Top Players
FIDE top 10 by Elo rating - January 1991
- Garry Kasparov Soviet Union 2800
- Anatoly Karpov Soviet Union 2725
- Boris Gelfand Soviet Union 2700
- Vassily Ivanchuk Soviet Union 2695
- Evgeny Bareev Soviet Union 2650
- Mikhail Gurevich Soviet Union 2650
- Jan Ehlvest Soviet Union 2650
- Leonid Yudasin Soviet Union 2645
- Valery Salov Soviet Union 2645
- Alexander Beliavsky* Soviet Union 2640
(*) Beliavsky was tied with Ulf Andersson, Alexander Khalifman and Gata Kamsky
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