Editing Jan Timman (section)

==World Championship Candidate==
Timman's world championship career began at the zonal tournaments at [[Forssa]]/[[Helsinki]] 1972 and Reykjavík 1975. He failed to qualify for the next stage on both occasions. However his win at Amsterdam 1978 took him to his first [[interzonal]] tournament at [[Rio de Janeiro]], where he failed to progress further. He finished in the middle of the field at the 1982 Las Palmas Interzonal, but won the [[Taxco]] 1985 Interzonal convincingly to qualify for the [[Candidates Match]]es for the first time. However, he lost in the first round to [[Artur Yusupov (chess player)|Artur Yusupov]] in 1986. In the next cycle, after winning the 1987 [[Tilburg]] Interzonal he defeated [[Valery Salov]], [[Lajos Portisch]], and [[Jon Speelman|Jonathan Speelman]], but lost in the final to Anatoly Karpov in 1990. He reached the final round once again in 1993, having defeated [[Robert Hübner]], [[Viktor Korchnoi]], and Yusupov, but lost this time to [[Nigel Short]]. However, after Short and [[Garry Kasparov]] played their World Championship match outside of the auspices of the sport's governing body [[FIDE]], Timman was invited to compete against Karpov for the FIDE version of the world title. He lost the [[World Chess Championship 1993|match]] by 12½ points to 8½.<ref>[http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/9193$cix.htm Mark Weeks' men's world championship pages]</ref>