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a Dutch chess analyst, chess writer, journalist, and composer of endgame studies. Jan van Reek is further researching on [|historic chess tournaments], for instance the [|Baden-Baden 1870 chess tournament] with [|Adolf Anderssen], [|Wilhelm Steinitz], [|Gustav Neumann], [|Joseph Henry Blackburne], and [|Louis Paulsen] among other great chess players from that time , and elaborated on Strategy and Planning in chess. || toc =Planning= In 1997, Jan van Reek categorized Planning in chess to three main characteristics, Tactics, positional play, and Strategy, where positional play serves as guideline for planning of a strategy :
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 * ~  ||~ ||~ Terms of Planning ||~   ||~ Aim ||~   ||~ Dominating abstraction ||
 * ~ Tactics ||~ ||= Short ||~  ||= To gain material or to mate ||~   ||= Matter ||
 * ~ Positional play ||~ ||= Medium ||~  ||= To improve the position ||~   ||= Space ||
 * ~ Strategy ||~ ||= Long ||~  ||= To swing the balance ||~   ||= Time ||

Long-term planning by human chess players is usually made on the basis of reasoning, experience, and [|intuition], as investigated by De Groot in 1946.

=Selected Publications= > > [|Review] by [|Jeremy Silman], [|Review] by [|John Watson].
 * Jan van Reek and [|Henk van Donk] (**1991**). //Carel Mann//. [|ARVES], ISBN 90-72939-06-9
 * Jan van Reek and [|Henk van Donk] (**1992**). //History of endgame study composing in the Netherlands and Flanders//. [|ARVES]. ISBN 90-72939-12-3
 * Jan van Reek (**1996**). //Hypermodern strategy//. Chess Digest Inc., Dallas. ISBN 0-87568-282-0. [|Review] by [|Jeremy Silman]
 * Jan van Reek (**1997**). //Max Euwe - praktische strategie//. STES, [|Margraten]. ISBN 90-74827-32-2
 * Jan van Reek (**1997**). //Strategisch denken. 64 partijen van Euwe//. STES, [|Margraten]. ISBN 90-74827-31-4
 * Jan van Reek (**1997**). //Strategy in Chess//. [|Schachfirma Fruth], [|Unterhaching], ISBN 3-9804896-9-8
 * [|Roberto Cifuentes], [|Maarten De Zeeuw], Jan van Reek (**1997**). //Secrets of Chess Endings//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 4
 * Jan van Reek (**1998**). //Michail Botwinnik. Schaakspelers als Eindspelkunstenaars//. Deel 7. Stichting Eindspel, [|Margraten]. ISBN 90-74827-37-3
 * Jan van Reek, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik (**1998**). //Planning a Strategy in Chess//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 3, [|pdf]
 * Jan van Reek, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik (**1999**). //Two Strategic Shortcomings in Chess Programs//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4, [|pdf]
 * Jan van Reek, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik (**2000**). //[|The Innovated Art of Chess Analysis]//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4
 * Jan van Reek, Jos Uiterwijk (**2001**). //The Match Van der Wiel vs. REBEL CENTURY 3.0.// ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1 » [|Van der Wiel], Rebel
 * Jan van Reek (**2000, 2002**). //[|Grand Strategy]//. (supported by [|Boris Spassky]) [|New In Chess], [|amazon.com]
 * Jan van Reek, Jos Uiterwijk (**2003**). //The Match Bareev vs. Hiarcs X//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1 » Bareev versus Hiarcs 2003
 * Jan van Reek, Jos Uiterwijk (**2004**). //The Complete-Chess Match Stellwagen vs. Baramidze//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2
 * Jan van Reek, Jos Uiterwijk (**2005**). //The Complete-Chess Match Stellwagen vs. Van Wely//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2

=External Links=
 * [|Chess Analyses by Jan van Reek]
 * [|Lessons in endgame strategy]
 * [|Super chess tournaments]
 * [|World exhibitions]
 * [|Czarist and modern Russian chess championships]
 * [|Spectacular tournaments by Spassky]
 * [|Art, science and chess]
 * [|Family pictures. Research on smoking]
 * [|Jan van Reek] by Ed Schröder

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