Lucas van Foreest
{{Short description|Dutch chess grandmaster (born 2001)}}
{{family name hatnote|van Foreest|Foreest|lang=Dutch}}
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|name = Lucas van Foreest
|image = LucasvanForeestTata2025.jpg
|caption = Lucas van Foreest, 2025
|birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|3 March 2001}}
|birth_place = Hengelo, Netherlands
|family = Van Foreest
|relatives = {{Unbulleted list |Jorden van Foreest (brother) | Machteld van Foreest (sister)}}
| module = Chess career {{Infobox chess player
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|country = Netherlands
|title = Grandmaster (2018)
|peakrating = 2589 (August 2022)
|FideID = 1039792
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Jhr. Lucas van Foreest (born 3 March 2001) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He won the Dutch Chess Championship in 2019.
Van Foreest earned the International Master title in 2016 and was awarded the Grandmaster title in 2018, at age 17. A member of the Van Foreest family, his brother Jorden won the Dutch Chess Championship in 2016, and both his great-great grandfather Arnold and great-great granduncle Dirk were three-time Dutch Champions.
Chess career
Van Foreest started playing chess aged "around six, seven".{{cite web|url =https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC-KVEohkv8|title =Meet Lucas van Foreest – Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2018 Challenger|publisher =Tata Steel Chess|date =26 January 2018|quote =I started playing around six, seven}}
He achieved his first International Master (IM) norm at the Dutch Team Competition, from September to October 2015. He scored 7/9, which was enough for both the IM norm and Grandmaster (GM) norm.{{cite web|url =https://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=1039792&title=GM&pb=53|title =89th FIDE Congress 2018, 26 Sep – 6 Oct, Batumi, Georgia|publisher =FIDE|author =Staff writer(s)|date =2018}}
He achieved his second IM norm at the Amsterdam Chess Tournament in July 2016, and his third IM norm at the Hoogeveen Open in October 2016.{{cite web|url =https://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=1039792&title=IM&pb=47|title =Title Applications approved by the Presidential Board by written resolution|publisher =FIDE|author =Staff writer(s)|date =2017}}
In January 2017, he won the top amateur group at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, thus qualifying for the Tata Steel Challengers in 2018.{{cite web|url =https://en.chessbase.com/post/tata-steel-chess-2018|title =Tata Steel Chess 2018 field complete|publisher =ChessBase|author =Staff writer(s)|date =12 December 2017}}
He achieved his second GM norm at the 9th Batavia Chess Tournament in March 2017. He shared first with Bobby Cheng on 6½/9 (+6–2=1), finishing second on tiebreak.{{cite web|url =https://www.oogtv.nl/2017/03/lucas-van-foreest-behaalt-tweede-grootmeesterresultaat/|title =Lucas van Foreest behaalt tweede grootmeesterresultaat|publisher =OOG|first =Evert|last =Janse|date =4 March 2017|language =Dutch}}{{cite web|url =https://en.chessbase.com/post/9th-batavia-tournament-won-by-cheng-and-van-foreest|title =9th Batavia tournament won by Cheng and Van Foreest|publisher =ChessBase|first =Alexandr|last =Fier|date =7 March 2017}}
He won the Bruges Masters in August 2017.{{cite web|url =https://www.oogtv.nl/2017/08/lucas-van-foreest-wint-brugse-meesters/|title =Lucas van Foreest wint Brugse Meesters|publisher =OOG|first =Ecco|last =van Oosterhout|date =18 August 2017|language =Dutch}}
Van Foreest competed in the Tata Steel Challengers in January 2018, placing eleventh with a score 5½/13 (+3–5=5).{{cite web|url =https://www.oogtv.nl/2018/01/jorden-van-foreest-speelt-in-laatste-ronde-remise-tegen-de-winnaar-en-lucas-van-foreest-wint/|title =Jorden van Foreest speelt in laatste ronde remise tegen de winnaar en Lucas van Foreest wint|first =Evert|last =Janse|publisher =OOG|date =28 January 2018|language =Dutch}}
He competed at the Open Dutch Championship, held from 24 July to 2 August. He shared first with Erwin l'Ami and Erik van den Doel on 7/9, achieving his third GM norm in the process.{{cite web|url =https://rheden.nieuws.nl/nieuws/124066/misschien-wel-het-mooiste-open-nk-schaken/|title =Misschien wel het mooiste Open NK Schaken|website =Rheden Nieuws|author =Staff writer{s}|date =3 August 2018|language =Dutch}} He was awarded the GM title by FIDE in October 2018.
{{As of|2018|July}}, Van Foreest is a student of Sergei Tiviakov.{{cite web|url =https://en.chessbase.com/post/you-have-to-work-hard-on-chess-an-interview-with-sergey-tiviakov|title =Tiviakov: "You have to work hard on chess"|first =André|last =Schulz|publisher =ChessBase|date =12 July 2018}}
Van Foreest competed in the Tata Steel Challengers again in January 2019, scoring 6/13 (+2–3=8) for a ninth-place finish.{{cite web|url =https://en.chessbase.com/post/tata-steel-chess-carlsen-wins-his-seventh-title|title =Tata Steel Chess: Carlsen wins his seventh title|first =Aditya|last =Pai|publisher =ChessBase|date =28 January 2019}} In March, he participated in the European Individual Chess Championship. He placed 60th with 6½/11 (+5–3=3) for a {{chessgloss|performance rating}} of 2634.[http://chess-results.com/tnr404992.aspx?lan=1&art=9&fedb=GER&fed=NED&turdet=NO&flag=30&snr=124 European Individual Chess Championship 2019: Van Foreest Lucas] Chess-Results In July, Van Foreest won the Dutch Chess Championship. He tied for first with 5/7 (+3–0=4), and defeated his elder brother Jorden on tiebreak to win the title.{{cite web|url =https://de.chessbase.com/post/niederlaendische-meisterschaft-lucas-van-foreest-siegt-nach-tiebreak|title =Niederländische Meisterschaft: Lucas van Foreest siegt nach Tiebreak|first =Klaus|last =Besenthal|publisher =ChessBase|date =7 July 2019|language =German}}
Personal life
Born in Hengelo on 3 March 2001,{{cite web|url =http://lucas.vanforeest.com/|title =Lucas van Foreest|website =vanforeest.com|author =Administrator|date =2018}} Van Foreest comes from the noble Van Foreest family and has the honorific of jonkheer.{{cite web|url =https://www.volkskrant.nl/sport/jonkheer-van-17-zet-dynastie-met-schaaktitel-voort~a4366092/|title =Jonkheer van 17 zet dynastie met schaaktitel voort|website =de Volkskrant|first =Gert|last =Ligterink|date =28 August 2016|language =Dutch}}{{cite news|url =https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2015/08/28/een-wonderlijk-gronings-schaakgezin-1530070-a157074|title =Een wonderlijk Gronings schaakgezin|first =Steven|last =Verseput|newspaper =NRC|date =28 August 2015|quote =Het talent zit in het bloed bij de familie Van Foreest – van het adellijk geslacht, met het predicaat jonkheer.|language =Dutch}} He is the great-great grandson of Arnold van Foreest and great-great grandnephew of Dirk van Foreest. Both Arnold and Dirk were three-time Dutch Chess Champions (Arnold: 1889, 1893, 1902; Dirk: 1885, 1886, 1887).{{cite web|url =https://chess24.com/en/read/news/jorden-van-foreest-on-his-career-so-far|title =Jorden van Foreest on his career so far|first =Dorsa|last =Derakhshani|publisher = Chess24|date =4 January 2017}}
Lucas has four brothers and one sister.{{cite news|url =https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/03/11/een-excentriek-zetje-7291923-a1549881|title =Een excentriek zetje|newspaper =NRC|first =Hans|last =Ree|date =11 March 2017|language =Dutch}} His eldest brother, Jorden (born 1999), became the youngest chess grandmaster in Dutch history at the age of 16, and won the Dutch Chess Championship at age 17 in 2016. His sister, Machteld (born 2007), won the Dutch Girls' U10 Championship at the age of 6 and shared second place in the Dutch Girls' U20 Championship when she was 9. In 2017, she became the first girl ever to win the Dutch U12 Championship.{{cite web|url =https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/2doc/2017/familie-van-foreest.html|title =De stelling Van Foreest, een schaakfamilie|author =Staff writer(s)|publisher =VPRO|date =26 June 2017|language =Dutch|access-date =10 October 2018|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20181010095327/https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/2doc/2017/familie-van-foreest.html|archive-date =10 October 2018|url-status =dead}} In 2022, she won the Dutch Women's Championship.
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Category:Jonkheers of the Netherlands