The chess World mourns the death of famous Dutch grandmaster Jan Timman, who passed away on Februay 18th, aged 75.

His biggest chess achievement was to reach semifinal of candidates tournament back in 1992, making him effectively No. 3 in the World. The candidates' final match took place in 1993 in Spain, and Jan Timman lost 7½-5½ to Nigel Short.

As Short and Kasparov were expelled from FIDE soon after, Timman's match vs Karpov was labelled as "FIDE World Championship match" and Timman lost 12½-8½ thus becoming "FIDE Vice-Champion".

Jan Timmann represented his native Holland 11 times at the Chess Olympiads, winning individual Gold medal in Haifa in 1976.

Here is Timman's immortal game, the one that he himself describes as his "best ever". Timman went on to win this extremely strong tournament edging out opposition by incredible 1½ point. See final table (source: Informant 33).