Interzonal qualifiers were joined by Karpov (seeded into the 2nd round), Timman, Speelman and Jussupow from the last Candidates.

1st and 2nd round matches were 'best of 8 games', semi-finals were 'best of 10 games', the final was 'best of 14 games'.
If 1st round match was tied, 2-game mini matches (at 45 min/game) were played until the decision.
From 2nd round onwards ties were broken by 2-game mini matches (at 60 min/game) which were played until the decision.

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It came somewhat as a shock when Short defeated Karpov in the semi-finals. It meant that for the first time since 1975 the World Championship match will go bye without Karpov. It turned out that Karpov played a championship match in 1993 afterall, it's just that almost nobody recognized it as such.

Short defeated Timman in the final to become the challenger.

Preparations for the match started as usual with FIDE receiving bids from the possible organizers. By FIDE regulation, the bids for the World Championship match should have been decided by three parties - FIDE, the World Champion (Kasparov) and the challenger (Short). According to Kasparov and Short, FIDE president Florencio Campomanes broke these rules by simply announcing the venue. Also they critisized FIDE for taking too big of a share from the prize fund, that FIDE is unprofessional, corrupt and its leadership incompetent. They refused to play under the jurisdiction of FIDE and played their match under the newly created PCA.

When you read about this you always see "Kasparov said this, Kasparov did that" but in reality there are other people who are more responsible for the subsequent events. Keene, Short and others convinced Kasparov that this way the right way to go. As Kasparov was at odds with Campomanes and we all know that FIDE has always been FIDE (nothing much has changed), they eventually convinced Kasparov to go along. They knew that without Kasparov they would have never succeded in forming Professional Chess Association (PCA), unfortunatelly they didn't succed in the long run with him either. In the end, it was all about the money. They promised more professionalism and better marketing (thus higher prize funds), but it just didn't work in the long terms. Kasparov later admited that splitting away from FIDE was the biggest mistake in his career.

Since both the reigning Champion and the official challenger broke away, FIDE expelled Kasparov and Short and decided that Timman (loser of Candidates final) and Karpov (semi-finalist) will play for the world championship. From that day on there were two organizations and two world champions. Things were getting worse and more chaotic through the years until 2006 when the title was unified again (with the final and definitive unification occuring today, when Anand defeated Kramnik in a match).

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