- 1994 in chess
Events in
chess in1994 ;Top players
FIDE top 10 byElo rating - January 1994#
Garry Kasparov RUS 2815
#Anatoly Karpov RUS 2740
#Alexei Shirov LAT 2715
#Viswanathan Anand IND 2715
#Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2710
#Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2710
#Gata Kamsky USA 2695
#Valery Salov RUS 2685
#Evgeny Bareev RUS 2685
#Boris Gelfand BLR 2685Chess news in brief
*The PCA and sponsor
Intel team up for a series of knockout 'Grand Prix' events. These rapidplay events are considered more media and spectator friendly than chess played at regular time limits. The prizes are generous and the world's elite players turn out in force.Viswanathan Anand wins theMoscow Grand Prix,Vladimir Kramnik theNew York event andVassily Ivanchuk is a winner inLondon .Garry Kasparov , after coming close at New York, wins theParis edition. Intel's new Pentium processor is used to run the "Chess Genius" program at the London event and the computer defeats Kasparov, but fares less well against Anand.
*The semi-final stage of the PCAWorld Chess Championship produces two finalists in Anand andGata Kamsky , when they defeatMichael Adams andNigel Short respectively.
*InFIDE 's equivalent contest, the (Wijk aan Zee ) Candidates' quarter-final winners are Anand (overArtur Yusupov , Kamsky (overPaul van der Sterren ), Kramnik (overLeonid Yudasin ),Jan Timman (overJoel Lautier ),Valery Salov (overAlexander Khalifman ) andBoris Gelfand (over Adams). Subsequently, in the (Sanghi Nagar ) semi-finals, Gelfand eliminates Kramnik, Kamsky eliminates Anand and Salov eliminates Timman. All three joinAnatoly Karpov in the final stages.
*TheChess Olympiad is switched toMoscow , after problems are encountered with the planned venue ofThessaloniki . First place goes to Russia (37½/56), ahead of Bosnia & Herzegovina (35), Russia II and England (both 34½). 124 teams take part. Georgia wins the Women's event (32/42), ahead of Hungary (31), China and Romania (both 27).Yuri Averbakh is the Chief Arbiter for both events.
*Karpov wins at Linares. An immensely strong entry results in FIDE's first ever Category 18 classification.
*Kasparov and Ivanchuk share success at the double roundNovgorod tournament with 7/10 ahead of Kramnik (5).
*Kasparov wins theAmsterdam double rounder with 4/6.
*Kamsky is the winner atLas Palmas with 6½/9, ahead of Karpov (6).
*TheHorgen tournament is a runaway success for Kasparov with 8½/11.
*Jeroen Piket wins at theDortmund Sparkassen Tournament with 6½/9, ahead of Adams (5½).
*Munich is a triumph for Ivanchuk with 7½/11.
*Gelfand is the victor atDos Hermanas with 6½/9, ahead of Karpov on 6.
*Judit Polgar wins atMadrid with 7/9.
*Salov is the winner of a knockout event inTilburg .
*Alexander Morozevich wins the finalLloyds Bank ,London event with an almost perfect 9½/10.
*John Nunn wins the 1993/94Hastings International Chess Congress .
*A doubleEstonia n success occurs at the 12thNew York Open whenLembit Oll andJaan Ehlvest share victory.
*TheArmenia n GMArtashes Minasian wins the World Open.
*IcelanderHelgi Gretarsson wins theWorld Junior Chess Championship inBrazil . He becomes a Grandmaster as a result.
*TheWorld Youth Chess Championship s are held inSzeged , Hungary. A stronger than average entry reveals many exceptional talents, including winnersPeter Svidler (Under 18),Peter Leko (Under 16),Levon Aronian (Under 12) andNatalia Zhukova (Under 16 girls). Svidler crowns a special year by also winning theRussian Chess Championship .
*Boris Gulko wins theU.S. Chess Championship inKey West , Florida. He takes home an $8,000 prize for first place.
*Mark Taimanov wins the 4th World Senior Championship atBiel .
*Georgi Orlov wins the 95thU.S. Open Chess Championship inChicago .
*Josh Waitzkin wins the U.S. Junior Championship in Bloomington.
*Joel Benjamin wins the 5th Harvard Cup, but the computer program "Wchess" outperforms the Grandmasters.
*Peter Leko becomes a Grandmaster at 14 years, 4 months, 22 days.
*Valery Salov wins a 'double round' themed tournament inBuenos Aires . Themed tournaments at the top level are nowadays rare; in this one, every game commences with an Open Sicilian.
*Alexei Shirov is married for the first time (to the Argentinian, Veronica Alvarez) and moves toTarragona , Spain, where he settles and takes citizenship.Births
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Hou Yifan , World Girls' Under-10 Champion (2003) and Chinese Women's champion (2007) at 13 years.
*Srinath Narayanan , Indian prodigy, World Under-12 Champion in 2005.
*Ray Robson , USA's youngest ever IM-elect.Deaths
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Olga Rubtsova , formerWomen's World Chess Champion - December 13
*Vladimir Zagorovsky , former World Correspondence Champion and Champion of Moscow - November 6
*Igor Platonov , Ukrainian-Soviet Grandmaster - November 13
*Gyula Kluger , Hungarian International Master - September 23
*Theo van Scheltinga , Dutch International Master - July 30
*Triantafyllos Siaperas , Greek International Master, twice the national champion - March ?References
*cite book | author=Burgess, Graham | title=Chess Highlights of the 20th Century | publisher=Gambit Publications | year=1999 | id=ISBN 1901983218
* [http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/history.txt Chess History & Chronology - Bill Wall]
* [http://www.olimpbase.org Olimpbase - Olympiads and other Team event information]
* [http://chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk/Chess/Trivia/AlltimeList.html FIDE rating list data 1970-97]
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