Jeroen Piket

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jeroen Piket
Occupation	Chess Player
Date Of Birth	Jan 27, 1969(1969-01-27)
Age	55
Birthplace	Leiden
Country	Netherlands
Horoscope	Capricorn

Jeroen Piket Biography

Jeroen Piket is one of the most popular and richest Chess Player who was born on January 27, 1969 in Leiden, Netherlands. Jeroen Piket was born the 27th of January 1969 in Leiden in the Netherlands and was raised in a family where chess was prominently. The father of Jeroen, Joop Piket played in Dutch top league, known as the “Hoofdklasse” as did his brother Marcel. Marcel Piket, became an International Master before he decided to pursue a career in law. Jeroen was a gifted player and nearly inevitably began an excellent chess career taking home his place in the Dutch Championship four times and taking home the first prize in more than 20 international tournaments across the globe. In 2001, Piket declared his end to his chess career. In 2003 he moved to Monaco in the United States, where he was employed as the head of the office family of Dutch Businessman Joop Van Oosterom. The position he held until September 2018, when he retired. The present Piket is a resident of Amsterdam where he manages his own company JP Vermogensregie, offering wealth management services. At the time he finished his chess playing career, Piket was an FIDE score of 2659. He was the highest-rated Dutchman according to the rankings in world chess at that time in the world rankings, beating out Jan Timman and Loek van Wely.

In his professional career, Piket has won more than 20 international championships. Some of his most memorable wins include Dortmund 1994, Amsterdam (Donner Memorial) 1994, Tilburg 1996 (shared with Boris Gelfand) and Biel 1999. In the Netherlands He was the winner of all the major events at least one time except for Wijk aan Zee which he won in 1997. the Dutchman seemed to be heading straight to victory. He had a frenzied beginning, scoring 5 out of 6. However, after the six draw, a defeat in the final game brought him back in second position.

Joop van Oosterom died at the end of 2016. Piket continued to manage the Van Oosterom family office till September 2018 when he completed his contract. After 15 years in Monaco he felt the time had come for new challenges and moved to Amsterdam to start his company JP Vermogensregie, offering wealth management services. (source: jpvermogensregie.com/en/home/)

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While Piket was a member of Volmac Rotterdam, who were sponsored by Joop van Oosterom at a very early age, the chess player met the famous chess player personally when he began playing in the renowned Amber tournaments held in Monaco. Piket received an invitation to attend the first rapid tournament in

1992. He was also a participant at blindfold and rapid tournaments. Blindfold as well as Rapid tournaments between 1993 and 2002. He played his last “Amber” tournament after the time had come to retire of professional chess. His total score during these elite gatherings of 105 points in 231 games. Van Oosterom further expressed his gratitude and admiration to Piket, the Dutch Grandmaster, by volunteering to sponsor 10 training matches for his participation. In the first which took place in 1993 in Nijmegen the match was lost in a 2-6 loss by Viktor Kortchnoi, but Piket performed better in 1994 when he played in Aruba in a match against Lev Polougaevsky (4 1/2 3 1/2 ) and the similar year Monaco in Monaco against Ljubomir Ljubojevic (6-2). The following four matches were lost in 1995: the tournament in Aruba in the Aruba tournament against Judit the Polgar (2-6) as well as Alexey Shirov (2 1/2 5 1/2 ) and in Amsterdam with Jan Timman (4-6) and in 1996 in Monaco against Alexey Dreev (3-5). The last three games were all tied, 4-4, In 1996, in Monaco in 1996 against Joel Lautier, in 1997 in Monaco against Loek van Wely and in 1999 again in Monaco in Monaco, again against Anatoly Karpov. Piket took home both the Vlissingen as well as the Lisbon Opens in 2001, however, he resigned from chess in April of 2002 to be appointed an officer of the family at Van Oosterom. To get ready for his new role, He retrained extensively and attended classes both at private the banks as well as trusts. In 2003, he began his new profession in Monaco. The year 2005 was the year that Van Oosterom won the Correspondence Chess World Championship, causing Tim Krabbe 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.” An intriguing conclusion however, it is an assumption. While it is known it was Van Oosterom had a team of chess experts available, Piket was never a part of the team and never took part in his correspondence games at all, if only because he was too engaged in the work that he was hired to do’. (source: New In Chess 2017/3, page. 22)

Jeroen Piket Net Worth

Jeroen Piket is one of the richest Chess Player from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jeroen Piket 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Piket began collecting national championships from a young age. Between 1979 and 1981, he won three time was awarded the U-12/13 Dutch championship. The year 1982 as well as 1983, he was the U-16 Dutch champion and , in 1984 at the age of 15 he became the U-20 champion. This was the final time he competed in junior championships since it was evident that there was no competition anymore. In the European U-20 Championship in 1986 in Groningen the Netherlands, he finished second, just behind Vassily Ivanchuk. With only one or two rounds left, Ivanchuk had been trailing Piket and was unable to win his first encounter against the Dutchman. However, Ivanchuk won with a powerful final shot. The four Junior World Championships that Piket participated in, it is likely that his second-place finish, shared with Vishy Anand, in the 1984 U-16 Championship, behind Dreev was his best performance. In the penultimate round when Piket was leading and was in the lead, he lost an incredibly drawn ending to a knight against the Mongolian representative. Mongolia. The most recent time he participated at the U-20 Junior World Championship was in 1988 in Adelaide and he was unable to win an important match against Grigory Serper, in the last round. Because of this loss, Serper finished in shared first place, however the championship was won from Joel Lautier. At the championship held in Adelaide, Genna Sosonko was the coach of Piket. In the identical year Sosonko took him along to Moscow to attend a practice session alongside Mikhail Botvinnik at the Central Chess Club along with fifteen-year old Alexey Shirov and his trainer Vladimir Bagirov.

Piket was made an International Master in 1986 and was conferred the title of International Grandmaster in 1989. He won the Dutch Championship in 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1994. The country’s top player, Jan Timman, did not participate as focused to working on the World Championship cycle. Piket began his career in the Dutch “Hoofdklasse” at the age of 12 in the Philidor team Leiden. In his first game, the team won with Volmac Rotterdam, for many years the best soccer team of the Netherlands. In the next year, was his time at Volmac Rotterdam and won several national titles along with Volmac Rotterdam. In 1999, a few years later while playing for Bosna from Sarajevo they took home the European Club Cup. The first time he played with the Dutch Olympiad team he made in 1988 in Thessaloniki. The team was awarded bronze medals. In the process, Piket won an individual bronze medal on Board 4. Piket would go on to play six more Olympiads in the future, on either Board 2 or Board 3. His final appearance with the Dutch team was in Leon in 2001 during the European Team Championship, where the team was champions. Piket was awarded an Olympic gold medal for Board 2.

A sweet memory from a tournament that he didn’t win, was his victory in 1995 at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam against reigning World Champion Garry Kasparov, who was beautifully outplayed in a Grünfeld Defence. That same Kasparov was his victim again in the first major Internet tournament in 2000, a sensational novelty on the Kasparov.com website with a $52,000 prize-fund. After he had knocked out Yasser Seirawan, Alexander Morozevich and Peter Svidler along the way, Piket beat Kasparov in the final to claim the $20,000 first prize.

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Jeroen Ranked on the list of most popular Chess Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Jeroen Piket celebrates birthday on January 27 of every year.