1991-93 Candidates Tournament
The final four players from the 1988-90 Candidates tournament - Karpov, Timman, Yusupov and Speelman - were seeded directly into the Candidates. They were joined by the top 11 finishers from the Interzonal. These 15 players played a series of Candidates matches. If matches were tied after the allotted games, extra pairs of rapid chess games were played until one player had the lead.
The preliminary matches were played in Sarajevo (Timman-Hübner and Gelfand-Nikolić), Wijk aan Zee (Korchnoi-Sax and Yusupov-Dolmatov), Riga (Ivanchuk-Yudasin), London (Short-Speelman), and Madras (Anand-Dreev) in January and February 1991. All four quarterfinals were played in Brussels in August 1991, both semifinals in Linares in April 1992, and the final in San Lorenzo del Escorial in January 1993.
| Round of 16 (best of 8) | Quarter Finals (best of 8) | Semi Finals (best of 10) | Final (best of 14) | |||||||||||||||
| Jan Timman | 4½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Robert Hübner | 2½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Jan Timman | 4½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Victor Korchnoi | 2½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Victor Korchnoi | 5½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Gyula Sax | 4½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Jan Timman | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Artur Yusupov | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Artur Yusupov | 6½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Sergey Dolmatov | 5½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Artur Yusupov | 5½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Vassily Ivanchuk | 4½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Vassily Ivanchuk | 4½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Leonid Yudasin | ½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Jan Timman | 5½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Nigel Short | 7½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Nigel Short | 5½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Jon Speelman | 4½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Nigel Short | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Boris Gelfand | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Boris Gelfand | 5½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Predrag Nikolić | 4½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Nigel Short | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Anatoly Karpov | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Viswanathan Anand | 4½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Alexei Dreev | 1½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Viswanathan Anand | 3½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Anatoly Karpov | 4½ | |||||||||||||||||
| (bye) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Anatoly Karpov | ||||||||||||||||||
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