Jan Timman

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**Jan Timman**
Image:Timman Jan.jpg
Full name	Jan Hendrik Timman
Country	Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
Born	December 14 1951 (1951-12-14) (age 57) Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Title	Grandmaster (1974)


FIDE rating	2545
Peak rating	2680 (January 1990)

Jan Timman (born December 14, 1951) is a Dutch chessplayer who had his greatest successes in the 1970s and 1980s. He has won the Dutch Chess Championship nine times. He was a candidate for the World Championship several times. He played for the FIDE World Championship in 1993, losing to Anatoly Karpov. In the 1980s and early 1990s he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and known as "The Best of the West". He won at Linares 1988. Timman continues to play actively and in 2006 won the Sigeman Tournament in Malmö Sweden. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest Dutch chess players ever.

He is one the chief editors of the magazine New In Chess. His book The Art of Chess Analysis (ISBN 1-85744-179-6) is widely considered one of the modern classics of chess literature. Timman is twice married, with a son and a daughter from the first marriage.