1994-95 Candidates Tournament
The top seven from the Qualifying tournament were joined by Nigel Short, the loser of the 1993 PCA championship match against Kasparov.
The first round of Candidates matches were best of eight games, the semifinals were best of 10, and the final was best of 12. If the scores were tied, sets of two rapid chess games were played as tie breakers, until one player had a lead.
The quarterfinal matches were held at the Trump Tower in New York in June 1994 and opened by Donald Trump. The semifinals were played in Linares in September 1994, and the final in Las Palmas in March 1995.
| 1st Round |
Semifinals |
Final |
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| Gata Kamsky | 4½ | ||||||||||||||
| Vladimir Kramnik | 1½ | ||||||||||||||
| Gata Kamsky | 5½ | ||||||||||||||
| Nigel Short | 1½ | ||||||||||||||
| Nigel Short | 6½ | ||||||||||||||
| Boris Gulko | 5½ | ||||||||||||||
| Gata Kamsky | 4½ | ||||||||||||||
| Viswanathan Anand | 6½ | ||||||||||||||
| Michael Adams | 7½ | ||||||||||||||
| Sergei Tiviakov | 6½ | ||||||||||||||
| Michael Adams | 1½ | ||||||||||||||
| Viswanathan Anand | 5½ | ||||||||||||||
| Viswanathan Anand | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Oleg Romanishin | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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