IMHerman C. Van Riemsdijk

Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk was born in Tiel in the Netherlands in 1948 and moved to Brazil as a child in 1958. He won Brazilian championships in 1970, 1973 and 1988, and the Pan-American championship in 1977. FIDE awarded him the international master title in 1978 and the international arbiter title in 1981. He represented Brazil at eleven Olympiads between 1972 and 1998. Alongside playing, he wrote for chess publications and coauthored Final Countdown, a book on pawn endings, with Willem Hajenius. He also coached junior players. In 2018 he became a FIDE Trainer and captained New Zealand's women's team at the Batumi Olympiad. His son Marius also became an international arbiter.