Adolf Georg Olland
Chess Player
1867 – 1933
Who was Adolf Georg Olland?
Adolf Georg Olland was the leading Dutch chess master in the time before Max Euwe. Born in Utrecht, he was a medical doctor.
Olland took 3rd at Amsterdam 1887; shared 1st at Amsterdam 1889; took 2nd, behind Rudolf Loman, at Utrecht 1891; took 5th at Groningen 1893; took 2nd, behind Loman, at Rotterdam 1894; shared 1st at Arnheim 1895; took 2nd at Amsterdam 1899 behind Henry Ernest Atkins; took 2nd, behind Rudolf Swiderski, at Munich 1900.
Olland won at Haarlem 1901; took 8th at Hannover 1902; took 19th at Carlsbad 1907. He shared 1st with Abraham Speijer at Leiden 1909; took 4th at Stockholm 1912; took 3rd at Scheveningen 1913.
He tied for 7-8th at Hastings 1919; tied for 14-15th at Göteborg; took 3rd at Utrecht 1920; tied for 3rd-4th at Nijmegen 1921; took 18th at Scheveningen 1923; took 3rd at Utrecht 1927; took 7th at Amsterdam 1929; took 8th at The Hague–Leiden 1933.
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- Born
- Apr 13, 1867
Utrecht - Nationality
- Netherlands
- Died
- Jul 22, 1933
The Hague
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on July 23, 2013
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