1974 Netherlands vs Great Britain (BCF), 26-27 October, Vlissingen

	Netherlands	Elo	Rd 1	Rd 2	Great Britain	Elo
1b	Jan Hein Donner	2495g	½-½	½-½	William R Hartston	2480m
2w	Gennadi Sosonko	2450m	½-½	½-½	Raymond D Keene	2505m
3b	Bert F Enklaar	2425m	0-1	½-½	Michael F Stean	2345
4w	Franz Kuijpers	2420m	1-0	1-0	Andrew J Whiteley	2340
5b	Eddie C Scholl	2385	0-1	½-½	Peter R Markland	2390
6w	Jaap Vogel	2350	0-1	1-0	A Jonathan Mestel	2270
7b	Arend J van Dop	2340	1-0	½-½	Robert Bellin	2355
8w	Roy G Dieks		½-½	0-1	John D M Nunn	2395
9b	Corry Vreeken	2150wm	0-1	½-½	Jana Hartston [Bellin]	2210wm
10w	Paul van der Sterren		1-0	1-0	Jonathan S Speelman
26-27 October 1974			4½-5½	6-4	Vlissingen
			10½-9½

CHESS, October 1974, Vol.40/707-8, p4

England had white on board 1, first round.

England lost the annual match with Holland by a 1-point margin as last year. The men's match was drawn 8-8; England won the ladies' match 1½-½ but lost the junior match 0-2. Speelman had won both his games in the England-Germany match.

A. J. Miles declined to play, for reasons the B.C.F. declined to reveal.

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Anglo-Dutch Matches: Index

These matches between England/Great Britain and the Netherlands/Holland were held at irregular intervals from 1912 to 1977.

1912	1914	1937	1938	1939	1947	1948	1949	1952	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962
1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1977

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File Updated

Date	Notes
28 April 2026	First upload of 5 games and 15 stubs. Results and report from CHESS Magazine. (BCM only mentioned the match in 'Late News'.) Many thanks to René Oltof for sending the two games played by Kuijpers.