Hendrik Mesman
- Birth Date:
- 00.00.1919
- Death date:
- 12.10.2006
- Length of life:
- 87
- Days since birth:
- 38482
- Years since birth:
- 105
- Days since death:
- 6420
- Years since death:
- 17
- Categories:
- Chess player
- Nationality:
- belgian
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Hendrik (Henk) Gerard Antoon Mesman (Belgium, 1919 - Netherlands 12.10.2006) was born in Antwerp in 1919.
Mesman was a former chessmaster and study composer of chess from Rotterdam.
Life:
"He was taken prisoner of war in 1940 but escaped the same night!" (Source: Endgame study composing in the Netherlands and Flanders" by Jan Van Reek and Van Donk).
About his chess studies:
His interest in the chess study started 1945, when he tried to solve a study by Kok.
He started composing and won the Postma thematic tourney in 1946.
Mesman`s best studies are subtle chess miniatures"
Source: Endgame study composing in the Netherlands and Flanders" by Jan Van Reek and Van Donk
Website: Dutch Website ARVES.org
Others: On Website ARVES are 7 chess studies selected. One of them got the 1.prize.
Source: arves.org (editor Peter Boll)
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