Johannes Addicks


Johannes Hermanus Addicks was a Dutch chess player, Dutch Chess Championship silver medalist.

Biography

Johannes Addicks was a member of the famous watchmaker family in Amsterdam. In the 1920s and 1930s he was one of the leading Dutch chess players, participant in several international chess tournaments held in the Netherlands.
In 1925, in simultaneous exhibition Johannes Addicks defeated the future world chess champion Alexander Alekhine.
Johannes Addicks played for Netherlands in the Chess Olympiad: