2001 in chess
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Events in chess during the year 2001:
Top players
[edit | edit source]FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating – October 2001;[1]
- Garry Kasparov File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 2838
- Vladimir Kramnik File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 2809
- Viswanathan Anand
India 2770 - Alexander Morozevich File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 2742
- Peter Leko File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary 2739
- Veselin Topalov File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria 2733
- Michael Adams File:Flag of England.svg England 2731
- Vassily Ivanchuk File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine 2731
- Evgeny Bareev File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 2719
- Loek van Wely File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands 2714
Tournaments
[edit | edit source]| Tournament | City | System | Dates | Players (2700+) | Winner | Runner-up |
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| Corus Chess Tournament | Netherlands Wijk aan Zee | Round robin | 13–28 Jan | 14 (10) | Russia Garry Kasparov | Viswanathan Anand
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| 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 |
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Deaths
[edit | edit source]- 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