Hans Maarten Timotheus "Tim" Krabbé (born 13 April 1943) is a Dutch journalist, novelist and chess player.
 Krabbé in 1969 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Hans Maarten Timotheus Krabbé[1] |
| Born | 13 April 1943 (age 83) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Peak rating | 2290 (January 1990) |
| Peak ranking | 3,800th (January 1990) |
Krabbé was born in Amsterdam. His writing has appeared in most major periodicals in the Netherlands. Once a competitive cyclist, he is known to Dutch readers for his novel De Renner (The Rider), first published in 1978 and translated into English in 2002, of which The Guardian's Matt Seaton wrote: "Nothing better is ever likely to be written on the subjective experience of cycle-racing".[2] English readers know him primarily for The Vanishing (Dutch: Spoorloos, literally: "Traceless" or "Without a Trace"), the translation of his 1984 novel Het Gouden Ei (The Golden Egg), which was made into an acclaimed 1988 Dutch film for which Krabbé co-wrote a script. A poorly received American remake was made in 1993. In 1997 he published De grot, translated as The Cave and published in the U.S. in 2000. In 2009, he wrote the "Boekenweekgeschenk", called Een Tafel vol Vlinders.
Krabbé is a strong chess player who competed in two Dutch Chess Championships in 1967 and 1971. He maintains a chess website, and is renowned for his writings on the subject,[citation needed] in particular on chess problems; for instance, one of his publications is devoted to the Babson task.[3] No longer an active player, his peak FIDE rating was 2290.[4]
His father was the painter Maarten Krabbé (1908–2005) and his mother the Jewish film translator Margreet Reiss. He is the brother of actor Jeroen Krabbé and the multimedia artist/designer Mirko Krabbé, and the uncle of Martijn Krabbé, a Dutch media personality.
Vertical castling
editA popular story says that in 1972, Krabbé published a chess problem only solvable by a loophole in FIDE's rulebook. By promoting a pawn to a rook, that newly formed rook had not yet moved and so could be used for castling. This problem would have led FIDE to change castling rules and specify king and rook must be on the same rank.[5] That story, however, is likely a hoax. Krabbé published a paper in 1976 referring to a 1971 problem by J. L. Seret based on that idea, and admitting that the rules already required king and rook to be on the same rank.[6] This vertical castling idea was dubbed the Staugaard-Rochade and has examples dating back to 1907,[7] but has been banned by FIDE rules since at least 1930. [8]
References
edit- ↑ de Leeuw, R. (2012). De zin van het leven: het bestaan verlicht door veertig eigenzinnige geesten. Netherlands: Overamstel Uitgevers.
- ↑ Seaton, Matt (30 June 2005). "Matt Seaton's top 10 books about cycling". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
- ↑ Krabbé, Tim (1986). De man die de Babson task wilde maken. Nova Zembla. ISBN 9070711117.
- ↑ Tim Krabbe at Olimpbase
- ↑ "This Mate in 2 Puzzle Forced FIDE to Change the Rules of Chess 😱 – ChessTerra.com". 2022-06-03. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ Krabbe, Tim (May 1976). "On Castling" (PDF). Chess Life and Review.
- ↑ Staugaard, Conrad (1907). "P1277302".
- ↑ {{Cite book |last=E |first=F. I. D. |title=Règle du Jeu d’Échecs de la F. I. D. E. (édition officielle 1930)]] (Il existe un texte préliminaire de l'avant-projet 1928 : [[Règle du Jeu des Échecs de la F. I. D. E. (avant-projet, juin 1928)) |date=1930 |pages=titre–– |url=https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/R%C3%A8gle_du_Jeu_d%E2%80%99%C3%89checs_de_la_F._I._D._E._(%C3%A9dition_officielle_1930) |access-date=2026-06-08 |place=Bruxelles}}
External links
edit- Official website (in Dutch)
- "Chess Curiosities".
Open Chess Diary updated only occasionally after April 2009, many other sections last updated much earlier
- "Chess Curiosities".
- Tim Krabbe rating card at FIDE
- Tim Krabbe player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- van Erikweijers, Berichten (Sep 29, 2011). "Krabbé's random word". Review of The Rider (in Dutch).
The word: Batüwü Griekgriek [Battoowoo Greekgreek]
- Tuohey, Robert T. "Chessville Plays 20 Questions with Tim Krabbé". Chessville. Archived from the original on January 30, 2005.
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