Adolf Georg Olland
Adolf Georg Olland was the leading Dutch chess master in the time before Max Euwe. Born in Utrecht, he was a medical doctor.
Olland took 3rd at Amsterdam 1887 ; shared 1st at Amsterdam 1889 ; took 2nd, behind Rudolf Loman, at Utrecht 1891; took 5th at Groningen 1893 ; took 2nd, behind Loman, at Rotterdam 1894; shared 1st at Arnheim 1895; took 2nd at Amsterdam 1899 behind Henry Ernest Atkins; took 2nd, behind Rudolf Swiderski, at Munich 1900.
Olland won at Haarlem 1901; took 8th at Hannover 1902 ; took 19th at Carlsbad 1907. He shared 1st with Abraham Speijer at Leiden 1909 ; took 4th at Stockholm 1912 ; took 3rd at Scheveningen 1913.
He tied for 7-8th at Hastings 1919 ; tied for 14-15th at Göteborg ; took 3rd at Utrecht 1920 ; tied for 3rd-4th at Nijmegen 1921 ; took 18th at Scheveningen 1923 ; took 3rd at Utrecht 1927 ; took 7th at Amsterdam 1929 ; took 8th at The Hague–Leiden 1933.
Olland was very active in match play, competing in 29 matches, all except one in his home town Utrecht.
He defeated most Dutch players except Euwe who beat him twice, but lost to foreign masters such as Géza Maróczy, Richard Réti, and Edgar Colle. Olland died of a heart attack playing in the 1933 Dutch Championship at The Hague.
