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- Las Palmas Interzonal 1982
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To find a challenger to the World Champion Anatoly Karpov it was necessary to qualify eight players for the Candidates quarterfinal knock-out matches that would conclude in 1983. Two players, Viktor Korchnoi and Robert Huebner, were qualified from having reached the Korchnoi - Huebner Candidates Final (1980). The other six players would qualify from three interzonal tournaments: Las Palmas (this page), Toluca Interzonal (1982) (Lajos Portisch and Eugenio Torre qualified), and Moscow Interzonal (1982) (Garry Kasparov and Alexander Beliavsky qualified). To play in the interzonals, the players had to qualify from zonal tournaments. For Las Palmas, Mestel had qualified from Marbella B (1982), Marbella Final (1982), and the Leiden Zonal Playoff (1982). Ribli, Pinter (via the Budapest Zonal Playoff (1982)) and Suba had all qualified from Baile Herculane (1982). Psakhis and Tukmakov had qualified from Yerevan (1982), Sunye from Morón (1982), Browne from US Championship (1981), Karlsson from Randers B (1982) and the Randers Final (1982), and Bouaziz from Tripoli (1981).[1] Four players had been seeded directly: Timman, Larsen and Petrosian based on rating per 1 July 1981[2] and the 61-year-old Smyslov by appointment of the Soviet Chess Federation.[3] The opening ceremony took place on Sunday 11 July at about 12 am. Alexander Jongsma wrote in [[De Telegraaf]] (freely translated): It was announced that Mestel and Timman's second Jonathan Speelman played in the European Club Cup but would arrive in Las Palmas at the start of round 1. Antonio Medina Garcia explained prior to the drawing of lots that FIDE had decided that players from the same country should not play against each other in the last five rounds. After the draw, the light-footed organizers wanted to find a player member for the Appeals Committe. But this turned out to be a step into the lion's den. Medina addressed the hall and proposed Petrosian as a member. Petrosian nodded. But then was heard the scraping of a chair, and a flammable Browne protested. Larsen then refused a place. Then Browne proposed Sunye. The Russians objected. Ribli then suggested Browne. He refused but was also still objected to Petrosian. All this in a minute and the confusion was complete. They will not listen to the voice of experience, complained Medina, "which is why I now issue a players meeting Monday at noon." Play would start at 3 pm and last up to 8 hours, with time for resumptions between 10 and 12 pm.[4] <Hotel Reina Isabel, Las Palmas (Spain) 12-29 July 1982> table[
Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 Pts
1 GM Ribli 2580 * 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 9
2 GM Smyslov 2565 0 * 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 8½
3 GM Suba 2525 ½ 0 * ½ 0 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 0 8
=4 GM Petrosian 2605 ½ ½ ½ * 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 7½
=4 GM Tukmakov 2555 0 1 1 1 * ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 7½
=6 GM Larsen 2595 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ 0 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 6½
=6 GM Timman 2600 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 6½
=8 GM Pinter 2550 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 0 * 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 6
=8 IM Mestel 2540 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 1 * 0 ½ 0 1 1 6
=8 GM Psakhis 2615 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 * ½ ½ ½ 1 6
=11 IM Bouaziz 2360 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 5½
=11 IM Sunye Neto 2500 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ * ½ 1 5½
=11 IM Karlsson 2505 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 5½
14 GM Browne 2590 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ * 3 ]table Tournament Arbiter: Antonio Medina Garcia. [5] Ribli and Smyslov qualified, and advanced to the Ribli - Torre Candidates Quarterfinal (1983) and the Smyslov - Huebner Candidates Quarterfinal (1983). They met again in the Smyslov - Ribli Candidates Semifinal (1983), and Smyslov went on to the Kasparov - Smyslov Candidates Final (1984) where he had to throw in the towel. Tournament books: [[Torneo Interzonal de Ajedrez Ciudad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 12 al 30 julio 1982]] (Sevilla 1982. 96 p.); [[Interzonal Las Palmas 1982]] ed. by Robert Wade (England 1982. 24 p.). As always, the Dutch newspapers (available at http://kranten.delpher.nl/) had decent coverage. The Elo in the crosstable is from FIDE Rating List July 1982 (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198...). [1][Primarily based on Mark Weeks at http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/zon... ] [2][Timman in Schaakwerk I (Studien und Partien) 1990, pp. 152-153, and assuming that Henrique Mecking (2615) was replaced by Petrosian, see http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198... ] [3][Tidskrift för Schack vol. 88 (1982) p. 188. ] [4][ De Telegraaf 12 July 1982 p. 17. ] [5][El Mundo Deportivo 22 July 1982 p. 34. ] [Original collections: Game Collection: Las Palmas Interzonal 1982 by User: suenteus po 147 and Game Collection: Las Palmas Interzonal 1982 by User: Tabanus. ]
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91 games, 1982 - Legends of Chess 2020
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The Legends of Chess saw ten of the world's best players, including World Champion Carlsen and his predecessors Anand and Kramnik, compete online on the chess24 Playzone from 21 July to 4 August, with a rest day on 30 July. The 4th event in the $1 million Magnus Carlsen Tour, it had a $150,000 prize fund with $45,000 for 1st place. The winner would qualify for the $300,000 Grand Final in August. The event began with a single round robin of matches from 21-29 July, with the four best players qualifying for the final knockout. Each match consisted of four 15+10 Rapid games, with the winner earning 3 points, the loser 0. If the players tied 2:2 a single Armageddon game was played, where White had 5 minutes to Black's 4, with a draw counting as a win for Black. The Armageddon winner earned 2 points, the loser 1. No draws offers were allowed before move 40. All rounds and matches began at 16:00 CEST (server time 10:00 am). Tournament director: Sotiris Logothetis. Chief arbiter: Panagiotis Nikolopoulos. Carlsen, Nepomniachtchi, Giri and Svidler qualified for the semifinals: table[
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
1 Carlsen * 2 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 25
2 Nepomniachtchi 1 * 3 3 3 2 1 3 2 2 20
3 Giri 0 0 * 3 1 3 3 3 2 3 18
4 Svidler 0 0 0 * 2 3 3 0 3 3 14
5 Ivanchuk 1 0 2 1 * 3 0 3 2 1 13
6 Kramnik 0 1 0 0 0 * 2 3 3 3 12
7 Gelfand 0 2 0 0 3 1 * 3 0 2 11
8 Ding Liren 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 * 3 3 9
9 Anand 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 0 * 1 7
10 Leko 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 * 6 ]table In the knockout phase each match consisted of up to three mini-matches, and the winner of two such would prevail. The mini-matches consisted of four 15 + 10 Rapid games, and if necessary two 5 + 3 Blitz tiebreak games, and if still necessary an Armageddon game where White had 5 minutes to Black's 4 while a draw counted as a win for Black. Magnus Carlsen won the event by beating Ian Nepomniachtchi 2-0 the final: table[
Semifinals, 31 July - 2 August
Carlsen 1½1- -- - / 11½- -- - / ---- -- - 2
Svidler 0½0- -- - / 00½- -- - / ---- -- - 0 Final, 3-4 August
Carlsen 1½0½ 11 - / 11½- -- - 2
Nepo 0½1½ 00 - / 00½- -- - 0
Nepo ½11- -- - / ½10½ 10 0 / ½½½½ ½1 - 2
Giri ½00- -- - / ½01½ 01 1 / ½½½½ ½0 - 1 ]table Official site: https://explore.chess24.com/tour/
Regulations: https://cdn.chess24.com/-IjAiGKDRiK...
Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/che...
ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/legen...
chess24 1: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t...
chess24 2: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t...
TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew... Previous: Chessable Masters (2020)
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0 games, - Linares 1978
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Missing: round numbers and dates. (All 45 games are in 365Chess) 30 November - 8 December (Chess Results)
table[
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
1 Eslon * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 1 6
2 Debarnot ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 6
3 Ochoa ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 5½
4 Martin ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 5
5 Palacios ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 4½
6 Visier 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ * ½ ½ 0 1 4½
7 Rodriguez 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 4½
8 Medina 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 4½
9 Castro 1 0 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ * ½ 3½
10 Pacheco 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ * 1 ]table
Category: V (2368).
Felix del Hoyo Estades in [[Jaque 86]] (February 1979), pp. 14-16 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
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2 games, 1978 - Linares 1979
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Missing: most games, pairings rds 1-3 and 10. Dates are Nov 30, Dec 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. <Linares, Spain, 30 November - 11 December 1979> table[
Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
1 Christiansen 2475 * 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 8
2 Korchnoi 2695 1 * 0 1 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 7½
3 Rivas 2365 ½ 1 * 0 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 7½
4 Castro 2430 0 0 1 * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 7½
5 Eslon 2380 0 0 1 ½ * ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 5½
6 Sahovic 2520 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 5
7 Marovic 2470 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ * 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 5
8 Calvo 2425 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 1 * 0 ½ 1 1 5
9 Ermenkov 2495 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 * ½ 0 ½ 4½
10 Knezevic 2500 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 4
11 Bellon 2395 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 1 ½ * ½ 3½
12 Visier 2360 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * 3 ]table Category: IX (2459).
FIDE rating list January 1979 (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo197...) [[Jaque]] 97 (January 1980), pp. 2-12 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...) Ricardo Calvo Minguez in [[El ajedrez]] 1 (January 1980), pp. 2-5 (http://www.historiadelajedrezespano...) Roman Toran in [[La Vanguardia]], 30 November 1979, p. 49 (http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/...) http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Naviga... http://www.historiadelajedrezespano...
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2 games, 1979 - Linares 1981
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The third major chess event held in Linares, Spain became a full grandmaster event due in large part to the maneuvering of grocery tycoon Luis Rentero Suarez. In addition to contracting world champion Anatoly Karpov he was able to sign 11 other grandmasters including Larry Christiansen, the winner of Linares (1979). Other sponsors were: the City Council of Linares, the Provincial Council, the Chamber of Commerce, the Spanish Chess Federation, Champagne Codorniu, Pedro Domecq, and some banks. The players were: Karpov (Elo ranked #1 in the world), Lajos Portisch (#2), Boris Spassky (#4), Bent Larsen (#12), Ljubomir Ljubojevic (#14), Zoltan Ribli (#20), Lubomir Kavalek (#32), Svetozar Gligoric (#51), Guillermo García González (#61), Christiansen (#66), Miguel Quinteros (#75), and Juan Bellón López (#407). Spassky and García were replacements for Lev Polugaevsky (#7) and Mikhail Tal (#29) (Christiansen says Kavalek replaced Tal). Among the many visitors were Yasser Seirawan, an assistant of world championship challenger Viktor Korchnoi. The players stayed in the Hotel Cervantes. The play took place in the House of Culture, during the same two weeks as the Hoogovens (1981) tournament. The rounds started at 4 pm. Karpov won with 8/11, and received the magnificent silver artwork and his playing fee. After the event, he considered Portisch vs Karpov, 1981 to be his best game. Christiansen also got 8/11 but was behind on Sonneborn-Berger score. He lost their individual game, but wins against Spassky and Portisch gave the performance of his life in perhaps the strongest field he ever faced. Rentero devised that in Linares the number of wins would be the future tiebreak factor. Larsen took third, despite falling into Spassky's trap in Round 4 and turning down Ribli's draw offer in Round 5. After the event, Ljubojevic remained in Linares where he planned to help organize the next year's edition. He also married a local woman. The beauty prize went to him for Ljubojevic vs J Bellon Lopez, 1981. <Casa de la Cultura, Linares, Spain, 17-31 January 1981> table[
Age Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
1 Karpov 29 2690 * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 8
2 Christiansen 24 2515 0 * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 8
3 Larsen 45 2610 ½ ½ * 0 0 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 7
4 Ribli 29 2585 ½ ½ 1 * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½ 6½
5 Spassky 43 2635 ½ 0 1 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 6
6 Kavalek 37 2550 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 6
7 Portisch 43 2650 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 1 5½
8 Ljubojevic 30 2605 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * 0 ½ 1 ½ 5
9 Gligoric 57 2530 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 * 1 0 1 5
10 Quinteros 33 2505 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 * 1 1 4
11 Bellón 29 2415 ½ 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 * 1 3½
12 García 27 2520 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 * 1½ ]table Category: XIII (2568). Chief arbiter: IA José María González. Video (Round 10): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkN... There is a tournament book: [[Linares 81]], ed. by José María González Pérez. Revista Jaque, San Sebastián. 180 pp. With contributions by Ricardo Calvo Minguez and some of the players. <Sources>
FIDE rating list January 1981 (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198...) Jesús J. Boyero in [[Marca]], 22 December 2015 (http://www.marca.com/ajedrez/2015/1...) José María González in [[Jaque]] 111 (March 1981), pp. 3-14 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...) Antonio Gude in [[El ajedrez]] 14 (February 1981), pp. 51-60 (http://www.historiadelajedrezespano...) Larry Christiansen in [[Chess Voice]], Vol. 14, No. 1 (April-May 1981), pp. 9-10 (http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/...) [[Tidskrift för Schack]], March-April 1981, pp. 75-76, citing Alexey Suetin in [[Moscow News]] (http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/histo...) Previous edition: Linares (1979). Next: Linares (1983) [Original collections: Game Collection: Linares 1981 by User: suenteus po 147 and Game Collection: Linares 1981 by User: Tabanus. Round dates (from Spanish and Dutch newspapers): January 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 31. ]
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66 games, 1981 - Linares 1983
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The fourth edition of the Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez "Ciudad de Linares" was organized under the direction of its founder, Luis Rentero Suarez. It was intended to be a Category XV event, and had been moved to February so that it did not overlap with the Hoogovens (1983) tournament. The players were World Champion Anatoly Karpov (Elo ranked #1 in the world), Ulf Andersson (#4), Boris Spassky (#9), Jan Timman (#10), Yasser Seirawan (#12), Vlastimil Hort (#16), Tony Miles (#17), Efim Geller (#23), Artur Yusupov (#27), Gyula Sax (#28), and Bent Larsen (#34). Ljubomir Ljubojevic (#3) (who lived in the area) was ready to play, but withdrew when he learned that Robert Huebner (#5), Mikhail Tal (#7), and Lev Polugaevsky (#19) had been replaced by Sax, Geller and Yusupov. Rentero attempted to have Manuel Rivas Pastor (#164) or someone to replace him, but it was too late and the tournament started on Saturday 12 February with 11 players. This was not ideal - the tournament category went down and the fans had Ljubo as their favorite, in the absence of Spanish players (they turned their sympathies to Spassky and Larsen instead). Moreover, snowfall had dusted Andalucía and the Hotel Cervantes (where the players were staying) had no heat. At one time or another, almost all the participants had bad days in terms of flu and played in poor physical condition. Despite his illness (or perhaps because of it), the former world champion Spassky edged out Karpov by half a point for clear first. His grand prize was $6,000 (the total prize purse was $28,000, or 3,640,000 pesetas, not counting appearance fees). Spassky, Karpov and Andersson (who ended behind Karpov on Sonneborn-Berger score) were undefeated. Larsen had the fever too. He played three of his adjourned games on the second rest day and lost all three. The participants voted for Karpov vs Sax, 1983 as the best game. <Casa de Cultura, Linares, Spain, 12-25 February 1983> table[
Age Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
1 Spassky 46 2605 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 6½
2 Karpov 31 2710 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 6
3 Andersson 31 2630 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 6
4 Yusupov 23 2565 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 0 5½
5 Miles 27 2585 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 5½
6 Sax 31 2560 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * 0 1 ½ 1 1 5½
7 Timman 31 2605 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 * 1 1 ½ 0 5
8 Geller 57 2575 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 0 * ½ ½ 1 5
9 Hort 39 2585 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ 1 5
10 Seirawan 22 2600 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * 1 3
11 Larsen 47 2555 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 * 2 ]table Category: XIV (2598). Chief arbiter: IA José María González. <Sources>
FIDE rating list January 1983 (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198...) F. D. in [[Butlleti d'Escacs]] 33 (July 1983), p. 30 (http://www.historiadelajedrezespano...) [[Tidskrift för Schack]], March-April 1983, pp. 80-86 (http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/histo...) Hector B. Kuperman in [[El País]], 27 February 1983 (http://elpais.com/diario/1983/02/27...) Robert Byrne in [[New York Times]], 24 May 1983 (http://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/24/n...) Roman Toran in [[La Vanguardia]], 11 February 1983, p. 37 (http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/...) José María González and Jaan Eslon in [[Jaque]] 135 (April 1983), pp. 134-139 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...) Previous edition: Linares (1981). Next: Linares (1985). [Original collections: Game Collection: Linares 1983 by User: suenteus po 147 and Game Collection: Linares 1983 by User: Tabanus. Round dates (from De Telegraaf, Het Vrije Volk and EFE reports in ABC Madrid and El Mundo Deportivo): February 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25. ]
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55 games, 1983 - Linares 1985
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The 5th [[Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez "Ciudad de Linares"]] was organized under the direction of Luis Rentero Suarez. The president of the organizing committee was Don Alfredo Catalán García, the mayor of Linares. It was intended to be a Category XV event, and had been moved from February to March so that it did not overlap with any other major event. Sponsors were the Junta of Andalucía, the Spanish Chess Federation, the Higher Sports Council and the Provincial Council. Eleven grandmasters and an IM competed: Jan Timman (Elo ranked #3 in the world), Rafael Vaganian (#4), Lajos Portisch (#5), Viktor Korchnoi (#7), Lev Polugaevsky (#8), Robert Hübner (#11), Ljubomir Ljubojevic (#13), Boris Spassky (#17), Anthony Miles (#20), Andras Adorjan (#24), Larry Christiansen (#27), and the Spanish favorite Manuel Rivas Pastor (#139). The world champion Anatoly Karpov (#2), who was tired after the Karpov - Kasparov World Championship Match (1984/85) with Garry Kasparov (#1), had signed up, but he did not arrive with the Soviet delegation. The Soviets proposed Sergey Makarichev (#101) as a substitute, which was rejected. Rentero thought Karpov was prevented from going to Linares. Adorjan was offered to take his place. Like in 1983, the average Elo went just below 2600. Hübner, who had heard of the conditions in 1983, stayed at a hotel in Úbeda instead of the tournament hotel. The daily bulletins were written by 1978 winner Jaan Eslon. The total cost of the event, including travel expenses, food and playing fees, was about 10.5 million pesetas. The games started at 4:30 pm. Rest days: March 10, 14, 17 and 21. Hübner tied with Ljubojevic at the final, but the first prize went to the Yugoslavian player, who had the higher Sonneborn-Berger score. In addition to 250.000 pesetas he was able to collect 100.000 pesetas per game he won or lost. Portisch took third - and he and Spassky did not lose a single game. Vaganian played below par. Adorjan's mother was ill during the tournament and this surely influenced his performance. The winner's most notable games were perhaps Timman vs Ljubojevic, 1985 and Ljubojevic vs Korchnoi, 1985. <Pabellón Julián Jiménez, Linares, Spain, 8-22 March 1985> table[
Age Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
1 Ljubojevic 34 2595 * ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 7
2 Hübner 36 2605 ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 7
3 Portisch 47 2635 ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 6½
4 Korchnoi 53 2630 0 0 0 * ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 6½
5 Spassky 48 2580 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 6
6 Timman 33 2650 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ 1 0 0 1 ½ 5½
7 Polugaevsky 50 2625 0 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 5½
8 Miles 29 2570 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ * 1 ½ 1 1 5½
9 Rivas 24 2480 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 5
10 Christiansen 28 2560 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ * 0 ½ 4
11 Vaganian 33 2640 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 * ½ 4
12 Adorján 34 2565 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * 3½ ]table Category: XIV (2595). Chief arbiter: Antonio Romero Briones. The [[I "Open" Internacional de Linares]] was played at the same time (83 players). It was won by Alfonso Romero Holmes on Buchholz score ahead of Marc Yoffie, both with 7.5 points. <Sources>
[[El Mundo Deportivo]] (http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.co...)
[[Amigoe]], 8 March 1985, p. 8 (https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/v...)
FIDE rating list January 1985 (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198...)
[[Jaque]] 172 (1 April 1985), pp. 202-205 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
Javier Fuentes in [[El País]], 7 March 1985 (https://elpais.com/diario/1985/03/0...)
[[Ocho x Ocho]] 38 (May 1985), pp. 4-16 (https://www.scribd.com/document/726...)
[[Butlleti d'Escacs]] 40 (March-April 1985), p. 80-86 (http://www.historiadelajedrezespano...)
Jaan Eslon in [[Jaque]] 173 (15 April 1985), pp. 226-229 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...) Previous edition: Linares (1983). Next: Linares (1988) [Original collections: Game Collection: Linares 1985 by User: suenteus po 147 and Game Collection: Linares 1985 by User: Tabanus. Round dates (from Dutch and Spanish newspapers): March 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22. ]
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66 games, 1985 - Linares 1988
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The 6th [[Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez "Ciudad de Linares"]] was organized under the direction of Luis Rentero Suarez. No tournament was held in 1986, and Linares hosted the Karpov - Sokolov Candidates Superfinal (1987) instead of the regular event, so three years had passed. Eleven grandmasters and one IM competed in the round robin: Jan Timman (Elo rated #3), Alexander Beliavsky (#4), Predrag Nikolic (#6), Artur Yusupov (#12), John Nunn (#14), Ljubomir Ljubojevic (#15), Lajos Portisch (#16), Kiril Georgiev (#23), Murray Chandler (#25), Johann Hjartarson (#26), Maia Chiburdanidze (#48) and Miguel Illescas (#149). Nikolic, Ljubojevic and Georgiev had played in Hoogovens (1988), which ended 24 January. Timman, Yusupov, Portisch and Hjartarson came from the Candidates preliminary matches in Saint John (Canada) which ended in the beginning of February. The twelve participants stayed at the newly constructed Hotel Anibal. Rentero would eventually buy this hotel, to host players for the annual tournament. Anatoly Karpov (#2) was meant to play, but withdrew. He was replaced by Chiburdanidze, the Women's World Champion. Rentero sent a note to the players threatening them not to be invited again if they "confused the stay with a vacation". The games were played in Hotel Anibal. Time control: 40 moves in 2½ hours. Timman scored 6.5 points in the first seven rounds, and cruised to victory with 8.5/11. He did lose one game, to Chandler in Round 9. Beliavsky delivered as expected, and lost only to Timman. Yusupov was third, with two wins and nine draws. Nikolic disappointed this time. Illescas had Javier Ochoa as coach and assistant, and took 5.5/11, which was enough to secure him his second GM norm. Because the opposition was so strong, two norms were enough to earn him the grandmaster title. He became the youngest GM in the history of Spain. He received a standing ovation from the audience, and was congratulated by Karpov, who had just finished an exhibition. <Hotel Anibal, Linares, Spain, 23 February - 7 March 1988> table[
Age Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
1 Timman 36 2676 * 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 8½
2 Beliavsky 34 2645 0 * ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 7
3 Yusupov 28 2620 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 6½
4 Chandler 27 2590 1 0 ½ * 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 6
5 Ljubojevic 37 2610 0 ½ ½ 1 * ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 6
6 Portisch 50 2610 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 5½
7 Illescas 22 2495 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 5½
8 Georgiev 22 2595 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ * 0 ½ ½ 1 5½
9 Nunn 32 2615 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 * 1 ½ 1 5½
10 Hjartarson 25 2590 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 * ½ 1 4
11 Nikolic 27 2630 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 3½
12 Chiburdanidze 27 2560 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 ½ * 2½ ]table Category: XV (2602). Chief arbiter: Viktor Baturinsky. Timman and Ljubojevic immediately went to the Euwe Memorial (1988) which started March 10th. There is a tournament book: Miguel Illescas et al. (eds), [[Supertorneo Internacional Linares 1988]]. Ediciones Eseuve, Madrid 1988. 189 pp. <Sources>
FIDE rating list January 1988 (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198...)
[[La Vanguardia]], 9 March 1988, p. 44 (http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/...)
[[Jaque]] 237 (1 April 1988), pp. 162-171 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
Leontxo García in [[El País]], 8 March 1988 (https://elpais.com/diario/1988/03/0...)
Leontxo García in [[El País]], 9 March 1988 (https://elpais.com/diario/1988/03/0...)
[[Jaque]] 236 (15 March 1988), pp. 135-139 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
Leontxo García in [[El País]], 23 February 1988 (https://elpais.com/diario/1988/02/2...)
Roman Toran in [[ABC]] (Madrid), 8 March 1988, p. 82 (http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Naviga...)
Gunnar Johansson in [[Tidskrift för Schack]], April 1988, pp. 113-115 (http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/histo...)
Javier Cordero Fernández in [[Ajedrez de Ataque]], 18 January 2006 (http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/05%2...) Previous edition: Linares (1985). Next: Linares (1989) [Original collections: Game Collection: Linares 1988 by User: suenteus po 147 and Game Collection: Linares 1988 by User: Tabanus. Round dates (from El Mundo Deportivo): February 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, March 1, 3, 4, 5, 7. ]
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66 games, 1988 - Linares 1989
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The 7th [[Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez "Ciudad de Linares"]] was organized under the direction of the millionaire Luis Rentero Suarez. The participants were: Anatoly Karpov (Elo rated #2 in the world), Nigel Short (#3), Alexander Beliavsky (#4), Vassily Ivanchuk (#6), Johann Hjartarson (#11), Artur Yusupov (#12), Jan Timman (#13), Boris Gulko (#14), Lajos Portisch (#16), Andrei Sokolov (#22) and Ljubomir Ljubojevic (#34). The player ratings amounted to Category 16, top of the scale of the World Chess Federation. To achieve this category, even without the world champion Garry Kasparov (#1), the organizers (somewhat unfairly) replaced Miguel Illescas (#105), who played the previous year, with Gulko. Karpov, Hjartarson, Yusupov, Timman and Portisch had struggled in the Candidates quarterfinal matches that ended in early February. Viktor Korchnoi (#14) was meant to play, but protested when he found that the arbiter was Viktor Baturinsky, his archenemy. Rentero proposed the idea of having a separate arbiter for Korchnoi's games, but Korchnoi withdrew. Illescas was in Linares and could have replaced him, but then, the event category would have gone down to 15. The tournament went on with 11 players, and Ivanchuk had no opponent in Round 1. Playing time was 4-9 pm. Ivanchuk won with 7.5/10, not losing a single game. The young Ukrainian was climbing on the ratings list. He was already a world traveler, having played in New York Open (1988) (which he won), the USSR Championship (1988), World Junior Championship (1988) in Adelaide (Australia), the 26th Chess Olympiad (1988) in Thessaloniki (Greece), and in Reggio Emilia (1988/89) (Italy). According to [[British Chess Magazine]], "The margin of his victory over all the players apart from Karpov, suggests that he is close to joining the two Ks (Karpov and Kasparov - ed.) at the top of the chess elite ... currently, he is doing his army service". Karpov played well per usual, and took 2nd place. Ljubojevic (the lowest rated and next oldest player) was 3rd, and Short and Timman shared 4th. Short scored his first ever victory against Karpov, but then lost to Ivanchuk and Yusupov. <Hotel Anibal, Linares, Spain, 19 February - 4 March 1989> table[
Age Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
l Ivanchuk 19 2635 * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 7½
2 Karpov 37 2750 ½ * 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 7
3 Ljubojevic 48 2580 ½ 0 * 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 6
4 Short 23 2650 0 1 1 * ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 5½
5 Timman 37 2610 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 5½
6 Yusupov 29 2610 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ * 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 5
7 Beliavsky 35 2640 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 * 1 ½ 1 0 4½
8 Portisch 51 2610 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 4
9 Sokolov 25 2605 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ 0 3½
10 Gulko 42 2610 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ 3½
11 Hjartarson 26 2615 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 1 ½ * 3 ]table Category: XVI (2629). Chief arbiter: Viktor Baturinsky. The chess magazines reported on two controversial issues: 1) The organizers upset the Spanish people by refusing to allow Illescas to play. They did not want to reduce the category of the tournament. The insistence on Category 16 came from the Junta of Andalucia, one of the main sponsors. Most parties were critical and felt that the point of such an event was to ensure that a promising Spaniard got his chance at first class competition. It might have been frustrating for Illescas when Korchnoi withdrew and he was still not a welcome substitute, as they apparently preferred to proceed with an odd number of players. Illescas received a consolation payment of $3500. 2) By making Baturinsky the chief arbiter, the organizers caused Korchnoi to withdraw without pushing a pawn. Leontxo García wrote in [[Jaque]] 258 that it was no secret that Rentero hired Korchnoi thinking of something more than the combativeness of the ex-Soviet. With Karpov, Baturinsky and Korchnoi together, it would be easy to rekindle the fire between them and have publicity. García continued (freely translated), "Rentero is very intelligent, at least as much as Florencio Campomanes, who is one of the smartest persons I know. You can agree with his methods, or disagree. His love for controversy can make him do condemnable things, like telling the radio station that Ricardo Calvo "is a fag." I have criticized him several times and will continue to do so, because that is my job, but with firmness I must say that Spanish chess is in debt to him". Joan Segura Vila wrote in [[El Mundo Deportivo]] (transl. from Spanish), "The enmity between Korchnoi and Baturinsky was of long standing, specifically from the wake of the Karpov - Korchnoi Candidates Final (1974), in which Korchnoi accused Baturinsky of bias in favor of the one who was later proclaimed as world champion. To have reliable information, 'El Mundo Deportivo' spoke with Luis Rentero, technical director of the tournament, who told us: "The main culprit has been the ineffable Ricardo Calvo Minguez, who has induced and pressured Korchnoi to leave the tournament. Calvo is a bad person for chess, and from this moment on he is declared person 'non grata' in the Linares tournament. To find a solution, I proposed that the Spanish assisting arbiter Francisco Mena be the arbiter of the Korchnoi games. But the grandmaster refused, demanding the withdrawal of Baturinsky. We do not accept impositions from anyone, and, therefore, we will play without Korchnoi. Most of the players have restrained themselves by understanding that this is a problem between Korchnoi and the organization."" Kasparov supported Korchnoi in an [[El País]] interview. He described the attitude of Rentero as inexcusable, hiring Baturinsky when the player list included Korchnoi who accused Baturinsky of having participated in the purges of Stalin. The world champion said Calvo was a perfectly pleasant person. Korchnoi gave his version of what happened in "Chess Is My Life". He suggested that Karpov pushed hard for Baturinsky, knowing it would upset him, that Rentero was complicit, etc. He said Short and Timman supported him, and, to the surprise of Karpov, so did Beliavsky and Yusupov, whom Karpov may have regarded as 'comrades in arms'. Gulko apparently wanted to support him, but was fearful of losing the tournament if there were a mass withdrawal. Korchnoi appreciated this, and was not angry with Gulko, who had supported him in the past. He speculated that had Gulko openly supported him, then the consensus might have changed. Baturinsky would have been forced out, Karpov would have withdrawn, and the tournament would have collapsed. After leaving Linares, Korchnoi went to the Lugano Open (1989) where he was joint first with 8/9. <Sources>
[[CHESS Magazine]], May 1989, p. 5.
[[British Chess Magazine]], April 1989, pp. 141-143.
FIDE rating list January 1989 (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198...)
[[Jaque]] 257 (1 March 1989), p. 128 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
[[Chess Is My Life]], by Victor Korchnoi. Edition Olms, 2005. 226 pp. (pp. 193-194)
[[Jaque]] 258 (15 March 1989), pp. 130-148 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
Leontxo García in [[El País]], 17 February 1989 (https://elpais.com/diario/1989/02/1...)
Leontxo García in [[El País]], 23 February 1989 (https://elpais.com/diario/1989/02/2...)
Kjell Krantz in [[Tidskrift för Schack]], March 1989, pp. 104-107 (http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/histo...)
Joan Segura in [[El Mundo Deportivo]], 16 February 1989, p. 51 (http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.co...)
Joan Segura in [[El Mundo Deportivo]], 20 February 1989, p. 76 (http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.co...)
Javier Cordero Fernández in [[Ajedrez de Ataque]], 18 January 2006 (http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/05%2...) Previous edition: Linares (1988). Next: Linares (1990). [Original collections: Game Collection: Linares 1989 by User: suenteus po 147 and Game Collection: Linares 1989 by User: Tabanus. Round dates (from El Mundo Deportivo): February 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, March 1, 2, 4. Thanks to User: Paint My Dragon for information from CHESS Magazine, British Chess Magazine and Korchnoi's book Chess Is My Life, and thanks to User: OhioChessFan, User: Annie K., User: perfidious and User: Larryfyffe for improving the English. ]
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55 games, 1989 - Linares 1990
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The 8th [[Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez "Ciudad de Linares"]] was organized under the direction of Luis Rentero Suarez. The players were World Champion Garry Kasparov (Elo rated #1 in the world), Vassily Ivanchuk (#4) (who won the event in 1989), Valery Salov (#6), Alexander Beliavsky (#7), Nigel Short (#8), Ljubomir Ljubojevic (#11), Artur Yusupov (#14), Boris Gelfand (#15), Boris Gulko (#18), Lajos Portisch (#24), Boris Spassky (#61), and Miguel Illescas (#112). Gelfand, the new star of world chess after his victory in GMA Baleares Open (1989), replaced Manuel Rivas Pastor (#178), and Gulko replaced Robert Huebner (#33), both of whom withdrew due to health reasons. Illescas, who was controversially squeezed out in 1989, was back again. Kasparov had dramatically fled from Baku (Azerbaijan) with his relatives only a month before the tournament started. Spassky was hired by Rentero under a clause that forced him to make at least 40 moves in each game. Gelfand was totally focused on his first game against Kasparov and did not want to talk with anyone. There were no electronic boards, "like in a luxury hotel with no TV in the rooms" (Leontxo García). The daily bulletin was made by Paco Albalate and Javier Ochoa. According to Joan Segura, playing time was 3-9 pm. Kasparov won his first of eight Linares titles with 8/11. He started with 6/7 but lost to Gulko in Round 8. It was the third time he lost to Gulko, who could boast of a plus score against the champion. Three young Soviet players followed closely behind, and the win was secured only in the last round when he beat Illescas. The Soviets took the first four places, and Short took 5th. Gelfand vs Kasparov, 1990 was voted the best game. <Hotel Anibal, Linares, Spain, 18 February - 3 March 1990> table[
Age Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
1 Kasparov 26 2800 * ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 8
2 Gelfand 21 2615 ½ * 1 ½ 0 1 0 1 1 1 ½ 1 7½
3 Salov 25 2645 ½ 0 * ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 7
4 Ivanchuk 20 2665 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 6½
5 Short 24 2635 0 1 0 ½ * 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 6
6 Gulko 43 2610 1 0 ½ ½ 0 * ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 5½
7 Yusupov 30 2615 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 0 ½ 1 5½
8 Beliavsky 36 2640 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ * 1 0 1 ½ 5
9 Spassky 53 2560 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 * 1 ½ ½ 4
10 Illescas 24 2530 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 0 * ½ ½ 4
11 Portisch 52 2605 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ * 1 4
12 Ljubojevic 49 2625 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 * 3 ]table Category: XVI (2629). Chief arbiter: Carlos Falcon Martin. At the post-tournament press conference, Kasparov said that in the last two months he had no time to prepare for the event as the situation in his country had prevented him. He also revealed that the Kasparov - Karpov World Championship Match (1990) would be held in New York the first 12 games, and Lyon (France) the remaining games. The organizers, FIDE, and Grandmasters Association had reached the agreement on Saturday (March 3rd). On March 5th, Kasparov held a 'simul' at the Casino de Madrid. Among the players were former Atlético de Madrid president Alfonso Cabeza, the president of the Spanish Billiards Federation and the comedian José Luis Coll. Kasparov won all 32 games. Bjarke Barth Sahl noted in [[CHESS]] that Rentero was nicknamed 'The steam roller' by his fellow citizens due to his successful business methods. Kasparov's opponents were rewarded for winning or even for not agreeing to a draw before move 40. Such extra prizes ranged from £1000-2000. The 21 year old Gelfand trailed the World Champion closely until Kasparov's win in the last round, with Salov, Ivanchuk and Short at times quite close too. All in different styles though; Salov by working immensely hard (his win against Short lasted for a full 162 moves!), Ivanchuk being hard to beat, while Short was more inconsistent with a lot of decisive games. But of the whole lot, rising star Gelfand was the most impressive. He looked casual at the board, played with ease, preserved his energy cleverly and won game after game at the beginning. Only in his game with Short did things go very wrong. Kasparov did as he was expected to, but not as impressively as in Tilburg and Belgrade last year. Kasparov said at the final press conference that "life as a chessplayer is getting tougher". <Sources>
FIDE rating list January 1990 (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo199...)
Bjarke Kristensen (= Bjarke Barth Sahl) in [[CHESS Magazine]], May 1990, p. 22
[[Jaque]] 279 (1 March 1990), pp. 148-149 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
Leontxo García in [[El País]], 6 March 1990 (https://elpais.com/diario/1990/03/0...)
Leontxo García in [[El País]], 18 February 1990 (https://elpais.com/diario/1990/02/1...)
Leontxo García et al. in [[Jaque]] 280, pp. 162-179 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
Joan Segura in [[El Mundo Deportivo]], 18 Feb 1990, p. 64 (http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.co...)
Joan Segura in [[El Mundo Deportivo]], 19 Feb 1990, p. 77 (http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.co...)
Joan Segura in [[El Mundo Deportivo]], 3 March 1990, p. 50 (http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.co...)
Joan Segura in [[El Mundo Deportivo]], 4 March 1990, p. 65 (http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.co...)
Joan Segura in [[El Mundo Deportivo]], 5 March 1990, p. 73
(http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.co...)
Kjell Krantz in [[Tidskrift för Schack]], April 1990, pp. 153-155 (http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/histo...)
Jesus Maria de la Villa Garcia in [[Jaque]] 281, pp. 223-225, 235 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...) Previous edition: Linares (1989). Next: Linares (1991) [Original collections: Game Collection: Linares 1990 by User: suenteus po 147 and Game Collection: Linares 1990 by User: Tabanus. Round dates (from El Mundo Deportivo): February 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, March 1, 3. Thanks to User: Paint My Dragon for information fom CHESS Magazine, and thanks to User: Retireborn, User: OhioChessFan and User: Annie K. for suggestions and improving the English. ]
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66 games, 1990 - Linares 1991
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The 9th [[Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez "Ciudad de Linares"]] was organized under the direction of Luis Rentero Suarez. The number of players was increased from 12 to 14, and with the participation of both players from the Kasparov - Karpov World Championship Match (1990) (which ended December 31st), it was the first ever Category 17 event (average rating 2651-2675). The players were: Garry Kasparov (Elo ranked #1 in the world), Anatoly Karpov (#2), Boris Gelfand (#3), Vassily Ivanchuk (#4), Mikhail Gurevich (#6), Jaan Ehlvest (#7), Valery Salov (#9), Alexander Beliavsky (#10), Gata Kamsky (#13), Viswanathan Anand (#14), Jan Timman (#16), Jonathan Speelman (#25), Artur Yusupov (#31), and Ljubomir Ljubojevic (#40). Of the top 10 players in the world, only Evgeny Bareev (#5) and Leonid Yudasin (#8) were missing. Fourteen players had signed up for the event in October, 1990. Two of them, Nigel Short (#15) and Miguel Illescas (#98), were replaced by Gurevich and Speelman. According to Leontxo García, Illescas was again "excluded" by Rentero in order to reach Category 17. Salov had played in Hoogovens (1991) in January. Karpov, Gurevich, Ehlvest and Kamsky had played in Reggio Emilia A1 (1991), and Beliavsky and Ljubojevic in Reggio Emilia A2 (1991), both in January. Six of the players (Gelfand, Ivanchuk, Anand, Timman, Speelman and Yusupov) came from the Candidates preliminary matches that ended in early February. At the opening ceremony, FIDE president Florencio Campomanes attended the draw for the Candidates quarterfinal matches that would take place in August. The next day, at 5 am in the morning, the newly married Ivanchuk arrived at Linares. He showed no symptoms of fatigue. The players stayed in Rentero's [[Hotel Anibal]], where the games were played. Kasparov, who used to take a nap between 1 pm and 2:30 pm, had his room next to Karpov, who enjoyed listening to the hotel's piped in music. The world champion protested, and the hotel management cut out the piped music to all customers. The players and Rentero had agreed last year on a generous schedule with a rest day after every two rounds. The press were excited, and compared the event with San Sebastian (1911) and Barcelona (1929). According to Dragoslav Andric in [[Tidskrift för Schack]], the cost of the event was $200,000. The rounds started at 3 pm. Unlike the previous year, there were now electronic chess boards which recorded the moves. The arbiter Carlos Falcon Martin was assisted by Juan Vargas and Francisco Mena. Ivanchuk finished clear first with an impressive 9.5/13. He played the game of his young life when he beat Kasparov in Round 1. Then in Round 5 he beat Karpov. These were his first wins against the two 'K's'. He gained 22 Elo points on the tournament and climbed to 2nd place on the July 1991 rating list, ahead of Karpov but 35 points behind Kasparov. Karpov stated that Ivanchuk would become the world champion if his explosive nerves allowed it. For the first time since he became champion, Kasparov did not win a tournament he played in. He recovered after the loss to Ivanchuk and took 2nd place. Beliavsky took 3rd, and could have done even better had he not lost to Salov in Round 11 despite being a rook up. For the English fans Raymond Keene reported that it was "a tremendous result for Speelman in what has been billed as the strongest chess tournament ever organised. So far (after Round 10, ed.) it is undoubtedly Speelman's best ever tournament performance. He lost to Yusupov in the first round, but since then he has beaten Kamsky, Karpov and Ehlvest. His win against Karpov is one of the very few British wins against a player who is virtually invincible." Karpov had one of his worst-ever tournaments, and claimed he was tired the whole time. This wasn’t surprising, as he had just competed in the WCC match in December and the Reggio Emilia tournament (which he won) in January. On the 16-year-old debutant Kamsky, it was reported that he probably was unable to concentrate. He did manage to beat Ljubojevic and Ehlvest. Rentero was happy with the high number of decisive games (58%). He awarded a special prize to Ivanchuk vs Kasparov, 1991 as the most beautiful game. <Hotel Anibal, Linares, Spain, 23 February - 14 March 1991> table[
Age Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4
1 Ivanchuk 21 2695 * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 9½
2 Kasparov 27 2800 0 * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 9
3 Beliavsky 37 2640 ½ 0 * 1 ½ 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 8
4 Yusupov 31 2605 ½ ½ 0 * 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 7½
5 Speelman 34 2610 ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 7½
6 Salov 26 2645 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 7
7 Timman 39 2630 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 6½
8 Karpov 39 2725 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ * 0 0 ½ 1 1 1 6½
9 Ljubojevic 50 2590 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 * ½ 0 0 1 0 6
10 Anand 21 2635 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 1 1 ½ * 0 0 ½ 1 6
11 Gurevich 22 2650 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 * 1 ½ 1 6
12 Gelfand 22 2700 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 1 0 * 0 1 5½
13 Ehlvest 28 2650 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 * 0 3½
14 Kamsky 16 2640 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 0 1 * 2½ ]table Category: XVII (2658). Chief arbiter: Carlos Falcon Martin. Leontxo García wrote in [[El Pais]] about the winner that no player was as appreciated by his colleagues as the 21-year-old Ukrainian, whose talent was comparable to that of the great champions. But he did not behave like them, he was the personification of innocence. The children liked him much better than Kasparov. He was able to sign autographs for 20 minutes after a 6-hour game. When asked about who he dedicated his win to, he said, "my wife". When it was his turn to move, he looked at the board and then at the audience, while gently picking his nose and analyzing the variants as if he had a monitor in his brain. Suddenly he turned to the normal position and made the move, to the astonishment of the spectators. "I got used to acting like this since I was little," he explained, "so that my eyes do not get too tired. I'm almost all day in front of a board because chess is my life." A detailed description of the event is in [[Jaque]] magazine, no. 304, pp. 242-275. <Sources>
FIDE rating list January 1991 (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo199...)
[[Jaque]] 303 (1 April 1991), p. 239 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
Leontxo García in [[El País]], 14 March 1991 (https://elpais.com/diario/1991/03/1...)
Leontxo García in [[El País]], 16 March 1991 (https://elpais.com/diario/1991/03/1...)
Leontxo García in [[El País]], 25 October 1990 (https://elpais.com/diario/1990/10/2...)
Leontxo García in [[El País]], 23 February 1991 (https://elpais.com/diario/1991/02/2...)
Leontxo García in [[El País]], 24 February 1991 (https://elpais.com/diario/1991/02/2...)
[[Tidskrift för Schack]], April 1991, pp. 164-172 (http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/histo...)
[[Tidskrift för Schack]], March 1991, pp. 118-120 (http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/histo...)
Lincoln R Maiztegui Casas in [[Jaque]] 304, pp. 242-275 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
Raymond Keene in [[The Spectator]], 16 March 1991, p. 51 (http://archive.spectator.co.uk/arti...)
Joan Segura in [[El Mundo Deportivo]], 23 Feb 1991, p. 55 (http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.co...)
Javier Cordero in [[Ajedrez de Ataque]], 18 January 2006 (http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/05%2...)
Joan Segura in [[El Mundo Deportivo]], 15 March 1991, p. 54 (http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.co...)
Joan Segura in [[El Mundo Deportivo]], 16 March 1991, p. 41 (http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.co...)
Joan Segura in [[El Mundo Deportivo]], 22 Feb 1991, pp. 28-29 (http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.co...) Previous edition: Linares (1990). Next: Linares (1992) [Original collections: Game Collection: Linares 1991 by User: suenteus po 147 and Game Collection: Linares 1991 by User: Tabanus. Round dates (from El Mundo Deportivo): February 23, 24, 26, 27, March 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14. Thanks to User: OhioChessFan for improving the English. ]
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91 games, 1991 - Linares 1992
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The 10th [[Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez "Ciudad de Linares"]] took place under the direction of Luis Rentero Suarez, with the players Garry Kasparov (Elo #1 in the world), Anatoly Karpov (#2), Vassily Ivanchuk (#3), Nigel Short (#4), Viswanathan Anand (#5), Boris Gelfand (#6), Artur Yusupov (#9), Valery Salov (#10), Evgeny Bareev (#11), Jonathan Speelman (#15), Jan Timman (#19), Alexander Beliavsky (#21), Ljubomir Ljubojevic (#30), and Miguel Illescas (#100). Of the top 10 players in the world, only Alexey Shirov (#7) and Gata Kamsky (#8) were missing. Kasparov, Karpov, Ivanchuk, Anand, Gelfand, Salov and Beliavsky had played in the first Category 18 event Reggio Emilia (1991/92), and Bareev had won at Hastings (1991/92). Salov and Gelfand had shared the win at Hoogovens (1992), and Anand, Karpov, Ivanchuk, Speelman and Ljubojevic had played in the first Melody Amber (1992) rapid tournament in early February. The world champion Kasparov won with 10/13. Of his last five tournaments, he had won only Tilburg Interpolis (1991). He beat Timman in Round 1 and Karpov (in their 161st game) in Round 2, and was leading all the way. In Round 12, he secured the tournament win by drawing against Salov. According to Leontxo García, Kasparov reacted with fury after the draw, despite winning the first prize of the tournament with one round to go. "Kasparov squandered a point against his compatriot Salov, who managed to draw after six hours, and left the stage with heavy gestures, not allowing anyone to congratulate him ... Timman can tie with the champion but has the unfavorable coefficient ... with his head in his hands, the Azerbaijan born Russian responded at the board with contempt on those who told him that he was guaranteed first place ... While waiting for Salov to analyze the critical position, he shouted: "Draw! Draw! How could I make a draw in this game?"" Kasparov won his last round game (with the black pieces against Ljubojevic) and Timman lost his (with black against Salov), so that Ivanchuk and Timman ended 2nd and 3rd with 8/13. A special prize was awarded to Short vs Timman, 1992 as the most beautiful game. <Hotel Anibal, Linares, Spain, 23 February - 13 March 1992> table[
Age Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4
1 Kasparov 28 2780 * ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 10
2 Ivanchuk 22 2720 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 8
3 Timman 40 2620 0 ½ * 1 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 8
4 Karpov 40 2725 0 ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 7½
5 Anand 22 2670 ½ ½ 1 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ ½ 0 7
6 Gelfand 23 2665 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * 1 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 7
7 Salov 27 2655 ½ 1 1 0 ½ 0 * 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 7
8 Bareev 25 2635 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 0 1 * ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 6½
9 Beliavsky 38 2620 ½ ½ 1 0 0 1 ½ ½ * 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 6
10 Yusupov 32 2655 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 1 * 0 ½ 1 1 6
11 Illescas 26 2555 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 * 1 1 ½ 5½
12 Ljubojevic 51 2610 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 * 1 0 4½
13 Speelman 35 2630 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 * ½ 4
14 Short 26 2685 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ * 4 ]table Tournament category: XVII (2659). Chief arbiter: Faik Gasanov. Four of the players returned to Linares in late April to play the Timman - Yusupov Candidates Semifinal (1992) and Short - Karpov Candidates Semifinal (1992). Kasparov, Ivanchuk, Anand, Salov and Bareev next played in Dortmund Sparkassen (1992) which started April 16. <Sources>
FIDE rating list January 1992 (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo199...)
Various authors in [[Jaque]] 326, pp. 3-57 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
Leontxo García in [[El País]], 12 March 1992 (https://elpais.com/diario/1992/03/1...)
Leontxo García in [[El País]], 15 March 1992 (https://elpais.com/diario/1992/03/1...)
Canal Sur video clips from Linares 1992 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t_...)
[[Tidskrift för Schack]], April 1992, pp. 176-183 (http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/histo...)
Raymond Keene in [[The Spectator]], 14 March 1992, p. 52 (http://archive.spectator.co.uk/arti...)
Raymond Keene in [[The Spectator]], 21 March 1992, p. 52 (http://archive.spectator.co.uk/arti...)
Joan Segura in [[El Mundo Deportivo]], 24 Feb 1992, p. 75 (http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.co...)
Roman Toran in [[La Vanguardia]], 23 Feb 1992, p. 51 (http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/...)
Lennart Hansson in [[Tidskrift för Schack]], March 1992, p. 129 (http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/histo...)
Robert Byrne in [[New York Times]], 15 March 1992 (https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/15/...) Previous edition: Linares (1991). Next: Linares (1993) [Original collections: Game Collection: Linares 1992 by User: suenteus po 147 and Game Collection: Linares 1992 by User: Tabanus. Round dates (from El Mundo Deportivo): February 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, March 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13. ]
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91 games, 1992 - Linares 1993
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The 11th [[Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez "Ciudad de Linares"]] took place in February/March under the direction of Luis Rentero Suarez. The players were: World Champion Garry Kasparov (Elo ranked #1 in the world), Anatoly Karpov (#2), Vassily Ivanchuk (#3), Viswanathan Anand (#4), Boris Gelfand (#5), the 17 years old Vladimir Kramnik (#6), Alexey Shirov (#7), Evgeny Bareev (#8), Valery Salov (#10), 18-year-old Gata Kamsky (#12), Artur Yusupov (#15), Jan Timman (#18), Alexander Beliavsky (#43), and Ljubomir Ljubojevic (#50). Of the top ten ranked players in the world, only Kiril Georgiev (#9) was missing. Nigel Short (#13), who had just won the Short - Timman Candidates Final (1993) in El Escorial, Spain, said he would not take part in this "Russian Championship". Rentero then asked the Linares Council to choose between Ljubojevic (who lived in Linares) and Miguel Illescas (#40), and they picked the former. The field assembled was considered the strongest ever for an international tournament. Sponsors were [[Match]] and [[Philips]]. Round 1 started on 23 February at 3 pm. Kasparov had the flu and Karpov suffered from tonsillitis, and their games against Ljubojevic and Salov were postponed by two days. The patients were still "wobbly" in Round 2, when Kasparov signed a quick draw with Ivanchuk and Karpov lost to Timman. In Round 3, Kasparov was busy because in addition to his 118-move draw with Yusupov, he and Short (who was on vacation in Greece) announced this day (26 February) that they had turned down FIDE's offer of venue and prizes and would play their world championship match outside of FIDE. They also made known the formation of the Professional Chess Association (PCA), who would open a new deadline for nominations to choose the venue and sponsorship of the duel between the two. After Round 4, Rentero fined Shirov, Ivanchuk and Kramnik with 100,000 pesetas each for "lack of combativeness" and offering draw before move 40. There were discussions afterwards whether the games were actually "dead drawn" or not. At the start of Round 6, Salov refused to shake hands with Kasparov. Salov resided in Linares where he was hired to run a chess school that never started up because of a mixture of negligence and economic problems of the City Council. After the tournament he moved to Madrid. His game with Kasparov was a draw, while Karpov beat Gelfand. Kasparov and Karpov were neck and neck until Kasparov beat Karpov in Round 10 (Karpov vs Kasparov, 1993). Karpov was practically lost after 14.f4. This game was played on the 50th birthday of Bobby Fischer, who celebrated in Belgrade, together with Zita Rajcsanyi and Miguel Quinteros. Kasparov eventually won the tournament, undefeated. Anand scored the same number of points as Karpov, but was third on tiebreak. The 5th place by 17-year-old debutant Kramnik also boded well for the future. The brilliancy prize went to Anand, for Gelfand vs Anand, 1993. Timman was asked after the tournament who he thought would be the title contender in 1996. He said, "Maybe Anand, if he works seriously". <Hotel Anibal, Linares, Spain, 23 February - 14 March 1993> table[
Age Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4
1 Kasparov 29 2805 * 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 10
2 Karpov 41 2725 0 * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 8½
3 Anand 23 2710 0 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 8½
4 Shirov 20 2670 ½ ½ ½ * 1 0 ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 8
5 Kramnik 17 2685 ½ ½ ½ 0 * 0 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 7½
6 Salov 28 2660 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 * 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 6½
7 Ivanchuk 23 2710 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 * 0 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 6½
8 Beliavsky 39 2610 ½ 0 1 1 0 ½ 1 * 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 6
9 Kamsky 18 2655 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 * ½ 1 1 0 ½ 5½
10 Bareev 26 2670 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 5½
11 Yusupov 33 2645 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ * 0 ½ ½ 5
12 Timman 41 2635 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 1 * ½ 1 5
13 Gelfand 24 2690 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ * 1 4½
14 Ljubojevic 42 2605 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 * 4 ]table Category: XVIII (2677). Arbiters: Faik Gasanov and Francisco Mena. Nine days after the event, on 23 March, FIDE announced that Kasparov and Short had been stripped of their titles as champion and challenger, and that the match for the title would be contested by Timman and Anatoly Karpov. The Karpov - Timman FIDE World Championship Match (1993) was played in September. At the same time but under the auspices of the PCA, Kasparov and Short played their Kasparov - Short PCA World Championship Match (1993). The PCA split from FIDE was not fully healed until 2006. <Sources>
FIDE rating list January 1993 (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo199...)
[[Ocho x Ocho]] 133 (April 1993), pp. 4-9 (https://www.scribd.com/document/730...)
[[Ocho x Ocho]] 134 (May 1993), pp. 4-23 (https://www.scribd.com/document/730...)
[[Tidskrift för Schack]], April 1993, pp. 168-177 (http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/histo...)
Leontxo García in [[Jaque]] 350 (March 1993), pp. 4-48 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
Robert Byrne in [[New York Times]], 23 March 1993 (https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/23/...)
[[The Big Book of World Chess Championships]] by Andre Schulz. New In Chess, Alkmaar 2016 (https://books.google.no/books?id=4N...) Previous event: Linares (1992). Next: Linares (1994) [Original collections: Game Collection: Linares 1993 by User: suenteus po 147 and Game Collection: Linares 1993 by User: Tabanus. Round dates: February 23, 24, 26, 27, March 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14. Two Round 1 games were played 25 February (from Jaque). ]
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91 games, 1993 - Linares 1995
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The 13th [[Torneo Internacional "Ciudad de Linares"]] was held in Linares from March 1st to the 17th. The field was a little weaker than usual. PCA World Champion Garry Kasparov (Elo ranked #1 in the world), Valery Salov (#3) and Vladimir Kramnik (#5) had decided not to participate, while Viswanathan Anand (#4) and Gata Kamsky (#7) had to play the Anand - Kamsky Candidates Final (1995) which started on 9 March (same day as Round 7). An upset tournament director Luis Rentero Suarez had cancelled the event, but luckily he changed his mind, under the influence of the mayor of Linares and a new sponsor, [[Turespaña]]. Fourteen of the world's top 100 players competed in the single round robin format. They were: FIDE World Champion Anatoly Karpov (#2), Alexey Shirov (#6), Vassily Ivanchuk (#9), Joel Lautier (#13), Vladimir Akopian (#15), Nigel Short (#16), Alexey Dreev (#17), Alexander Beliavsky (#18), Ivan Sokolov (#19), Alexander Khalifman (#24), Veselin Topalov (#27), Sergei Tiviakov (#35), Miguel Illescas-Cordoba (#62), and Ljubomir Ljubojevic (#94). Karpov arrived from a tiring Karpov - Gelfand FIDE Candidates Semifinal (1995) in India. Shirov had taken up residence in Tarragona and applied for Spanish citizenship. Ivanchuk won his third Linares with 10/13, earning wins against half the field. The youngest player, Topalov from Bulgaria (who turned 20 on the rest day before Round 12), was among the leaders until Round 10, when he lost to Karpov. In the last three rounds, Karpov made three draws while Ivanchuk beat Dreev, Tiviakov and Akopian. Ivanchuk, Karpov and Shirov finished unbeaten. Ljubojevic did not win a single game. Although Illescas was sick during the event, he still did better than expected. <Hotel Anibal, Linares, Spain, 1-17 March 1995> table[
Age Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4
1 Ivanchuk 25 2700 * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 10
2 Karpov 43 2765 ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 9
3 Shirov 22 2710 ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 8
4 Topalov 19 2630 0 0 0 * ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 8
5 Khalifman 29 2635 ½ 0 ½ ½ * 1 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 7½
6 Beliavsky 41 2650 0 ½ ½ 0 0 * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 7
7 Tiviakov 22 2625 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 * 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 6
8 Illescas 29 2595 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 * 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 6
9 Sokolov 26 2645 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 * ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 5½
10 Dreev 26 2650 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 0 1 5½
11 Ljubojevic 44 2580 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ * 0 ½ ½ 5
12 Short 29 2655 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 * ½ ½ 5
13 Lautier 21 2655 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ * 0 4½
14 Akopian 23 2655 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 * 4 ]table Category: XVII (2654). Playing hours: 3-11 pm (no adjournments). Arbiters: Juan Vargas Sánchez, Faik Gasanov, Juan Vargas García and Francisco Mena. <Sources>
Mark Crowther in TWIC 22 (http://theweekinchess.com/html/twic...)
Chess.gr, Linares 1995 report (http://www.chess.gr/tourn/linares/l...)
FIDE rating list January 1995 (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo199...)
[[Jaque]] 398 (April 1995), pp. 46-52 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
ABC (Madrid), 13 March 1995, p. 84 (http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Naviga...)
[[Jaque]] 397 (March 1995), pp. 6-8, 14-43 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
[[Tidskrift för Schack]], May-June 1995, pp. 253-257 (http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/histo...)
Robert Byrne in [[New York Times]], 11 April 1995 (https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/11/...)
Roman Toran in [[Ocho x Ocho]] 158 (May 1995), pp. 4-21 (https://www.scribd.com/document/730...) Previous edition: Linares (1994). Next: Linares (1997) (there was no tournament in 1996). [Original collections: Game Collection: Linares 1995 by User: suenteus po 147 and Game Collection: Linares 1995 by User: Tabanus. Round dates: March 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17 (from Chress.gr and ABC Madrid issues. Round 7 was played March 9). ]
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91 games, 1995 - Linares 2001
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The 18th Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Ciudad de Linares was played from February 23rd to March 6th, 2001 in Hotel Anibal, Linares, Spain. The star of the event was Garry Kasparov, who had lost the Kasparov - Kramnik Classical World Championship Match (2000) (because he was unable to win with the white pieces against the Berlin Defense of Vladimir Kramnik) and won the Corus (2001) tournament, ahead of Viswanathan Anand (2nd) and Kramnik (=3rd). Anand (ranked #2 in the world) and Kramnik (#3) had declined their invitations to Linares, [(1, 2)] and the six participants were: Kasparov (#1), Peter Leko (#5), Alexei Shirov (#7), Anatoli Karpov (#20), Judit Polgar (#23), and Alexander Grischuk (#28). [(3)] Kasparov was the highest ranked player (by a wide margin) [(3)] and was the overwhelming favorite. [(4)] Karpov's presence also increased the interest. Karpov had not played much since the Karpov - Anand FIDE World Championship Match (1998). His rating was his lowest in about 30 years, but he had a dazzling success in Linares (1994), [(4)] and played well in Linares (1995). Kasparov and Karpov had not met since Las Palmas (1996) [(2)] and the two games here would be their last encounter in classical time control. Kasparov arrived to the event accompanied by his mother and Yury Dokhoian. Karpov arrived on 21 February accompanied by his analyst Mikhail Podgaets. Leko was accompanied by his wife and Amador Rodriguez, Polgar by her husband Gustav,
Grischuk by his coach Anatoly Bykhovsky, and Shirov by Viktorija Cmilyte and Jordi Magem Badals. [(1)] The arbiters were Juan Vargas, his son Juan Antonio Vargas and Paco Mena. Press officer was Paco Albalate. Round 1 started 3:30 pm. [(1)] The first three rounds gave nine draws, whereafter Kasparov started to beat his opponents and the rest started to beat each other. Polgar had held Kasparov to a draw in Round 2 and had the white pieces in Round 7. She thought about settling for a quick draw, but found that "fighting Kasparov in search of victory produces a special pleasure". [(5)] She got worse and should have lost, but there followed 
click for larger view27...g6? 28.f5! Kasparov had underestimated the opening of the g file and had to settle with 28...gxh5 29.Ne6 Nxc3+ 30.bxc3 Qxc3 31.Rxd6 Qb4+ etc. and a draw by repetition. [(6)] Kasparov thought he had missed something in the position, and at dinner, he shouted across the restaurant to Polgar, "I found it! I found it! 27...Ba3! It's amazing - all the tricks work for me. You should have a good look at it!" [(7)] For the record, Stockfish agrees. "I told myself, it will be much more meritorious if the tie is signed after a good fight. That's how it was, and I also managed to get Kasparov nervous." [(5)] Polgar was well on her way to take clear second place in the tournament, but lost her games in Round 8 (against Karpov) and Round 10 (against Shirov). In the end, five players ended equal, and on less than 50%, with Kasparov throning on top. [(1, 2, 8)] It was his seventh win at Linares. [(9)] <Linares, Spain, 23 February - 6 March 2001> table[
Elo 01 02 03 04 05 06
1 Kasparov 2849 ** ½½ 1½ ½1 ½1 11 7½
=2 Polgar 2676 ½½ ** ½0 ½½ 10 ½½ 4½
=2 Karpov 2679 0½ ½1 ** ½½ ½½ ½0 4½
=2 Leko 2745 ½0 ½½ ½½ ** ½½ ½½ 4½
=2 Shirov 2718 ½0 01 ½½ ½½ ** 10 4½
=2 Grischuk 2663 00 ½½ ½1 ½½ 01 ** 4½ ]table Chief Arbiter: Juan Vargas. [(1)] Category: XIX [(1, 2)] <Notes>
[(1)] Leontxo García in [[Jaque]], No. 533 (July 2001), pp. 6-39 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
[(2)] [[Tidskrift för Schack]], March 2001, pp. 180-185 (http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/histo...)
[(3)] FIDE Rating List January 2001 (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo200...)
[(4)] Jack Peters in [[Los Angeles Times]], 18 February 2001.
[(5)] Judit Polgar in [[Jaque]], No. 533 (July 2001), pp. 40-42.
[(6)] Thomas Ernst in [[Tidskrift för Schack]], April 2001, p. 226 (http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/histo...)
[(7)] User: acirce on J Polgar vs Kasparov, 2001, citing a now defunct ChessBase web page.
[(8)] TeleSchach, Linares 2001 page (http://teleschach.de/aktuelles/lina...)
[(9)] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linar.... [Original collections: Game Collection: Linares 2001 by User: suenteus po 147 and Game Collection: Linares 2001 by User: Tabanus. Round dates (February 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, March 1, 3, 4, 5, 6) are from Chess-Results (http://chess-results.com/tnr850.asp...) and Jaque 533. ]
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30 games, 2001 - Linares 2002
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The 19th Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Ciudad de Linares was played from February 23rd to March 10th, 2002 [(1)] in Hotel Anibal, Linares, Spain. [(2, 3)] Six of the world's best players, and one local talent, competed in the double round robin format. The favorite was Garry Kasparov, ranked #1 in the world. Attention was also cast on the debut of young Ruslan Ponomariov (#7), who had won the FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2001/02) a month ago. The unofficial World Champion Vladimir Kramnik (#2) had declined his invitation. The players were: Kasparov (#1), Viswanathan Anand (#3), Michael Adams (#4), Ruslan Ponomariov (#7), Vassily Ivanchuk (#8), Alexey Shirov (#9), and "Paco" or Francisco Vallejo Pons (#60). [(4, 5)] Kasparov was accompanied at the event by his mother, and also assisted by Yury Dokhoian. [(3, 5)] Ponomariov was assisted by Victor Bologan. [(5)] Vallejo was helped by Zenon Franco Ocampos and Roi Reinaldo Castineira, [(6)] and had conducted training sessions with Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero for one month. [(5)] Paco avoided last place by defeating Shirov in a good game in Round 13, and the FIDE champion took clear second place behind Kasparov. The two teenagers lost to Kasparov with the black pieces. Paco in Round 8, and Ponomariov in Round 13: in the French Defense Rubinstein Variation he should probably have played 8...a6 rather than giving Kasparov an attack with 8...Nd7 9.Bb5 Bd6 10.Qg4. [(3, 5, 7)] In any case, "the first performance of Paco in an elite tournament could not have been more hopeful", [(5)] and the performance of Ponomariov silenced some of the criticism against FIDE. Kasparov did not speak to
Ponomariov at the opening ceremony (sitting in adjoining seats), but he was friendly to him at the end of the struggle and even gave him praises. He also greeted Paco's father and said he had every reason to be proud. [(2, 3, 5)] It was his eighth win at Linares. [(8)] <Linares, Spain, 23 February - 10 March 2002> table[
Age Elo 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
1 Kasparov 38 2838 ** ½1 ½½ ½½ 1½ ½1 ½1 8
2 Ponomariov 18 2727 ½0 ** 1½ ½½ 01 ½1 ½½ 6½
3 Ivanchuk 32 2717 ½½ 0½ ** ½½ 1½ ½1 ½0 6
4 Anand 32 2757 ½½ ½½ ½½ ** 0½ ½½ ½1 6
5 Adams 30 2742 0½ 10 0½ 1½ ** ½½ ½1 6
6 Vallejo 19 2629 ½0 ½0 ½0 ½½ ½½ ** ½1 5
7 Shirov 29 2715 ½0 ½½ ½1 ½0 ½0 ½0 ** 4½ ]table Category: XX. [(9)] Best game selected by the chess journalists: Kasparov vs Ponomariov, 2002. [(2)] The IX Open Anibal de Linares (Swiss, 10 rounds, 1-10 March) was played this year in parallel with the grandmaster event. It was won by Pengxiang Zhang. [(10)] There was also a tournament for the blind (23 February - 4 March), won by Sergey Krylov. [(11, 12)] Tournament book: [[Linares 2002]], ed. by Konstantin Sakaev (Grandmaster Chess School, St. Petersburg 2002. 224 pp. (in Russian)). <Notes>
[(1)] Boris Schipkov at Chess Siberia, Linares 2002 page (http://www.chessib.com/linar2res.html) [(2)] Rolf Lundquist in [[Tidskrift för Schack]], March 2002, pp. 173-176 (http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/histo...) [(3)] [[Peón de Rey]], No. 5 (2002), pp. 6-32 (https://e-nautia.com/santiago/disk/...) [(4)] FIDE Rating List January 2002 (http://fidelists.blogspot.no/2008/0...) [(5)] [[Jaque]], No. 553 (March 2002), pp. 5-43 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...) [(6)] Zenon Franco Ocampos in [[ABC Color]] (http://www.tabladeflandes.com/Zenon...) [(7)] Robert Byrne in [[New York Times]], 24 March 2002 (https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/24/...) [(8)] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linar... [(9)] Crosstable by Boris Schipkov at Chess Siberia (http://www.chessib.com/linar2crt.html) [(10)] Ajedrez Noticias Diarias Boletin, No. 20 (11 March 2002) (http://www.elistas.net/lista/torneo...) [(11)] EListas.net, Información Torneos Ajedrez España, Crónica 05.03.2002 (http://www.elistas.net/lista/torneo...) [(12)] Ajedrez Parque Sur Albacete, Linares 2002 page (http://www.ajedrezparquesuralbacete...) Previous edition: Linares (2001). Next: Linares (2003). [Original collections: Game Collection: Linares 2002 by User: suenteus po 147 and Game Collection: Linares 2002 by User: Tabanus. Round dates (February 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, March 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) are from Chess Siberia. ]
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42 games, 2002 - London A 1946
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In January 1946, less than two weeks after Hastings 1945/46 (1945), the newspaper [[Sunday Chronicle]] sponsored a Victory Tournament in Farringdon-street Memorial Hall, London, with Walter Hatton-Ward as director. The idea was to celebrate the end of the war, with attendance of masters from all over the world. Things had been lined up for the biggest of events, but eventually it became clear that the russians (incl. Mikhail Botvinnik) would not turn up. Moreover, the participation of the invited World Champion Alexander Alekhine had been protested against by Max Euwe and the Dutch Chess Federation and by Arnold Denker and the USCF because of alleged Nazi sympathies. In November 1945, Hatton-Ward wrote to Alekhine and cancelled the invitation. The players were divided into two supposedly equally strong groups, A and B. The A-group consisted of [[Steiner]] - California champion (1945) and US Open winner (1942), [[Bernstein]] - who had "quit" chess in 1907, [[Tartakower]] - now nearly 60 years old and recent Hastings winner, [[Opocensky]] - the Czechoslovak champion, [[Prins]] - winner of Dutch tournaments before the war, [[List]] - UK immigrant from Russia and also almost 60, [[Pomar]] - child prodigy from Spain and a pupil of Alekhine, [[Fairhurst]] - British (1937) and Scottish champion, [[Broadbent]] - the UK Northern Counties champion, [[Golombek]] - soon to become British champion, and [[Stone]] of Britain and [[Friedmann]] of Czechoslovakia. On Saturday 26th, Steiner could lift one of the two silver cups given by Gomer Berry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomer...). The participation of 14-year-old Pomar attracted public attention, especially when he was pitched against older players. The following picture, which is from London 1946 (but not the tournament game), shows him play against Bernstein: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... For the B-group, see London B (1946).
Group A final standings and crosstable:
table[
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
1 Steiner * 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 9
2 Bernstein 1 * 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 1 1 1 8
3 Tartakower 0 0 * 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 7½
4 Opocensky ½ ½ 0 * 1 ½ 1 1 1 0 ½ 1 7
5 Golombek 0 ½ ½ 0 * 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 6
=6 Prins 0 0 0 ½ 1 * 0 1 1 1 1 0 5½
=6 Pomar 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 * 1 1 1 1 0 5½
=8 List ½ ½ 0 0 1 0 0 * 0 ½ 1 1 4½
=8 Broadbent 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 * ½ 1 1 4½
10 Fairhurst 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 ½ ½ * 1 1 4
11 Stone 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 * 1 2½
12 Friedmann 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 * 2 ]table
[According to The Sunday Post, January 27, 1946, the game between Broadbent and Fairhurst had been completed on Friday 25th and a draw had been agreed upon. Fairhurst, while travelling to Glasgow overnight, re-studied the position with his pocket set and saw he could force a win. He telephoned Broadbent from Scotland on Saturday and Broadbent agreed the game was a win. This was accepted by the organizers.] Tournament book: [[Book of the "Sunday Chronicle" Chess Tournament]] by Walter Hatton-Ward (Chess SC, Sutton Coldfield 1946. 106 pp.)
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66 games, 1946 - London B 1946
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In January 1946, less than two weeks after Hastings 1945/46 (1945), the newspaper [[Sunday Chronicle]] sponsored a Victory Tournament in Farringdon-street Memorial Hall, London, with Walter Hatton-Ward as director. The idea was to celebrate the end of the war, with attendance of masters from all over the world. Things had been lined up for the biggest of events, but eventually it became clear that the russians (incl. Mikhail Botvinnik) would not turn up. Moreover, the participation of the invited World Champion Alexander Alekhine had been protested against by Euwe and the Dutch Chess Federation and by Denker and the USCF because of alleged Nazi sympathies. In November 1945, Hatton-Ward wrote to Alekhine and cancelled the invitation. The players were divided into two supposedly equally strong groups, A and B. The B-group consisted of [[Euwe]] - Dutch champion and former World Champion (1935-1937), [[Denker]] - the United States champion, [[Christoffel]] - the Swiss champion, [[Thomas]] - former British champion (1923, 1934) and now 64 years old, [[Abrahams]] - strong British amateur and author of chess books, [[König]] - strong Hungarian amateur and UK immigrant (1938), [[Medina]] - the Spanish champion, [[Lupi]] - strong Portuguese player and a friend of Alekhine, [[Devos]] - the Belgian champion, [[Winter]] - former British champion (1935, 1936), [[Wood]] - the London champion, and [[Newman]] - the British Army champion. On Saturday 26th, after the adjourned games were finished, Euwe could lift one of the two silver cups given by newspaper giant Gomer Berry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomer...). For the A-group, see London A (1946).
Group B final standings and crosstable:
table[
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
1 Euwe * 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 9½
2 Christoffel 0 * 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 8
3 Denker 0 1 * ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 7
=4 Thomas 0 0 ½ * 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 0 6½
=4 Abrahams 0 0 1 0 * 0 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 6½
=4 König ½ 1 0 ½ 1 * ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 6½
=7 Newman 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ * ½ 0 1 1 1 4½
=7 Medina 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ * 1 1 1 1 4½
=9 Devos 1 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 * 0 0 1 3½
=9 Winter 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 0 1 * 0 1 3½
=9 Wood 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 1 1 * 1 3½
12 Lupi 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 0 * 2½ ]table Tournament book: Book of the "Sunday Chronicle" Chess Tournament by Walter Hatton-Ward (Chess SC, Sutton Coldfield 1946. 106 pp.)
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66 games, 1946-1948 - London Candidates Reserve Playoff 1985
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The purpose of this playoff was to have a reserve player, should any of the Montpellier Candidates (1985) players withdraw or die. "The winner of a match between the fifth-placed players in each of the Interzonals will qualify as the reserve should any candidates drop out." [(1)] The three fifth-placed players were Gavrikov from the Tunis Interzonal (1985) (and the ensuing Moscow Interzonal Playoff (1985)), Speelman from Taxco Interzonal (1985), and van der Wiel from Biel Interzonal (1985) plus the Biel Interzonal Playoff (1985). The ultimate goal was to select a challenger for the winner of the Karpov - Kasparov World Championship Match (1985), and as it turned out (because of the rematch condition announced in Biel in July 1985), the winner of the Kasparov - Karpov World Championship Rematch (1986). The event took place in the London Docklands Museum [(2)] on the Isle of Dogs, [(3)] and was organized by Raymond Keene. [(4)] It was sponsored by the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC), [(5)] who also provided Nigel Short (who qualified in Biel for the Candidates tournament) with £800 for his WC campaign. [(5)] The guest of honor at the opening was LDDC's Vice President Lord Mellish. [(4, 6)] Three matches of four games between each pair of players were arranged, to accommodate van der Wiel, who had originally withdrawn. A series of 1-hour games was the proposed tiebreaker. [(4)] The playing time was 1-6 pm, [(7)] and the prizes were £1000, £650 and £350. [(8)] The first match of four games was between Speelman and van der Wiel. It is not clear who the seconds were. Speelman was perhaps assisted by William Watson, who was present in London [(8)] and had been his assistant at the Interzonal, whereas "Van der Wiel must lack the support in London of his usual second Gert Ligterink. His place may be taken by Van der Wiel's city rival Rini Kuijf." [(9)]
Speelman had won the British Championship (1985) in August, and must have reckoned he had good chances, but promptly lost the first game with White. In a rare variation of the English Opening, earlier tried by Tony Miles, he played not 9.d5 but 9.Nh4? 
click for larger view9...Qxd4! was van der Wiel's reply and the exchange could not be saved (without losing pawns). The second game and the third ended in draws. In the fourth game, an Old Indian Defense, van der Wiel launched a violent attack, and had a winning position until he played the tempting, but fatal 25.Bd6? 0-0-0! (late castling) 26.cxd5? 
click for larger viewSpeelman played 26...Nf6! and now he was winning! The next match was between Gavrikov and van der Wiel, where after three drawn Sicilian games, Gavrikov quite easily won the fourth by exploiting a mistake on move 15 (15...Nc5? 16.Bb5+!). Gavrikov was now leading, van der Wiel was "out" and Speelman had to win his match against Gavrikov (who only needed draws) to win the playoff. Three draws followed and Speelman had to win the last game. In a Neo-Grünfeld Defense, Gavrikov closed the game (more or less) with 8...f5, but Speelman placed his king on f2 and attacked by pushing his h- and g-pawns. At move 50, this method proved successful. <London, England, 4-17 September 1985> table[
Elo 1234 1234 1234 Pts
1 GM Speelman 2530 **** ½½½1 0½½1 4½
2 GM Gavrikov 2570 ½½½0 **** ½½½1 4
3 GM van der Wiel 2520 1½½0 ½½½0 **** 3½ ]table None of the Montpellier Candidates (1985) players withdrew. Speelman was left only with memories and a small rating gain. The Docklands Chess Festival, held 2-28 September, was the overall event. Erik Knoppert managed to break the world record (499 games by Israel Gelfer) for one man playing non-stop, consecutive 5 min. games: 500! He had to score at least 75% against an Elo average of 2000. Opponents included Speelman and Keene. Play started 9:19 am on a Friday (13 Sept.), and ended 5:17 am the following Monday. There was commentary on the playoff games and on the live feed of moves from the World Championship match in Moscow, with Short, Speelman, David Norwood,
Graham David Lee, Andrew D Martin, and Robert Wade participating. From the USA, Billy Colias and Eric Schiller also commented. IM Vaidyanathan Ravikumar played matches against top English juniors, losing to Michael Hennigan and drawing with Ali Mortazavi. There was also a series of lectures for the public to attend. [(8)] [1)] [David Goodman in The Spectator, 12 July 1985, p. 35. ] [2)] [http://cdn.ltstatic.com/2007/March/.... ] [3)] [Raymond Keene in The Times, 5 September 1985, p. 5. ] [4)] [Les Blackstock in British Chess Magazine, Nov 1985, p. 498. ] [5)] [Keene in The Spectator, 28 September 1985, p. 41. ] [6)] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Me.... ] [7)] [Keene in The Times, 7 September 1985, p. 16. ] [8)] [Eric Schiller in CHESS, October 1985, p. 172. ] [9)] [Het Vrije Volk, 28 August 1985, p. 19. ] [Original collection: Game Collection: London Candidates Reserve Playoff 1985 by User: Tabanus. Game dates are inferred from the Dutch newspapers at http://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/ and The Times. Thanks to User: Paint My Dragon for information from CHESS and BCM. User: OhioChessFan improved the English. ]
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12 games, 1985 - Los Angeles Interzonal Playoff 1968
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Bent Larsen had won the Sousse Interzonal (1967) and would be joined by the five next highest finishers for the Candidates matches of 1968. As 6th place had been shared between Reshevsky, Hort and Stein, a playoff was necessary to determine the final qualifier. In case of a further tie, the player with the best Sonneborn-Berger score from the Interzonal would advance. [(1)] FIDE rules stipulated that in triangular playoffs the contestants need meet each other only twice. [(2)] In case of four games between each player pair (= 12 games), the United States would probably hold the match. If the playoff was of only six games, it would take place in a European country agreed upon by the players. If this proved difficult to arrange, it might be held in Tunisia. [(3)] In the end, 12 games was decided upon, and the playoff found a safe haven in the Steiner Chess Club in Los Angeles. Sponsored by Gregor and
Jacqueline Piatigorsky, among the facilities there was a projector system for illustrating the games that had been used in the Second Piatigorsky Cup (1966). [(4)] Stein arrived with his second and Soviet representative Yuri Averbakh, [(5, 6)] and Reshevsky was helped by Pal Benko. [(6)] The director and referee was Isaac Kashdan. [(4, 5)] He was helped by the young James Tarjan. [(4)] As seen from two newspaper reports, play started at 6 pm. [(7, 8)] Unlike the Piatigorsky Cups, the playoff did not attract a large number of spectators, possibly because only one game was played at a time. [(4)] Reshevsky and Stein started out first, on Sunday 18 February. [(9)] Pictured is one of the Hort-Stein encounters, with Tarjan looking on: http://www.worldchesshof.org/upload.... Stein had Reshevsky on the ropes in the first game, but Reshevsky slipped out by beautiful defense. In the fifth game, Stein defeated Hort, and after 10 games, Stein was leading with 4 points out of 7 (each player played 8 games). Hort needed to win against Stein in the 11th game, otherwise he would be out of contention. [(10)] [[The scene is a hall with a table on an elevated platform, and about 200 folding chairs for spectators. In the folding chairs are no more than 20 persons, all in the attitude of a cat watching a bird. The hall is lined with "no smoking" signs. Stein lights a cigarette, inhales two or three times, then lays it on an ashtray. When it burns to inch-length he stubs it out. Hort does not complain, and ranges up and down the aisles in long strides.]] [(8)] Stein played white and started aggressively, but Hort created counterplay. Still the whole struggle was ahead as Hort offered a draw on move 11! [(11)] The offer took Stein by surprise. Hort had a good position and if he won he would have chances for first place. A draw would kick him out of the race. What if Hort would then be unable to resist Reshevsky in the last game and lose? Stein thought it was better to find a sporting solution, and declined. [(10)] Hort had been sad at the way his luck had run, but the rejection made him determined. He dismissed Stein's counter-offer (of a draw) a few moves later, and won in 40 moves! [(11)] Stein was out. Then Reshevsky and Hort drew their last game. All three had 4 points each. <Los Angeles, 18 Feb. - 2 March 1968> table[
1234 1234 1234 Pts
1 GM Reshevsky **** ½½½½ ½½½½ 4
2 GM Hort ½½½½ **** ½0½1 4
3 GM Stein ½½½½ ½1½0 **** 4 ]table
Reshevsky had the better tie-break at the Interzonal and advanced to the Candidates matches: Korchnoi - Reshevsky Candidates Quarterfinal (1968)
Larsen - Portisch Candidates Quarterfinal (1968)
Spassky - Geller Candidates Quarterfinal (1968)
Tal - Gligoric Candidates Quarterfinal (1968) Reshevsky’s qualification surprised many as he was 56, long past the age when most players dream of competing for the World Chess Championship. [(4)] How did he win? Had he lost, it would have been only what one expected, an old man with an ambition he should long ago have outgrown. [(12)] Instead he set an all time record: the first player in chess history to win an important event without scoring a single full point. [(13)] Many games were drawn, but according to IM Michael Basman, all three displayed something akin to "heroism" in the first few games. [(12)] The circumstances gave Reshevsky draw odds against the others. This may have dictated a drawish style of play: Stein and Hort may not have dared to take any undue chances; Reshevsky didn’t need to. [(13)] As for Stein, this was the third time he just failed to make the Candidates. [(12)] The event was the last major chess competition organized by the Piatigorskys, and also the swan song for the Steiner Chess Club. Jacqueline stopped supporting the Club in the late 1960s. [(4)] [1)] [Harry Golombek in The Times 16 March 1968 p. 24. ] [2)] [Peter Hugh Clarke in British Chess Magazine, April 1968, p. 98. ] [3)] [CHESS, Christmas 1967, p. 90. ]
[4)] ['Jacqueline Piatigorsky: Patron, Player, Pioneer' by World Chess Hall of Fame, # 2014 (http://www.worldchesshof.org/exhibi...). ] [5)] [Chess Review, April 1968, p. 100. ]
[6)] ['Chess: Jacqueline and Gregor Piatigorsky' by Edward Winter, # 2013 (http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...). ] [7)] [Redlands Daily Facts 27 Feb. 1968 p. 8. ]
[8)] [Modified from AP report by Howard C. Heyn in Times-Picayune 4 March 1968 p. 58 (Section 4 p. 1). Original text: http://phw01.newsbank.com/cache/arh.... ] [9)] ['Samuel Reshevsky: A compendium of 1768 chess games, with diagrams, crosstables, some annotations, and indexes' by Stephen Wayne Gordon (McFarland, 1997), pp. 276-277. ] [10)] ['Leonid Stein: Master of Risk Strategy' by Eduard Gufeld and Efim Lazarev (Thinkers Press, 2001), p. 78. ] [11)] ['Sousse 1967 International Chess Tournament' by Robert Wade (The Chess Player, 1968) (not seen, indirect citation). ] [12)] [CHESS, April 1968, p. 224. ]
[13)] [Chess Review, April 1968, p. 99. ]
[Original collection: Game Collection: Los Angeles Interzonal Playoff 1968 by User: Tabanus. Thanks to User: Paint My Dragon for information from books and magazines, and to User: crawfb5 for providing game dates from New York Times. The dates correspond with this picture of the program: http://www.worldchesshof.org/upload.... The English was improved upon by User: WCC Editing Project. ]
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