Fenny Heemskerk was a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 female chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

She won the female Dutch Chess Championship

Dutch Chess Championship

The Dutch Chess Championship was officially established in 1909, although unofficial champions stretch back to the 1870s.-Early years:-Official championships:...

 ten times (1937, 1939, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958 and 1961). Heemskerk won a match against Catharina Roodzant

Catharina Roodzant

Catharina Roodzant was a Dutch female chess master.She won thrice the female Dutch Chess Championship...

 4.5 : 0.5 in 1937, and lost a match to Sonja Graf

Sonja Graf

Sonja Graf was a German chess master who also lived in Argentina and the United States. She was the Women's World Sub-Champion, two-time winner of the U.S...

 0 : 4 in 1939 in Amsterdam.

She took eighth place in Women's World Chess Championship

Women's World Chess Championship

The Women's World Chess Championship is played to determine the women's world champion in chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE....

 at Moscow 1950 (Lyudmila Rudenko

Lyudmila Rudenko

Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko was a Soviet chess player and the second Women's World Chess Champion from 1950 until 1953.She was awarded the FIDE International Master and Woman International Master titles in 1950, and the Woman Grandmaster title in 1976...

 won), tied for second/third in Candidates Tournament at Moscow 1952 (Elisabeth Bykova

Elisabeth Bykova

Elisaveta Ivanovna Bykova was a Soviet chess player and the third and fifth Women's World Chess Champion, from 1953 until 1956, and again from 1958 to 1962.In 1938 she won the women's Moscow championship and after the second world war she was a...

 won), took ninth place in Candidates Tournament at Moscow 1955 (Olga Rubtsova

Olga Rubtsova

Olga Nikolaevna Rubtsova was a Soviet chess player and fourth Women's World Chess Champion.She won the Soviet Women's Championship four times , and was second in the 1950 World Championship, a point behind Lyudmila Rudenko...

 won), tied for 15-16th in Candidates Tournament at Vrnjacka Banja 1961 (Nona Gaprindashvili

Nona Gaprindashvili

Nona Gaprindashvili is a Georgian chess player, the sixth women's world chess champion , and first female Grandmaster. Born in Zugdidi, Georgia , she was the strongest female player of her generation....

 won).

She played in the first Women's Chess Olympiad

Women's Chess Olympiad

The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE since 1957 , where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals....

 at Emmen 1957 - but, sadly, had to withdraw after only two days upon learning her father had died.

Heemskerk was awarded the Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1950, and the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title in 1977.

Fenny Heemskerk was a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau

Order of Orange-Nassau

The Order of Orange-Nassau is a military and civil order of the Netherlands which was created on 4 April 1892 by the Queen regent Emma of the Netherlands, acting on behalf of her under-age daughter Queen Wilhelmina. The Order is a chivalry order open to "everyone who have earned special merits for...

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