Harold van der Heijden

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Harold van der Heijden, a Dutch chess endgame study composer, collector and researcher, awarded in 2001 by the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC) with the title of International Judge for Chess Compositions for endgame studies, and secretary of the Dutch-Flemish ARVES, the Alexander Rueb Vereniging voor Schaakeindspelstudie. Van der Heijden maintains and sells the largest collection of endgame studies in PGN-format, and is along with Azlan Iqbal, Matej Guid, Eiko Bleicher and Guy Haworth involved in Data-Mining of Endgame Tablebases in conjunction with his endgame study database.

=Publications=

1996 ...

 * Harold van der Heijden (1996). Pawn Promotion, New in Chess, Alkmaar ISBN 90-5691-005-1

2000 ...

 * Harold van der Heijden (2001). Endgame Tables and Endgame Study Composition. ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2

2010 ...

 * Azlan Iqbal, Harold van der Heijden, Matej Guid (2010). Research Grant to Investigate Multi-Dimensional Aesthetic Perception using Endgame Studies, EG, Alexander Rueb Vereniging voor Schaakeindspelstudie (ARVES), No. 180, Vol. XVI
 * Eiko Bleicher, Guy Haworth, Harold van der Heijden (2010). Data-Mining Chess Databases. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 4
 * Guy Haworth, Eiko Bleicher, Harold van der Heijden (2011). Uniqueness in Chess Studies. ICGA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1
 * Guy Haworth, Harold van der Heijden, Eiko Bleicher (2011). Zugzwangs in Chess Studies. ICGA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2
 * Azlan Iqbal, Harold van der Heijden, Matej Guid, Ali Makhmali (2012). Evaluating the Aesthetics of Endgame Studies: A Computational Model of Human Aesthetic Perception. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, Vol. 4, No. 3

=External Links=
 * Harold van der Heijden from Wikipedia
 * Harold van der Heijden - Endgame Study Database IV
 * Alexander Rueb Vereniging voor SchaakEindspelStudie - Dutch-Flemish Association for Endgame Study
 * CSS Shop Problemschach & Studien review by Emil Vlasák on Harold van der Heijden’s database of Endgame studies
 * 76,132 studies – It's the thought that counts, ChessBase News, March 02, 2012
 * A computer program to identify beauty in problems and studies by Azlan Iqbal, ChessBase News, December 15, 2012

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