1991 in chess

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Events in chess in 1991;

Top players

FIDE top 10 by Elo rating - January 1991

  1. Garry Kasparov  Soviet Union 2800
  2. Anatoly Karpov  Soviet Union 2725
  3. Boris Gelfand  Soviet Union 2700
  4. Vassily Ivanchuk  Soviet Union 2695
  5. Evgeny Bareev  Soviet Union 2650
  6. Mikhail Gurevich  Soviet Union 2650
  7. Jan Ehlvest  Soviet Union 2650
  8. Leonid Yudasin  Soviet Union 2645
  9. Valery Salov  Soviet Union 2645
  10. Alexander Beliavsky*  Soviet Union 2640

(*) Beliavsky was tied with Ulf Andersson, Alexander Khalifman and Gata Kamsky

Chess news in brief

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