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Jan Timman
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- Works
- 63
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Key facts
- Born
- Jan Hendrik Timman , ( 1951-12-14 ) 14 December 1951, Amsterdam , Netherlands
- Died
- 18 February 2026 (2026-02-18) (aged 74), Arnhem , Netherlands
- Country
- Netherlands
- Title
- Grandmaster (1974)
- Peak rating
- 2680 (January 1990)
- Peak ranking
- No. 2 (January 1982)
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- Timman Jan.jpg
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- Jan Timman
- date of birth
- 1951-12-14
- Elo rating
- 2530
- date of death
- 2026-02-18
- name in native language
- Jan Hendrik Timman
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Jan Hendrik Timman (14 December 1951 – 18 February 2026) was 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". He won the Dutch Chess Championship nine times and was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship several times. He lost the title match of the 1993 FIDE World Championship against Anatoly Karpov.
Early career