Geurt Gijssen
Geurt Gijssen (born 15 August 1934) is a Dutch chess International Arbiter (1979), FIDE Honorary Member (2013).
| Geurt Gijssen | |
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 Geurt Gijssen in 2010 | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Born | 15 August 1934 Emmerich am Rhein |
| Title | International Arbiter (1979) |
Biography
Geurt Gijssen was born in Germany, where his father worked for a tobacco company, but after World War II the family returned to the Netherlands. He has lived in Nijmegen since 1952, where he worked as a mathematics teacher at a secondary school until he retired in 1983.
Geurt Gijssen was well known as a chess tournament referee. He has been the head referee of several Chess Olympiads (1998, 2000, 2002, 2006), as well as several matches and tournaments for World Chess Champion titles:
- Garry Kasparov – Anatoly Karpov (1987, 1990),
- Anatoly Karpov – Gata Kamsky (1996),
- Anatoly Karpov – Vishwanathan Anand (1998),
- FIDE World Chess Championship (1999),
- Vladimir Kramnik – Veselin Topalov (2006).
In 2013, he became a FIDE Honorary Member and in 2019 he received the Golden Pawn for best European Chess Arbiter from the European Chess Union [1][2]
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