Louis van Vliet was a Dutch chess

Chess

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 master.

He took 4th at Amsterdam 1889 (Amos Burn

Amos Burn

Amos Burn was an English chess player, one of the world's leading players at the end of the 19th century, and a chess writer....

 won), 6-8th at London 1889 (Henry Edward Bird won), took 19th at Manchester 1890 (the 6th British Chess Federation Congress, Siegbert Tarrasch

Siegbert Tarrasch

Siegbert Tarrasch was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th century and early 20th century....

 won), took 2nd, behind Rudolf Loman

Rudolf Loman

Rudolf Loman was a Dutch chess master.Loman had been living in London for a number of years. He played chess for money against rich Englishmen, like his Dutch pupil Jacques Davidson, though he had another profession, organ player...

, at London 1891, took 10th at London 1891 (Bird won), took 9th at London 1892 (Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years...

 won), took 5th at London 1893 (Joseph Henry Blackburne

Joseph Henry Blackburne

Joseph Henry Blackburne , nicknamed "The Black Death", dominated British chess during the latter part of the 19th century. He learned the game at the relatively late age of 18 but quickly became a strong player and went on to develop a professional chess career that spanned over 50 years...

 won), tied for 2nd-3rd at London 1896 (Richard Teichmann

Richard Teichmann

Richard Teichmann was a German chess master.He was known as "Richard the Fifth" because he often finished in fifth place in tournaments. But in Karlsbad 1911, he scored a convincing win, crushing Akiba Rubinstein and Carl Schlechter with the same line of the Ruy Lopez...

 won).

He tied for 3rd-4th and took 5th at London 1900 (Teichmann won), took 6th (William Ewart Napier

William Ewart Napier

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 won) and 5th at London 1904 (Teichmann won), tied for 27-28th at Ostend 1907 (B tournament, Ossip Bernstein

Ossip Bernstein

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

 and Akiba Rubinstein

Akiba Rubinstein

Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein was a famous Polish chess Grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century. He was scheduled to play a match with Emanuel Lasker for the world championship in 1914, but it was cancelled because of the outbreak of World War I...

 won).
Louis van Vliet lost the only game played with Dr. Walter Romain Lovegrove in London in 1912.

Van Vliet died in London

London

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 on 15 June 1932.

Further reading

• British Chess Magazine
  British Chess Magazine
  British Chess Magazine is the world's oldest chess magazine in continuous publication. First published in January 1881, it has appeared at monthly intervals ever since. It is frequently known in the chess world as BCM....
  
  , 1932, p. 331, 394