Senior World Chess Championship 1992

Efim Geller, world champion

The 1992 Senior World Chess Championship was an international chess tournament that was held from November 8th to 22nd, 1992 in the Kurhaus in Bad Wörishofen .

overview

The senior world championship in chess was organized by FIDE and organized by Reinhold Hoffmann.

123 men and one woman took part in the open world championship that Efim Geller won. There was a separate tournament for women who played a round-robin tournament , as there were exactly 12 participants. Éva Karakas became world champion .

A total of 136 women and men from 26 countries took part, including well-traveled participants from New Zealand, Brazil and Singapore. Although defending champion Vasily Smyslow was missing, the championship was well filled with 9 grandmasters and 2 grandmasters. The oldest participant was Lothar Günther from Füssen at the age of 88.

Final result of the open senior world championship

Anatoli Lein, second

Mark Taimanow, fifth

Wolfgang Unzicker, best German

Rg	Attendees	TWZ	country	Points
1	Geller, Efim	2525	Russia	8.5
2	Lein, Anatoli	2455	United States	8.0
3	Benkő, Pál	2420	Hungary	8.0
4th	Nikolac Juraj	2460	Yugoslavia	8.0
5	Taimanow, Mark	2505	Russia	8.0
6th	Suetin, Alexei	2405	Russia	8.0
7th	Krogius, Nikolai	2500	Russia	7.5
8th	Stolyar, Efim	2395	Russia	7.5
9	Honfi, Karoly	2335	Hungary	7.5
10	Unzicker, Wolfgang	2510	Germany	7.5
11	Arkhangelsky, Boris	2200	Russia	7.5
12	Littlewood, John	2320	England	7.5
13	Winiwarter, Felix	2285	Austria	7.5
14th	Wade, Robert	2290	England	7.5
15th	Year, Ulrich	2131	Germany	7.5
16	Kasueschke, Gregor	2074	Germany	7.0
17th	Pachman, Luděk	2353	Czechoslovakia	7.0
18th	Sarapu, Ortvin	2320	New Zealand	7.0
19th	Kaminik, Aleksander	2210	Ukraine	7.0
20th	Layerel, Heinz	2146	Germany	7.0
21st	Nadenau, Oskar	1962	Germany	7.0

Final result of the World Championship for Women Seniors

Satulowkaja 1997 in Bad Wildbad

Rg	Attendees	Elo	country	Points
1	Karakas, Éva	2025	Hungary	9.5
2	Satulovskaya, Tatiana	2105	Russia	9.5
3	Hensel, Dorothea		Germany	7.0
4th	Donnelly, Ruth	2035	United States	7.0
5	Winter, Irene	2020	Germany	6.5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Icklicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 66
2. ↑ wk Seniors (Women) - Bad Woerishofen 1992 all 66 parts of the 12 women
3. ↑ Dr. Eva Ladanyike-Karakas (English)

swell

• DSB: DWZ evaluation of the 2nd Open World Championship for Seniors

literature

• Reinhold Hoffmann: 2nd world championship for senior citizens in chess - Bad Wörishofen from 8.-22. November 1992 . ChessOrg Hoffmann Reisen GmbH, Völklingen 1992, 153 pages, bound. Original by Gerhard Hund , kindly provided by ChessWare.

Web links

• Wch Seniors - Bad Woerishofen 1992 675 games of the 2nd World Seniors Championship on 365Chess (English)
• Wch Seniors (Women) - Bad Woerishofen 1992 66 games of the Senior Women World Championship on 365Chess