🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Moscow 2001/02
🔹 27 November 2001 -23 January 2002
🔹 FIDE World Championship Knockout
🔰 CHAMPION: Ruslan Ponomariov
📚 The FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 was held in Moscow, Russia. The first six rounds were played between 27 November and 14 December 2001, and the final match started on 16 January and ended on 23 January 2002. The Ukrainian Grandmaster Ruslan Ponomariov, aged 18, won the championship and became the youngest FIDE World Champion.
At the time of this championship, the World title was split. The Classical World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik, did not participate, as well as the previous Classical Champion and world's highest-rated player, Garry Kasparov. However, all other strongest players of the world took part, including the top seed and winner of the previous FIDE World Championship Viswanathan Anand.
📚 The championship was a knockout tournament similar to other FIDE World Chess Championships between 1998 and 2004: the players were paired for short matches, with losers eliminated. The field of 128 participants was reduced to one winner over seven rounds.
Rounds 1–5 consisted of a two game match, followed by tie breaks at faster time controls if required. The time control for regular games was 75 minutes for the first 40 moves and 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with 30 seconds added after each move. Tie breaks consisted of two rapid chess games (20 minutes each + 10 seconds per move); followed by two blitz games if required (5 minutes + 10 seconds per move); followed by a single Armageddon chess game if required (white has 6 minutes and must win, black has 5 minutes and only needs to draw). The semifinals (round 6) were best of four games, and the final was best of eight games, with the same conditions for the tie-breaks.
In addition to previous criticisms of the knockout format, this tournament was criticised by Garry Kasparov for using a faster time control, which Kasparov claimed was lowering the standard of the games.
🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA & CHESSGAMES.COM
🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download " Moscow 2001/02 Games Database " by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from this tournament👇
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🔹 Moscow 2001/02
🔹 27 November 2001 -23 January 2002
🔹 FIDE World Championship Knockout
🔰 CHAMPION: Ruslan Ponomariov
📚 The FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 was held in Moscow, Russia. The first six rounds were played between 27 November and 14 December 2001, and the final match started on 16 January and ended on 23 January 2002. The Ukrainian Grandmaster Ruslan Ponomariov, aged 18, won the championship and became the youngest FIDE World Champion.
At the time of this championship, the World title was split. The Classical World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik, did not participate, as well as the previous Classical Champion and world's highest-rated player, Garry Kasparov. However, all other strongest players of the world took part, including the top seed and winner of the previous FIDE World Championship Viswanathan Anand.
📚 The championship was a knockout tournament similar to other FIDE World Chess Championships between 1998 and 2004: the players were paired for short matches, with losers eliminated. The field of 128 participants was reduced to one winner over seven rounds.
Rounds 1–5 consisted of a two game match, followed by tie breaks at faster time controls if required. The time control for regular games was 75 minutes for the first 40 moves and 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with 30 seconds added after each move. Tie breaks consisted of two rapid chess games (20 minutes each + 10 seconds per move); followed by two blitz games if required (5 minutes + 10 seconds per move); followed by a single Armageddon chess game if required (white has 6 minutes and must win, black has 5 minutes and only needs to draw). The semifinals (round 6) were best of four games, and the final was best of eight games, with the same conditions for the tie-breaks.
In addition to previous criticisms of the knockout format, this tournament was criticised by Garry Kasparov for using a faster time control, which Kasparov claimed was lowering the standard of the games.
🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA & CHESSGAMES.COM
🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download " Moscow 2001/02 Games Database " by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from this tournament👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#Moscow2001-02
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@unitychess
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♦️ Review our selected game from Moscow 2001/02 FIDE World Championship Knockout tornament👇
▪️ Ruslan Ponomariov vs Vassily Ivanchuk
▪️ FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2001/02), Moscow RUS, rd 1, Jan-16
▪️ French Defense: Classical. Burn Variation Main Line (C11)
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▪️ Ruslan Ponomariov vs Vassily Ivanchuk
▪️ FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2001/02), Moscow RUS, rd 1, Jan-16
▪️ French Defense: Classical. Burn Variation Main Line (C11)
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Vidit Gujrathi - Post Round 10 Interview
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Vladimir Kramnik - Post Round 10 Interview
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Anish Giri - Post Round 10 Interview
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Jorden Van Foreest - Post Round 10 Interview
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Magnus Carlsen - Post Round 10 Interview