Louis van Vliet

Louis Moses (Mozes) van Vliet[1] (17 August 1854, Amsterdam[2] – 15 June 1932, London[3]) was a Dutch chess master.

[4] His father died in November 1865 and his mother in June 1868, and as a 13-year-old orphan he moved to England to live with his uncle Edward van Vliet.

Another uncle, Eliazer Lion "Leon" van Vliet, was a pawnbroker in San Francisco and Louis moved there in 1884 at the age of 29.

In 1889 he came to Amsterdam to play his first international tournament, but he remained living in London for the rest of his life.

[8] Louis van Vliet lost the only game played with Dr. Walter Romain Lovegrove in London in 1912.