Events in chess during the year 2000:
FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating - July 2000; [1]
Russia 2849 Russia 2770
India 2762 Russia 2756
England 2755
Spain 2746
Hungary 2743
Ukraine 2719
Bulgaria 2707
Poland 2702| Tournament | City | System | Dates | Players (2700+) | Winner | Runner-up |
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| Corus Chess Tournament |  Wijk aan Zee | Round robin | 15–30 Jan | 14 (6) | Garry Kasparov | Vladimir Kramnik Peter Leko Viswanathan Anand |
| Corus Chess Tournament Group B | Wijk aan Zee | Round robin | 18–30 Jan | 12 (0) | Sergei Tiviakov Alexander Onischuk  Boris Avrukh | |
| Chess World Cup |  Shenyang | Group/Knockout | 1 – 13 Sep | 24 (4) | Viswanathan Anand | Evgeny Bareev |
| FIDE World Chess Championship | New Delhi  Tehran | Knockout | 27 Nov – 4 Oct | 100 (9) | Viswanathan Anand | Alexei Shirov |
| Classical World Chess Championship |  London | Match | 8 Oct – 24 Dec | 2 (2) | Vladimir Kramnik | Garry Kasparov |
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