#About_Timman
🔸 Jan Timman
🔸 Dutch chess Grandmaster
♦️ Jan Timman is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading 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".
🔹 Full name: Jan Hendrik Timman
🔹 Country: Netherlands
🔹 Born: 14 December 1951 (age 66)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
🔹 Title: Grandmaster (1974)
🔹 FIDE rating: 2551 (April 2018)
🔹 Peak rating: 2680 (January 1990)
♦️ Jan Timman was born in Amsterdam. He was awarded the GM title in 1974 and gradually climbed up the ranks of the chess elite. His tournament successes include first place finishes at Mar Del Plata 1982, Bugojno 1984, Tilburg 1987 and Linares 1988.
This 9-time Dutch champion was a consistent contender for the world title throughout the 1980's and early 1990's, and in 1993 he contested a match for the FIDE World Championship with Anatoly Karpov, but fell short, losing 6-2 with 13 draws. He is also the younger brother of Ton Timman and a well respected chess author. His "The Art of Chess Analysis" can be found in the library of many chessplayers worldwide.
♦️ A memorable and informative game by Timman in Ruy Lopez against Kasparov which known "Timman Waits for No One" in chessgames.com site👇🏼👇🏼
▪️ Jan Timman vs Garry Kasparov
▪️ KRO Match (1985), Hilversum NED, rd 3, Dec-17
▪️ Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Smyslov-Breyer-Zaitsev Hybrid (C93)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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🔸 Jan Timman
🔸 Dutch chess Grandmaster
♦️ Jan Timman is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading 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".
🔹 Full name: Jan Hendrik Timman
🔹 Country: Netherlands
🔹 Born: 14 December 1951 (age 66)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
🔹 Title: Grandmaster (1974)
🔹 FIDE rating: 2551 (April 2018)
🔹 Peak rating: 2680 (January 1990)
♦️ Jan Timman was born in Amsterdam. He was awarded the GM title in 1974 and gradually climbed up the ranks of the chess elite. His tournament successes include first place finishes at Mar Del Plata 1982, Bugojno 1984, Tilburg 1987 and Linares 1988.
This 9-time Dutch champion was a consistent contender for the world title throughout the 1980's and early 1990's, and in 1993 he contested a match for the FIDE World Championship with Anatoly Karpov, but fell short, losing 6-2 with 13 draws. He is also the younger brother of Ton Timman and a well respected chess author. His "The Art of Chess Analysis" can be found in the library of many chessplayers worldwide.
♦️ A memorable and informative game by Timman in Ruy Lopez against Kasparov which known "Timman Waits for No One" in chessgames.com site👇🏼👇🏼
▪️ Jan Timman vs Garry Kasparov
▪️ KRO Match (1985), Hilversum NED, rd 3, Dec-17
▪️ Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Smyslov-Breyer-Zaitsev Hybrid (C93)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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The famous player, author and arbiter, International Master (later honorary Grandmaster) Harry Golombek (1911-1995), pictured at the London (Phillips & Drew) tournament, April 1982.
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1957, a two-game match between Euwe and Fischer, the former and future World Champions back then.
A photo from the first game was on the front cover of the April 1957 issue of Chess Review.
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A photo from the first game was on the front cover of the April 1957 issue of Chess Review.
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Haninge (Sweden), May 1990. The 5th-round meeting of Anatoly Karpov (USSR) and Ulf Andersson (Sweden). Karpov won the game in 35 moves.
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José Raúl Capablanca :
"Chess with regard to the mind might be said to be what sports or athletics are with regard to the body: a way to exercise and give pleasure at the same time.
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"Chess with regard to the mind might be said to be what sports or athletics are with regard to the body: a way to exercise and give pleasure at the same time.
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📘 19...Bd8!
Defending the a5-pawn and preparing ...Ba6, in order to exchange the “bad” bishop for White's “good” one.
20.g4 Ba6 21.f5 B×d3 22.c×d3 f6
Defending the a5-pawn and preparing ...Ba6, in order to exchange the “bad” bishop for White's “good” one.
20.g4 Ba6 21.f5 B×d3 22.c×d3 f6
📘 11...Kh7!?
An interesting move with the idea of ...Ng8. then, he can consider continuations like ...Bh6 and ...f5.
12.f3 Ng8
An interesting move with the idea of ...Ng8. then, he can consider continuations like ...Bh6 and ...f5.
12.f3 Ng8
📘 18.Nf1!
A strong maneuver to transfer the knight to f6-outpost via g3-h5 square.
18...Bb6 19.Rc3 Ke7 20.Ng3 a6 21.Ke3 a×b5 22.a×b5 Nc4+ 23.B×c4 Rc8 24.Nd2 Ba5 25.Rc2 d×c4 26.Nge4 +/-
A strong maneuver to transfer the knight to f6-outpost via g3-h5 square.
18...Bb6 19.Rc3 Ke7 20.Ng3 a6 21.Ke3 a×b5 22.a×b5 Nc4+ 23.B×c4 Rc8 24.Nd2 Ba5 25.Rc2 d×c4 26.Nge4 +/-