Photo: Lars OA Hedlund
FIDE World Rating: 19
Elo: 2729
Born: April 30, 1999, in Utrecht, Netherlands.
2013: Became a grandmaster at the age of 16 – one of the youngest in the history of Dutch chess.
2016: Won the Dutch Chess Championship and played in Sweden for the first time, finishing in ninth place in the Hasselbacken Chess Open.
2021: Won Tata Steel Masters in Wijk aan Zee after winning the tie-break against fellow countryman Anish Giri. This was the first Dutch victory in 36 years. Later in the same year, he also won the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament.
2026: After several years of lack of rating progress, Jorden van Foreest has recently taken a great leap upwards on the FIDE rating list. In march, he reached 2729 on the FIDE rating list, putting him in nineteenth place.