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Skelleftea World Cup Tournament

Anatoly Karpov9.5/15(+4 -0 =11)[games]
Garry Kasparov9.5/15(+4 -0 =11)[games]
Lajos Portisch8.5/15(+5 -3 =7)[games]
Yasser Seirawan8.5/15(+3 -1 =11)[games]
Nigel Short8.5/15(+4 -2 =9)[games]
Valery Salov8/15(+4 -3 =8)[games]
Gyula Sax8/15(+3 -2 =10)[games]
John Nunn7.5/15(+3 -3 =9)[games]
Ulf Andersson7.5/15(+2 -2 =11)[games]
Robert Huebner7/15(+2 -3 =10)[games]
Zoltan Ribli7/15(+0 -1 =14)[games]
Mikhail Tal7/15(+0 -1 =14)[games]
Jaan Ehlvest6.5/15(+3 -5 =7)[games]
Predrag Nikolic6/15(+1 -4 =10)[games]
Viktor Korchnoi6/15(+3 -6 =6)[games]
Rafael Vaganian5/15(+1 -6 =8)[games]
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Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
Skelleftea World Cup (1989)

Skellefteå, Sweden, 12 August - 2 September 1989

Age Elo* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 1 Karpov 38 2755 • ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 9½ 2 Kasparov 26 2775 ½ • 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 9½ 3 Portisch 52 2600 ½ 0 • ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 8½ 4 Seirawan 29 2585 0 ½ ½ • ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 8½ 5 Short 24 2660 ½ 0 ½ ½ • 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 8½ 6 Salov 25 2645 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 • 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 8 7 Sax 38 2580 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 • 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 8 8 Nunn 34 2575 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 • 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 7½ 9 Andersson 38 2635 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 • ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 7½ 10 Hübner 40 2605 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ • ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 7 11 Ribli 37 2605 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ • ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 7 12 Tal 52 2585 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ • ½ ½ ½ ½ 7 13 Ehlvest 26 2620 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ • ½ 1 1 6½ 14 Nicolic 28 2600 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ • 0 ½ 6 15 Korchnoi 58 2655 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 1 • 1 6 16 Vaganian 37 2585 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 • 5 —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

Fifteen rounds in 22 days, starting on Saturday 12 August and ending on Saturday 2 September (120 games). Rest days 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 28 August and 1 September, with adjourned games finished on Sunday 3 September. Karpov won on Sonneborn-Berger score ahead of Kasparov, both with 9.5/15 and 26½ World Cup points.

This was the 6th and last World Cup tournament of the 1988-89 season. Final standings: 1) Kasparov 83 points, 2) Karpov 81, 3) Salov 68½, 4) Ehlvest 68, 5) Ljubojevic 66½, 6) Nunn 65½, 7-8) Beliavsky & Short 63½, 9-10) Timman & Hübner 57½, etc.

Sources
*FIDE rating list July 1989 (https://web.archive.org/web/2022112...)
Chess Life, 1/1990, pp. 68-69 (https://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/C...)
Chess Life, 12/1989, pp. 38-40 (https://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/C...)
Sakkélet, 11/1989, pp. 337-345 (https://adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Sak...)
Tidskrift för Schack, 7/1989, pp. 281-289 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1989...)
Tidskrift för Schack, 8/1989, pp. 314-331 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1989...)
Tidskrift för Schack, 9/1989, pp. 396-399 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1989...)
Jaque 269, 15 September 1989, pp. 570-576 (https://www.olimpbase.org/leagueES/...)
Dates from Swedish newspapers, available at https://tidningar.kb.se/

 page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 120  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Andersson vs Huebner ½-½611989Skelleftea World CupA20 English
2. Sax vs Karpov ½-½191989Skelleftea World CupC92 Ruy Lopez, Closed
3. Kasparov vs Korchnoi 1-0231989Skelleftea World CupA34 English, Symmetrical
4. Nunn vs Seirawan ½-½421989Skelleftea World CupB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
5. Portisch vs Ribli  1-0371989Skelleftea World CupD44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
6. Salov vs P Nikolic 1-0481989Skelleftea World CupD17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
7. Short vs Tal 1-0401989Skelleftea World CupB46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation
8. Ehlvest vs Vaganian 1-0381989Skelleftea World CupC18 French, Winawer
9. Short vs Andersson  ½-½411989Skelleftea World CupB46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation
10. Karpov vs Kasparov ½-½421989Skelleftea World CupE97 King's Indian
11. Korchnoi vs Salov 0-1371989Skelleftea World CupE19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3
12. Ribli vs Nunn  ½-½171989Skelleftea World CupA05 Reti Opening
13. P Nikolic vs Portisch  1-0411989Skelleftea World CupD18 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch
14. Tal vs Vaganian  ½-½161989Skelleftea World CupC09 French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line
15. Seirawan vs Ehlvest  ½-½171989Skelleftea World CupA46 Queen's Pawn Game
16. Huebner vs Sax  ½-½211989Skelleftea World CupB82 Sicilian, Scheveningen
17. Andersson vs Tal ½-½801989Skelleftea World CupE03 Catalan, Open
18. Salov vs Karpov  ½-½291989Skelleftea World CupE32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
19. Kasparov vs Huebner ½-½601989Skelleftea World CupD20 Queen's Gambit Accepted
20. Portisch vs Korchnoi 1-0391989Skelleftea World CupE00 Queen's Pawn Game
21. Nunn vs P Nikolic  ½-½181989Skelleftea World CupC19 French, Winawer, Advance
22. Sax vs Short  ½-½131989Skelleftea World CupC18 French, Winawer
23. Vaganian vs Seirawan  ½-½261989Skelleftea World CupA29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto
24. Ehlvest vs Ribli  ½-½161989Skelleftea World CupB47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation
25. Andersson vs Sax  ½-½171989Skelleftea World CupA46 Queen's Pawn Game
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