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| Full name | Jan Hendrik Timman | |
| Country |  Netherlands |
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| Born | December 14, 1951 Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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| Title | Grandmaster (1974) | |
| FIDE rating | 2565 | |
| Peak rating | 2680 (January 1990) | |
Jan Timman (born December 14, 1951) is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Events 1287 - St Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses killing over 50000 people Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national Chess federations around the The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go. The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go. Events 1287 - St Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses killing over 50000 people Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. 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". A soviet (сове́т, "council" originally was a workers' local council in late Imperial Russia. He has won the Dutch Chess Championship nine times and has been a Candidate for the World Championship several times. The Dutch Chess Championship was officially established in 1909 although unofficial champions stretch back to the 1870s The Candidates Tournament was a triennial Chess tournament organized by the world chess federation FIDE as the final contest to determine the challenger for the See also Development of the World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the Board game Chess
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Early career
He was an outstanding prospect in his early teens and at Jerusalem 1967, even ventured to the World Junior Championship aged just fifteen, where he finished a creditable third. The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 Chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition organized
Timman received the International Master title in 1971 and in 1974 attained Grandmaster status, making him the Netherlands' third after Max Euwe and Jan Hein Donner. The title International Master is awarded to outstanding Chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Machgielis (Max Euwe (last name is pronounced /øwə/ ( May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch Chess Grandmaster Johannes Hendrikus "Jan Hein" Donner ( July 6, 1927 – November 27, 1988) was a Dutch Chess grandmaster In that year he also won the Dutch Championship for the first time, having finished second in 1972. The Dutch Chess Championship was officially established in 1909 although unofficial champions stretch back to the 1870s He was to win it again on many more occasions in the 70s, 80's, and in 1996. His first notable international success was at Hastings 1973/74, where he shared victory with Tal, Kuzmin and Szabo. The Hastings International Chess Congress is an annual Chess congress which takes place in Hastings, England, around the turn of the year Mikhail Tal (Mihails Tāls Михаил Нехемьевич Таль Mikhail Nekhemievich Tal, mʲixa'iɫ̺ n̻ʲɛ'xɛmjɛvʲiʨ t̺al̻ sometimes transliterated Mihails Gennady Pavlovich Kuzmin ( Russian: Геннадий Павлович Кузьмин born January 19 1946) is a Soviet - Ukrainian László Szabó ( March 19, 1917 – August 8, 1998) was a prominent Hungarian Grandmaster of Chess. [1]A string of victories quickly followed at Sombor 1974 (with Boris Gulko), Netanya 1975, Reykjavik 1976 (with Fridrik Olafsson), Amsterdam IBM 1978, Niksic 1978[2]and Bled/Portoroz 1979. Sombor (Сомбор is a city and municipality located in Serbia at. Boris Franzevich Gulko (b February 9, 1947 in Erfurt, East Germany) is a U For the Greater Reykjavík Area see the Greater Reykjavík Area. Friðrik Ólafsson (born January 26, 1935) is an Icelandic Chess Grandmaster and former president of FIDE. Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology Nikšić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Никшић is a city in Montenegro ( Bled (Veldes is a Municipality in northwestern Slovenia in the region of Upper Carniola. Portorož ( Portorose in Italian, literally "Port of Roses" also known in English and French under the name Portorose pronounced Portorosse
Tournament successes
By 1982 Timman was ranked second in the world, behind only Anatoly Karpov. Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Анатолий Евгеньевич Карпов born May 23, 1951) is a Russian Chess grandmaster In the 1980s he won a number of very strong tournaments, including Amsterdam IBM in 1981, Wijk aan Zee 1981 and 1985, Linares 1988, the 1989 Euwe Memorial and the 1989 World Cup tournament in Rotterdam. Wijk aan Zee (pronounced /ʋɛik aːn zeː/ is a small town on the coast of the North Sea in the municipality of Beverwijk in the province of North Holland The annual Linares chess tournament, usually played around the end of February takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia Machgielis (Max Euwe (last name is pronounced /øwə/ ( May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch Chess Grandmaster Rotterdam (pronounced) is the 2nd-largest City by population in the Netherlands, located in the province of Other major successes included Las Palmas 1981, Mar del Plata 1982, Bugojno 1984, and Sarajevo 1984. Mar del Plata has a rich history of Chess tournaments most notably their international chess tournament and open tournament Bugojno (Cyrillic Бугојно is a town and municipality of the same name in central Bosnia and Herzegovina on the river Vrbas. TemplateInfobox City for more fields--> Sarajevo is the Capital city and largest urban center of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with One of his notable later successes was the 2nd Timman Rapid Tournament in 1991, a weekend event which attracted a huge amount of prize money. Fast chess, also known as blitz chess, lightning chess, bullet chess and rapid chess, is a type of Chess game in which each side is In this knock-out format tournament he defeated Gata Kamsky 1. Gata Kamsky real name Gataulla Rustemovich Sabirov ( Tatar: Ğata Kamskiy Ğataulla Rөstəm uğlı Sabirov Гата Камский Гатаулла Рөстәм улы Сабиров 5-0. 5, Karpov 2-0, Viswanathan Anand 1. Viswanathan Anand (ʋiɕˈʋəˌnɑˌt̪ʰən ɑnˌənd̪ விசுவநாதன் ஆனந்த் (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian 5-0. 5 and finally the World Champion Garry Kasparov 1. Garry Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров) (born as Garry Kimovich Weinstein on April 13 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet 5-0. 5 to win the first prize of approximately 75,000 USD. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been His performance was equivalent to an Elo rating of 2950. The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go.
World Championship Candidate
Timman's world championship career began at the zonal tournaments at Forssa/Helsinki 1972 and Reykjavik 1975. Forssa is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located almost in the centre of a triangle defined by the three largest major cities in Finland Helsinki (in Finnish;) or Helsingfors (in Swedish;) is the Capital and largest city of Finland. He failed to qualify for the next stage on both occasions. However his win at Amsterdam 1978 took him to his first interzonal tournament at Rio de Janeiro, where he failed to progress further. Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by FIDE, the World Chess Federation Rio de Janeiro ("River of January" ˈhiw dʒi ʒʌˈnejɾu in Brazilian Portuguese, /ˈriːoʊ di ʒəˈnɛroʊ/ in English is the second largest city of Brazil He finished in the middle of the field at the 1982 Las Palmas Interzonal, but won the Taxco 1985 Interzonal convincingly to qualify for the Candidates Matches for the first time. Taxco de Alarcón ( Taxco) is a former colonial silver-mining center in the northern part of the Mexican state of Guerrero on the western arm of the The Candidates Tournament was a triennial Chess tournament organized by the world chess federation FIDE as the final contest to determine the challenger for the However, he lost in the first round to Artur Yusupov in 1986. Artur Mayakovich Yusupov ( de Jussupow; born February 13, 1960 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a German In the next cycle, after winning the 1987 Tilburg Interzonal he defeated Valery Salov, Lajos Portisch and Jonathan Speelman, but lost in the final to Anatoly Karpov in 1990. Tilburg ( is a Municipality and a City in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of Noord-Brabant. Valery Salov (born May 26 1964 in Poland is a Russian Chess grandmaster. Lajos Portisch (born April 4, 1937 in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned Jonathan Simon Speelman (born 2 October 1956) is an English Chess player a Grandmaster, a mathematician and a chess writer He reached the final round once again in 1993, having defeated Robert Hübner, Viktor Korchnoi and Yusupov, but lost this time to Nigel Short. Robert Hübner (born November 6, 1948 in Cologne, West Germany) is a respected German Chess Grandmaster, chess writer Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (also Korchnoy Kortchnoy Kortschnoi etc Nigel David Short MBE (born June 1, 1965 in Leigh, Lancashire) is often regarded as the strongest British Chess However, after Short and Garry Kasparov played their World Championship match outside of the auspices of the sport's governing body FIDE, Timman was invited to compete against Karpov for the FIDE version of the world title. Garry Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров) (born as Garry Kimovich Weinstein on April 13 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national Chess federations around the He lost the match by 12½ points to 8½. The World Chess Championship 1993 was held from 1990 to 1993 It was one of the most controversial in history with incumbent World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, [3]
Olympiad career
Timman represented the Netherlands in 13 Chess Olympiads from 1972 to 2004, playing on the top board on 11 occasions. The Chess Olympiad is a Biennial Chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other In 1976 he won the gold medal for the best individual performance on that board. [4]
Later career
Timman continues to play actively. In 2004 he placed equal first in a tournament in Reykjavik and was equal second at Amsterdam. He played in the gold medal-winning Dutch team at the European Team Championships in Gothenburg in 2005, alongside Loek van Wely, Ivan Sokolov, Sergei Tiviakov and Erik van den Doel. The European Team Championship ( often abbreviated in texts and games databases as ETC) is an international team chess event eligible for the participation Gothenburg ( Swedish:) /jœte'bɔrj/ is a city, a municipality, and an urban area on the west-coast of Sweden. Loek van Wely (born October 7 1972) is a Chess Grandmaster from the Netherlands. Ivan Sokolov (born 13 June 1968) is a Chess grandmaster born in Jajce, SFR Yugoslavia, who currently resides in the Sergei Tiviakov (born February 14, 1973 in Krasnodar, Soviet Union) is a naturalised Dutch Chess Grandmaster In 2006 he won the Sigeman Tournament in Malmö Sweden and was second in the Howard Staunton Memorial in London. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. (1 removed from infobox|worldchampion = 1843-1851 (Unofficial (2 Mark Weeks has material and sources at http//mark_weeks London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.
Style
Raymond Keene described Timman's playing style as that of "a fighter, in the mould of Emanuel Lasker". Raymond Dennis Keene OBE (born 29 January 1948) is a Chess grandmaster, but is better known as a chess organiser columnist and author For other persons named Lasker see Lasker#People with the surname Lasker. [5]
He has always adopted a wide and varied opening repertoire, playing an array of different systems as both White and Black. In Chess the word " opening " has two common meanings both of which are discussed in this article When he first reached the world class level in the 1970s, this was relatively unusual, with most elite grandmasters deploying a more narrowly focused range of openings, but it is now the norm. [6]
Writings
He is one the chief editors of the magazine New In Chess. New In Chess ( NIC) ( is a Chess Magazine that appears eight times a year with chief editors International Grandmaster Jan Timman His book The Art of Chess Analysis (ISBN 1-85744-179-6) is widely considered one of the modern classics of chess literature. His other books include Timman's Selected Games (1995), Fischer, World Champion! (2002), an account of the 1972 World Championship, and Curacao 1962: The Battle of Minds That Shook the Chess World (2007), which covers the 1962 Candidates Tournament. The World Chess Championship 1972 match between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky in Laugardalshöll, Reykjavík At the World Chess Championship 1963 Tigran Petrosian narrowly qualified to challenge Mikhail Botvinnik for the World Chess Championship, and then won the
Personal life
Timman is twice married, with a son and a daughter from the first marriage.
References
- ^ Whyld, Kenneth;Hooper, David (1996). Kenneth Whyld ( March 6, 1926 - July 11, 2003) was a British Chess author and researcher best known as the co-author (with David Hooper can refer to David Hooper (author, American author and music promoter David Vincent Hooper (b Oxford Companion To Chess. The Oxford Companion to Chess is a reference Book on Chess written by David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192800493.
- ^ Golombek, Harry, ed. Harry Golombek OBE ( March 1[[ 911]]– January 7 1995) was a British Chess International Master and honorary grandmaster (1981), The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Chess, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0140464528
- ^ Mark Weeks' men's world championship pages
- ^ Olimpbase.org
- ^ Golombek, Harry, ed. Harry Golombek OBE ( March 1[[ 911]]– January 7 1995) was a British Chess International Master and honorary grandmaster (1981), The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Chess, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0140464528
- ^ Giddens, Steve (2003). Stephen Giddins (born 1961 is an English Chess player and writer How to Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire. Gambit Publications, 28. Gambit Publications is a major publisher of Chess books The company's headquarters is in London ISBN 1-901983-89-7.
External links
- FIDE rating card for Jan Timman
- Jan Timman at ChessGames.com
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