Editing Jan Timman (section)

==Tournament successes==
By 1982 Timman was ranked second in the world, behind only [[Anatoly Karpov]]. In the 1980s he won a number of very strong tournaments, including Amsterdam IBM in 1981, [[Tata Steel Chess Tournament|Wijk aan Zee]] in 1981 and 1985, [[Linares chess tournament|Linares]] in 1988, the 1989 [[Max Euwe|Euwe]] Memorial, and the 1989 World Cup tournament in [[Rotterdam]]. Other major successes included [[Las Palmas]] 1981, [[Mar del Plata chess tournaments|Mar del Plata]] 1982, [[Bugojno]] 1984, and [[Sarajevo]] 1984. One of his notable later successes was the 2nd Immopar [[Fast chess|Rapid]] Tournament in 1991, a weekend event which attracted a huge amount of prize money. In this knock-out format tournament he defeated [[Gata Kamsky]] 1½–½, Karpov 2–0, [[Viswanathan Anand]] 1½–½, and finally the World Champion [[Garry Kasparov]] 1½–½ to win the first prize of approximately 75,000 [[USD]]. His performance was equivalent to an [[Elo rating]] of 2950.