1991 in chess

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Below is a list of events in chess in 1991, as well as the top ten FIDE rated chess players of that year.

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Top players

FIDE top 10 by Elo rating - January 1991

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

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

Chess news in brief

Births

Deaths

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