Top Players
FIDE top 10 by Elo rating - January 1990
- Garry Kasparov Soviet Union 2800
- Anatoly Karpov Soviet Union 2730
- Jan Timman Netherlands 2680
- Vassily Ivanchuk Ukraine 2665
- Mikhail Gurevich Soviet Union 2645
- Valery Salov Soviet Union 2645
- Alexander Beliavsky Soviet Union 2640
- Nigel Short England 2635
- Ulf Andersson Sweden 2630
- Viktor Korchnoi Switzerland 2625
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