World Chess Championship 1987
The World Chess Championship 1987 was held from October 12 to December 18, 1987 in Seville instead. Here, the world champion Garry Kasparov and his challenger Anatoly Karpov split 12:12 in a draw, which Kasparov retained his world title.
Qualification
The usual schedule in the three-year World Cup cycle was pretty messed up: The World Chess Championship 1984 had lasted to 1985, was then stopped in a controversial decision and rescheduled. After Kasparov's victory in the 1985 World Cup, there had been a rematch in 1986, the Kasparov was also able to decide for themselves.
According to the usual cycle but the qualification for the World Cup in 1987 had now begun without Kasparov or Karpov could participate. It was therefore decided that initially the candidates competitions should take place and the loser of the battle should revenge 1986 contest against the winner of the Candidates Tournament, a " Super Final ", to determine the challenger for 1987.
Interzonal tournaments
The first interzonal tournament took place in April and May 1985 in Tunis as a round-robin tournament with 18 participants. For the candidates tournament qualified in order of placement of the four best players Artur Yusupov, Alexander Beliavsky, Lajos Portisch and Alexander Tschernin. In June 1985, the second in Taxco Interzonal followed in Mexico where the qualified under 16 players Jan Timman, Jesús Nogueira, Mikhail Tal and Kevin Spraggett. The third and last Interzonal was held in Biel in July 1985, there have qualified under 16 participants Rafael Vaganian, Yasser Seirawan, Andrei Sokolov and Nigel Short.
Candidates tournament
The FIDE organized the candidates tournament in 1985 in Montpellier. Of the 16 participants, 12 were qualified by the interzonal tournaments; also participated Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Viktor Korchnoi and Zoltán Ribli. The four winners should determine the challenger of the loser from the Kasparov - Karpov rematch in 1986 competitions. The winners Artur Yusupov, Rafael and Andrei Sokolov Vaganian with 9 points. January Timman and Mikhail Tal, who came on 8 ½ points, had a playoff to determine the fourth semi-final participant play. Timman prevailed.
Individual Competitions
In the following competitions in the knock-out system, it gave the following results:
Semi-finals:
- Artur Yusupov JAN - Timman 6:3
- Andrei Sokolov - Rafael Vaganian 6:2
Final:
- Andrei Sokolov - Artur Yusupov 7 ½: 6 ½
The final candidate ( " Super Final " ) took place in February 1987 between Anatoly Karpov and Andrei Sokolov in Linares instead:
- Anatoly Karpov - Andrei Sokolov 7 ½: 3 ½
Organization and rules
It was played in a specially renovated Teatro Lope de Vega in Seville's city center. The match should go over a maximum of 24 games and are prematurely terminated as soon as a player would be uncatchable at least 12 ½ points in the lead. In the case of a 12:12 Kasparov would retain his title. As Chief Judge of the Dutch Geurt acted Gijssen.
Psychological aspects
The World Chess Championship 1987 was marked in advance of psychological factors. Thus appeared Kasparov's book Political game, in which he criticized Karpov greatly, a week before the start of the World Cup. Karpov, however, relied on psychological aspects during the competition, so he saved, according to Lothar Nikolaiczuk in case any compensation forces for the 23 game to get out of there as a white solid player on his nerves. If this note correspond to reality, Karpov went on calculation, but Kasparov could in the last game again scored to make and so to defend the title.
History of World Cup
The match began furiously. Already after 5 games 3 wins were recorded. The other games were highly competitive. None of the counterparty, however, managed to gain more than one-point lead, and after 22 games, it was 11:11. In the last two games, then raced the events: In game 23, Kasparov sacrificed a tower out of time, but his combination was refuted by shiny Karpov. In the last game Kasparov succeeded then, with positional maneuvers to win a pawn and eventually the game and thus to save his title.
Follow
The closeness of the result has been speculated whether Kasparov could long remain on the chess throne. However, in the World Chess Championship in 1990, the last World Cup duel between the two rivals against each other, he succeeded once again to defeat Karpov and he remained in his division of the chess world until the World Chess Championship 2000 World Champion.