World Chess Championship 1990

The 1990 World Chess Championship was played between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. It was the fifth and final Kasparov-Karpov championship match, Kasparov winning by a single point.

Interzonals

Three Interzonals were held in June-August 1987, with 16 to 18 players playing in each and top three qualifying. In the first one, in Subotica, Gyula Sax, Nigel Short, and Jon Speelman shared the first place with 10.5/15 points. In the Szirak Interzonal Valery Salov and Johann Hjartarson finished top of the table with 12.5/17, and Lajos Portisch and John Nunn tied for the third. The candidates place was decided in a separate play-off, with Portisch winning 4–2. Viktor Korchnoi was the winner in the last Interzonal in Zagreb, scoring 11 in 16 games and one point ahead of Jaan Ehlvest and Yasser Seirawan.

Players eliminated in this stage included former World Champions Mikhail Tal and Vasily Smyslov.

Candidates matches

In addition to nine players from the Interzonals, four quarterfinalists of the previous cycle (Andrei Sokolov, Jan Timman, Rafael Vaganian, and Artur Yusupov) were seeded as the Candidates. The organizing federation of the preliminary matches (which were held in Saint John, New Brunswick) nominated one player, Kevin Spraggett. Anatoly Karpov, the challenger in the previous cycle, was seeded into the quarterfinal.4RoundBracket-Byes
RD1=Preliminary matches January-February 1988
RD2=Quarterfinals August 1988-February 1989
RD3=Semifinals London, October 1989
RD4=Final Kuala Lumpur, March 1990

RD1-seed01=flagicon|HUN
RD1-team01=Lajos Portisch
RD1-score01=3.5
RD1-seed02=flagicon|URS
RD1-team02=Rafael Vaganian
RD1-score02=2.5

RD1-seed03=flagicon|URS
RD1-team03=Valery Salov
RD1-score03=2.5
RD1-seed04=flagicon|NED
RD1-team04=Jan Timman
RD1-score04=3.5

RD1-seed05=flagicon|ENG
RD1-team05=Jon Speelman
RD1-score05=4.0
RD1-seed06=flagicon|USA
RD1-team06=Yasser Seirawan
RD1-score06=1.0

RD1-seed07=flagicon|ENG
RD1-team07=Nigel Short
RD1-score07=3.5
RD1-seed08=flagicon|HUN
RD1-team08=Gyula Sax
RD1-score08=1.5

RD1-seed09=flagicon|URS
RD1-team09=Artur Yusupov
RD1-score09=3.5
RD1-seed10=flagicon|URS
RD1-team10=Jaan Ehlvest
RD1-score10=1.5

RD1-seed11=flagicon|CAN
RD1-team11=Kevin Spraggett
RD1-score11=6.5
RD1-seed12=flagicon|URS
RD1-team12=Andrei Sokolov
RD1-score12=5.5

RD1-seed13=flagicon|ISL
RD1-team13=Johann Hjartarson
RD1-score13=4.5
RD1-seed14=flagicon|SUI
RD1-team14=Viktor Korchnoi
RD1-score14=3.5

RD1-team15=
RD1-score15=
RD1-team16=
RD1-score16=

RD2-team01=Lajos Portisch
RD2-score01=2.5
RD2-team02=Jan Timman
RD2-score02=3.5

RD2-team03=Jon Speelman
RD2-score03=3.5
RD2-team04=Nigel Short
RD2-score04=1.5

RD2-team05=Artur Yusupov
RD2-score05=5.0
RD2-team06=Kevin Spraggett
RD2-score06=4.0

RD2-team07=Johann Hjartarson
RD2-score07=1.5
RD2-seed08=flagicon|URS
RD2-team08=Anatoly Karpov
RD2-score08=3.5

RD3-team01=Jan Timman
RD3-score01=4.5
RD3-team02=Jon Speelman
RD3-score02=3.5

RD3-team03=Artur Yusupov
RD3-score03=3.5
RD3-team04=Anatoly Karpov
RD3-score04=4.5

RD4-team01=Jan Timman
RD4-score01=2.5
RD4-team02=Anatoly Karpov
RD4-score02=6.5

Championship match

The first twelve games were played in New York (8 October – 7 November), the other twelve taking place in Lyon, France (26 November – 30 December [cite web|title=Kasparov vs Karpov, 1990|url=http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=55223|publisher=Chessgames|accessdate=2008-06-14] ).

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References

External links

* [http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/90kk$$.htm Game-by-game summary]
* [http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/8890$cix.htm Candidates matches]
*Interzonals: [http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/88901iix.htm Subotica] , [http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/88902iix.htm Szirak] , [http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/88903iix.htm Zagreb]