- 1990 in chess
Events in
chess in1990 ;Top players
FIDE top 10 byElo rating - January 1990#
Garry Kasparov URS 2800
#Anatoly Karpov URS 2730
#Jan Timman NLD 2680
#Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2665
#Mikhail Gurevich URS 2645
#Valery Salov URS 2645
#Alexander Beliavsky URS 2640
#Nigel Short ENG 2635
#Ulf Andersson SWE 2630
#Viktor Korchnoi SUI 2625Chess news in brief
*The Candidates' final is held in
Kuala Lumpur .Anatoly Karpov defeatsJan Timman 6½-2½ to becomeGarry Kasparov 's challenger once more. In a very close match for theWorld Chess Championship , held inLyon , Kasparov has just too much for his long standing rival and ends up retaining his title by a score of 12½-11½. He wins $1.7million in prize money.
*Sixty-four players compete at theManila Interzonal .Boris Gelfand andVassily Ivanchuk are joint winners with 9/13.Viswanathan Anand andNigel Short score 8½/13 to finish with a share of third place.
*The Women's (Moscow) Interzonal is closely contested by co-winnersKetino Kachiani andAlisa Galliamova .Nona Gaprindashvili is victorious at the Women's (Malaysia) Interzonal.
*Gata Kamsky and Ivanchuk share success at a double round tournament inTilburg , each scoring 8½/14.
*Kasparov wins the Linares chess tournament with 8/11. Gelfand takes second place with 7½/11.
*Yasser Seirawan triumphs at theHaninge tournament with 8½/11, ahead ofJan Ehlvest and Karpov (each with 7½/11).
*Alexander Beliavsky wins the OHRA tournament inAmsterdam .
*Karpov wins at Biel with 9½/14, ahead ofUlf Andersson (8/14) andTony Miles (7½/14)
*John Nunn is the victor atWijk aan Zee 's annual Hoogovens tournament.
*Anand and Kamsky tie for first in a strongNew Delhi tournament.
*Qualifiers from the GMA's Open tournament series come together in Moscow to contest the final. It is won jointly byJon Speelman ,Mikhail Gurevich ,Alexander Khalifman ,Zurab Azmaiparashvili andEvgeny Bareev .
*One hundred and seven teams take part at theChess Olympiad , held atNovi Sad . The USSR win by a good margin, with 39/56. The USA and England share second place on 35½/56, with the USA taking silver medals on tie-break. The best individual rating performances come fromRobert Hubner (gold),Murray Chandler (silver) and Vassily Ivanchuk (bronze). The Women's Olympiad is won by Hungary, on tie-break from the USSR (both 35/42), with China taking bronze on 29/42. The Polgar family are multiple medal winners, each sister taking gold for her respective board, along with a haul of team and performance rating medals.Ketevan Arakhamia earns a gold medal for her perfect 12/12 score as first reserve for the USSR.
*Charismatic GrandmasterGuillermo Garcia-Gonzalez of Cuba is tragically killed in a car accident inHavana , while preparing to take part in the Olympiad.
*Kasparov wins a training match againstLev Psakhis +4, -0, =2 inMurcia , Spain.
*A 'Chess Summit', held inReykjavik , comprises four teams of ten players. The USSR wins (31½/60) ahead of England (31/60), USA (30/60) and a combined 'Nordic countries' team (27½/60). England records its first ever match victory over the Soviet team with a 6-4 result.
*Beliavsky,Leonid Yudasin ,Evgeny Bareev andAlexey Vyzmanavin tie for first place in the penultimateUSSR Chess Championship , held in Leningrad (soon to be re-namedSaint Petersburg ). Beliavsky is awarded the title on tie-break.
*Lev Alburt wins theUS Chess Championship inJacksonville .Elena Donaldson takes the Women's Championship, held inSpartanburg , South Carolina.
*James Plaskett is the winner of theBritish Chess Championship , held atEastbourne .Susan Arkell is the Women's Champion.
*Igor Glek wins the World Open inPhiladelphia .
*Khalifman wins the New York Open andBent Larsen takes the (Watson, Farley & Williams ) New York International with 6½/9, ahead ofVasilios Kotronias (6/9).
*The US Masters inChicago is won byTony Miles .
*Karpov wins a game against Deep Thought atHarvard . The program, created by scientists atCarnegie-Mellon University , is remotely attached to anIBM Mainframe, enabling it to examine 750,000 positions per second.
*Seirawan defeats Timman 4-2 in the annual KRO Exhibition Match, held inHilversum . This is one in a novel series of matches in which Timman is pitted against his contemporary grandmaster rivals.
*TheWorld Youth Chess Championship for older children is held inSingapore .Sergei Tiviakov wins the Boys Under-18, whileKonstantin Sakaev takes the Boys Under-16 trophy.Tea Lanchava of Georgia wins in the Girls Under-16 category.
* The World Youth Chess Festival for Peace caters for the younger children atFond du Lac , Wisconsin. Although there are categories for girls, Hungarian child prodigyJudit Polgar enters and wins the Boys Under-14 section. This repeats her (Under-12) achievement atTimişoara in 1988.Boris Avrukh of the Soviet Union wins the Boys Under-12 category.
*England and the USSR tie for first place in theWorld Chess Solving Championship .
*FIDE declares that smoking is prohibited at all of its events.Births
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Magnus Carlsen , Norwegian player, world top five Grandmaster while still a junior - November 30
*Sergey Karjakin , Ukrainian player, youngest Grandmaster ever and a World Youth Champion - January 12
*Ian Nepomniachtchi , Russian Grandmaster, World Youth Champion at U-14 - July 14
*Maxime Vachier-Lagrave , French Grandmaster and national champion - October 21
*Yuriy Kuzubov , Ukrainian Grandmaster, one of the world's youngest to gain the title - January 26
*Anna Muzychuk , IM from Ukraine then Slovenia, World Youth Champion for Girls U-16 - February 28
*Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son , Vietnamese player, World Youth Champion at U-10 - February 23
*David Howell, England's youngest ever Grandmaster - November 14
*Wang Puchen , New Zealand International Master - January 20
*Anya Corke , Hong Kong WGM, winner of three (Open section) British Junior titles - September 12Deaths
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Alexander Konstantinopolsky , Ukrainian honorary Grandmaster, Correspondence player and trainer - September 21
*Eero Book , Finnish player, honorary Grandmaster and six-time national champion - January 7
*Guillermo Garcia-Gonzalez , Cuban Grandmaster, three-time national champion - October 26
*Ernest Klein, former British champion and author - ?
*Emil Josef Diemer - German player and openings theorist - October 10
*Geza Fuster , Hungarian-Canadian International Master - ?
*Ernest Pogosyants , Ukrainian chess problemist and endgame study specialist - August 16
*Baldur Honlinger , prominent Austrian player of the 1920s-1950s - March 12
*Heinrich Reinhardt , German-Austrian player - June 14References
*cite book | author=Burgess, Graham | title=Chess Highlights of the 20th Century | publisher=Gambit Publications | year=1999 | id=ISBN 1901983218
* [http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/history.txt Chess History & Chronology - Bill Wall]
* [http://www.olimpbase.org Olimpbase - Olympiads and other Team event information]
* [http://chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk/Chess/Trivia/AlltimeList.html FIDE rating list data 1970-97]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7DF173BF937A25753C1A966958260 NY Times (Robert Byrne) account of New York International]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4D91038F932A2575AC0A966958260 NY Times (Robert Byrne) account of Biel Tournament]
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