Valery Salov is a Russia

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Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 grandmaster

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Salov was awarded the International Master title in 1984 and the Grandmaster title in 1986. He was the World under-17 Champion in 1980 and European Junior Champion in 1983-84. He finished 1st= with Alexander Beliavsky

Alexander Beliavsky

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 in the 1987 USSR Championship but lost the play-off match (+0, =2, -2), gaining the Silver Medal. At the 1988 USSR Championship he finished 3rd= with Artur Yusupov

Artur Yusupov

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, behind Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov. He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once...

 and Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov

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He qualified twice for the Candidates Tournament

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 for the World Chess Championship

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. In 1988, he reached the round of 16 but was defeated by Jan Timman

Jan Timman

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 in his first match (+0, =5, -1).http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/8890$cix.htm

His best result was in the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996

FIDE World Chess Championship 1996

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. He qualified for the Candidates and won his first two matches against Alexander Khalifman

Alexander Khalifman

Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman is a Soviet and Russian chess Grandmaster of Jewish descent; he is also a former FIDE champion.When Khalifman was 6 years old, he was taught chess by his father....

 and Jan Timman, to reach the final 4. He then lost at the semi-final stage to Gata Kamsky

Gata Kamsky

Gata Kamsky is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion. He is also the current United States Chess Champion. As of September 2011, he is rated No. 1 in the United States and No...

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He has not played any FIDE-rated tournaments since January 2000.

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