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Black to move. I was not the only one who wondered about the black knight on g1! The game ended after 36.. ♖b8 37. ♕a7 ♖e8 38. ♕c5 ♗xe2 39. ♕xd5 ♕xd5 40. ♘xd5 ♗a6 41. ♗d6 ♘f3+ 42. ♗xf3 exf3+ 43. ♗e5+ ♔g8 44. g4 with Timman's resignation. He shook the hand of his opponent, stood up, took his bag and his jacket, and within a few seconds he had left the playing hall and went to the train station I assume. Similar things could be observed, when the games of GMs Reinderman (another loss) and van den Doel (a win) ended, though one of them needed some time to get his smartphone back. Eight GMs won for Porz, but can we call them a team?! Only GM Lutz, who was the first one to finish his game, stayed almost to the end of the match, when GMs Bok and van Wely secured the 4.5:3.5.

And just the other day I happened to check the obituaries of Tony Miles, and Timman gets the famous story about the game vs. Karpov, Tilburg 1986, totally wrong - and differently than it was in NIC back then.

Timman is pretty good too against the KID. He seems to favor the Saemisch:

Jan Timman is one of the greatest chess players never to win the world title. For many years ‘the Best of the West’ belonged to the chess elite, collecting quite a few super tournament victories. Three times Timman was a Candidate for the World Championship and his peak in the world rankings was second place, in 1982.

For this definitive collection, Timman has revisited his career and subjected his finest efforts to fresh analysis supported by modern technology. The result is startling and fascinating. From the games that he chose for his Timman’s Selected Games (1994, also published as Chess the Adventurous Way), only 10(!) made the cut. Some games that he had been proud of turned out to be flawed, others that he remembered as messy were actually well played.

Timman’s Triumphs includes wins against great players such as Karpov, Kasparov, Kortchnoi, Smyslov, Tal, Spassky, Bronstein, Larsen and Topalov. The annotations are in the author’s trademark lucid style, a happy mix of colourful background information and sharp, crystal-clear explanations.

Once again Jan Timman shows that he is not only one of the best players the game has seen, but also as one of the best chess analysts and writers.

Jan Timman: Chess the Adventurous Way
that covered his prime 1983-93

If you have this book and are a subscriber to New in Chess I'm guessing there is not much new in this book (if anything).

I have always liked his chess but I am not a big fan of his analysis - not very clear and frequently with errors.

Reminds me of Anand who put out a book of his best games then a few years later, rather than putting out a second volume, just put out a second edition with a few games added and then a few years later did the same thing. I bought all three books but felt like I had been slightly ripped off.>

Amazon's search inside feature is great. It shows as the following Chapters from Timman's new book:

Chapter 5: The world title starts getting out of reach (1994-2000)

Chapter 6: In the new millennium (2001-2019)

Timman's new book includes games played after the publication of his previous book.

Also, a separate logical point: chessgames.com has 2,326 games that Timman played from 1963 to 1992: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che...