Events in chess during the year 2000:
FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating - July 2000; [1]
Tournament | City | System | Dates | Players (2700+) | Winner | Runner-up |
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Corus Chess Tournament | Wijk aan Zee | Round robin | 15–30 Jan | 14 (6) | Garry Kasparov |
Vladimir Kramnik Peter Leko Viswanathan Anand |
Corus Chess Tournament Group B | Wijk aan Zee | Round robin | 18–30 Jan | 12 (0) |
Sergei Tiviakov Alexander Onischuk Boris Avrukh |
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Chess World Cup | Shenyang | Group/Knockout | 1 – 13 Sep | 24 (4) | Viswanathan Anand | Evgeny Bareev |
FIDE World Chess Championship |
New Delhi Tehran |
Knockout | 27 Nov – 4 Oct | 100 (9) | Viswanathan Anand | Alexei Shirov |
Classical World Chess Championship | London | Match | 8 Oct – 24 Dec | 2 (2) | Vladimir Kramnik | Garry Kasparov |