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
Read more about this topic: 1990 In Chess
Famous quotes containing the words top and/or players:
“The necessary has never been man’s top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man’s greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)