1990 USSR Chess Championship

The 1990 Soviet Chess Championship was the 57th edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 18 October to 5 November 1990 in Leningrad. The title was won by Alexander Beliavsky. Semifinals took place at Gorky, Daugavpils and Kherson.

Semifinals The semifinals were played late in 1989. At Gorky, Vyzhmanavin (10/13), Dvoiris 9 and Dreev 8½ classified. At the Latvian venue of Daugavpils, Smirin, Rozentalis and Aseev made 10/14; while Alexey Shirov finished with only 8. Kherson in Ukraine, Novikov and G.Kuzmin had 10½/15.

Final

+ 57th USSR Chess Championship Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Total1 Alexander Beliavsky2605 - ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 18½2 Leonid Yudasin2615 ½ - ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 18½3 Evgeny Bareev2590 0 ½ - ½ 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½8½4 Alexey Vyzmanavin2585 0 ½ ½ - ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 18½5 Vladimir Epishin2590 ½ ½ 1 ½ - ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ ½7½6 Alexander Khalifman2615 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ - 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½7½7 Gennadi Kuzmin2540 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 - 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½68 Eduardas Rozentalis2565 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 - ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½69 Vereslav Eingorn2550 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ - ½ ½ ½ ½ 1610 Alexander Schneider2560 1 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ - 1 ½ ½ ½5½11 Semen Dvoirys2555 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 - ½ 1 15½12 Igor Novikov2575 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ - ½ 1513 Konstantin Aseev2575 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ - 0414 Ilia Smirin2555 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1 -4

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