Gijsbert Jan (Gijs) van Breukelen
- Birth Date:
- 27.02.1946
- Death date:
- 21.12.2022
- Length of life:
- 76
- Days since birth:
- 28562
- Years since birth:
- 78
- Days since death:
- 506
- Years since death:
- 1
- Categories:
- Chess player
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Gijsbert Jan (Gijs) van Breukelen
He was born in Amsterdam in 1946 and began chesscomposing at the age of seventeen.
Life
Van Breukelen studied Dutch language in Utrecht, and played for the chess club "Paul Keres".
He admires Liburkin, Kasparyan and Marwitz.
Chess composing
About his endgame studies:
In his early studies the influence of naturalism can be seen.
Some of his works are very fine.
Later his style became more eccentric with a preference for lengthy solutions.
One of his chess study got very famous.
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