Anton (Teun) Balemans
- Birth Date:
- 18.12.1951
- Death date:
- 03.04.2019
- Length of life:
- 67
- Days since birth:
- 26441
- Years since birth:
- 72
- Days since death:
- 1863
- Years since death:
- 5
- Categories:
- Chess player
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Anton (Teun) Balemans (The Netherlands, 18.12.1951 - 03.04.2019).
Philosopher, strong chess player, chess composer of chess studies (60) and author
He had lived most of his life in Eindhoven, finished gymnasium alpha, studied some time and became a freelance and parttime journalist. His other interests, such as literature, get in the way of a professional career. In his youth, he was a strong over the board player, and became known as a first team player for Eindhoven with a rating of circa 2300 elo. When he was about twenty - one his interest shifted to endgame study composing. His chess studies show great analytical strength. (Info taken from: "Endgame study composing in the Netherlands and Flanders" by Jan van Reek and Henk van Donk).
Endgame studies in Internet: On the Dutch Website ARVES are 16 chess studies composed by him selected.
Source: Website arves.org
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