Editing Jan Timman (section)

==Style==
Timman likes to challenge opponents directly in the areas of their strengths. [[Yasser Seirawan]] describes a game where Timman had an over-the-board inspiration to opt for a complicated game—the kind that Timman knew Seirawan really enjoyed—in spite of having prepared an equalizing variation beforehand. Timman's fearlessness has caused him to lose a lot of games, but also makes him a feared competitor because nobody likes to lose from their favourite positions.<ref>{{cite book |last=Seirawan |first=Yasser |title=Winning Chess Brilliancies |year=2003 |publisher=Microsoft Press |isbn=978-1857443479}}</ref> [[Raymond Keene]] described Timman's playing style as that of "a fighter, in the mould of [[Emanuel Lasker]]".<ref name="The Penguin Encyclopedia of Chess"/>

He has always adopted a wide and varied [[Chess opening|opening]] repertoire, playing an array of different systems as both White and Black. When he first reached the world class level in the 1970s, this was relatively unusual, with most elite grandmasters deploying a more narrowly focused range of openings, but it is now the norm.<ref>{{cite book|author=Giddens, Steve|title=How to Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire|publisher=[[Gambit Publications]]|pages=28|year=2003|isbn=1-901983-89-7 |author-link=Steve Giddins}}</ref>

===Example game===
{{AN chess|pos=secleft}}
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| Timman vs. Kasparov, Hilversum 1985
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|  |  |qd|  |  |pd|  |  
|  |  |pd|  |  |kd|pd|pd
|  |  |  |pl|pd|  |  |  
|bd|pl|  |  |  |  |  |  
|rd|bl|ql|  |  |  |  |pl
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|  |  |  |  |rl|  |kl|  
| Position after 36...dxe5
}} 
This game, played between Timman and [[Garry Kasparov]] in [[Hilversum]] on 17 December 1985, is a good example of Timman's style: 
:Timman vs. [[Garry Kasparov]], [[Hilversum]] 1985; [[Ruy Lopez]], [[Ruy Lopez#Zaitsev Variation|Zaitsev Variation]] <br />1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 Bb7 10.d4 Re8 11.Ng5 Rf8 12.Nf3 Re8 13.Nbd2 Bf8 14.a3 h6 15.Bc2 Nb8 16.b4 Nbd7 17.Bb2 g6 18.c4 exd4 19.cxb5 axb5 20.Nxd4 c6 21.a4 bxa4 22.Bxa4 Qb6 23.Nc2 Qc7 24.Bb3 Ba6 25.Rc1 Bg7 26.Ne3 Bb5 27.Nd5 Nxd5 28.Bxg7 Kxg7 29.exd5 Ne5 30.Ne4 Nd3 31.Qd2 Ra3 32.Nf6 Rxe1+ 33.Rxe1 Kxf6 34.Qc3+ Ne5 35.f4 Ba4 36.fxe5 dxe5 (see diagram; at this point, Timman finds a game-ending [[Combination (chess)|combination]]) 37.d6 Qxd6 38.Qf3+ Ke7 39.Qxf7+ Kd8 40.Rd1 Ra1 41.Qf6+ (Kasparov cannot hang on to his queen) {{chessAN|1–0}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070170 |title=Timman vs. Kasparov, 1985 |website=[[Chessgames.com]] }}</ref>