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    Joop van Oosterom (12 December 1937 – 22 October 2016) was a Dutch billionaire, chess and billiards sponsor, and twice correspondence chess world champion...
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  • (1910-1992), Dutch footballer Joop van Oosterom (1937–2016), Dutch billionaire and twice correspondence chess world champion Jozef J.L. Joop Pelser (1892–1974),...
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  • (born 1974), Dutch classical pianist Robert van Oosterom (born 1968), Dutch cricketer Joop van Oosterom (1937–2016), Dutch IT entrepreneur, chess sponsor...
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    last a long time, they may overlap: for instance, in February 2005 Joop van Oosterom was declared winner of the eighteenth Championship (which began in...
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    that, about 15 years earlier, "a very nice Dutch billionaire named Joop van Oosterom" had offered to help Polgár "adopt three boys from a developing country...
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    (1860–1913), Dutch physician and museum director in South Africa Joop van Oosterom (1937–2016), Dutch billionaire and chess and billiards sponsor Bessel...
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    become the personal secretary of businessman Joop van Oosterom. A few years later, in 2005, Van Oosterom won the Correspondence chess World Championship...
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    last a long time, they may overlap: for instance, in February 2005 Joop van Oosterom was declared winner of the eighteenth Championship (which began in...
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  • the Dutch businessman and world champion of correspondence chess, Joop van Oosterom. Named after his daughter, the tournament was usually held in March...
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  • Berliner's 2726 rating placed him third on the ICCF's world list, behind Joop van Oosterom (2777) and Ulf Andersson (2737). Berliner started a new career in...
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