Skelleftea World Cup (1989) |
Skellefteå, Sweden, 12 August - 2 September 1989 Age Elo* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Karpov 38 2755 ● ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 9½
2 Kasparov 26 2775 ½ ● 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 9½
3 Portisch 52 2600 ½ 0 ● ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 8½
4 Seirawan 29 2585 0 ½ ½ ● ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 8½
5 Short 24 2660 ½ 0 ½ ½ ● 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 8½
6 Salov 25 2645 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ● 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 8
7 Sax 38 2580 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ● 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 8
8 Nunn 34 2575 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ● 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 7½
9 Andersson 38 2635 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ● ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 7½
10 Hübner 40 2605 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ● ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 7
11 Ribli 37 2605 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ● ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 7
12 Tal 52 2585 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ● ½ ½ ½ ½ 7
13 Ehlvest 26 2620 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ● ½ 1 1 6½
14 Nicolic 28 2600 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ● 0 ½ 6
15 Korchnoi 58 2655 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 1 ● 1 6
16 Vaganian 37 2585 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ● 5
————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Fifteen rounds in 22 days, starting on Saturday 12 August and ending on Saturday 2 September (120 games). Rest days 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 28 August and 1 September, with adjourned games finished on Sunday 3 September. Karpov won on Sonneborn-Berger score ahead of Kasparov, both with 9.5/15 and 26½ World Cup points.This was the 6th and last World Cup tournament organized by the breakaway Grandmasters Association (GMA). Final standings: 1) Kasparov 83 World Cup points, 2) Karpov 81, 3) Salov 68½, 4) Ehlvest 68, 5) Ljubojevic 66½, 6) Nunn 65½, 7-8) Beliavsky and Short 63½, 9-10) Timman and Hübner 57½, etc. Sources
*FIDE rating list July 1989 (https://web.archive.org/web/2022112...)
Chess Life, 1/1990, pp. 68-69 (https://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/C...)
Chess Life, 12/1989, pp. 38-40 (https://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/C...)
Sakkélet, 11/1989, pp. 337-345 (https://adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Sak...)
Tidskrift för Schack, 7/1989, pp. 281-289 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1989...)
Tidskrift för Schack, 8/1989, pp. 314-331 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1989...)
Tidskrift för Schack, 9/1989, pp. 396-399 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1989...)
Jaque 269, 15 September 1989, pp. 570-576 (https://www.olimpbase.org/leagueES/...)
Dates from Swedish newspapers, available at https://tidningar.kb.se/
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| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
76. Salov vs Portisch |
 | 0-1 | 91 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | A07 King's Indian Attack |
77. Short vs Seirawan |
 | ½-½ | 24 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | B06 Robatsch |
78. Andersson vs Vaganian |
 | 1-0 | 40 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | E91 King's Indian |
79. Huebner vs Ribli |
| ½-½ | 20 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen |
80. Sax vs Ehlvest |
 | 1-0 | 50 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | C89 Ruy Lopez, Marshall |
81. Seirawan vs Andersson |
 | 1-0 | 41 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | A46 Queen's Pawn Game |
82. Korchnoi vs Karpov |
| ½-½ | 22 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | A33 English, Symmetrical |
83. Ehlvest vs Kasparov |
| ½-½ | 23 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | B90 Sicilian, Najdorf |
84. Nunn vs Salov |
 | ½-½ | 74 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | C60 Ruy Lopez |
85. Portisch vs Tal |
| ½-½ | 18 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | E00 Queen's Pawn Game |
86. Ribli vs Short |
| ½-½ | 27 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | E19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3 |
87. Vaganian vs Sax |
| ½-½ | 49 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | E15 Queen's Indian |
88. P Nikolic vs Huebner |
| ½-½ | 17 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | D39 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin, Vienna Variation |
89. Andersson vs Ribli |
| ½-½ | 36 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav |
90. Tal vs Karpov |
| ½-½ | 33 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
91. Kasparov vs Vaganian |
  | 1-0 | 43 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | A33 English, Symmetrical |
92. Huebner vs Korchnoi |
 | 0-1 | 61 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack |
93. Portisch vs Nunn |
  | 0-1 | 31 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | E92 King's Indian |
94. Salov vs Ehlvest |
 | 1-0 | 45 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | E12 Queen's Indian |
95. Short vs P Nikolic |
| 1-0 | 35 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | C59 Two Knights |
96. Sax vs Seirawan |
| ½-½ | 25 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack |
97. P Nikolic vs Andersson |
| ½-½ | 21 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | D51 Queen's Gambit Declined |
98. Karpov vs Huebner |
 | ½-½ | 30 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | D39 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin, Vienna Variation |
99. Seirawan vs Kasparov |
  | ½-½ | 43 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | E75 King's Indian, Averbakh, Main line |
100. Korchnoi vs Short |
| ½-½ | 54 | 1989 | Skelleftea World Cup | A13 English |
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