CHESS PLAYER

Jan Timman

1951 - Today

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Jan Timman (born 14 December 1951) is a Dutch chess grandmaster who was one of the world's leading chess players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career, he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The Best of the West". He has won the Dutch Chess Championship nine times and has been a Candidate for the World Chess Championship several times. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Timman has received more than 179,656 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Jan Timman is the 51st most popular chess player (up from 59th in 2019), the 368th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 362nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Dutch Chess Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Jan Timman ranks 51 out of 461. Before him are Alessandro Salvio, Frank Marshall, Andor Lilienthal, Rudolf Spielmann, Joseph Henry Blackburne, and Milan Vidmar. After him are Pedro Damiano, Lajos Portisch, Alexander Kotov, Lionel Kieseritzky, Magnus Carlsen, and Salo Flohr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Jan Timman ranks 130. Before him are Antonis Samaras, K. K. Downing, Jeanette, Ramón Calderón, Musa Manarov, and Ondrej Nepela. After him are Ahron Daum, Ace Frehley, Bob Iger, Jesse Ventura, Sydne Rome, and Myint Swe.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan Timman ranks 368 out of 1,646. Before him are Giovanni van Bronckhorst (1975), Piet de Jong (1915), Jan van Huysum (1682), Anton Corbijn (1955), Huub Stevens (1953), and Aert van der Neer (1603). After him are Cristina Deutekom (1931), Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608), Pieter Boddaert (1730), Jos Verstappen (1972), Albert van Ouwater (1415), and Hendrick de Keyser (1565).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Netherlands

Among chess players born in Netherlands, Jan Timman ranks 2. Before him are Max Euwe (1901). After him are Fenny Heemskerk (1919), and Jorden van Foreest (1999).

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