Events in chess during the year 2001:

Top players

FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating – October 2001;^[1]

1. Garry Kasparov  Russia 2838
2. Vladimir Kramnik  Russia 2809
3. Viswanathan Anand  India 2770
4. Alexander Morozevich  Russia 2742
5. Peter Leko  Hungary 2739
6. Veselin Topalov  Bulgaria 2733
7. Michael Adams  England 2731
8. Vassily Ivanchuk  Ukraine 2731
9. Evgeny Bareev  Russia 2719
10. Loek van Wely  Netherlands 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