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Apr-17-06
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| percyblakeney: <but Timman is/was a strong contender, "Best of the West" for a certain period and a FIDE-Challenger (against Karpov in 1993)> That is true, considering this it's unexpected that there are so few posts on his page. And here's a player with 2500 games in this database, once rated number 6 in the world but still only one page of kibitzing:
Vlastimil Hort |
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| Apr-17-06 |
| Bobak Zahmat: Well, in the future we should therefore discuss the games of Timman more. |
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Apr-17-06
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| diagonal: Timman would merit it! In general, there is - for obvious reasons - a certain tendency to discuss the new game entries, the rising stars (Magnus Carlsen, born in 1990, already with about incredible 250 personal kibitzing pages) and the immortals (especially focussed on former World Champions) and maybe the best women - sometimes for reasons who shall be nameless. Also widely disputed by the chess community are - hopefully - forthcoming events (such as the announced Kramnik-Topalov World Championship Tournament: already with 16 pages within less than a week). But several strong chess players, now rather end of career, are nearly forgotten by the kibitzers, even if they still play and/or take part in the analysis! As pointed out, Vlastimil Hort, so far with only one page of kibitzing (or for instance Lajos Portisch or Lev Polugaevsky, the Sicilian expert who died so early - both regular Candidates with until now only two personal kibitzing pages) and to some extend Timman are examples for that "phenomenon"; well, we all can made an effort! |
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| Apr-17-06 |
| Bobak Zahmat: Anyhow this guy deserves better, therfore I will analyse some games of him in the coming weeks and hope others will enjoy. |
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| Apr-20-06 |
| Maatalkko: Oh crap, I'm an old Timman fan so I bet all of my ChessBookie points on Timman to win Siggeman & Co. (he did last year, and he was a top 10 player once upon a time). I didn't realize that he was doing so bad these days. Timman is a cool guy though, he definitely deserves to be better known. It would be nice to see him start trying harder and keep his place in the top 100. |
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| May-03-06 |
| MoonlitKnight: It's looking good for Timman in Siegeman so far. He's leading with 5,5/6 and a rating performance of about 2950. |
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| May-03-06 |
| EmperorAtahualpa: On the ChessGames.com Statistics Page it shows that Timman is now the player with the second most games in the database, behind only Korchnoi! That deserves a lot of respect. |
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May-03-06
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| keypusher: Many years ago I read somewhere that a certain Timman move, which was something like R(Q)-Q2, was the most brilliant move ever played. It doesn't appear on Krabbe's list. The game was played in the early 70s. Anyone know what I am talking about? Or is this just purposeless gibbering? |
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| May-03-06 |
| TIMER: <Keypusher> Your comment reminded me of a candidate most brilliant move ever from Bronstein in Bronstein vs A Khasin, 1957
yet surprisingly nobody had yet kibitzed on it. |
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May-04-06
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| keypusher: <timer> that is indeed a remarkable move with a remarkable follow-up. |
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| May-04-06 |
| Stevens: Is that right that Timman never broke the 2700 barrier? Seems odd when he's such a well regarded and succesful player of a few years ago. |
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| May-04-06 |
| Maatalkko: Wow! Timman is doing great in Siggeman! I won't lose my wager after all! GO TIMMAN!! No, he never did break the 2700 barrier. But you must remember it was much harder to do so back then, when he was at his peak. He was in the world's top 10 for a long time I think, so with today's rating standards he would be above 2700 easily, probably for a number of years. In fact, I think that the only players above 2700 for most of Timman's career were Karpov and Kasparov. In later years Ivanchuck and Shirov also joined them if I remember correctly. BTW Mihail Tal had one freak year in 1979 when he won two major tournaments that were FIDE rated. His rating went from 2610 to 2705, making him the third player ever to be over 2700 (after Fischer and Karpov). They only updated ratings once a year back then, so for all of 1980 he was over 2700. However, he bombed most of his tournaments that year, so he crashed from 2705 to 2550 at the end of the year, the largest drop in a single rating update that I know of. |
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| May-04-06 |
| MoonlitKnight: I've seen larger rating drops, but they were all rather suspect. |
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| May-06-06 |
| Mameluk: Congratulations to Timman for great victory in Malmo tournament. Chess skill never leaves such players, maybe we will see him next year in Wijk an Zee:) |
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May-07-06
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| diagonal: Great victory by Timman, congrats and respect!
Time does not stand still, it's a remarkable achievement of the 55-years old Jan Timman (even some of his opponents blundered in one or the other game): sole first with 7/9 and no loss - just compare eg. with the recent activities / results of other famous "1951-borns" in normal chess tournaments as Ulf Andersson (in crisis - but top in correspondence chess), Karpov (rather poorly at the Russian Club Cup - but very strong in rapid chess encounters), Ribli or Vaganian. |
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| May-07-06 |
| madlydeeply: Timman wrote a book called "the art of chess analysis" which was too complicated for me to figure out. |
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| May-14-06 |
| castofclowns: Base on FIDE's olympiad Team Composition, Timman will not play in Turin? Why? Its a pity that the best performer of the European Team Champion is not playing. |
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| Nov-26-06 |
| nescio: Timman currently plays in a weekend tournament in Wolvega http://www.heiteschaaktoernooi.nl/ with some old rivals (Hort, Hübner, Yusupov) and two other Dutchmen (Van Wely, Werle). So far Hort got the most attention with his original play, but yesterday evening Timman showed that he can still occasionally lash out: [Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2006/11/25"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Timman, Jan"]
[Black "Hubner, Robert"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Board "a.gdkvl61"]
[Input "DGT5133"]
[Owner "Wolvega Remco Heite Schaaktoernooi"]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Nf3 Ngf6 6. Nxf6+ Nxf6 7. Bg5 c5
8. Bc4 cxd4 9. O-O Be7 10. Qe2 O-O 11. Rad1 Qb6 12. Rxd4 Qxb2 13. Bd3 h6 14.
Bxh6 gxh6 15. Qe5 Qb6 16. Rh4 Rd8 17. Rxh6 Kf8 18. Qg3 Ke8 19. Ne5 Qc7 20. Bb5+
Kf8 1-0
Coincidentally the game has some similarities with Tal vs Benko, 1962
Curacao 1962, and Timman has recently published a book about that tournament. |
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| Dec-14-06 |
| Maatalkko: Happy Birthday, Timman. Happy Birthday. |
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| Dec-16-07 |
| bystander: No congratulations for Timman his birthday in 2007?! After some years of absence, Timman will be playing chess again at Hoogovens (Corus). In 2008, there is a honary group, with Timman, Kortchnoi, Ljubojevic and Portisch. The first round of this group will start at January 18. http://www.coruschess.com/participa... |
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Dec-16-07
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| Open Defence: belated Happy Birthday GM Timman! |
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| Mar-16-08 |
| takchess: Game Collection: On the attack Timman My library recently bought "on the attack" by Timman. It is an exceptional book that does not read like a game analysed by Fritz. (like Kasparovs books which are beyond me) It contains representative games by the modern masters of attacking chess (last 25 years) with a number of personal asides about the gm, the specifics of the tournament, past similar lines played. There are 30+ complete games analysed 4-5 pages each and 30+ game fragments analysed. Pretty deep stuff and a book worthy of purchase. |
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| Mar-16-08 |
| MichAdams: Kasparov's supporters will reply:
<Overall record: Garry Kasparov beat Jan Timman 25 to 4, with 28 draws.> |
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| Mar-17-08 |
| GBKnight: I don't think it is a question of what Timman's personal record against Kasparov might have been. Presumably takchess finds Timman's writing and analysis more accessible. Another excellent book by Timman is 'The Art of Chess Analysis' (Cadogan 1997), which is a collection of games annotated in some depth by Timman; well worth a look. |
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| Mar-17-08 |
| MichAdams: Kasparov's supporters will reply:
<Overall record: Garry Kasparov beat Jan Timman 25 to 4, with 28 draws.> |
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