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Jan Timman (born December 14 , 1951 ) is a Dutch Chess player 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". 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. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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