Adriaan de Groot
Dutch chess player and psychologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Adriaan de Groot (software developer).
Adrianus Dingeman (Adriaan) de Groot (Santpoort,[1] 26 October 1914 ā Schiermonnikoog, 14 August 2006) was a Dutch chess master and psychologist, who conducted some of the most famous chess experiments of all time in the 1940s-60. In 1946 he wrote his thesis Het denken van den schaker,[2] which in 1965 was translated into English and published as Thought and choice in chess. De Groot played for the Netherlands in the Chess Olympiads of 1937 and 1939.[3] In 1973 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4]