2001 in chess

2001 in chess

Events in chess during the year 2001:

Top players

FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating - October 2001; [ [http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=21 Top 100 FIDE players 2001] ]

#Gary Kasparov RUS 2838
#Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2809
#Viswanathan Anand IND 2770
#Alexander Morozevich RUS 2742
#Peter Leko HUN 2739
#Veselin Topalov BUL 2733
#Michael Adams ENG 2731
#Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2731
#Evgeny Bareev RUS 2719
#Loek Van Wely NED 2714

Deaths

*Alexei Suetin, a Russian International Grandmaster and chess author - September 10
*Claude Bloodgood, a conterversial American chess player, died in prison - August 4
*Tony Miles, an English Grandmaster - 12 November

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