The Best of the West. The strongest Western player during Soviet chess dominance. World Championship candidate for decades.
Jan Timman was the best Western player during the era of Soviet chess dominance, a period when the world's top ten were almost exclusively from the USSR. He reached the Candidates Final in 1983 and was runner-up for the FIDE title in 1993. A prolific chess author, his books on endgames and attacking play are considered classics. His sharp, creative style, always willing to complicate and take risks, made his games some of the most entertaining of his generation. He passed away in 2025 and is remembered as one of the great ambassadors of Western chess.
Notable: His 1982 game against Kasparov is considered one of the most complex ever played. Remained active in chess journalism and writing until the end of his life.
| Era | Modern |
| Years | 1951–2025 |
| Peak rating | 2680 |
| Born | Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1951 |
| Title | World Championship Candidate (1983, 1993) |
| Style | Sharp tactical play, creative middlegames, fighting spirit |
Timman, reconstructed from the player's own games and measured against a modern engine, as a UCI engine for your machine: it runs locally and offline, loads into CZUBATRONIC 2400 as an external engine, and into any compatible UCI chess interface. Strong chess from the engine; the choices, recognisably Timman's.
| File | ChessGate_Timman.exe · 55 MB |
| Runs in | CZUBATRONIC 2400 (as an external engine) and any UCI chess interface |
| Requirements | Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit; any UCI chess interface; CZUBATRONIC 2400 lists it as an external engine |
| Works offline | Yes. No account, no server. |
| Packs | — |
| Collection | Complete Personality Collection |
| In the browser | A lighter version of Timman plays on ChessGate. |
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