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 Wijk aan Zee Round robin 13–28 Jan 14 (10) Garry Kasparov Viswanathan Anand Corus Chess Tournament Group B Wijk aan Zee Round robin 13–28 Jan 14 (0) Mikhail Gurevich Teimour Radjabov Women's World Chess Championship Moscow Knockout 25 Nov – 14 Oct 64 (0) Zhu Chen Alexandra Kosteniuk FIDE World Chess Championship Moscow Knockout 27 Nov – 23 Jan 2002 128 (11) Ruslan Ponomariov 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
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