GMJorden Van Foreest

Jorden van Foreest learned chess from his father at six and began playing regularly at nine. Raised in Groningen with five siblings, he belongs to a family whose chess history includes nineteenth-century Dutch champions Arnold and Dirk van Foreest. He won the European under-fourteen championship in 2013 and received the grandmaster title in 2016. That year he also won his first Dutch national championship. He became a full-time professional after graduating from school in 2018. His greatest tournament success came at Tata Steel in 2021, where he defeated Anish Giri in a playoff to become the first Dutch winner at Wijk aan Zee since Jan Timman in 1985. Later that year he helped Magnus Carlsen prepare for his world-title defence. He won the Dutch championship again in 2025.