(1951-12-14) 14 December 1951 (age 72) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Title
Grandmaster (1974)
FIDE rating
2527 (June 2024)
Peak rating
2680 (January 1990)
Peak ranking
No. 2 (January 1982)
Jan Timman (born 14 December 1951) is a Dutch chess grandmaster who was one of the world's leading chess players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career, he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The Best of the West".[1][2] He has won the Dutch Chess Championship nine times and has been a Candidate for the World Chess Championship several times. He lost the title match of the 1993 FIDE World Championship against Anatoly Karpov.
^"Timman stages comeback". Washington Times. 2005-05-06. Retrieved 20 June 2010.
^"Chess News - The Amsterdam Chess Tournament revisited". ChessBase. 2005-07-30. Retrieved 20 June 2010.
JanTimman (born 14 December 1951) is a Dutch chess grandmaster who was one of the world's leading chess players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s...
Look up timman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Timman is a Dutch and Arabic surname. Notable people with the surname include: JanTimman (born 1951)...
Kasparov of his title and organized a championship match between Karpov and JanTimman, who had finished second and third in the Candidates Tournament. For the...
his title, and instead held a title match between Anatoly Karpov and JanTimman. The matches were won by Kasparov and Karpov respectively. For the first...
without difficulty. In the 20th century grandmasters Garry Kasparov and JanTimman helped to re-popularise the Scotch when they used it as a surprise weapon...
becoming the fourth Dutch player since 1968 (after Gennadi Sosonko, JanTimman, and Jorden van Foreest), and 14th Dutch player overall, to do so. Giri...
In the final, in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Short defeated Dutchman JanTimman (+5−3=5) to earn the right to meet defending World Champion Garry Kasparov...
Interzonals, the top four of the previous Candidates Tournament (Sokolov, Timman, Vaganian, and Yusupov) qualified directly for this tournament. The Canadian...
that appears eight times a year with chief editors Grandmaster JanTimman and Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam. It began publication in 1984 and contains notes...
chess player Tore Rilton. Its first edition took place in 1971/1972 with JanTimman being the winner. In 1971, Tore Rilton sent a donation to the organisers...
Short vs. Timman, final position This example uses algebraic notation. In chess, a king walk, also known as a king march, steel king, or wandering king...
with Mikhail Tal ahead of a field of strong grandmasters completed by JanTimman, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Boris Spassky, Vlastimil Hort, Lajos Portisch, Robert...
narrowly missing further advancement after drawing a playoff match with JanTimman, who held the tiebreak advantage from the tournament proper. From July...
challenges the Soviet chess machine and defeats it". Dutch Grandmaster JanTimman calls Fischer's victory "the story of a lonely hero who overcomes an entire...
Philidor by several hundred years. An example is to be found in the game JanTimman–Nigel Short at the 1990 Tilburg tournament. From the diagrammed position...
was out of favour for much of the 20th century, although John Nunn and JanTimman played it in some games in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and in the...
of the 1972 World Chess Championship match, co-authored by Euwe with JanTimman, was written in 1972 but not published in English until 2002. Euwe's book...
have too many negative side effects". Players such as Artur Yusupov, JanTimman and Robert Hübner either refused to play for their national team or to...
Karpov by defeating Karpov in the candidates semi-finals followed by JanTimman in the finals, thereby earning the right to challenge Kasparov for the...
giving simultaneous exhibitions. He played a short match against GM JanTimman – the strongest active non-Soviet player at that time – and comprehensively...
match for fourth place was held after the main event. It ended 3-3, and Timman advanced because he had more wins during the tournament (4 against Tal's...
co-commentators: Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Leko, Nigel Short, Peter Svidler and JanTimman. Following this debut he hosted the live commentary at top tournaments...
Najdorf, translated by Taylor Kingston, foreword and annotated games by JanTimman, Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2016, ISBN 978-1941270394. Silver, Albert...
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