Renate Limbach
Dutch chess player (1971-2006)
Renate Limbach (23 October 1971 – 6 June 2006) was a Dutch chess Woman International Master (1991), Dutch Women's Chess Championship winner (1990).
Chess career
Renate Limbach was born in 1971 in Nijmegen and growed up in Apeldoorn. She was one of two daughters of Alida Ignatia Maria van Leeuwen (* 1941) and Antonius “Ton” Limbach (1938–2007); her father was a school superintendent. Ton Limbach taught his daughter to play chess. Since she was an excellent student who found learning easy, she was able to spend a lot of time at the chessboard. At the age of ten she became a member of the Apeldoorns Schaakgenootschap and took part in tournaments. In 1986 she won Dutch Girls' Chess Championship in the U16 age group. Veluws College, which she attended from 1984 to 1990, gave her the opportunity to combine sport and school.
In 1987 and 1989 Renate Limbach won Dutch Girls Rapid Chess Championship. At the World Youth Chess Championship in U16 age group in Innsbruck she came 7th with 6 points from 11 games.
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