1985-87 Candidates Tournament
The 12 qualifiers from the Interzonals were joined in the Candidates Tournament by three seeded players: Smyslov, Korchnoi, and Ribli (no. 2-4 from the previous tournament). The final spot went to Spassky, who was given a wild card by the organizers.
These 16 players first played a round-robin in Montpellier in October and November 1985, from which the top 4 would qualify for the knock-out phase.
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1985 Candidates Tournament Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total Tie break 1 Artur Yusupov (Soviet Union) 2600 - 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 9 65.75 2 Rafael Vaganian (Soviet Union) 2625 1 - ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 9 64.00 3 Andrei Sokolov (Soviet Union) 2555 0 ½ - ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 9 63.25 4 Jan Timman (Netherlands) 2640 ½ 1 ½ - ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 8½ 65.25 5 Mikhail Tal (Soviet Union) 2565 ½ ½ ½ ½ - ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 8½ 62.50 6 Boris Spassky (France) 2590 0 1 1 0 ½ - ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 8 60.25 7 Alexander Beliavsky (Soviet Union) 2640 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ - 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 8 58.25 8 Vasily Smyslov (Soviet Union) 2595 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 - ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 7½ 55.25 9 Alexander Chernin (Soviet Union) 2560 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ - ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 7½ 54.50 10 Yasser Seirawan (United States) 2570 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ - 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 7 52.75 11 Nigel Short (England) 2575 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 - 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 7 51.50 12 Lajos Portisch (Hungary) 2625 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 - 1 0 ½ 1 7 50.75 13 Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) 2630 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 - ½ 1 ½ 6½ 46.50 14 Zoltán Ribli (Hungary) 2605 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ - 1 ½ 6½ 46.50 15 Jesus Nogueiras (Cuba) 2545 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 - 1 6 16 Kevin Spraggett (Canada) 2550 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 1 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 - 5
A playoff match for fourth place was held after the main event. It ended 3-3, and Timman advanced because he had more wins during the tournament (4 against Tal's 3).
The top 4 from the round-robin played a series of matches in 1986, the winner of which (Sokolov) in turn got to play Anatoly Karpov in a final match in Linares to determine the championship challenger.
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Final |
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Rafael Vaganian | 2 | |||||||||
Andrei Sokolov | 6 | |||||||||
Andrei Sokolov | 7½ | |||||||||
Artur Yusupov | 6½ | |||||||||
Artur Yusupov | 6 | |||||||||
Jan Timman | 3 |
Karpov had earned the special privilege of being seeded directly into this match as part of the agreement regarding the controversial championship matches of 1984, 1985, and 1986.
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Challenger Match February-March 1987 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Total Andrei Sokolov (USSR) ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 3½ Anatoly Karpov (USSR) ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 7½
Karpov won, thus earning the right to face Kasparov in a championship match for the fourth year in a row.
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