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...

Look up timman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Timman is a Dutch and Arabic surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jan Timman (born 1951)...

algebraic notation to describe chess moves. In this 1995 game between Jan Timman and Christopher Lutz, an endgame with a rook and bishop versus a rook...

his title, and instead held a title match between Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman. The matches were won by Kasparov and Karpov respectively. For the first...

Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, Jan Timman, Anatoly Karpov, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Vladimir Kramnik, Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan...

Interzonals, the top four of the previous Candidates Tournament (Sokolov, Timman, Vaganian, and Yusupov) qualified directly for this tournament. The Canadian...

Kasparov of his title and organized a championship match between Karpov and Jan Timman, who had finished second and third in the Candidates Tournament. For the...

In the final, in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Short defeated Dutchman Jan Timman (+5−3=5) to earn the right to meet defending World Champion Garry Kasparov...

becoming the fourth Dutch player since 1968 (after Gennadi Sosonko, Jan Timman, and Jorden van Foreest), and 14th Dutch player overall, to do so. Giri...

third with a score of 7–4 in the Donner Memorial in Amsterdam, behind Jan Timman and Julio Granda, who tied for first, and ahead of Yasser Seirawan, Alexander...

without difficulty. In the 20th century grandmasters Garry Kasparov and Jan Timman helped to re-popularise the Scotch when they used it as a surprise weapon...

awarded the two slots in its 1993 championship match to Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman, both of whom had been defeated in earlier qualification rounds by Short...

Polgár (HUN), 2677  Viktor Korchnoi (SUI), 2673  Valery Salov (RUS), 2670  Jan Timman (NED), 2670  Matthew Sadler (ENG), 2667  Zoltán Almási (HUN), 2665  Sergei...

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...

Ljubojević and Robert Hübner 1986 no tournament 1987 no tournament 1988 Jan Timman 1989 Vasyl Ivanchuk 1990 Garry Kasparov 1991 Vasyl Ivanchuk 1992 Garry...

challenges the Soviet chess machine and defeats it". Dutch Grandmaster Jan Timman calls Fischer's victory "the story of a lonely hero who overcomes an entire...

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...

1977-01 11 Mikhail Botvinnik 2630 1971-07 12 Lubomir Kavalek 2625 1974-05 Jan Timman 2625 1979-01 14 Vassily Smyslov 2620 1971-07 Leonid Stein 2620 1972-07...

with Mikhail Tal ahead of a field of strong grandmasters completed by Jan Timman, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Boris Spassky, Vlastimil Hort, Lajos Portisch, Robert...

and set up its own FIDE World Chess Championship 1993 with runners-up Jan Timman and Anatoly Karpov. This set up the 13-year period of split World Champion...

Championship title, and instead held a rival match between Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman, the two final players Short had defeated to win the Candidates Tournament...

in the FIDE world ranking list in 1980. Between 1971 and 1991 (loss to Jan Timman), Hübner played in four Candidates Tournaments for the World Championship...

Karpov by defeating Karpov in the candidates semi-finals followed by Jan Timman in the finals, thereby earning the right to challenge Kasparov for the...

that appears eight times a year with chief editors Grandmaster Jan Timman and Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam. It began publication in 1984 and contains notes...

of the 1972 World Chess Championship match, co-authored by Euwe with Jan Timman, was written in 1972 but not published in English until 2002. Euwe's book...

chess player Tore Rilton. Its first edition took place in 1971/1972 with Jan Timman being the winner. In 1971, Tore Rilton sent a donation to the organisers...

for the first time in his career, and became the first Dutchman since Jan Timman in 1985 to win Wijk aan Zee. He acted as a second for Magnus Carlsen in...

narrowly missing further advancement after drawing a playoff match with Jan Timman, who held the tiebreak advantage from the tournament proper. From July...

Seirawan (USA), 2631  Sergei Movsesian (CZE), 2624  Artur Jussupow (GER), 2618  Jan Timman (NED), 2616  Teimour Radjabov (AZE), 2610  Vadim Milov (SUI), 2606  Zbyněk...

Philidor by several hundred years. An example is to be found in the game Jan Timman–Nigel Short at the 1990 Tilburg tournament. From the diagrammed position...