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Timman’s Studies My Collected Endgame Studies and Their Origins Jan Timman completes an impressive and fascinating trilogy with his collected studies. In Timman’s Titans,

winner of the 2017 ECF Book of the Year Award, he writes about the world champions he admires. In Timman’s Triumphs, he annotates his hundred best games. In Timman’s Studies,

he offers his collected compositions of endgame studies.

My Collected Endgame Studies and Their Origins

Throughout his career, Jan Timman has been captivated by the mystery and splendor of endgame studies. Even during his most successful and busy years as a world-class player,

he continued to compose and admire endgame studies. He has always believed that his exploration of this magical world helped him grow as a player.

In this book, he presents 160 studies and explains how they were created, whether inspired by the works of other composers or game positions.

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It’s a simple fact: as soon as you learn the rules of chess, you want to play. Inevitably, though, a moment of saturation will appear sooner or later.

I remember a conversation in 1994 with my three-year-older brother Ton, who had taught me the game when I was eight. He asked me, ‘Don’t you ever get tired of chess?

Imagine our father still participating in integral calculus contests at the age of 42?’ Now, my father was a mathematician, and it’s unlikely that he would have found such

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contests appealing, if they had even existed. So, Ton’s second question was rhetorical, but it did give me food for thought. By that age, Fischer and Kasparov had already quit

competitive chess, and Kramnik called it a day when he was 44. I, on the other hand, continued playing for more than three decades, though not with the same conviction as before,

when my ambitions were still completely intact. Over time, I became increasingly immersed in endgame studies. I had been fascinated by them since my younger years,

but later in life this fascination came into full bloom. It is a domain in which mistakes may never occur; the scientific aspect of chess is paramount.

Jan Timman

Jan Timman, a former world championship candidate, rose to number two on the FIDE world rankings. He is the author of several bestsellers, including Timman’s Titans, Timman’s

Triumphs, The Art of the Endgame, 100 Endgame Studies You Must Know, and Max Euwe’s Best Games. In 2022, he was awarded the title of FIDE Master of Composition.

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