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Joop van Oosterom

Chess player
Joop van Oosterom was a Dutch billionaire, chess and billiards sponsor, and twice correspondence chess world champion. His fortune, made with the Volmac Software Group, was estimated by Dutch financial magazine Quote at €1.1 billion at the time of... Wikipedia
Born: December 12, 1937, Hilversum, Netherlands
Died: October 22, 2016 (age 78 years), Monaco
ICCF World Champion: 2003, 2005