2001 in chess

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Events in chess during the year 2001:

Top players[]

FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating – October 2001;[1]

  1. Garry Kasparov  Russia 2838
  2. Vladimir Kramnik  Russia 2809
  3. Viswanathan Anand  India 2770
  4. Alexander Morozevich  Russia 2742
  5. Peter Leko  Hungary 2739
  6. Veselin Topalov  Bulgaria 2733
  7. Michael Adams  England 2731
  8. Vassily Ivanchuk  Ukraine 2731
  9. Evgeny Bareev  Russia 2719
  10. Loek van Wely  Netherlands 2714

Tournaments[]

Tournament City System Dates Players (2700+) Winner Runner-up
Corus Chess Tournament Netherlands Wijk aan Zee Round robin 13–28 Jan 14 (10) Russia Garry Kasparov India Viswanathan Anand
Corus Chess Tournament Group B Netherlands Wijk aan Zee Round robin 13–28 Jan 14 (0) Belgium Mikhail Gurevich Azerbaijan Teimour Radjabov
Women's World Chess Championship Russia Moscow Knockout 25 Nov – 14 Oct 64 (0) China Zhu Chen Russia Alexandra Kosteniuk
FIDE World Chess Championship Russia Moscow Knockout 27 Nov – 23 Jan 2002 128 (11) Ukraine Ruslan Ponomariov Ukraine Vasyl Ivanchuk

Deaths[]

  • Alexei Suetin, Russian chess grandmaster and chess author – September 10
  • Claude Bloodgood, controversial American chess player, died in prison – August 4
  • Tony Miles, English chess Grandmaster – 12 November

References[]

  1. ^ Top 100 FIDE players 2001
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