Piket Jeroen (27.01.1969)

Dutch Grandmaster (1989), Dutch Champion in 1991, 1992 and 1994. Dutch Champion U13, U16, and many times U20, Silver medal at the World Cadet Championship.

Best results: won or shared first at Brussels Iclicki Open 1987, Spijkenisse 1988, Munich 1989, Ostende 1989, Groningen 1992, Dortmund 1994 and Tilburg 1996.

In matches, he lost to John Van der Wiel 2½-1½ in 1986, lost to Viktor Korchnoi 2-6 in 1993, beat Ljubomir Ljubojevic 6-2 and Lev Polugaevsky 4½-3½ in 1994, lost to Alexei Shirov 5½-2½ and Judith Polgar 6-2 in 1995, beat Jan Timman 1½-½ and Joel Lautier 2-0 in 1995, drew with Anatoly Karpov 4-4 in 1999, won an Internet match with Garry Kasparov in 2000.

A participant in the Olympiads between 1988 and 2000, he won a team bronze medal in 1988. Also a member of the national team which won the 2001 European Team Championship where he collected an individual silver medal at board two.

Peak rating: 2670 in 1995, he was then the eleventh world ranked player. Piket retired from chess in 2002 and he is living in Monaco.