Lodewijk Prins 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...

 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...

 player and referee of chess competitions.
Prins was awarded the International Master title in 1950, and was made an International Arbiter

International Arbiter

In chess, International Arbiter is a title awarded by FIDE to individuals deemed capable of acting as arbiter in important chess matches . The title was established in 1951....

 in 1960. In 1982 FIDE made him an honorary Grandmaster.

Prins represented the Netherlands twelve times in all Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

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s from 1937 to 1968. He won two individual silver medals (1939, 1950) and one bronze (1968).

At the beginning of World War II

World War II

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 (1939–1940), he played in tournaments in Holland. In 1940, he won jointly with Salo Landau

Salo Landau

Salo Landau was a Dutch chess player, who died in a Nazi concentration camp.-Early life:...

 and Nicolaas Cortlever

Nicolaas Cortlever

Nicolaas Cortlever was a Dutch chess master.He tied for 7-8th at Rotterdam 1936 ; took 2nd at Amsterdam 1938 ; won at the 2nd Hoogovens Beverwijk 1939 ; tied for 4-6th at Amsterdam I and 3rd-4th at Amsterdam II in 1939.During World War II, he tied for 2nd-3rd at...

 in Leeuwarden, took 2nd, behind Max Euwe

Max Euwe

Machgielis Euwe was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion . Euwe also served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978.- Early years :Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, near Amsterdam...

, in Amsterdam (VVGA), and tied for 3rd-4th in Amsterdam (VAS, Hans Kmoch

Hans Kmoch

Johann "Hans" Joseph Kmoch was an Austrian-Dutch-American chess International Master , International Arbiter , and a chess journalist and author, for which he is best known....

 won). After the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940, his name did not appear in any tournament in the occupied Netherlands because of his Jewish origin.
After the war, he took first place at Hoogovens Beverwijk

Corus chess tournament

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament formerly called the Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands...

 in 1948 and at Madrid

Madrid

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 1951 with 12.5/17, ahead of Herman Steiner

Herman Steiner

Herman Steiner was a United States chess player, organizer, and columnist.He won the U.S. Chess Championship in 1948 and became International Master in 1950....

, Herman Pilnik

Herman Pilnik

Herman Pilnik was an Argentine chess Grandmaster.-Career:...

, and Ossip Bernstein

Ossip Bernstein

Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein was a Russian chess grandmaster and a financial lawyer.-Biography:...

. Prins qualified for the 1952 Interzonal

Interzonal

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 and was Dutch Champion

Dutch Chess Championship

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

 in 1965.

Prins coauthored several chess books with Max Euwe

Max Euwe

Machgielis Euwe was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion . Euwe also served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978.- Early years :Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, near Amsterdam...

, including the 1949 biography of Capablanca Het Schaakphenomeen Capablanca and several tournament books.

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