| Tilburg Interpolis (1990) |
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"With the exception of Judit Polgar and Joel Lautier this year's Interpolis tournament at Tilburg witnessed a line-up of the young hopefuls most likely to constitute a future challenge to the hegemony of Kasparov and Karpov. The result was a sensation in that the 16-year-old Soviet defector Gata Kamsky (currently awaiting the more lucrative offer from either the USA or France before he decides on his eventual domicile) almost ran away with first place. Only a relative collapse towards the end when the teenager seemed nervous and tired robbed him of perhaps the most stunning outright victory ever achieved by a player of his age. Vassily Ivanchuk seized his chance to tie first by scoring some important victories towards the end, specifically in the last round with black against Nikolic. ... Nigel Short's performance towards the end was tremendous, and until the dying moments of the tournament he had prospects of tying for first. A win in the last round would have achieved this desired goal. Instead, he went down tragically to Timman in a game where our top ranked player seemed suddenly and sadly bereft of form." (Keene) The 14th Interpolis tournament was a Category XVI event (Elo average 2643). Chief arbiter Geurt Gijssen was assisted by Constant Orbaan. Tilburg, the Netherlands, 7-24 September 1990 Age Elo* 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
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=1 Kamsky 16 2650 •• ½1 1½ ½0 10 1½ 1½ ½½ 8½
=1 Ivanchuk 21 2680 ½0 •• ½0 ½1 11 ½½ ½1 1½ 8½
3 Gelfand 22 2680 0½ ½1 •• 10 0½ 11 ½½ ½1 8
4 Short 25 2610 ½1 ½0 01 •• 10 ½0 1½ ½1 7½
=5 Timman 38 2660 01 00 1½ 01 •• ½½ 0½ ½1 6½
=5 Andersson 39 2630 0½ ½½ 00 ½1 ½½ •• ½½ ½1 6½
7 Nikolic 30 2600 0½ ½0 ½½ 0½ 1½ ½½ •• ½½ 6
8 Seirawan 30 2635 ½½ 0½ ½0 ½0 ½0 ½0 ½½ •• 4½
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Fourteen rounds in 18 days, starting on Friday 7 September (56 games). Rest days 11, 15, 19 & 23 September. Kamsky and Ivanchuk tied for first with 8.5/14. Kamsky took his third and final GM norm and confirmed his rating.Sources
*FIDE rating list July 1990 (https://web.archive.org/web/2022112...)
Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1990 (by User: suenteus po 147)
Chess Life, 1/1991, pp. 33-34, 39 (https://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/C...)
Sakkélet, 11-12/1990, pp. 325-329 (https://adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Sak...)
Tidskrift för Schack, 8/1990, pp. 328-332 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1990...)
Jaque 295, 15 November 1990, pp. 774-780 (https://www.olimpbase.org/leagueES/...)
Raymond Keene in The Spectator, 29 September 1990 (https://archive.spectator.co.uk/art...)
School Mates, January/February 1991, p. 4 (https://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/C...)
Dutch newspapers (available at https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten)
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