- World Chess Championship 1993
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The World Chess Championship 1993 was held from 1990 to 1993. It was one of the most controversial in history, with incumbent World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, and official challenger Nigel Short, splitting from FIDE, the official world governing body of chess, and playing their title match under the auspices of the Professional Chess Association. In response, FIDE stripped Kasparov of his title, and instead held a title match between Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman.
The matches were won by Kasparov and Karpov respectively. For the first time in history, there were two rival World Chess Champions, a situation which persisted until the World Chess Championship 2006.
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Qualification
The final four players from the 1988-90 Candidates tournament - Karpov, Timman, Yusupov and Speelman - were seeded directly into the Candidates. They were joined by the top 11 finishers from the Interzonal, which was held as a 64-player Swiss system tournament.[1]
These 15 players played a series of Candidates matches.[2] If matches were tied after the allotted games, extra pairs of rapid chess games were played until one player had the lead.[3]
Round of 16 (best of 8) Quarter Finals (best of 8) Semi Finals (best of 10) Final (best of 14) 
Jan Timman4½ 
Robert Hübner2½ Timman 4½ Korchnoi 2½ 
Victor Korchnoi5½ 
Gyula Sax4½ Timman 6 Yusupov 4 Artur Yusupov6½ 
Sergey Dolmatov5½ Yusupov 5½ Ivanchuk 4½ 
Vassily Ivanchuk4½ 
Leonid Yudasin½ Timman 5½ Short 7½ 
Nigel Short5½ Jon Speelman4½ Short 5 Gelfand 3 Boris Gelfand5½ 
Predrag Nikolić4½ Short 6 Karpov 4 
Vishy Anand4½ Alexei Dreev1½ Anand 3½ Karpov 4½ (bye) Anatoly KarpovPCA match
The Kasparov–Short final was a best of 24, played in London between September and October 1993.[4]
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Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Total Garry Kasparov1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 12½ 
Nigel Short0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 7½
FIDE match
Karpov won the best-of-24 match 12½ to 8½ (six wins to two, with thirteen draws).[5] He defeated Timman, the loser of the Candidates final against Nigel Short.
References
- ^ 1990 Manila Interzonal Tournament, Mark Weeks' Chess Pages
- ^ 1991-93 Candidates Matches, Mark Weeks' Chess Pages
- ^ World Championships 1/4-finals, round 8, Usenet rec.games.chess, August 24, 1991
- ^ 1993 Kasparov - Short PCA Title Match, Mark Weeks' Chess Pages
- ^ 1993 Karpov - Timman FIDE Title Match, Mark Weeks' Chess Pages
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