Events in chess during the year 2002:
FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating - October 2002; [1]
Russia 2836 Russia 2809
India 2755
England 2745
Bulgaria 2743
Hungary 2743
Ukraine 2743 Russia 2737 Russia 2742 Ukraine 2709| Tournament | City | System | Dates | Players (2700+) | Winner | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corus Chess Tournament |  Wijk aan Zee | Round robin | 11–27 Jan | 14 (5) | Evgeny Bareev | Alexander Grischuk |
| Corus Chess Tournament Group B | Wijk aan Zee | Round robin | 11–27 Jan | 14 (0) |  Michał Krasenkow | Friso Nijboer  Ivan Sokolov |
| FIDE World Cup | Moscow | Knockout | 9 – 22 Oct | 24 (3) | Viswanathan Anand |  Rustam Kasimdzhanov |
| FIDE World Chess Championship | Moscow | Knockout | 27 Nov 2001 – 23 Jan | 128 (11) | Ruslan Ponomariov | Vasyl Ivanchuk |
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE, is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition. FIDE was founded in Paris, France, on July 20, 1924. Its motto is Gens una sumus, Latin for "We are one Family". In 1999, FIDE was recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). As of May 2022, there are 200 member federations of FIDE.
Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk is a Russian chess grandmaster who is the reigning Women's World Rapid Chess Champion, and the former Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010. She was European women's champion in 2004 and a two-time Russian Women's Chess Champion. Kosteniuk won the team gold medal playing for Russia at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012 and 2014; the Women's World Team Chess Championship of 2017; and the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017; and the Women's Chess World Cup 2021.
Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin is a Russian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he previously held the record for the world's youngest ever grandmaster, having qualified for the title at the age of 12 years and 7 months.
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Adrian Bohdanovych Mikhalchishin is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster now playing for Slovenia. Education: Lviv University, faculty of physics 1976. Mikhalchishin is married, with two children.
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Events in chess during the year 2000:
Events in chess during the year 2001:
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Igor Oleksandrovych Novikov is a Ukrainian-American chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990. He achieved a career highest rating of 2614 in July 1999. He has been listed seven times on the FIDE world top 100 players list.
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and norms. Once awarded, titles are held for life except in cases of fraud or cheating. Open titles may be earned by all players, while women's titles are restricted to female players. Many strong female players hold both open and women's titles. FIDE also awards titles for arbiters, organizers and trainers. Titles for correspondence chess, chess problem composition and chess problem solving are no longer administered by FIDE.
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