Jan Willem te Kolsté


Jan Willem te Kolsté was a Dutch chess master.
Te Kolsté participated many times in unofficial and official Dutch championships, and won at Utrecht 1907. He also took 4th at Utrecht 1897, tied for 5-6th at The Hague 1898, took 14th at Amsterdam 1899, took 10th at Haarlem 1901, took 2nd behind Arnold van Foreest at Rotterdam 1902, tied for 7-9th at Hilversum 1903, tied for 9-10th at Scheveningen 1905, took 3rd at Haarlem 1908, shared 3rd at Delft 1912, took 4th at The Hague 1919, and took 5th at Nijmegen 1921.
In other tournaments, he won at The Hague 1904, tied for 2nd-3rd at Amsterdam 1907, tied for 6-7th at Scheveningen 1913, shared 1st at The Hague 1917 and s' Hertogenbosch 1918, won at The Hague 1922, shared 1st at Amsterdam 1927, but came a distant last at Baden-Baden 1925,.
He played for The Netherlands in 1st Chess Olympiad at London 1927.