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News & Events: Year 2002
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- 45th Reggio Emilia Tournament (December 29th - January 6th)

                             Jean-Luc Chabanon won the tournament (7/9)

* Official site

- Hastings International Chess Congress (December 28th - January 5th)

                                   Peter Heine Nielsen won the tournament (6/9)

* Chessville coverage
* Download all the games

* Official site

- Groningen 2002 Chess Tournament

                                     Friso Nijboer won the tournament (6/9)

* Official site

- 12th Pamplona Chess Tournament (SPAIN)

      Rustam Kasimdzhanov won the tournament after beating Viktor Bologan in the tiebreak

* Chessville coverage
* Download all the games

- Rapid match: Kasparov vs. Karpov (December 19th-20th / New York, USA)
   
                                       Karpov defeated Kasparov (2.5-1.5)

* Chessville coverage
* Download the games

* Official site

- World Junior Championships (Goa, INDIA)

                       Levon Aronian won the title / Zhao Xue took the girls title

* Current standings

* Official site

- Chess Festival "Christmas 2002" - Simoultane of Boris Spassky (Saturday 21th)

- Los Inmortales IV, Great Cup NA (from November 29th / Dominican Republic)

                                    Igor Khenkin won the tournament (7.5/9)

* Chessville coverage (results and standings)

* List of participants (Note ---> Dreev & Kasimdzhanov didnt play)
* Official site

- I Benidorm Chess Championship (Benidorm, SPAIN)

         Judit Polgar won the tournament after winning the play-off vs. Ruslan Ponomariov

* Chessville coverage

- Curacao 1962 - 2002 Chess Tournament

Viktor Korchnoi won the tournament (7/9), Kosashvili takes the 2nd place and Macieja is 3rd 

* Round 9 report
* Round 8 report
* Round 7 report
* Round 6 report
* Round 5 report
* Round 4 report
* Round 3 report
* Round 2 report
* Round 1 report
* Opening report

* Download the games (TWIC)
* Official site

- World Youth Chess Championships (Heraklio, GREECE)

* Official site

- Curacao Open Blitz Tournament

     Yona Kosashvili won the tournament, Sofia Polgar got the 2nd place while Korchnoi was 3rd

* Official release

- Chess Olympiad (from October 26th / Bled, SLOVENIA)

     Russia wins the Olympiad, Hungary takes the Silver medal, Armenia got the Bronze medal

* Chessville coverage

* Official site
* Participants

- 1st ICC World Blitz Championship (Chessclub.com)

* Final pairings    Emil Sutovsky won  9-3 (over Alexey Dreev)

- 2nd FIDE World Cup (Hyderabad, INDIA)
          
           Viswanathan Anand & Xu Yuhua won the title for their 2nd time

* Results: round 1 round 2 round 3 round 4 round 5 quarterfinals semifinals final
* Official site
* Players
* Download all the games (compiled by Pablo Sierra)

- Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz Match (Bahrain, October 4th-19th)

                                                             Final score: 4-4

* Chessville coverage
* Official site
* Download all the games

- Essent Tournament (October 13th - 19th / Hoogeveen, NETHERLANDS)

                                          Peter Acs won the tournament!

* Chessville coverage
* Download all the games
* Official site

- Milk Chess Tournament (Selfoss, Iceland)
                    
                                    Nikolic & Sokolov tied for the 1st place (6.5/9)
* Official site
* Standings
* Results: round 1 round 2 round 3 round 4 round 5 round 6 round 7 round 8 round 9
* Download all the games

- Match Bacrot - Gelfand (October 8th -13th)

                               Bacrot won the match! (3.5-2.5) / Games available

* Official site
* Download the games

- Evan Olivier vs. Junior 7 (Advanced Chess match / October 2002)

* Final result: 3-3  
* Official site

- Spanish Chess Championship Final (October  11-12th)

                Shirov is the new Spanish Chess Champion after beating Vallejo Pons (2-0)

* Official site
* Press report (Spanish)
* Download the games (final round)

- European Juniors (September 29th - October 8th)

* Official site

- Interview to Ruslan Ponomariov

* Read it

- 11th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International (September 28th - October 6th)

                                         Epishin won the tournament (7/9)

* Official site & list of participants
* Results: round 1 round 2 round 3 round 4 round 5 round 6 round 7 round 8 round 9
* Standings
* Download the games

- European Rapid & Blitz Championships 2002 (Crete, GREECE) September 30 - October 4

                    Hristos Banikas is the new European Rapid Champion 2002
                    Sergei Movsesian is the new European Blitz Champion 2002
* Official site
* Standings
* Results (rapid chess): round 1 round 2 round 3 round 4 round 5 round 6 round 7 round 8 round 9 round 10 round 11
* Results (blitz): round 1 round 2 round 3 round 4 round 5 round 6 round 7 round 8 round 9 round 10

- FIDE rating list (October 2002)

 

* Full list: Men / Women / Junior

- Larry Christiansen vs. Chessmaster 9000 (September 28-29)

                                Chessmaster 9000 won the match (2.5-1.5)

* Round 1: CM9000 (Alekhine) - Christiansen, L: 0-1
* Round 2: Christiansen, L - CM9000 (Fischer): 0-1
* Round 3: CM9000 (Botvinnik) - Christiansen, L: 1-0
* Round 4: Christiansen, L - CM9000 (Chessmaster): 0.5-0.5

* Download all the games
* More information

- European Club Cup 2002 (September 22-29) 

                                 Bosna Sarajevo is the Champion of Europe!

* Chessville coverage
* Teams
* Official site

* Download all the games

- Match: Kristjansson - Oral (September 14-19)

                                             Game 6: 1-0 / Oral won the match (4-2)

* Official site (Icelandic)
* Download all the games

- Konig GM Invitational (San Francisco, USA)

                                          Varuzhan Akobian won the tournament

* Chessville coverage  
* Official site
* Download all the games

- Switzerland vs. Germany

                                                      Switzerland won the match (5-3)

* Chessville coverage
* Download all the games
* More details (Chessbase site)
- Russia vs. the Rest of the World (Moscow, September 8th-12th)


* Final: Russia - Rest of the World:   48-52

* Chessville coverage:      Rest of the World won the match (52-48)
                                    Check all the results
* FIDE site
* Rules and regulations
* Download ALL the games

 

- Russian Chess Championship (Krasnodar, RUSSIA)

                                              FINAL STANDINGS
 

- Germany - Greece Match (August 31st - September 5th) 

                                 Final score: 21.5-14.5 (Germany)

  * Chessville coverage
  * Official site

- Moscow Blitz Championship (September 1st)

 

- WCN: Women´s Week (August 26th - September 1st)

  * More information        

  

- French Chess Championship (August 19-31)

Etienne Bacrot is the new French Chess Champion after beating J. Lautier (tiebreak: 1.5-0.5)

  * Chessville coverage
  * Photos
  * Official site (French)

- Icelandic Chess Championship (August 20-30)

                     Hannes Stefansson won the title again

  * Official site

 

- World Youth Olympiad 2002 (August 20th-28th)
 

FINAL STANDINGS

* Official site
* Pictures

- MVM Cup (Budapest, August 19-22)

  * Match Polgar - Macieja  Final result: 3-5 (Macieja won the match)  Download all the games

- World Chess Network (WCN): Roundtable with Tom Standage, the author of "The Turk" (August 21st)

  * More information

- Mainz 2002 Chess Classic (August 14th - 18th)

* Chessville coverage
* Official site

- Kosteniuk vs. Howell Blitz Match (Broadgate, London / August 13th)

Alexandra Kosteniuk won the match (3.5-0.5) / Take a look at the games

* Official site

- Hogeschool Zeeland Chess Tournament (August 4th - 11th)

Friso Nijboer won the tournament tied with Zoltan Gyimesi (7.5/9). Sergei Tiviakov got the 3rd place

FINAL STANDINGS

* Official site

- British Chess Championships (Torquay, July 28th - August 10th)

The Chessclub.com broadcast team broadcasted games from the Smith & Williamson 2002 British Championships. About 80 players participated, including GM Sasikiran from India, GM Speelman, England; GM Harikrishna, India; GM Emms, England; GM McShane, England; GM Barua, India; GM Lalic, England; GM Flear, France; GM Hebden, England; and IM Gormally, England.

IM RB Ramesh from India won the event achieving a GM norm, also Haslinger achieved a GM & IM norm

FINAL STANDINGS

* Full standings and results (official page)

 

- 4th stage of Russian Cup (Samara, July 26th - August 3rd)

FINAL STANDINGS
 

* Download all the games

- Montreal International Tournament (July 25th - August 5th)

FINAL STANDINGS

* Download all the games

 

- 9th Liepajas Rokade Chess Festival (August 1st - 4th)
 

FINAL STANDINGS

- 10th Lost Boys Tournament (Amsterdam, July 26th - August 4th)
 

FINAL STANDINGS

* Download all the games
* Annotated Game: GM Timman (2623) v. IM Van Hastert (2427)

- 35th Biel Chess Festival (July 22nd - August 2nd) 
 

FINAL STANDINGS

* Chessville coverage
* Official page

- 2002 Canadian Open Championship (Montreal, July 13 - 21)

FINAL STANDINGS

* Download all the games
* More information

- Melbourne rating tournament (July 12th - 28th)

This event was played at the Melbourne Chess Club over three consecutive weekends.

FINAL STANDINGS

* Full details and games

- WCN Beginners Week II (July 22 - July 28)

Take a chance to win a free lesson from a Grandmaster!

* More information

- U.S.A vs. China Summit Chess Match (Shanghai, July 10th - 15th)

Round 3 / Final Results: Round 3 saw a 5-5 split of the ten boards, leaving the US holding a razor-thin 1-point lead headed into the final round.  It wasn't enough, as China scored 6/10 in the final round to defend their title from last year.  Final Standings: China 20.5 - USA 19.5 [Men's: USA 13.5 - China 10.5; Women's: China 6.5 - USA 1.5; Junior: USA 4.5 - China].

Round 2 results: Total: USA 10.5 - China 9.5. [USA 8 - China 4 (Men's); China 4 - USA 0 (Women's); USA 2.5 - China 1.5 (Junior)].

Round 1 results: USA leads 6-4 on the strength of the men's contingent.
Next round on Friday, July 12th.

* Official Site
* Interview with GM Yasser Seirawan (WCN) 

- Candidates Tournament of the Einstein Group Classical World Chess Championship (Dortmund, July 6-21)

Peter Leko won the tournament and will face Vladimir Kramnik in 2003

Final

Leko - Topalov 1-0
Topalov - Leko 0-1
Leko - Topalov 0-1
Topalov - Leko 1/2

Semi-finals
1st day:
Bareev - Topalov 0-1
Shirov - Leko 0-1
2nd day:
Topalov - Bareev 0-1
Leko - Shirov 1/2
3rd day:
Bareev - Topalov 1-0
Shirov - Leko 0-1
4th day:
Topalov - Bareev: 1-0 (Black lost on time)
Tie-break:
Bareev - Topalov: 1/2
Topalov - Bareev: 1-0

* Download all the games from the semi - finals and the final round
* Official website 

Russian Chess gave online transmission of the games and their annotations by the Saint-Petersburg GM's and reports with photos from the playing hall.

There was live coverage on ICC:  ICC members could watch GMs Svidler, Sutovsky, Dreev and Leitao comment on the games (every day July 6-21, except the tiebreak days July 12 and 17). Guests could watch a separate board without the GM commentary.

- Australian Masters Tournament (Melbourne, July 1st - 12th)

IM Guy West won on tiebreaks over IM Michael Gluzman. Both won their last round games to finish a half-point ahead of WIM Arianne Caoili. Caoili, just 15 years old, achieved two title norms: WGM & IM.

* Official site  

- US Junior Invitational Championship (Dallas, July 18th - 23th)

Chessclub.com broadcast team broadcasted games from the US Junior Invitational Championship   The 10 players in the event are: Aaron Pixton, FM Dmitry Schneider, IM Vinay Bhat, FM Andrei Zaremba, FM Phillip Xiao Wang, Daniel Rensch, FM Daniel Fernandez, Stanislav Ritvin, Noah J. Siegel and Matthew Hoekstra.

FINAL STANDINGS
 

* Official site

- Richard Aronow Foundation Invitational Tournament (July 12 - 21)

FINAL STANDINGS

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* Official site

- 2002 World Open (Philadelphia)

This tournament ended in a nine-way tie between:

GM Ilya Smirin
GM Alexander Onischuk
GM Artur Yusupov
GM Jaan Ehlvest
GM Alek Wojtkiewicz
IM Benjamin Finegold
GM Jonathan Rowson
IM Varuzhan Akobian
IM Kamil Miton

* Official site 

- 7th Computer Olympiad (Maastricht, July 5th -11th)

Junior (Amir Ban / Shay Bushinsky) is the new Computer World Champion, winning the 2-game playoff with Shredder. Junior team used Deep Junior 7.26 engine

* View detailed results
* Download all the games 
* Official site  

- FIDE rating list (July 2002) - Top 10
 

* Check the full list

- Qingdao Tournament (Qingdao, CHINA)

Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran of India, scoring an undefeated 6.5/9, edged fellow GMs Xu Jun (China), Yasser Seirawan (USA), Alexander Goldin (USA) and Ni Hua (China) on tiebreaks in this event

* Download the games
* Official site (Chinese)

- White Nights Tournament (St.Petersburg, July 2-10)

GM Marat Makarov shared first place with untitled Pavel Anisimov (7/9), a half-point ahead of a eight player pack. Six GMs & 15 IMs were among the 122 participants.

* Download the games

- Aarhus International Tournament (Aarhus, Denmark, July 5th - 13th)

The overall runaway winner (two full points ahead of the 2nd place finisher) was Argentinean Ruben Felgaer, whose went undefeated, giving up the draw only to his countryman, 3rd place finisher Fernando Peralta.

* Download the games
* Official site

- Invitational Championships of Quebec (June 17th-25th)

Jean Hebert had to content himself with winning his individual encounter with Alexandre Lesiege who won the event with 7/9.  Only a loss to the 2nd lowest rated player (Carlos Cuartas) kept Hebert from at least sharing the Championship. 

* Download the games
* Official site

- 13th Ljubljana Open (Ljubljana, Slovenia / June 22nd-30th)

Participants included 10 GMs and 11 IMs. Robert Zelcic took clear first (7.5/9)

* Internet coverage

- Bogny sur Meuse GM tournament (June 27th - July 5th)

* Internet coverage

- Super Cup of Poland (Warsaw, June 29 - 30)

The top two teams of the last Polish Team Championships played a 6-boards double round match (90 minutes per game + 30 sec per move)
Polonia Plus GSM Warsaw was by far the strongest team consisting of Vassily Ivanchuk, Judit Polgar, Michal Krasenkow, Robert Kempinski, Tomasz Markowski and Jacek Gdanski won both rounds 5-1

* Internet coverage

- 3rd Grand Prix du Senat (June 29th-30th)

Organized by the NAO Chess Club in Paris this 4-player rapid play event was won by Vladimir Kramnik, Laurent Fressinet got the 2nd place while Joel Lautier was 3rd and Etienne Bacrot 4th.

Final (June 30th)

Kramnik, Vladimir - Fressinet, Laurent 2-0

3rd - 4th Playoff (June 30th)

Bacrot, Etienne - Lautier, Joel 1-3

Semifinals (June 29th)

Fressinet, Laurent - Lautier, Joel 3-2
Bacrot, Etienne - Kramnik, Vladimir 0.5-1-5

* Internet coverage

- 3rd European Chess Championship (Batumi, Georgia / June 11th - June 27th)

Bartlomiej Macieja won this tournament (9.5/13)

FINAL STANDINGS (Top Five qualify for the FIDE World Championship)
 

* Download the games
* Official site

- Essent Dutch Championships (Leeuwarden,  June 19th-29th)

Loek Van Wely became the Dutch Champion after beating Sergei Tiviakov in the tiebreaks (3-1)

* Official site

- Sigeman & Co Tournament (Malmo, SWEDEN)

Nigel Short won the event with a score of 6/9, Peter Heine Nielsen took the 2nd place.

* Chessville coverage

- Manises Festival (Manises, SPAIN)

Anatoly Karpov beat WGM Alexandra Kosteniuk (3-1, four games of 10 minutes) winning the event

* Official site

- Kramnik at Barcelona (Barcelona, SPAIN / June 19th)

Vladimir Kramnik played simultaneously 14 players / Result: +12 =2

* Official site (Spanish)

- Advanced Chess Match: Kramnik vs. Anand (León, SPAIN / June 21th-23th)

Vladimir Kramnik won the 3rd game winning the event (3.5-2.5)

* Download all the games

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