Dirk Bleijkmans

Who is Dirk Bleijkmans?

Dirk Bleijkmans was a Dutch chess master.

He twice won unofficial Dutch championship at Leiden 1896 and Leeuwarden 1904. He also tied for 2nd-5th, behind Adolf Georg Olland, at Arnheim 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 at Amsterdam 1897, shared 3rd at Amsterdam 1897, tied for 7-8th at The Hague 1898, and took 7th at Haarlem 1901.

He participated in several international tournaments; took 6th at Berlin 1897, shared 5th at Cologne 1898, tied for 3rd-6th at Amsterdam 1899, shared 3rd at Munich 1900, tied for 16-19th at Hanover 1902, took 11th at Scheveningen 1905, and took 6th at Barmen 1905. Finally, he took 8th at Leiden 1909.

Bleijkmans was an author of Handleiding voor het schaakspel.