Original sentence: 1990 was also the year that he won individual bronze and team gold medals at the Novi Sad Olympiad, representing the USSR and registering the best performance of any of his team-mates.Awarded the International Master title in 1982 and the International Grandmaster title some time later, he was Leningrad Champion in 1984 and took the USSR Cup for rapid chess in 1988.Those early achievements were surpassed when he became joint winner of the USSR Championship in 1990 (with Belyavsky, Bareev and Vyzmanavin, the title going to Belyavsky on tie-break)
Edited sentence: Awarded the International Master title in 1982, he secured the International Grandmaster title in 1984, the year he became Leningrad Champion.Demonstrating that his skills were not just restricted to classical chess, he went on to gain the USSR Cup for rapid chess in 1988.He added individual bronze and team gold medals the same year, at the Novi Sad Olympiad, when he represented the USSR and registered the best performance of any of his team-mates.However, these notable early achievements were soon to be surpassed when he became joint winner of the 1990 USSR Championship (with Beliavsky, Bareev and Vyzmanavin, the title going to Beliavsky on tie-break)