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This week on Perpetual Chess, it's a privilege to be joined by a chess legend. GM Jan Timman! GM Timman is the 9 time champion of the Netherlands and spent decades as one of the top players in the world.\xa0 He has had numerous tournament triumphs, and played GM Anatoly Karpov for the FIDE World Championship in 1993. For all of his striking chess successes, GM Timman may be equally skilled as a writer. He is a founding editor of New in Chess Magazine, and penned the outstanding and award-winning book,\xa0 Timman\u2019s Titans, among many other works. In 2020, GM Timman has released another great book, Timman\u2019s Triumphs: My 100 Best Games. GM Timman has a treasure trove of amazing chess stories, and we are lucky that he touched on many of them in this interview. A few of the topics discussed include: what modern chess engines taught him about his classic games, what it was like to drink with Mikhail Tal, and go to a disco with Bobby Fischer, and what his most cherished and painful memories are from a lifetime\u2019s worth of chess battles. GM Timman is someone I have always hoped to interview, so it was an honor and pleasure to hear his stories and reflections. Please read on for more details, timestamps and relevant hyperlinks.\xa0\n\n\n\n\n\n0:00- We begin by discussing GM Timman\u2019s latest great book, Timman\u2019s Triumphs. Why does he think that, under today\u2019s circumstances,he would not become a chess professional as an up-and-coming player?\xa0\n\nMentioned: GM Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Chessbase, NICBase, Fritz, GM Garry Kasparov, GM Erwin L\u2019Ami\n\n\xa0\n\n08:00- After reviewing his games with today\u2019s state of the art engines, how did the quality of play in GM Timman\u2019s games hold up?\xa0\n\nGM Wolfgang Uhlmann, GM Judit Polgar\xa0\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n10:45- GM Timman tells a story of travelling to a tournament in Stockholm when young, and staying at a hotel where he couldn\u2019t afford lodging unless he won prize money. How did it turn out?\xa0\n\nMentioned: Rilton Cup,\xa0 IM Hans Bohm\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n14:30- GM Timman answers the first of many questions from the Patreon mailbag relating to his dynamic play as Black. Does GM Timman agree with IM Mark Dvoretsky that this style may have cost him some points?\n\nMentioned: GM Max Euwe, GM Hein Donner\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n19:00- What was GM Timman\u2019s approach to preparing for games?\xa0\n\nTimman-Ribli 1978, GM Bobby Fischer, GM Judit Polgar\n\n\xa0\n\n23:00- Bobby Fischer was a chess hero of GM Timman.\xa0 What was it like to meet and spend time with him?\xa0\n\nMentioned: Bessel Kok\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n26:30-GM Timman tells another great story from Timman\u2019s Titans, of discovering, as he shopped at a second hand shop in Lisbon,\xa0 a chess set that once belonged to World Champion Alexander Alekhine.\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n29:00- Perpetual Chess is brought to you in part by Chessable.com. Whether you are interested in openings, endgames, or chess history, Chessable has plenty of books and courses to help you learn and retain the information you learn using its MoveTrainer technology.\xa0\n\nhttps://www.chessable.com/courses/all/new/\n\n\xa0\n\n30:00- GM Timman\xa0 answers a listener question comparing the feeling of playing Kasparov over the board\xa0 to that of playing GM Anatoly Karpov.\xa0\n\nYasser Chessable interview here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoXeFM3tmZ8\n\n\xa0\n\n33:30- GM Timman\xa0 discusses his relationship with GM Viktor Korchnoi and offers his theory of how Korchnoi stayed so strong into his golden years.\xa0\n\nBiel 2001, GM Alexander Grischuk, GM Peter Svidler, GM Lajos Portisch, GM Ljubomir Ljubojevic\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n38:30- What has changed in Jan\u2019s chess game over the years?\xa0\n\nMentioned: The Ragozin Defense\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n41:00- We discuss modern chess a bit. Who is Jan\u2019s favorite player? What does he think about the soon to be resumed 2020 FIDE Candidates tournament?\xa0\n\nGM Ding Liren, GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, GM Ian Nepomniatchi, German Bundesliga\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n45:00- Jan answers another question from the\xa0 Patreon mailbag \xa0relating to a memorable result in the Immopar rapid tournament in 1991.\xa0\n\nTimman-Karpov 1991, Immopar 1991\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n47:30- What are Jan\u2019s most pleasant and most memorable chess memories?\xa0\n\nMentioned: GM Arthur Yusopov\n\n\xa0\n\n50:00- What was it like to be a celebrity in his native Netherlands in the 1990\u2019s? Why does GM Timman think Magnus Carlsen prefers to defend his World Championship title outside of Norway?\n\nMentioned: Dirk Jan Ten Geuzendam of New in Chess Magazine, Former FIDE President Florencio Campomanes, GM Nigel Short, GM Boris Spassky, GM Bobby Fischer\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa052:00- How does GM Timman\xa0 spend his chess-focused time these days? What are his interests outside of chess?\xa0\n\nMentioned: New in Chess Magazine, Luis Borges, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ry\u016bnosuke Akutagawa\n\n\xa0\n\n54:30- What are GM Timman\u2019s favorite cities and tournament venues that he has attended?\n\nMentioned: Paris, London, Madrid, Prague, Reykjavik Open\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n57:30- What was it like to spend time with legendary World Champion GM Mikhail Tal? If he were to be stranded on a desert island with one GM, who would it be?\n\nMentioned: Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n1:00:00- GM Timman answers another listener question:\xa0 Does he think that much of his success in chess can be attributed to the creative environment that surrounded him in the Netherlands?\xa0\xa0\n\nMentioned: De Kring, Hein Donner, GM Evgenii Sosonko\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n1:02:00- How much is Jan keeping up with chess literature? What are his favorite chess books?\xa0\n\nMentioned: My 60 Memorable Games, Paul Keres: The Road to the Top, Rapport-Sprenger 2020\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n1:06:00- GM Jan Timman answers one last Patreon mailbag question: How does GM Timman keep his motivation and focus to play lower rated players in club games?\xa0\n\nMentioned: GM Max Euwe\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n1:08:30- Thanks so much to GM Timman for joining the show! His books are widely available including from New in Chess, as well as Forward Chess.\xa0\n\nhttps://www.newinchess.com/en_US/catalogsearch/result/index/q/Jan%20Timman/?authors=66\n\nhttps://forwardchess.com/product/timman's-triumphs:-my100-best-games?sscid=91k3_fazxa\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices