Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner (July 6, 1927 – November 27, 1988) was a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. Donner was born in The Hague and won the Dutch Championship in 1954, 1957, and 1958. He took part in the Internacional Chess Tournament (1956), Donner came third, behind Larsen and Darga.[1] FIDE, the World Chess Federation, awarded him the GM title in 1959. He played for the Netherlands in the Chess Olympiads 11 times (1950–1954, 1958–1962, 1968, 1972–1978).[2] He was the uncle of the former Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Piet Hein Donner.
On August 24, 1983, Donner suffered a stroke, which he wrote happened "just in time, because when you are 56 you do not play chess as well as you did when you were 26".[3] After surviving the stroke, he went to live in Vreugdehof, which he described as "a kind of nursing-home". He was unable to walk, but had learned to type with one finger, and wrote for NRC Handelsblad and Schaaknieuws.[4]
The character Onno Quist in the novel (and film) The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch is based on Donner.
^Mendez, Pedro; Mendez, Luis (2019). The Gijon International Chess Tournaments. McFarland. p. 171. ISBN 978-1-4766-7659-3.
^"Men's Chess Olympiads: Jan Donner". OlimpBase. Archived from the original on 19 May 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
^Donner 2006, p. 5.
^Donner 2006, p. 381 (originally published in Schaaknieuws, 20 September 1986).
Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner (July 6, 1927 – November 27, 1988) was a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. Donner was born in The Hague and won the...
player JanHeinDonner and the jurist André Donner, and the grandfather of the former Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Piet HeinDonner. "Mr.Dr...
State on 21 December 2018. The Donner family has produced a number of Calvinist judges. Piet HeinDonner's father, André Donner, was a judge at the European...
Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, Jan Timman, Anatoly Karpov, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Vladimir Kramnik, Garry Kasparov...
field adopted: Series Three (1977-78) First Prize: £1250 Participants: JanHeinDonner, Bill Hartston, Werner Hug, Anatoly Karpov (winner), Bent Larsen, Tony...
(House of Frankenstein, The Grapes of Wrath), heart and kidney failure. JanHeinDonner, 61, Dutch chess grandmaster and writer, gastric hemorrhage. Takieddin...
subtle, seemingly effortless positional mastery. 1978: Liu Wenzhe vs JanHeinDonner, Buenos Aires. "The Chinese Immortal"; at China's first olympiad, the...
Championship Frank Marshall vs Arthur William Dake New York, NY (1931) JanHeinDonner vs Savielly Tartakower, Amsterdam (1950), Amsterdam NED, rd 15, Nov-30...
Grandmaster status, making him the Netherlands' third after Max Euwe and JanHeinDonner. In the same year he won the Dutch Championship for the first time...
professed a general hatred for Jews from at least the early 1960s. JanHeinDonner wrote that at the time of Bled 1961, "He idolized Hitler and read everything...
to the exhibitor by an arbiter or intermediary. Dutch grandmaster JanHeinDonner offered the following advice to a player taking a board at a simultaneous...
Germany), Miguel Najdorf (Argentina), Borislav Ivkov (Yugoslavia), and JanHeinDonner (Netherlands). Interest in the tournament was unusually high for a...
JanHeinDonner behind Borislav Milić) and 3rd place (in 1958, together with Aleksandar Matanović and Gideon Ståhlberg behind Max Euwe and JanHein Donner)...
Landau in 1936, when Euwe, then world champion, did not compete; and JanHeinDonner in 1954. He became the world amateur chess champion in 1928, at The...
a stunning queen sacrifice a top Western Grandmaster, the hapless JanHeinDonner of The Netherlands, in just 20 moves. Since then, China has made rapid...
took the Dutch Chess Championship at The Hague in 1961, defeating JanHeinDonner on the way. In 1962, he was co-winner of the traditional IBM international...
Gijón International Chess Tournament in 1956, ahead of Klaus Darga and JanHeinDonner, and in the same year won at Copenhagen with 8/9. Larsen became an...
for 8-9th at Beverwijk 1948 (Prins won); took 4th at Beverwijk 1950 (JanHeinDonner won). He took 4th at Amsterdam 1950 (15th NED-ch, Euwe won); tied for...
greats of his time: Robert James Fischer, Bent Larsen, Efim Geller, JanHeinDonner, Arturo Pomar, Jonathan Penrose, or mentioned Oscar Panno. Keller was...
actor (b, 1952) 1988 – John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906) 1988 – JanHeinDonner, Dutch chess player and author (b. 1927) 1989 – Carlos Arias Navarro...
a score of 2430 points, sharing 3rd place at that time (behind JanHeinDonner and Jan Timman , together with Hans Bouwmeester, Hans Ree and Coen Zuidema)...
Ratmir Kholmov. Portisch won Amsterdam IBM 1963 with 6/9 ahead of JanHeinDonner. He won Sarajevo 1963 with 7/11, ahead of Gligoric, Vladimir Simagin...
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