Paul van der Sterren


Paul van der Sterren is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He won the Dutch Chess Championship twice, in 1985 and 1993. In 1993 he qualified for the Candidates Tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996, but was eliminated in the first round by Gata Kamsky.
Van der Sterren represented the Netherlands in 11 consecutive Chess Olympiads from 1982 through 2001.
He is the author of the two-volume opening encyclopedia Fundamental Chess Openings, which was published in 2009 and 2011.