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2 unusual facts about Jan Smeets


Jan Smeets

At Dos Hermanas the following year, he shared third behind Fridman and Bu Xiangzhi (with Sergey Volkov) and at the 2005 Hengelo Stork Young Masters event, he finished one-half point behind the Russian grandmaster Alexander Riazantsev.

Consequently, he became a student of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and included only as much chess study as his schedule allowed.



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