1989 in chess
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Template:Year nav sports topic5 Events in chess in 1989.
Top players
Kasparov and Karpov remained the top two players in the world, positions that they had held since July 1982. Over the year, English players Nigel Short and Jonathan Speelman moved up the list, whilst Dutch player Jan Timman fell out of the top 10, having stood third in the January 1988 list.[1]
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Events
The following major chess tournaments took place in 1989:
Grandmasters Association World Cup
The Grandmasters Association held six World Cup tournaments over 1988 and 1989, with some of the world's best players invited. The last three of these tournaments were held in 1989.
- 20 March - 20 April: The fourth tournament was held in Barcelona and won by Kasparov and Ljubomir Ljubojević, each with 11/16.[3]
- 3 June - 24 June: The fifth tournament was held in Rotterdam and won by Timman with 10½/15, ahead of Karpov with 9½.[4]
- 12 August - 3 September: The sixth and final tournament was held in Skellefteå, Sweden and won by Karpov and Kasparov, each with 9½/15. Kasparov won the World Cup series, and prize money of $175,000, with Karpov second.[5]
European Team Championship
- 23 November - 3 December: The 9th European Team Chess Championship in Haifa was won by the USSR, ahead of Yugoslavia in second and West Germany in third.[6]
The gold medal on the first board was won by Olivier Renet of France with 6/9. Valery Salov of USSR was second with 5/8.
Other major tournaments
- 18 February - 5 March: The Linares tournament was won by Ivanchuk with 7½/10, ahead of Karpov with 7.[7]
- 9 September - 16 September: The 9th World Microcomputer Chess Championship was held in Portorož, Slovenia, and won by Mephisto X from the United Kingdom with 6½/7.[8]
- 15 September - 2 October: The Tilburg tournament was dominated by Kasparov who won 10 games and drew only 4 to finish with 12/14. Viktor Korchnoi was second with 8½/14. This event took Kasparov's rating past Bobby Fischer's record of 2780.[9]
- 28 December - 9 January 1990: The Reggio Emilia tournament was won by Jaan Ehlvest with 7½/10, ahead of Ivanchuk with 6½.[10]
- The Wijk aan Zee tournament ended in a 4-way tie between Viswanathan Anand, Zoltán Ribli, Predrag Nikolić and Gyula Sax, each with 7½/13.[11]
Titles awarded
Grandmaster
In 1989, FIDE awarded the Grandmaster title to the following 17 players:[12]
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- Branko Damljanovic (born 1961) Script error: No such module "flag".
- Alexey Dreev (born 1961) Script error: No such module "flag".
- Boris Gelfand (born 1968) Script error: No such module "flag".
- Alon Greenfeld (born 1964) Script error: No such module "flag".
- Alexander Goldin (born 1965) Script error: No such module "flag".
- Ferdinand Hellers (born 1969) Script error: No such module "flag".
- Daniel King (born 1963) Script error: No such module "flag".
- Bachar Kouatly (born 1958) Script error: No such module "flag".
- Zdenko Kožul (born 1966) Script error: No such module "flag".
- Michał Krasenkow (born 1963) Script error: No such module "flag".
- Stefan Mohr (born 1967) Script error: No such module "flag".
- Jeroen Piket (born 1969) Script error: No such module "flag".
- Miodrag Todorcevic (born 1940) Script error: No such module "flag".
- Evgeny Vladimirov (born 1957) Script error: No such module "flag".
- Alexey Vyzmanavin (born 1960) Script error: No such module "flag".
Woman Grandmaster
In 1989, FIDE awarded the title Woman Grandmaster to the following 2 players:[12]
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- Zsofia Polgar (born 1974) Script error: No such module "flag".
Births
The following chess grandmasters were born in 1989:[13]
- 19 January Maxim Rodshtein Script error: No such module "flag".[14]
- 27 January Avetik Grigoryan Script error: No such module "flag".
- 10 February Manuel León Hoyos Script error: No such module "flag".
- 11 March Zaven Andriasian Script error: No such module "flag".
- 28 March Sergei Zhigalko Script error: No such module "flag".
- 29 March Geetha Narayanan Gopal Script error: No such module "flag".
- 6 April Robin Swinkels Script error: No such module "flag".
- 21 April Li Chao Script error: No such module "flag".
- 30 April Hrant Melkumyan Script error: No such module "flag".
- 4 August Wang Hao Script error: No such module "flag".
- 28 August Aleksandr Rakhmanov Script error: No such module "flag".
- 4 November Axel Bachmann Script error: No such module "flag".
- 27 December Kateryna Lahno Script error: No such module "flag".
- Abhijeet Gupta Script error: No such module "flag".
- Eduardo Iturrizaga Script error: No such module "flag".
- Davit Jojua Script error: No such module "flag".
- Rinat Jumabayev Script error: No such module "flag".
- Aleksandr Lenderman Script error: No such module "flag".
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- Krisztian Szabo Script error: No such module "flag".
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Deaths
The following leading chess personalities died in 1989:
- 4 April Baruch Harold Wood (born 1909): founded British magazine CHESS in 1935
- 15 October Anatoly Lutikov (born 1933): Russian Grandmaster who finished third in the USSR Championships 1968-9[15]
- Karen Grigorian (born 1947): Armenian International Master who was champion of Moscow in 1975 and 1979. Committed suicide by jumping from the tallest bridge in Yerevan[16]
Other events
The game between Ivan Nikolić and Goran Arsović in Belgrade 1989 lasted for over 20 hours and consisted of 269 moves. This is still the record number of moves played in a single tournament game. The game was eventually drawn.[17]
References
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