Dutch chess grandmaster and politician (born 1972)
In this Dutch name, the surname is van Wely, not Wely.
Loek van Wely
Loek van Wely at the 2022 European Corporate Chess Championship
Country
Netherlands
Born
(1972-10-07) 7 October 1972 (age 51) Heesch, Netherlands
Title
Grandmaster (1993)
FIDE rating
2607 (June 2024)
Peak rating
2714 (October 2001)
Peak ranking
No. 10 (October 2001)
Loek van Wely (born 7 October 1972) is a Dutch chess player and politician. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1993, and was rated among the world's top ten in 2001 with a rating of 2714. In March 2019, he was elected to the Dutch Senate for the right-wing Forum for Democracy;[1] however, on 8 December 2020 he switched his party allegiance to the van Pareren group,[2] which is now affiliated with the right-wing JA21 party.
^"Baudets vertrouwelingen belanden in Eerste Kamer". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). 2019-03-21.
^Senator Van Wely keert FvD de rug toe en sluit zich aan bij fractie-Van Pareren, parlement.com, 8 december 2020
a1=Q+, Black wins.[citation needed] This 2007 game, Magnus Carlsen–LoekvanWely, ended in stalemate. White used the second-rank defense in a rook and...
move 98. Carlsen vs. VanWely The second-rank defense was used by 16-year-old Magnus Carlsen in this 2007 game against LoekvanWely. 64. Rd2 Rh3 65. Rc2...
Defence (A48)". Chessgames.com. Retrieved 2016-03-09. "LoekVanWely vs. Peter Leko (1996) "Loek of the Draw"". Chessgames.com. Tangborn, Eric (1993)....
played the Dutch grandmaster LoekvanWely in a 137-game blitz match on the ICC, the final score of which was 67½–71½ to vanWely. He is part of the Schachverein...
score of 8 points out of 13 (+5-2=6), defeating Michael Adams, Wei Yi, LoekVanWely, Pavel Eljanov, and Ding Liren, and losing to David Navara and Evgeny...
several grandmasters such as Andrei Volokitin, Alexander Grischuk and LoekvanWely. The Mayet Defence, named after Carl Mayet, is played very rarely as...
Championships in Gothenburg in 2005, alongside LoekvanWely, Ivan Sokolov, Sergei Tiviakov, and Erik van den Doel. In 2006 he won the Sigeman Tournament...
Ilya Smirin, Ivan Sokolov, Arkadij Naiditsch, Krishnan Sasikiran and LoekvanWely. Malaniuk had also been a strong player at standard time limits, winning...
later he started his collaboration with another Dutch grandmaster, LoekvanWely. From 2009 he worked for four years as the head coach of the Royal Dutch...
round-robin VAM Hoogeveen Tournament in 1997 (ahead of Judit Polgár, LoekvanWely, and Vasily Smyslov) and winning Hastings 2000 (ahead of Alexey Dreev...
fourth places respectively, with outstanding performances coming from LoekvanWely (also undefeated) for Porz and Vladimir Baklan and David Baramidze for...
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