Arthur Joseph Wijnans (21 July 1920 – 3 May 1945) was an Indonesia-born Dutch chess player, study composer and member of the Dutch resistance against the Germans in World War II.

He took 3rd in Dutch Chess Championship in 1939, took 4th at Beverwijk 1940 (the 3rd Hoogovens, won by Max Euwe), won at Beverwijk 1941 (the 4th Hoogovens), and shared 2nd, after Arnold van den Hoek, at Beverwijk 1943 ( the 6th Hoogovens). At the end of World War II, he and other winner at Beverwijk, van den Hoek, were transferred to Germany. Wijnans went to Neuengamme concentration camp. He was killed during the allied bombardment of the Cap Arcona on May 3, 1945.

As a student of electrical engineering at the Technical University of Delft, he refused to sign a loyalty declaration in May 1943.

He was caught a few months later and transported to Germany.

He was never heard of again, and might have died during an Allied bombardment in 1945.

(Source: Endgame study composing in the Netherlands and Flanders)

Source: Website ARVES

Others: 9 endgame studies composed by Wijnans are selected on the Dutch Website ARVES

Picture: left is his father