Below is a list of events in chess in 1991, as well as the top ten FIDE rated chess players of that year.

Top players

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FIDE top 10 by Elo rating - January 1991

  1. Garry Kasparov   Soviet Union 2800
  2. Anatoly Karpov   Soviet Union 2725
  3. Boris Gelfand   Soviet Union 2700
  4. Vassily Ivanchuk   Soviet Union 2695
  5. Evgeny Bareev   Soviet Union 2650
  6. Mikhail Gurevich   Soviet Union 2650
  7. Jan Ehlvest   Soviet Union 2650
  8. Leonid Yudasin   Soviet Union 2645
  9. Valery Salov   Soviet Union 2645
  10. Alexander Beliavsky*   Soviet Union 2640

(*) Beliavsky was tied with Ulf Andersson, Alexander Khalifman and Gata Kamsky

Chess news in brief

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Births

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  • Tan Zhongyi, Chinese prodigy, World Youth Champion for Girls at U-10 (twice) and U-12 - November 5
  • Ju Wenjun, Chinese player in FIDE's list of World Top 10 Girls - January 31

Deaths

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  • Osmo Kaila, Finnish International Master, twice the national champion - June 3
  • Brian Reilly, Irish chess player, writer and longtime editor of British Chess Magazine - December 29
  • Gia Nadareishvili, Georgian chess composer and author - October 3

References

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  • Burgess, Graham (1999). Chess Highlights of the 20th Century. Gambit Publications. ISBN 1-901983-21-8.
  • Chess History & Chronology - Bill Wall( Archived 2008-04-20 at the Wayback Machine 2009-10-20)
  • Olimpbase - Olympiads and other Team event information
  • FIDE rating list data 1970-97
  • Mark Weeks' men's world championship pages
  • Mark Weeks' women's world championship pages
  • NY Times (Byrne) reports Christiansen's successes