World Team Chess Championship 1989

World Team Chess Championship 1989
Location	Lucerne, Switzerland
Dates	27 October–9 November 1989
Competitors	10 teams
Winning score	27 points of 40
Champion
Soviet Union

World Team Chess Championship 1989 – chess event, which took place from 27 October to 9 November 1989 in Lucerne, Switzerland. It was won by Soviet Union.

Participants

Qualification	Team
Chess Olympiad	Soviet Union
	England
	Netherlands
	United States
	Hungary
	Yugoslavia
Asian Team Chess Championship	China (won a play-off against Philippines)
Panamerican spot	Cuba
African spot	African Union (participants from Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Angola)
Hosts	Switzerland

Rosters

№ 1	Soviet Union	Rating		№ 2	England	Rating		№ 3	Yugoslavia	Rating		№ 4	United States	Rating		№ 5	Netherlands	Rating
1	Anatoly Karpov	2755		1	Nigel Short	2660		1	Ljubomir Ljubojević	2635		1	Yasser Seirawan	2585		1	Jan Timman	2635
2	Alexander Beliavsky	2620		2	Jonathan Speelman	2615		2	Predrag Nikolić	2600		2	John Fedorowicz	2560		2	John van der Wiel	2545
3	Jaan Ehlvest	2620		3	John Nunn	2575		3	Petar Popović	2550		3	Nick de Firmian	2595		3	Genna Sosonko	2540
4	Rafael Vaganian	2585		4	Murray Chandler	2585		4	Dragoljub Velimirović	2535		4	Roman Dzindzichashvili	2545		4	Jeroen Piket	2540
1 reserve	Vassily Ivanchuk	2660		1 reserve	Michael Adams	2505		1 reserve	Božidar Ivanović	2545		1 reserve	Larry Christiansen	2555		1 reserve	Paul van der Sterren	2530
2 reserve	Mikhail Gurevich	2645		2 reserve	Julian Hodgson	2535		2 reserve	Branko Damljanović	2555		2 reserve	Dmitry Gurevich	2490		2 reserve	Marinus Kuijf	2530
	Average rating	2670			Average rating	2609			Average rating	2585			Average rating	2574			Average rating	2565
№ 6	Hungary	Rating		№ 7	Cuba	Rating		№ 8	Switzerland	Rating		№ 9	China	Rating		№ 10	African Union	Rating
1	Gyula Sax	2580		1	Jesus Nogueiras	2560		1	Viktor Korchnoi	2655		1	Ye Jiangchuan	2500		1	Assem Afifi	2405
2	András Adorján	2530		2	Amador Rodríguez Céspedes	2505		2	Lucas Brunner	2505		2	Xu Jun	2510		2	Hichem Hamdouchi	2380
3	Attila Grószpéter	2515		3	Guillermo García González	2510		3	Beat Züger	2435		3	Liang Jinrong	2455		3	Imed Abdelnabbi	2370
4	József Horvath	2505		4	Reynaldo Vera González-Quevedo	2480		4	Werner Hug	2445		4	Ye Rongguang	2480		4	Slim Bouaziz	2345
1 reserve	Péter Lukács	2480		1 reserve	Román Hernández Onna	2450		1 рез	Giancarlo Franzoni	2460		1 reserve	Wang Zili	2550		1 reserve	Mahfoud Boudiba	2345
2 reserve	Tibor Tolnai	2470		2 reserve	Pedro Panace	2500		2 reserve	Heinz Wirthensohn	2405		2 reserve	Lin Ta	2415		2 reserve	Francisco Brifel Sobrino	2240
	Average rating	2533			Average rating	2519			Average rating	2516			Average rating	2510			Average rating	2375

Standings

Place	Team	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10		Points	+	=	−
	Soviet Union	2670		3½	3½	2	3	2½	3	3½	3½	3½		27½	8	1	0
	Yugoslavia	2585	½		2	2½	3	2½	2	3½	3	3½		22½	6	2	1
	England	2609	1	2		2	3½	3	3	2	2½	2½		21½	5	3	1
4	Hungary	2533	2	1½	2		1½	1½	2	3	2	3		18½	2	4	3
5	United States	2574	1	1	½	2½		1½	2½	2½	3	2½		17	5	0	4
6	Switzerland	2516	1½	1½	1	2½	2½		2	2	1½	2½		17	3	2	4
7	Cuba	2519	1	2	1	2	1½	2		2	2	3		16½	1	5	3
8	China	2510	½	½	2	1	1½	2	2		3½	2½		15½	2	3	4
9	Netherlands	2565	½	1	1½	2	1	2½	2	½		1½		12½	1	2	6
10	African Union	2375	½	½	1½	1	1½	1½	1	1½	2½			11½	1	0	8

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