Gata Kamsky won Las Palmas 1994 with an unbeaten 6½/9. The complete ten-player, 45-game round robin placed Anatoly Karpov half a point behind and Joël Lautier and Veselin Topalov another half point back.
Nine rounds in the Canary Islands
The field featured Kamsky, Karpov, Lautier, Topalov, Judit Polgár, Michael Adams, Vladimir Epishin, Iván Morovic, Miguel Illescas, and Alexei Shirov. Each scheduled pairing appears once.
That meant 45 games over 9 rounds.
An unbeaten winning score
Kamsky scored four wins and five draws for 6½. Karpov finished second on 6, while Lautier and the undefeated Topalov shared the next score on 5½.
The archived scores and direct crosstable agree on the full order, Kamsky's unbeaten record, and his half-point margin.
The games
All 45 games are here: 27 decisive and 18 drawn. The standings worked out from these games match the published crosstable.
Final standings
| # | Player | Score | Record | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kamsky, Gata | 6½/9 | +4 -0 =5 | games |
| 2 | Karpov, Anatoly | 6/9 | +4 -1 =4 | games |
| =3 | Lautier, Joel | 5½/9 | +5 -3 =1 | games |
| =3 | Topalov, Veselin | 5½/9 | +2 -0 =7 | games |
| 5 | Polgar, Judit | 4½/9 | +4 -4 =1 | games |
| =6 | Adams, Michael | 4/9 | +3 -4 =2 | games |
| =6 | Morovic Fernandez, Ivan | 4/9 | +2 -3 =4 | games |
| =6 | Illescas Cordoba, Miguel Angel | 4/9 | +1 -2 =6 | games |
| 9 | Shirov, Alexei | 3½/9 | +2 -4 =3 | games |
| 10 | Epishin, Vladimir | 1½/9 | +0 -6 =3 | games |
Cross Table
| Rank | Player | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kamsky, Gata | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | |
| 2 | Karpov, Anatoly | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | |
| 3 | Lautier, Joel | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 4 | Topalov, Veselin | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | |
| 5 | Polgar, Judit | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 6 | Adams, Michael | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 | Morovic Fernandez, Ivan | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | |
| 8 | Illescas Cordoba, Miguel Angel | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | |
| 9 | Shirov, Alexei | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | |
| 10 | Epishin, Vladimir | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ |
Each cell shows the row player's recorded results against the column player. ● = same player.