Merijn van Delft

Merijn van Delft, born in 1979,
is a Dutch International Master, chess coach, author and long-standing ChessBase staff member.
He lived in Hamburg for many years and is now based in Amsterdam.
Van Delft earned the International Master title in 2004 and became a FIDE Trainer in 2011.
He reached his peak rating of 2430 in January 2014 and won the Dutch Blitz Championship that same year.
In 2017, he won the Hofheim Spring Open and achieved his first grandmaster norm.
For more than two decades, he has coached talented junior players and ambitious amateurs.
Van Delft has presented the long-running Game of the Week show for ChessBase
and produced the video course Practical Chess Strategy: The Bishop.
He has also written several chess books, including Mastering Positional Sacrifices,
and works as a commentator and organiser of chess events.