{{Short description|Malaysian businessman (1926–2018)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{family name hatnote|陳 (Tan)|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox person | honorific_suffix = SPMT JMN | honorific_prefix = Yang Berbahagia Dato' | name = Tan Chin Nam | native_name = 陳振南 | citizenship = Malaysian | birth_date = 18 March 1926 |birth_place = Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | death_place = Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | death_date = 21 October 2018 (aged 92) }} {{Infobox person|module={{Infobox Chinese|child=yes|hide=no|t=陳振南|s=陈振南|poj=Tân Chín-lâm|tl=Tân Tsín-lâm|j=Can4 Zan3 Naam4|p=Chén Zhènnán}}}}

Dato' '''Tan Chin Nam''' ({{zh|t=陳振南|s=陈振南|poj=Tân Chín-lâm|j=Can4 Zan3 Naam4|p=Chén Zhènnán}}; 18 March 1926 – 21 October 2018) was a Malaysian entrepreneur and developer. His family is the majority shareholder of '''IGB Corporation Berhad'''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.igbcorp.com/ |title=Home |website=igbcorp.com}}</ref>

Tan was reportedly one of the richest men in Malaysia and had several companies and businesses.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.viweb.freehosting.net/TanCN.htm |title=February 22, 2003 article on Dato Tan Chin Nam by Thean Lee Cheng |access-date=25 August 2007 |archive-date=5 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405145737/http://viweb.freehosting.net/TanCN.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.viweb.freehosting.net/TanCN.htm |title=Wednesday March 8, 2006 The Star Online article by Angie Ng |access-date=25 August 2007 |archive-date=5 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405145737/http://viweb.freehosting.net/TanCN.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is famous as a property developer and was involved in various projects such as Shangri-La Hotel in Malaysia,Four Seasons Hotel Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, shopping centres in Singapore and Malaysia, including one of the largest shopping malls in the world, Mid Valley Megamall. In Australia, he is responsible for the renovation of Queen Victoria Building (QVB) and Capitol Theatre in Sydney. He also owns a number of Australian-based Thoroughbred racehorses.

Tan's biography, released in 2006 and published by MPH Malaysia, is called ''Never Say I Assume!''.

==Early life== Tan Chin Nam was born on March 18, 1926<ref name=fide>[https://old.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/9509-congratulations-to-dato-tan-chin-nam-on-his-90th-birthday.html "Congratulations to Dato Tan Chin Nam on his 90th birthday"]. FIDE.</ref> in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was the sixth of twelve children.<ref>[http://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/tan-chin-nam-passes-away-age-92 "Tan Chin Nam passes away at age 92"]. ''The Edge Financial Daily''. 2018-10-22.</ref>

==Thoroughbred horse racing== The principal owner for one of Australia's most successful horse trainers, Bart Cummings, Tan had a successful working relationship with Cummings for more than thirty years until the latter's death in 2015.

He owned at least a share in most of Cummings' well-known horses, including Think Big (co-owned with Queensland property developer Rick O'Sullivan and then joined by Tunku Abdul Rahman), winner of back-to-back Melbourne Cups in 1974 and 1975, as well as the multiple Group One winner, Saintly.<ref>[http://www.thoroughbrednews.co.nz/australia/default.asp?id=31863 ''Thoroughbred News'' article on Think Big Stud]</ref> He was the owner of the 2008 Melbourne Cup winner Viewed, and is one of four thoroughbred owners to win the Melbourne Cup four Times.<ref>[http://www.racingvictoria.net.au/Racing/race.aspx?meet_code=5057556&race_code=5003366 2008 Melbourne Cup result]</ref> He also owned 2009 and 2010 Cox Plate winner So You Think, and the winner of the 2009 Crown Oaks, Faint Perfume.

Tan owned a stud farm located along the Wingecarribee River at Burradoo, New South Wales that he named Think Big Stud.

==Chess== In 1975, Tan decided that there was great potential in expanding the game of chess in China. For the first eight years of the Cultural Revolution, chess had been prohibited, but in 1974 there was an easing of the ban and, together with some leading Chinese officials, Tan set-up the "Big Dragon Project", with the aim of having China dominate the chess world by 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Big Dragon Project|url=http://www.chessbase.com/columns/column.asp?pid=142|website=Chessbase News|accessdate=2015-11-03|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016080050/http://www.chessbase.com/columns/column.asp?pid=142|archivedate=2012-10-16}}</ref> In 1982 he became the first FIDE Deputy President for Asia.<ref name=fide/> Tan was also president of the Malaysian chess federation for many decades.<ref name="fide obit">Long, Peter (2018-10-22). [http://fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/11212-obituary-for-honorary-life-president-of-the-malaysian-chess-federation-dato-tan-chin-nam.html "Obituary for Honorary Life President of the Malaysian Chess Federation Dato Tan Chin Nam"]. FIDE.</ref>

Tan sponsored the annual chess tournament Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysian Open, which takes place in Kuala Lumpur since 2004.<ref name=":0" />

==Honours== * {{Flag|Malaysia}} ** 50px Companion of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (JMN) (1978)<ref name="honors" /> * {{Flag|Terengganu}} ** 50px Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Crown of Terengganu (SPMT) – '''Dato'''' (1996)<ref name="honors">{{cite web |url=http://www.istiadat.gov.my/index.php/component/semakanlantikanskp/ |title=Semakan Penerima Darjah Kebesaran, Bintang dan Pingat|publisher=Prime Minister's Department (Malaysia)}}</ref>

==Death== Having retired from the corporate world in the 1990s, he died on October 21, 2018,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2018/10/22/igbs-tan-chin-nam-passes-away/|title=IGB's Tan Chin Nam passes away|date=2018-10-22|website=www.thestar.com.my|publisher=The Star Online|access-date=2018-10-22}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/chess-philanthropist-dato-tan-has-died|title=Chess philanthropist Dato Tan has died|last=Lam|first=Edwin|date=2018-10-21|website=Chess News|publisher=ChessBase|access-date=2018-10-22}}</ref> aged 92, in Kuala Lumpur.<ref name="fide obit" /> The Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Melbourne is named in his honour.

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