December 1988 - January 1989: The Reggio Emilia tournament was won by Mikhail Gurevich with 6½/9, ahead of Kiril Georgiev and Ulf Andersson Ivanchuk with 5½ [REF].
The Wijk aan Zee tournament was won by Karpov with 9/13, ahead of Anderssen with 8½ [REF].