Editing Jan Timman (section)

== Early career ==
He is the son of mathematics professor Rein Timman and his wife Anneke, who as a schoolgirl was a mathematics student of former world champion [[Max Euwe]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byJBCwAAQBAJ&q=Anneke+timman&pg=PA79 |title=The World Champions I Knew |first=Genna |last=Sosonko |publisher=New In Chess |isbn=9789056914844 |page=79 |date=4 June 2014 |access-date=16 April 2018 |via=Google Books}}</ref> His older brother, Ton (1946–2014), held the chess title of FIDE Master. Jan Timman was already an outstanding prospect in his early teens, and at Jerusalem 1967 played in the [[World Junior Chess Championship|World Junior Championship]], aged fifteen, finishing third.

Timman received the [[International Master]] title in 1971, and in 1974 attained Grandmaster status, making him the Netherlands' third after [[Max Euwe]] and [[Jan Hein Donner]]. In the same year he won the [[Dutch Chess Championship|Dutch Championship]] for the first time, having finished second in 1972. He was to win it again on many more occasions through 1996. His first notable international success was at [[Hastings International Chess Congress|Hastings]] 1973/74, where he shared victory with [[Mikhail Tal|Tal]], [[Gennady Kuzmin|Kuzmin]], and [[László Szabó (chess player)|Szabó]].<ref name="companion">{{cite book|title=[[Oxford Companion To Chess]]|author=[[David Vincent Hooper|Hooper, David]] & [[Kenneth Whyld|Whyld, Kenneth]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1996|isbn=0-19-280049-3|oclc=34618196}}</ref> A string of victories quickly followed at [[Sombor]] 1974 (with [[Boris Gulko]]), [[Netanya]] 1975, [[Reykjavík]] 1976 (with [[Fridrik Olafsson]]), [[Amsterdam]] [[IBM]] 1978, [[Nikšić]] 1978,<ref name="The Penguin Encyclopedia of Chess">{{Cite book | editor-last=Golombek | editor-first=Harry | editor-link=Harry Golombek | year=1981 | title=The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Chess | publisher=Penguin Books | isbn=978-0-14-046452-8}}</ref> and [[Bled]]/[[Portorož]] 1979.