1994-96 Championship Tournament
The top 10 from the Interzonal were joined by 1993 FIDE World Champion Anatoly Karpov, 1993 FIDE runner-up Jan Timman, and 1993 Candidates semi-finalist Artur Yusupov. (The other 1993 semi-finalist was the excluded Nigel Short).
The first round matches were held in Wijk aan Zee in January 1994, and the second round matches and semifinals in Sanghi Nagar in July-August 1994 and February 1995, respectively. If tied after the specified number of games (which happened only in the Kamsky-Anand match), rapid chess games were played as tie breaks.
The format was a departure from all previous world championships, in that the reigning champion (Karpov) was not seeded directly into a championship match. Instead, he joined the competition at the semifinal stage.
| First round (best of 8) | Second round (best of 8) | Semifinals (best of 10) | Final | |||||||||||||||
| Gata Kamsky | 4½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Paul van der Sterren | 2½ | Gata Kamsky | 6 | |||||||||||||||
| Vishwanathan Anand | 4½ | Vishwanathan Anand | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| Artur Yusupov | 2½ | Gata Kamsky | 5½ | |||||||||||||||
| Jan Timman | 4½ | Valery Salov | 1½ | |||||||||||||||
| Joël Lautier | 3½ | Jan Timman | 3½ | |||||||||||||||
| Alexander Khalifman | 1 | Valery Salov | 4½ | |||||||||||||||
| Valery Salov | 5 | Gata Kamsky | ||||||||||||||||
| Boris Gelfand | 5 | Anatoly Karpov | ||||||||||||||||
| Michael Adams | 3 | Boris Gelfand | 4½ | |||||||||||||||
| Leonid Yudasin | 2½ | Vladimir Kramnik | 3½ | |||||||||||||||
| Vladimir Kramnik | 4½ | Boris Gelfand | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Anatoly Karpov | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
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