1988 in chess

none 1988 chess sports Events in chess in 1988. Top players Kasparov and Karpov remained the top two players in the world, positions that they had held since July 1982. Over the year, Dutch player Jan Timman and Alexander Beliavsky of the USSR moved up the list, whilst Andrei Sokolov from the USSR and Ljubomir Ljubojević of Yugoslavia moved down.http://chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk/Chess/Trivia/AlltimeList.html Top men's ratings 1970–1997 5 August 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100724043700/http://chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk/Chess/Trivia/AlltimeList.html 24 July 2010 dead January 1988 FIDE rating list. Top 11 players Elo FIDE Top Eleven MenFIDE Top Eleven Womenhttp://www.olimpbase.org/ History of Elo ratings 1971–2001 olimpbase.org 5 August 2010Elo2750 Garry Kasparov URS Maia Chiburdanidze URS25602715 Anatoly Karpov URS Nona Gaprindashvili URS 24852675 Jan Timman NED Zsuzsa Polgar HUN24752645Alexander Beliavsky URS Nana Ioseliani URS24552640Viktor Korchnoi CHEPia Cramling SWE24352630Mikhail Tal URSKetevan Arakhamia URS24202630 Predrag Nikolić YUG Nana Alexandria URS24152630 Nigel Short ENG Marta Litinskaya-Shul URS24152625 Artur Yusupov URS Elena Akhmilovskaya URS24002625 Jon Speelman ENG Agnieszka Brustman POL23952625 Mikhail Gurevich URS Anna Akhsharumova USA2385 Events The following major chess tournaments took place in 1988: Grandmasters Association World Cup The first three tournaments of the Grandmasters Association's World Cup were held in 1988, with some of the world's best players invited. 1 April – 22 April: The first tournament was held in Brussels and won by Karpov with 11/16, ahead of Valery Salov with 10.http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1015865 Brussels WC 1988 www.chessgames.com 5 August 2010 14 June – 3 July: The second tournament was held in Belfort, France, and won by Kasparov with 11½/15, ahead of Karpov with 10½.http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1015937 Belfort WC 1988 www.chessgames.com 5 August 2010 3 October – 24 October: The third tournament was held in Reykjavík and was again won by Kasparov, with 11/17. Beliavsky was second, with 10½/15.http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1015916 Reykjavík WC 1988 www.chessgames.com 5 August 2010 28th Chess Olympiad The 28th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki, Greece, was held between 12 November and 30 November. It was won by the USSR, ahead of England in second and the Netherlands in third.http://www.olimpbase.org/1988/1988in.html 28th Chess Olympiad, Thessaloniki www.olimpbase.org 5 August 2010 The gold medal on the first board was won by Kasparov of USSR with 8½/10. Lajos Portisch of Hungary was second, also scoring 8½, but from 11 games.http://www.olimpbase.org/1988/1988in.html#medals 28th Chess Olympiad, individual medalists www.olimpbase.org 5 August 2010 The Women's Chess Olympiad was held alongside the open tournament. The winners were Hungary, ahead of the USSR and Yugoslavia.http://www.olimpbase.org/1988w/1988te14.html 28th Chess Olympiad, women's tournament www.olimpbase.org 5 August 2010 Other major tournaments 23 February – 8 March: The Linares tournament was won by Timman with 8½/11, ahead of Beliavsky with 7.http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1012173 Linares 1988 www.chessgames.com 5 August 2010 6 September – 28 September: The 12th Tilburg tournament was won by Karpov with 10½/14, ahead of Short with 8½.http://eric.delaire.pagesperso-orange.fr/Tournois/Tilburg.htm Tilburg 1988 French 5 August 2010August 2021 InternetArchiveBot yes December 1988 – January 1989: The Reggio Emilia tournament was won by Mikhail Gurevich with 6½/9, ahead of Kiril Georgiev and Ulf Andersson Ivanchuk with 5½.http://www.ippogrifoscacchi.it/tdc_storia/data/1988-89.htm Reggio Emilia 1988/89 Italian 5 August 2010 The Wijk aan Zee tournament was won by Karpov with 9/13, ahead of Anderssen with 8½.http://www.coruschess.com/tournament.php?id=51 Wijk aan Zee 1988 5 August 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100609030230/http://www.coruschess.com/tournament.php?id=51 2010-06-09 dead Titles awarded Grandmaster In 1989, FIDE awarded the Grandmaster title to the following 20 players:http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/players.htm List of rated players Bill Wall 6 August 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20091028082835/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/players.htm 2009-10-28 Viswanathan Anand (born 1969) Zurab Azmaiparashvili (born 1960) Emir Dizdarevic (born 1958) Yury Dokhoian (1964–2021) Boris Gelfand (born 1968) Krum Georgiev (born 1958) http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=2900092 FIDE ratings card 6 August 2010 Jörg Hickl (born 1965) Julian Hodgson (born 1963) Miguel Illescas (born 1963) Gregory Kaidanov (born 1959) / Stefan Kindermann (born 1959) Josef Klinger (born 1967) Bogdan Lalić (born 1964) / Valentin Lukov (born 1955) Gilberto Milos (born 1963) Michael Rohde (born 1959) Harry Schussler (born 1957) Elizbar Ubilava (born 1950) / Reynaldo Vera (born 1961) Michael Wilder (born 1962) In addition George Koltanowski (born 1903) was awarded an honorary Grandmaster title in 1988.http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=11186 The chess games of Georges Koltanowski 6 August 2010 Births The following chess grandmasters were born in 1988:Grandmasters born in 1988 http://ratings.fide.com/advaction.phtml?idcode=&name=&title=g&other_title=&country=%25&sex=&srating=0&erating=3000&birthday=1988&radio=name&line=asc FIDE 6 August 2010 9 January Viktor Láznička 5 February Markus Ragger 8 February Arik Braun 14 February Evgeny Romanov 14 February Adam Tukhaev 3 March Timur Gareev 11 March Ante Brkić 11 March Alexandr Fier 14 April Pawel Czarnota 18 April Yuriy Ajrapetjan 20 April Mark Bluvshtein 21 April Subramanian Arun Prasad 26 April Boban Bogosavljević 26 April Rauf Mamedov 30 April Denes Boros 13 May Luka Lenič 11 June Zhou Jianchao 21 June Alejandro Ramírez 7 July Wen Yang 8 August Marin Bosiočić 23 August Dmitry Kononenko 6 September Valentin Iotov 9 September Bassem Amin 27 September David Baramidze 11 November Yuri Vovk Anatoly Bykhovsky Nikolai Chadaev Laszlo Gonda Vitaliy Kiselev Daniel Alsina Leal Wojciech Moranda Ioannis Papadopoulos Pavel Ponkratov Deep Sengupta Deaths The following leading chess personalities died in 1988: 30 June Bernardo Wexler (born 1925): Argentine International Master who was the 1959 national champion and played in three Olympiads. 27 November Jan Hein Donner (born 1927): Dutch Grandmaster who won the Dutch Championship in 1954, 1957 and 1958.http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=14765 Jan Hein Donner at www.chessgames.com 6 August 2010 Other events The German chess magazine, Deutsche Schachzeitung ceased publication in December 1988, having been published regularly since 1846. The musical Chess premiered on Broadway in April 1988. It closed in June 1988.Chess the musical http://www.ibdb.com/show.php?id=2530 Internet Broadway Database 6 August 2010 See also Corus Chess Tournament Linares chess tournament List of strong chess tournaments References Category:20th century in chess Category:Chess by year