1989 in chess

none 1989 chess sports 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.http://chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk/Chess/Trivia/AlltimeList.html Top men's ratings 1970–1997 11 November 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20091126000035/http://chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk/Chess/Trivia/AlltimeList.html 26 November 2009 dead {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |+January 1989 FIDE rating list – Top 10 players |- !Elo !FIDE Top Ten Men !FIDE Top Ten Womenhttp://www.olimpbase.org/ History of Elo ratings 1971–2001 olimpbase.org 11 November 2009 !Elo |- |2775||align="left"| Garry Kasparov URS |align="right"| Judit Polgár HUN||2555 |- |2750||align="left"| Anatoly Karpov URS |align="right"| Maia Chiburdanidze URS||2520 |- |2650||align="left"| Nigel Short ENG |align="right"| Susan Polgar HUN||2510 |- |2640||align="left"|Alexander Beliavsky URS |align="right"| Pia Cramling SWE||2480 |- |2640||align="left"|Jonathan Speelman ENG |align="right"|Nana Ioseliani URS||2480 |- |2635||align="left"|Vassily Ivanchuk URS |align="right"|Nona Gaprindashvili URS||2435 |- |2630||align="left"| Valery Salov URS |align="right"| Elena Akhmilovskaya URS||2430 |- |2625||align="left"| Zoltán Ribli HUN |align="right"| Irina Levitina URS||2400 |- |2620||align="left"| Ulf Andersson SWE |align="right"| Anna Akhsharumova USA||2395 |- |2620||align="left"| John Nunn ENG |align="right"| Ketevan Arakhamia URS||2395 |} Events The following major chess tournaments took place in 1989: Grandmasters Association World Cup The last three tournaments of the Grandmasters Association's World Cup were held in 1989, with some of the world's best players invited. 20 March - 20 April: The fourth tournament was held in Barcelona and won by Kasparov and Ljubomir Ljubojević, each with 11/16.http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1015954 Barcelona WC 1989 www.chessgames.com 11 November 2009 3 June - 24 June: The fifth tournament was held in Rotterdam and won by Timman with 10½/15, ahead of Karpov with 9½.http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1015961 Rotterdam WC 1989 www.chessgames.com 11 November 2009 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.http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1015939 Skelleftea WC 1989 www.chessgames.com 11 November 2009 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.http://www.olimpbase.org/1989e/1989fa.html 9th European Team Chess Championship, Haifa www.olimpbase.org 11 November 2009 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.http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1008359 Linares 1989 www.chessgames.com 11 November 2009 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.http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/tournament.php?id=75 9th World Microcomputer Chess Championship 11 November 2009 9 October 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101009095521/http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/tournament.php?id=75 dead 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.https://chesstales.blogspot.com/2007/07/chess-in-attic-tilburg-1989.html Tilburg 1989 11 November 2009 28 December - 9 January 1990: The Reggio Emilia tournament was won by Jaan Ehlvest with 7½/10, ahead of Ivanchuk with 6½.http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1013985 Reggio Emilia 1989/90 www.chessgames.com 11 November 2009 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.http://www.coruschess.com/tournament.php?id=52 Wijk aan Zee 1989 11 November 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20100609030235/http://www.coruschess.com/tournament.php?id=52 2010-06-09 dead Titles awarded Grandmaster In 1989, FIDE awarded the Grandmaster title to the following 17 players:http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/players.htm List of rated players Wall Bill 11 November 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20091028082835/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/players.htm 2009-10-28 Michael Adams (born 1971) Evgeny Bareev (born 1966) Branko Damljanovic (born 1961) Alexey Dreev (born 1961) Boris Gelfand (born 1968) Alon Greenfeld (born 1964) Alexander Goldin (born 1965) Ferdinand Hellers (born 1969) Daniel King (born 1963) Bachar Kouatly (born 1958) Zdenko Kožul (born 1966) Michał Krasenkow (born 1963) Stefan Mohr (born 1967) Jeroen Piket (born 1969) Miodrag Todorcevic (born 1940) Evgeny Vladimirov (born 1957) Alexey Vyzmanavin (born 1960) Woman Grandmaster In 1989, FIDE awarded the title Woman Grandmaster to the following 2 players: Anna Akhsharumova (born 1957) Zsofia Polgar (born 1974) Births The following chess grandmasters were born in 1989:http://ratings.fide.com/advaction.phtml?idcode=&name=&title=g&other_title=&country=%25&sex=&srating=0&erating=3000&birthday=1989&radio=name&line=asc Chess grandmasters born in 1989 FIDE 6 August 2010 19 January Maxim Rodshtein http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=54702 Maxim Rodshtein on chessgames.com 11 November 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20091028101723/http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=54702 28 October 2009 live 27 January Avetik Grigoryan 10 February Manuel León Hoyos 11 March Zaven Andriasian 28 March Sergei Zhigalko 29 March Geetha Narayanan Gopal 6 April Robin Swinkels 21 April Li Chao 30 April Hrant Melkumyan 4 August Wang Hao 28 August Aleksandr Rakhmanov 4 November Axel Bachmann 27 December Kateryna Lahno Abhijeet Gupta Eduardo Iturrizaga Davit Jojua Rinat Jumabayev Aleksandr Lenderman Michal Olszewski Tornike Sanikidze Krisztián Szabó Daniele Vocaturo 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 1968-9http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=31536 Anatoly Lutikov at www.chessgames.com 12 November 2009 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 Yerevanhttp://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=15316n Karen Grigoryan at www.chessgames.com 12 November 2009 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.http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1268705 Nikolic-Arsovic, Belgrade 1989 chessgames.com 11 November 2009 References Category:20th century in chess Category:Chess by year