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Jan Hein Donner was a Dutch chess grandmaster and author. He was born in The Hague, Netherlands, on 6 July 1927. He was the Dutch champion in 1951, 1953, and 1955, and won the Dutch team championship with the Amsterdam team in 1954. He was awarded the International Master title in 1950 and the Grandmaster title in 1954. Donner was a prolific author, writing books on chess, politics, and philosophy. He was a member of the Dutch Parliament from 1971 to 1977, and was a member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1984. Donner died on 28 April 1988 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He was 61 years old.

Popular As Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner
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Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 6 July 1927
Birthday 6 July
Birthplace The Hague, Netherlands
Date of death (1988-11-27)
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Nationality The Netherlands

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2006

In 2006, New in Chess published an English translation of the complete De Koning, entitled The King: Chess Pieces. An abridged edition had previously appeared in English in the 1990s.

1988

In 1987, the book De Koning ("The King") was published, which contained 162 of his chess columns, all but the last written between 1950 and 1983, collected by Tim Krabbé and Max Pam. Also in 1987, Donner received the Henriёtte Roland-Holst Prize, one of the Netherlands' most prestigious literary awards, for Na mijn dood geschreven ("Written after my death"), a selection from the mini-columns he had written for NRC Handelsblad. On November 27, 1988, Donner died of a gastric hemorrhage. He is buried at Zorgvlied cemetery.

1983

On August 24, 1983 Donner suffered a stroke, which he wrote happened "just in time, because when you are 56 you do not play chess as well as you did when you were 26". After surviving the stroke, he went to live in Vreugdehof, which he described as "a kind of nursing-home". He was unable to walk, but had learned to type with one finger, and wrote for NRC Handelsblad and Schaaknieuws.

1927

Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner (July 6, 1927 – November 27, 1988) was a Dutch chess grandmaster (GM) and writer. Donner was born in The Hague and won the Dutch Championship in 1954, 1957, and 1958. He took part in the Internacional Chess Tournament (1956), Donner came third, behind Larsen and Darga. FIDE, the World Chess Federation, awarded him the GM title in 1959. He played for the Netherlands in the Chess Olympiads 11 times (1950–1954, 1958–1962, 1968, 1972–1978). He was the uncle of the former Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Piet Hein Donner.