Dirk Bleijkmans

{{Short description|Dutch chess player (1875–1944)}}

Jan Dirk Bleijkmans (Bleykmans) (16 May 1875 – 27 December 1944)[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=10576 Dirk Bleijkmans] at chessgames.com was a Dutch chess master.

Bleijkmans was born in Amsterdam as the son of Karel Bleijkmans and Johanna Sophia van Wulften.[https://archief.amsterdam/18008sEili3Ri01/indexen/bevolkingsregisters_1874-1893 Amsterdam Bevolkingsregisters 1874-1893]{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He twice won unofficial Dutch championship (The Netherland Chess Federation Tourney) at Leiden 1896 and Leeuwarden 1904. He also tied for 2nd-5th, behind Adolf Georg Olland, at Arnhem 1895, took 2nd, behind Arnold van Foreest, at Groningen 1896, shared 2nd, behind Rudolf Loman, at Utrecht 1897. He lost a match to Norman van Lennep (0–3) at Amsterdam 1897,[http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/SingleEvent.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S013169000000141000112400002810100 Chessmetrics.com - Bleijkmans, Dirk] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530234611/http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/SingleEvent.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S013169000000141000112400002810100 |date=May 30, 2012 }} shared 3rd at Amsterdam 1897, tied for 7-8th at The Hague 1898, and took 7th at Haarlem 1901.[http://edochess.ca/players/p592.html Edo Historical Chess Ratings - Bleijkmans, Dirk]

He participated in several international tournaments; took 6th at Berlin 1897 (Ignatz von Popiel won), shared 5th at Cologne 1898 (the 11th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier B, Salomon Löwenthal won), tied for 3rd-6th at Amsterdam 1899 (Henry Ernest Atkins won),{{cite web |url=http://storiascacchi.altervista.org/storiascacchi/tornei/1851-99/1899amsterdam.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215011951/http://storiascacchi.altervista.org/storiascacchi/tornei/1851-99/1899amsterdam.htm |archive-date=2010-12-15 |title=amsterdam}} shared 3rd at Munich 1900 (the 12th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier B, Section I), tied for 16-19th at Hanover 1902 (the 13th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier A, Walter John won), took 11th at Scheveningen 1905 (Frank James Marshall won),{{cite web |url=http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1905schev.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040106201032/http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1905schev.htm |archive-date=2004-01-06 |title=schev}} and took 6th at Barmen 1905 (Hauptturnier A, Akiba Rubinstein and Oldřich Duras won).{{cite web |url=http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1905barmenc.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040106201227/http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1905barmenc.htm |archive-date=2004-01-06 |title=barmenc}} Finally, he took 8th at Leiden 1909 (the 1st official Dutch Chess Championship won by Olland).[http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |date=July 4, 2007 }}

Bleijkmans was an author of Handleiding voor het schaakspel (1917).{{cite web |url=http://www.maxeuwe.nl/opauteur.html |title=Max Euwe Centrum - Bibliotheek - Boeken op Auteur |accessdate=2010-07-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110216071026/http://www.maxeuwe.nl/opauteur.html |archivedate=2011-02-16 }}

He was the champion of the island Java (now Jawa, Indonesia), and played Alexander Alekhine in a simultaneous game in Batavia (now Jakarta) in 1933.