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;[http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=21 Top 100 FIDE players 2001]

  1. Garry Kasparov {{RUS}} 2838
  2. Vladimir Kramnik {{RUS}} 2809
  3. Viswanathan Anand {{IND}} 2770
  4. Alexander Morozevich {{RUS}} 2742
  5. Peter Leko {{HUN}} 2739
  6. Veselin Topalov {{BUL}} 2733
  7. Michael Adams {{ENG}} 2731
  8. Vassily Ivanchuk {{UKR}} 2731
  9. Evgeny Bareev {{RUS}} 2719
  10. Loek van Wely {{NED}} 2714

Tournaments

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TournamentCitySystemDatesPlayers (2700+)WinnerRunner-up
Corus Chess Tournament{{flagicon|Netherlands}} Wijk aan ZeeRound robin13–28 Jan14 (10){{flagicon|Russia}} Garry Kasparov{{flagicon|India}} Viswanathan Anand
Corus Chess Tournament Group B{{flagicon|Netherlands}} Wijk aan ZeeRound robin13–28 Jan14 (0){{flagicon|Belgium}} Mikhail Gurevich{{flagicon|Azerbaijan}} Teimour Radjabov
Women's World Chess Championship{{flagicon|Russia}} MoscowKnockout25 Nov – 14 Oct64 (0){{flagicon|China}} Zhu Chen{{flagicon|Russia}} Alexandra Kosteniuk
FIDE World Chess Championship{{flagicon|Russia}} MoscowKnockout27 Nov – 23 Jan 2002128 (11){{flagicon|Ukraine}} Ruslan Ponomariov{{flagicon|Ukraine}} Vasyl Ivanchuk

Deaths

References