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Events in [[chess]] during the year 2000:

==Top players==

[[FIDE]] top 10 players by [[Elo rating]] - July 2000;<ref>[http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=1 Top 100 FIDE players 2000]</ref>

#[[Garry Kasparov]] {{RUS}} 2849
#[[Vladimir Kramnik]] {{RUS}} 2770
#[[Viswanathan Anand]] {{IND}} 2762
#[[Alexander Morozevich]] {{RUS}} 2756
#[[Michael Adams (chess player)|Michael Adams]] {{ENG}} 2755
#[[Alexei Shirov]] {{ESP}} 2746
#[[Peter Leko]] {{HUN}} 2743
#[[Vassily Ivanchuk]] {{UKR}} 2719
#[[Veselin Topalov]] {{BUL}} 2707
#[[Michał Krasenkow]] {{POL}} 2702

== Tournaments ==
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! Tournament !! City !!  System !! Dates !! Players (2700+) !! Winner !! Runner-up 
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| [[Corus Chess Tournament 2000|Corus Chess Tournament]] || {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Wijk aan Zee]] || Round robin || 15–30 Jan || 14 (6) || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[Garry Kasparov]] || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[Vladimir Kramnik]]<br>{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Peter Leko]]<br>{{flagicon|India}} [[Viswanathan Anand]] 
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| [[Corus Chess Tournament 2000|Corus Chess Tournament Group B]] || {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Wijk aan Zee]] || Round robin || 18–30 Jan || 12 (0) || {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Sergei Tiviakov]]<br>{{flagicon|Ukraine}}[[Alexander Onischuk]]<br>{{flagicon|Israel}} [[Boris Avrukh]] ||  
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| [[Chess World Cup 2000|Chess World Cup]] || {{flagicon|China}} [[Shenyang]] || Group/Knockout || 1 – 13 Sep || 24 (4) || {{flagicon|India}} [[Viswanathan Anand]] || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[Evgeny Bareev]] 
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| [[FIDE World Chess Championship 2000|FIDE World Chess Championship]] || {{flagicon|India}} [[New Delhi]]<br>{{flagicon|Iran}} [[Tehran]] || Knockout || 27 Nov – 4 Oct || 100 (9) || {{flagicon|India}} [[Viswanathan Anand]] || {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Alexei Shirov]] 
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| [[Classical World Chess Championship 2000|Classical World Chess Championship]] || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[London]] || Match || 8 Oct – 24 Dec || 2 (2) || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[Vladimir Kramnik]] || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[Garry Kasparov]] 
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==Births==
	
* [[Zhansaya Abdumalik]], Kazakhstani chess player - 12 January<ref>{{cite web |title=Zhansaya Abdumalik |url=https://www.chess.com/players/zhansaya-abdumalik |website=chess.com |publisher=World chess federation |access-date=5 June 2021}}</ref>
*[[Alexey Sarana]] - 26 January
*[[Max Warmerdam]] - 30 March
* [[Gunay Mammadzada]] - 19 June<ref>{{cite web |title=Gunay Mammadzada |url=https://www.chess.com/players/gunay-mammadzada |website=chess.com |publisher=World Chess federation}}</ref>
*[[Haik M. Martirosyan]] - 14 July
*[[Temur Kuybokarov]] - 22 July
*[[Parham Maghsoodloo]] - 11 August<ref>{{cite web |title=Parham Maghsoodloo |url=https://www.chess.com/players/maghsoodloo-parham |website=chess.com |publisher=World Chess Federation}}</ref>
*[[Jeffery Xiong]] - 30 October
*[[Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera]] - 26 December
*[[Samuel Sevian]] - 26 December

==Deaths==
*[[Daniel Yanofsky]], Canada's first chess Grandmaster - March 5
*[[Aivars Gipslis]], [[Latvian people|Latvian]] Grandmaster and chess writer - April 13
*[[Arthur Dake]], American chess master - April 28
*[[Vladimir Bagirov]], Grandmaster, chess author, and chess trainer - died of a heart attack while playing chess in Finland - July 21
*[[George Koltanowski]], record holder for most games won [[Blindfold chess|blindfolded]] simultaneously - September 17
*[[Karl Robatsch]], Australian chess player and [[botanist]] - September 19

==References==
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