Tim Krabbe'

Tim Krabbe' is a much read, much praised inventive author. He has written various excellent novels some of which were adapted for the screen. Chess has always been very special to him and he has tried to highlight the artistic side of the royal game by showing its curious aspects. Krabbe' once had the honour to be openly insulted by the late Jan Hein Donner, a feat only bestowed on the strongest players. In the last few years Krabbe' has scored about 50% in the AEGON human versus computer chess tournaments. Tim Krabbe' came to this world in 1943, thirty years before I saw the light.

Krabbe' had a column in Holland's most intelectuall dailly newspaper: NRC Handelsblad [I read de Volkskrant, intellectual as wel,but more readable] during a few years in the early eighties. some titels (unfortunately in Dutch):

• De patat-eter verliest
• Het juiste pad
• De verslaafden van de massasprint
• Het verdelen van de premies
• Liever edelmoedig dan moe
• Al wist ik maar hoe heet het was
• Het voordeel vande knie
• Het meten van lafheid
• Jerry Cotton en het doping mysterie
• Vorm
• Eindelijk echt fietsen in rondje Huisduinen

These collums are a 'must' for any cyclist able to read Dutch ;-)

Some of his books:

• Het Gouden Ei. This book was succesfully filmed. --> You do mis much if you ain't Dutch... :-)
• Tim Krabbe' on Het Gouden Ei.
• De Renner, Erven Thomas Rap Baarn (1978) ' een verslag van zijn 309e wielerwedstrijd, een zware klimkoers in Zuid-Frankrijk'
• De werkelijke moord op Kitty Duisenberg' (1967)
• Flanagan (1970)
• De stad in het midden (1978)
• 43 Wielerverhalen, Bert Bakker, 1984
• De matador en andere verhalen, Bert Bakker 1991

Miscelaneous links on Tim Krabbe'

• INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL SLEATOR [Sleator, aka Darooha, is responsible for the comercial chess server] by Tim Krabbe'
• A Walk with Garri Kasparov by Tim Krabbe'