Jeroen Piket

Infobox chess player
playername = Jeroen Piket


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birthname = Jeroen Piket
country = NED
datebirth = birth date and age|1969|1|27
placebirth = Leiden, The Netherlands
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title = Grandmaster
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peakrating = 2670 (January 1995)

Jeroen Piket (born January 27, 1969 in Leiden, The Netherlands) is a retired Dutch chess player who earned the Grandmaster title in 1989. He won the Dutch Chess Championship in 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1994. Other notable results include a second place at the Hoogovens tournament 1997. He drew a match against Anatoly Karpov held 21 February to 2 March 1999 in Monaco, by the score 4–4 (all eight games were drawn). [citation|last=Crowther|first=Mark|date=8 March 1999|title=THE WEEK IN CHESS: Karpov-Piket Match|url=http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic226#4|publisher=London Chess Center] The following year he won an internet tournament organised by kasparovchess.com, beating Garry Kasparov in the final.

Piket retired from chess in 2001 to become the personal secretary of billionaire Joop van Oosterom. A few years later, in 2005, Van Oosterom won the Correspondence chess World Championship, causing Tim Krabbé to write: "The Turk was operated by William Schlumberger, Mephisto was operated by Isidore Gunsberg, Ajeeb was operated by Harry Pillsbury and Joop van Oosterom is operated by Jeroen Piket." [ [http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/admag/oosterom.htm Wereldkampioen delegeren] , by Tim Krabbé, originally published in the "Algemeen Dagblad", April 2, 2005.]

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