek (1 December 1921, Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 – 14 January 1945, Watenstedt, suburb of Braunschweig

Braunschweig

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) was a Dutch chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

In August 1942, v.d. Hoek, Adriaan de Groot

Adriaan de Groot

Adrianus Dingeman de Groot was a Dutch chess master and psychologist, who conducted some of the most famous chess experiments of all time in the 1940s-60...

 and Nicolaas Cortlever

Nicolaas Cortlever

Nicolaas Cortlever was a Dutch chess master.He tied for 7-8th at Rotterdam 1936 ; took 2nd at Amsterdam 1938 ; won at the 2nd Hoogovens Beverwijk 1939 ; tied for 4-6th at Amsterdam I and 3rd-4th at Amsterdam II in 1939.During World War II, he tied for 2nd-3rd at...

 tied for first place in the qualifier of Dutch Chess Championship

Dutch Chess Championship

The Dutch Chess Championship was officially established in 1909, although unofficial champions stretch back to the 1870s.-Early years:-Official championships:...

 in Leeuwarden. He won the playoff, and next lost a match for the title to Max Euwe

Max Euwe

Machgielis Euwe was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion . Euwe also served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978.- Early years :Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, near Amsterdam...

 (2 : 8) at The Hague 1942. In January 1943, he won the Beverwijk Hoogovenstoernooi

Corus chess tournament

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament formerly called the Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands...

. Later that year he was deported to do forced labour in a German defence plant. He was killed there in an allied bombardment on 14 January 1945.