Der niederländische Schachgroßmeister Jan Timman (74) ist verstorben

The Last Romantic of the 64 Squares!

Since every athlete is always pigeonholed and only performance seems to count, I’m interested in the WHOLE person. Because every person is a complex being and can never be described solely in terms of a single function, whatever that function may be.

I knew him because I sent my chess studies to his tournaments. Furthermore, I studied many of his chess studies back then (of which he has over 500 in the Harold van der Heijden database) and am familiar with his style, i.e., how he constructs chess studies. What ideas he had, or reused.

So he wasn’t just known as a chess player, but above all as a composer of chess studies.
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