# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-timman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:44:40.873Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-timman"
name: "Jan Timman"
slug: "jan-timman"
description: "Jan Hendrik Timman was a Dutch chess grandmaster who was one of the world's leading 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\". He won the Dutch Chess Championship nine times and was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship several times. He lost the title match of the 1993 FIDE World Championship against Anatoly Karpov."
tagline: "Dutch chess grandmaster (1951–2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Timman_Jan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1951-12-14"
deathDate: "2026-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump