2000 in chess explained

Events in chess during the year 2000:

Top players

FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating - July 2000;^[1]

1. Garry Kasparov 2849
2. Vladimir Kramnik 2770
3. Viswanathan Anand 2762
4. Alexander Morozevich 2756
5. Michael Adams 2755
6. Alexei Shirov 2746
7. Peter Leko 2743
8. Vassily Ivanchuk 2719
9. Veselin Topalov 2707
10. Michał Krasenkow 2702

Tournaments

Tournament	City	System	Dates	Players (2700+)	Winner	Runner-up
		Round robin	15–30 Jan	14 (6)
		Round robin	18–30 Jan	12 (0)
		Group/Knockout	1 – 13 Sep	24 (4)
		Knockout	27 Nov – 4 Oct	100 (9)
		Match	8 Oct – 24 Dec	2 (2)

Births

• Zhansaya Abdumalik, Kazakhstani chess player - 12 January^[2]
• Alexey Sarana - 26 January
• Max Warmerdam - 30 March
• Gunay Mammadzada - 19 June^[3]
• Haik M. Martirosyan - 14 July
• Temur Kuybokarov - 22 July
• Parham Maghsoodloo - 11 August^[4]
• Jeffery Xiong - 30 October
• Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera - 26 December
• Samuel Sevian - 26 December

Deaths

• Daniel Yanofsky, Canada's first chess Grandmaster - March 5
• Aivars Gipslis, Latvian Grandmaster and chess writer - April 13
• Arthur Dake, American chess master - April 28
• Vladimir Bagirov, Grandmaster, chess author, and chess trainer - died of a heart attack while playing chess in Finland - July 21
• George Koltanowski, record holder for most games won blindfolded simultaneously - September 17
• Karl Robatsch, Australian chess player and botanist - September 19

References

1. http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=1 Top 100 FIDE players 2000
2. Web site: Zhansaya Abdumalik . chess.com . World chess federation . 5 June 2021.
3. Web site: Gunay Mammadzada . chess.com . World Chess federation.
4. Web site: Parham Maghsoodloo . chess.com . World Chess Federation.