| Yusupov - Spraggett Candidates Quarterfinal (1989) |
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In order to select a challenger for World Champion Garry Kasparov, this match was played in the Joseph Lavergne Auditorium of the Gabrielle-Roy Library in Quebec, Canada, 21 January - 4 February 1989. It was best of six games, and the first to achieve 3½ points would go to the semifinal. In case of 3-3, two more games would be played. If 4-4, one 1 hour 'sudden death' game, and if 4½-4½, one 30 minutes sudden death game. If 5-5, 15 min games until there was a winner. The other quarterfinal matches were held elsewhere: Timman - Portisch Candidates Quarterfinal (1989), Speelman - Short Candidates Quarterfinal (1988) and Karpov - Hjartarson Candidates Quarterfinal (1989). The draw for pairings had been announced a year ago, on 7 February 1988, by FIDE president Florencio Campomanes at the press conference and awards ceremony following the eighthfinals in Saint John, Canada. Sponsored by the Quebec Chess Federation, the match was organized by the City of Quebec. Artur Yusupov had qualified from the Yusupov - Ehlvest Candidates Eighthfinal (1988), and Spraggett had qualified from the Spraggett - Sokolov Candidates Eighthfinal (1988). Yusupov was assisted by Mark Dvoretzky, while Spraggett was assisted by Walter Browne (via phone calls) and Tamaz Georgadze. Time controls: 2 hours to complete 40 moves and 3 hours to complete 60 moves. The match winner received about $20,000, and the loser also $20,000 since the match was tied 3-3 after six games. Chief arbiter: IA Gerard Heynen. Quebec, Canada, 21 January - 4 February 1989 Age Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Yusupov 28 2610 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 5
Spraggett 34 2575 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 4
Yusupov went on to the Karpov - Yusupov Candidates Semifinal (1989)."The Soviet grandmaster Artur Yusupov brilliantly defeated the Canadian grandmaster Kevin Spraggett in a sudden-death playoff Saturday to win their world championship candidates' quarterfinal match in Quebec and advance to the semifinal stage. After six regulation games and two tiebreak games, all played at the standard 40 moves in two hours, left the match deadlocked, Yusupov won the first sudden-death, all-moves-in-one-hour-per-player game. But Spraggett and Yusupov will split the $40,000 purse." (Byrne) Sources
Mark Weeks' website (https://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/88...)
FIDE rating list January 1989 (https://web.archive.org/web/2022100...)
Norsk Sjakkblad, 2/89, pp. 30-32 (https://dnkjuhc6if10z.cloudfront.ne...)
Chess Life, May 1989, pp. 26-28 (https://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/C...)
Spraggett on Chess, 26 September 2016 (https://kevinspraggettonchess.wordp...)
Northern 34, 20 February 1989, pp. 1-5 (https://web.archive.org/web/2013011...)
Jaque 257, 1 March 1989, pp. 98-110, 118 (https://www.olimpbase.org/leagueES/...)
Tidskrift för Schack, February 1989, pp. 49-54 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1989...)
Tidskrift för Schack, March 1989, pp. 130-133 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1989...)
California Chess Journal, February 1989, pp. 3-4, 15-16 (http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/...)
Robert Byrne in The New York Times, 31 January 1989 (https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/31/...)
Robert Byrne in The New York Times, 7 February 1989 (https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/07/...)
Robert Byrne in The New York Times, 26 February 1989 (https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/26/...)
Original collections: Game Collection: WCC Index (Yusupov-Spraggett 1989) by User: Hesam7 and Game Collection: Yusupov - Spraggett Candidates Quarterfinal by User: Tabanus. The slightly uncertain game dates (January 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 29, 31, February 2, 4) are from Dutch newspapers at https://www.delpher.nl/.
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| Jul-30-23 | | generror: Does anybody know why no 10th game has been played in this match? Back then FIDE always played 2 more games if a candidates match was tied, did they change to a sudden death format? Wikipedia's Spraggett page that in the previous round, he beat Sokolov in a "blitz playoff". So did FIDE switch to a sudden death blitz format for their 1989 candidates? |
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Jul-30-23
 | | perfidious: While I annotated at least one of the games for <Chess Horizons> from this match, I do not recall the conditions. |
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| Jul-31-23 | | Olavi: Games seven and eight were already extra time with normal time controls, after that it was sudden death in this cycle. First a one hour game, then a half hour game, then fifteen minutes infinitely... another FIDE speciality. |
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Jul-31-23
| | perfidious: Spraggett won through the first round of the Candidates by virtue of A Sokolov vs K Spraggett, 1988, which, one would assume, was played in the same format. |
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| Jul-31-23 | | generror: <Olavi> Yes, I noticed that in later cycles they switched to the older "pair of games" tiebreaking. Thanks for confirming for some reason they chose the sudden death approach here in this cycle. It must be the first time that rapid/blitz crept into the World Championship, no? <perifidious> Yes, but that game was the 12th, so it could have been the normal two-game tiebreak. But a candidates match that goes into tiebreaks with an odd number of games like this raised my questions. |
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Feb-29-24
 | | Tabanus: Spraggett's second was Tamaz Giorgadze if I understood Leontxo Garcia's report in Jaque correctly. |
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