Adriaan de Groot
Dutch chess player and psychologist (1914-2006) · Netherlands · On the map · Chess Players · Died at 91
Adrianus Dingeman (Adriaan) de Groot was a Dutch chess master and psychologist, who conducted some of the most famous chess experiments of all time in the 1940s-60. In 1946 he wrote his thesis Het denken van den schaker, which in 1965 was translated into English and published as Thought and choice in chess.
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De Groot played for the Netherlands in the Chess Olympiads of 1937 and 1939. In 1973 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
