2001 in chess explained

Events in chess during the year 2001:

Top players

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

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

Tournaments

Tournament	City	System	Dates	Players (2700+)	Winner	Runner-up
		Round robin	13–28 Jan	14 (10)		Viswanathan Anand
		Round robin	13–28 Jan	14 (0)
		Knockout	25 Nov – 14 Oct	64 (0)		Alexandra Kosteniuk
		Knockout	27 Nov – 23 Jan 2002	128 (11)		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. http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=21 Top 100 FIDE players 2001