Daniël Noteboom (26 February 1910 – 12 January 1932) was a Dutch chess player. He gained notice at the 1930 Chess Olympiad at Hamburg, scoring 11½/15, including a win against Salo Flohr .
17-582: Noteboom was born in Noordwijk . He learned to play chess at the age of 12, and at 14 won a local tournament in Noordwijk. At the age of 15 he was admitted to the Leiden Chess Society, following a special dispensation from the secretary of the club – at the time chess clubs were generally reserved for adult men with social standing and he was supposed to be too young to be included. In the next few years he won
34-544: A very original Dutch dialect, which sounds like Katwijks , but in Noordwijk the dialect is almost gone, compared to Katwijk, where more people speak in (partly) dialect. Because of the martyrdom of Priest Jeroen in 857, the Archbishop of Utrecht made Noordwijk-Binnen a pilgrimage location in 1429. Both the Catholic and Protestant churches here are named after this priest. Noordwijk-Binnen has retained its historic character and
51-520: Is Langeveld, situated amongst the dunes of the Dutch west coast between Zandvoort and Noordwijk . The club flies on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays from March till November. Wednesday evening flights give passengers the chance to fly in a two-seater glider. The club is equipped with a former RAF MEL-winch with six cables. The KZC is one of the few clubs in the Netherlands that is able to benefit from what
68-623: Is also known as the Abrahams Defence after the late English master Gerald Abrahams . This biographical article relating to a Dutch chess figure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Noordwijk Noordwijk ( pronounced [ˈnoːrtʋɛik] ) is a town and municipality in the west of the Netherlands , in the province of South Holland . The municipality covers an area of 74.94 km (28.93 sq mi) of which 16.57 km (6.40 sq mi)
85-418: Is called Ridgelift . When the wind blows from the northwest, it is deflected upwards by the local dunes: if the speed of the wind is great enough, the uplift provided by the air rising from the dunes is strong enough to match a glider's weight, and it is possible to fly parallel to the dunes without descending. Gliders then land on the beach for derigging and transport back to Langeveld by trailer. (The airfield
102-673: Is formed of Noordwijk together with surrounding municipalities. North (and to a lesser extent south) of Noordwijk spreads a relatively vast dune area, in which a varied wild flora and fauna (with among others pine forests and deer) is observable for bikers, walkers and gallopers. North of Noordwijk, large areas of dunes are covered by the natura 2000 act. Part of which holds house to the Kennemer Zweefvlieg Club . Public figures who lived in Noordwijk or sought recovery were Thomas Mann , Maria Montessori (buried in Noordwijk) among others,
119-614: Is therefore protected by the Dutch Monument Law. An interesting historic view is shown by the picture of Gerard van der Laan with the view to the Jeroenskerk. In the foreground is a canal with two sailboats for inland waterways. The area around Noordwijk-Binnen has long been an important part of the regional bulb flower industry. The dunes were dug out and transformed into fields for the cultivation of bulb flowers. The territory of Noordwijk still consists mostly of geest . The bulb region
136-404: Is too far from the dunes for gliding back there ro be possible.) The KZC owns gliders of several different kinds, enabling it to accommodate the needs of variety of members, whether they wish to train as pilots, participate in competitions, fly with passengers or fly cross country. Included in its fleet are: Furthermore, the club possesses two self-built oldtimer gliders. They were assembled in
153-492: Is water and had a population of 44,062 in 2021. On 1 January 2019, the former municipality of Noordwijkerhout became part of Noordwijk. Besides its beaches, Noordwijk is also known for its bulb flower fields. It is located in an area called the "Dune and Bulb Region" ( Duin- en Bollenstreek ). Noordwijk is also the location of the headquarters for the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), part of
170-885: Is where Burton's character Alec Leamas is taken for initial interrogation after appearing to defect to the East . Just north of Noordwijk, buried in the North Sea dunes, lies one of the biggest and most extensive bunker complexes in the Netherlands of the World War II Atlantic Wall defenses, constructed under Nazi Germany occupation. Some 80 bunkers and underground structures housed 180 soldiers, and were connected by 400 metres (a quarter-mile) of tunnels, equipped with narrow rail-tracks for moving heavy ammunition. The central, S414 design, fire command bunker alone counts three-man-high stories deep, and with walls up to 3 metres (10 feet) thick, it consists of more than 1,800 m of concrete –
187-523: The European Space Agency (ESA). ESA's visitors' centre Space Expo is a permanent space exhibition. The municipality of Noordwijk consists of the communities Noordwijk aan Zee and Noordwijk-Binnen , separated by a narrow green belt , as well as Noordwijkerhout and De Zilk. Noordwijk aan Zee was founded around 1200 as a fishing village. Until the beginning of the 19th century, fishing remained its primary business, but then began to be replaced by
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#1733085221694204-467: The Germans kept the men busy building further bunkers, pill-boxes, etc., by war's end the complex counted almost one underground structure for every two men. Kennemer Zweefvlieg Club The Kennemer Zweefvlieg Club (KZC) is a Dutch Gliding club, and the only such club based in an urban periphery (what in Dutch is called a "Randstad"). The club was founded in 1945. The airfield from which it operates
221-641: The championship of the club three times. After playing at Hastings 1931/2, he soon died of pneumonia in London at age 21, ending a brief but promising chess career. A chess opening variation related to the Semi-Slav Defence to the Queen's Gambit is the Noteboom Variation : 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 dxc4, with a common continuation being 5.a4 Bb4 6.e3 b5 7.Bd2 a5 8.axb5 Bxc3 9.Bxc3 cxb5 10.b3 Bb7. It
238-522: The entrepreneur Alfred Heineken , ex-Empress Soraya , the poet Henriette Roland Holst , the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud , the writer Stefan George , the pianist Pia Beck , the tenor Jacques Urlus , the writer Margriet de Moor as well as painters and artists such as Marinus Gidding, Gerard van der Laan , Max Liebermann , Daniël Noteboom , Jan Hillebrand Wijsmuller and known film actors. The landscape painter Ludolph Berkemeier (buried in Noordwijk) moved in 1896 to Noordwijk. His paintings are in
255-456: The equivalent content of some 300 modern cement trucks. Four heavy gun bunkers housed 155mm cannons and doubled as living quarters. Two other large bunkers stored ammunition. The fire control bunker offered an excellent view of the coastal sea, used for observation and ballistic trajectory calculation, to control the entire gun battery . In 2001, the central command bunker was reopened as a museum, refitted with mostly original equipment. Because
272-437: The growing tourism industry. Nowadays because of its long sandy beaches, it is a popular resort town with 1,000,000 overnight stays per year. It has a lighthouse & a KNRM rescue station. Furthermore, it has a reformed church (1647) with a pulpit from the 17th century. Noordwijk aan Zee is rated as the 12th richest location in the Netherlands. A small part of the indigenous population of Noordwijk aan Zee speaks Noordwijks,
289-829: The style of the Hague School . Noordwijk is also home of football coach Louis van Gaal . In March 2014, the US President Barack Obama and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping stayed in Noordwijk Part of Martin Ritt's adaptation of John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), starring Richard Burton , was filmed at Koningin Astrid Boulevard in Noordwijk. This
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