2001 in chess

none 2001 chess sports Events in chess during the year 2001: Top players FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating – October 2001;Top 100 FIDE players 2001 Garry Kasparov 2838 Vladimir Kramnik 2809 Viswanathan Anand 2770 Alexander Morozevich 2742 Peter Leko 2739 Veselin Topalov 2733 Michael Adams 2731 Vassily Ivanchuk 2731 Evgeny Bareev 2719 Loek van Wely 2714 Tournaments Tournament City System Dates Players (2700+) Winner Runner-up Corus Chess Tournament Netherlands Wijk aan Zee Round robin 13–28 Jan 14 (10) Russia Garry Kasparov India Viswanathan Anand Corus Chess Tournament Group B Netherlands Wijk aan Zee Round robin 13–28 Jan 14 (0) Belgium Mikhail Gurevich Azerbaijan Teimour Radjabov Women's World Chess Championship Russia Moscow Knockout 25 Nov – 14 Oct 64 (0) China Zhu Chen Russia Alexandra Kosteniuk FIDE World Chess Championship Russia Moscow Knockout 27 Nov – 23 Jan 2002 128 (11) Ukraine Ruslan Ponomariov Ukraine 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 Category:21st century in chess Category:Chess by year