2000 in chess

2000 in chess

Events in chess during the year 2000:

Top players

FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating - July 2000; [ [http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=1 Top 100 FIDE players 2000] ]

#Gary Kasparov RUS 2849
#Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2770
#Viswanathan Anand IND 2762
#Alexander Morozevich RUS 2756
#Michael Adams ENG 2755
#Alexei Shirov ESP 2746
#Peter Leko HUN 2743
#Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2719
#Veselin Topalov BUL 2707
#Michal Krasenkow POL 2702

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

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