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{{short description|Dutch chess grandmaster (born 1951)}} {{Infobox chess player |name = Jan Timman |image = Jan Timman 1984 Saloniki.jpg |caption = Timman in 1984 |birthname = Jan Hendrik Timman |country = [[Netherlands]] |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|12|14|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Amsterdam]], Netherlands |death_date = |death_place = |title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (1974) |peakrating = 2680 (January 1990) |peakranking = No. 2 (January 1982) |FideID = 1000012 }} '''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. 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".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/may/6/20050506-093920-1428r/|title=Timman stages comeback|date=2005-05-06|work=Washington Times|access-date=20 June 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2544|title=Chess News - The Amsterdam Chess Tournament revisited|date=2005-07-30|publisher=ChessBase|access-date=20 June 2010}}</ref> He has won the [[Dutch Chess Championship]] nine times and has been a [[Candidates Match|Candidate]] for the [[World Chess Championship]] several times. He lost the title match of the [[1993 FIDE World Championship]] against [[Anatoly Karpov]].
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