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🏆 Euwe Memorial (1990)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Nigel Short, Viktor Korchnoi, Mikhail Gurevich, Jan Timman

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Euwe Memorial (1990)

The 4th Max Euwe Memorial Chess Tournament was organized by the Verenigde Spaarbank in Rotterdam, the Netherlands from May 10th to the 17th, 1990. Following the format of previous editions, four of the world's top grandmasters were invited to play in the double round robin event. As before, adjourned games were completed on the rest days occuring after the third and fifth rounds, and the time control was 40 moves in two hours followed by an additional hour for each 20 moves after that. This year's line-up included three Euwe Memorial veterans and one new addition. The participants were (in order of Elo): Dutch grandmaster and previous Euwe Memorial champion Jan Timman (2680), Soviet grandmaster Mikhail Gurevich (2645), British grandmaster and winner of the 2nd Euwe Memorial Nigel Short (2630), and Swiss grandmaster and inaugural memorial participant Viktor Korchnoi (2625). The average of the rating of the players ranked the event as a Category XVI tournament. The move to Rotterdam was hoped to capitalize on the World Cup tournament in the city last year, but it was ultimately deemed fruitless and the Euwe Memorial would be moved back to Amsterdam the following year. Gurevich came to win the event, but Korchnoi edged him out by winning their fourth round encounter in a significant position in the Dutch Leningrad. Korchnoi won clear first having gone undefeated with Gurevich trailing second just half a point behind. The final standings and crosstable are as follows:

1 Korchnoi  ** ½1 ½½ 1½  4
2 Gurevich  ½0 ** 1½ ½1  3½
3 Timman    ½½ 0½ ** ½1  3
4 Short     0½ ½0 ½0 **  1½
Original collection: Game Collection: Rotterdam VSB 1990, by User: suenteus po 147.

Previous: Euwe Memorial (1989). Next: Euwe Memorial (1991)

 page 1 of 1; 12 games  PGN Download 
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. M Gurevich vs Korchnoi ½-½421990Euwe MemorialA84 Dutch
2. Short vs Timman  ½-½421990Euwe MemorialB63 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack
3. Timman vs Korchnoi  ½-½341990Euwe MemorialE20 Nimzo-Indian
4. Short vs M Gurevich  ½-½431990Euwe MemorialC11 French
5. Korchnoi vs Short 1-0401990Euwe MemorialA25 English
6. M Gurevich vs Timman  1-0261990Euwe MemorialE33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
7. Korchnoi vs M Gurevich 1-0451990Euwe MemorialA81 Dutch
8. Timman vs Short  1-0511990Euwe MemorialB32 Sicilian
9. Short vs Korchnoi  ½-½351990Euwe MemorialC11 French
10. Timman vs M Gurevich  ½-½551990Euwe MemorialC11 French
11. Korchnoi vs Timman  ½-½171990Euwe MemorialA33 English, Symmetrical
12. M Gurevich vs Short 1-0341990Euwe MemorialA84 Dutch
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