Daniël Noteboom

Daniël Noteboom (26 February 1910 – 12 January 1932) was a Dutch chess player.

He gained notice at the 1930 Chess Olympiad at Hamburg, scoring 11½/15, including a win against Salo Flohr.

[2] He learned to play chess at the age of 12, and at 14 won a local tournament in Noordwijk.

At the age of 15 he was admitted to the Leiden Chess Society, following a special dispensation from the secretary of the club – at the time chess clubs were generally reserved for adult men with social standing and he was supposed to be too young to be included.

[3] After playing at Hastings 1931/2, he soon died of pneumonia in London[2] at age 21, ending a brief but promising chess career.

Noteboom's grave in Noordwijk