The Women's Candidates' Tournament requires a tie-break to separate joint winners
Xie Jun and
Alisa Marić. In a match that moves from
Belgrade to
Beijing, Xie Jun wins 41⁄2-21⁄2 and advances to face
Maia Chiburdanidze for the
Women's World Chess Championship in
Manila. The Chinese challenger continues to impress and captures the world title by a score of 81⁄2-61⁄2.
Garry Kasparov wins a strong double-round
Tilburg event with 10/14, one and a half points clear of second-placed Short.
Ivanchuk wins at the
Linares tournament with 91⁄2/13, ahead of Kasparov on 9/13.
Valery Salov and Short share victory at
Amsterdam's 5th
Euwe Memorial with 6/9, ahead of Karpov and Kasparov with 51⁄2/9. All four players go through the tournament unbeaten.
In the first tournament of the second World Cup, Ivanchuk and Karpov are winners at
Reykjavík with 101⁄2/15. The World Cup is then abandoned, when Kasparov and Karpov are refused their requests for appearance fees and create an impasse. It is a sad conclusion to an exciting new series of events and heralds a decline in the fortunes of the
Grandmasters Association (GMA). The World Cup branding is however resurrected much later.
Karpov finishes on top at the double-round, 33rd
Reggio Emilia tournament, held at the 1990/91 year end. His winning score of 71⁄2/12 narrowly eclipses
Lev Polugaevsky in second place, with 7/12.
Larry Christiansen is successful at a strong tournament in
Munich, his 91⁄2/13 being a clear point-and-a-half ahead of second place. With wife Natasha, he moves to Germany to set up a temporary base, as he is spending increasing time playing in Europe. His Munich winning margin is later repeated at the
Vienna International, where he finishes with 71⁄2/9, ahead of
Vladimir Epishin on 6/9.
Artashes Minasian is the surprising winner of the 58th and final
USSR Chess Championship. A symbolic entry of sixty-four contains many future stars, such as
Vladimir Kramnik, Alexei Shirov and
Sergei Tiviakov. Kramnik, at just sixteen, is the newly crowned Under-18
World Youth Champion. At the other end of the spectrum,
Mikhail Tal participates, but is desperately unwell and it turns out to be one of his last tournaments.
The Women's Candidates' Tournament requires a tie-break to separate joint winners
Xie Jun and
Alisa Marić. In a match that moves from
Belgrade to
Beijing, Xie Jun wins 41⁄2-21⁄2 and advances to face
Maia Chiburdanidze for the
Women's World Chess Championship in
Manila. The Chinese challenger continues to impress and captures the world title by a score of 81⁄2-61⁄2.
Garry Kasparov wins a strong double-round
Tilburg event with 10/14, one and a half points clear of second-placed Short.
Ivanchuk wins at the
Linares tournament with 91⁄2/13, ahead of Kasparov on 9/13.
Valery Salov and Short share victory at
Amsterdam's 5th
Euwe Memorial with 6/9, ahead of Karpov and Kasparov with 51⁄2/9. All four players go through the tournament unbeaten.
In the first tournament of the second World Cup, Ivanchuk and Karpov are winners at
Reykjavík with 101⁄2/15. The World Cup is then abandoned, when Kasparov and Karpov are refused their requests for appearance fees and create an impasse. It is a sad conclusion to an exciting new series of events and heralds a decline in the fortunes of the
Grandmasters Association (GMA). The World Cup branding is however resurrected much later.
Karpov finishes on top at the double-round, 33rd
Reggio Emilia tournament, held at the 1990/91 year end. His winning score of 71⁄2/12 narrowly eclipses
Lev Polugaevsky in second place, with 7/12.
Larry Christiansen is successful at a strong tournament in
Munich, his 91⁄2/13 being a clear point-and-a-half ahead of second place. With wife Natasha, he moves to Germany to set up a temporary base, as he is spending increasing time playing in Europe. His Munich winning margin is later repeated at the
Vienna International, where he finishes with 71⁄2/9, ahead of
Vladimir Epishin on 6/9.
Artashes Minasian is the surprising winner of the 58th and final
USSR Chess Championship. A symbolic entry of sixty-four contains many future stars, such as
Vladimir Kramnik, Alexei Shirov and
Sergei Tiviakov. Kramnik, at just sixteen, is the newly crowned Under-18
World Youth Champion. At the other end of the spectrum,
Mikhail Tal participates, but is desperately unwell and it turns out to be one of his last tournaments.