***** 2000-LIBS ***** Libraries of all major chess events played in 2000! Thanks to the volunteers who created those libraries so you can play over all those games. "help libraries" has info on how libraries work. For informa- tion about a particular library, do "finger" like in "finger Wijk99". Do "liblist " to see the list of games in the library. Do "finger " to see some info about the games or a crosstable. Do "examine %5" to examine game 5 in one of the libraries. Do "mailstore %5" to email game 5 to yourself. Please note that library game numbers have a % (percent) sign in front. The following files contain even more library names: "help 1997-libs" Major events 1997. "help 1998-libs" Major events 1998. "help 1999-libs" Major events 1999. "help 2001-libs" Major events 2001. "help hist-libs" Historical chess events. "help WC-libs" All world championships. **** 2000 Events **** FIDE2000 FIDE World Championship Tournament, India and Iran, Anand won FIDE2000 FIDE Women's championship India, Xie Jun won Kolty2000 Koltanowski Memorial, San Francisco USA NCC2000 National Chess Congress Philadelphia, USA Oly2000 Chess Olympiad Istanbul, Turkey. Russia(Men) China(Women) won Chigorin2000 Chigorin Memorial St. Petersburg, Russia 6 tie for first CorsicaMasters Corsica Masters, Bastia, Corsica. (rapid) Anand won Cap-dAgde2000 Cap d'Agde, France. (rapid) M.Gurevich won Bad2000 Bavarian Chess Masters, Bad Wiessee Germany, 4 tie for first KK2000 Brain Games World Championship, Kramnik over Kasparov 8.5-6.5 Salou2000 Salou Costa Daurada Salou, Spain V. Georgiev, Miladinovic won Essent2000 Essent Invitational Hoogeveen, Netherlands Khalifman won Torshavn2000 Torshavn, Faroe Islands Ponomariov,Grischuk won USM2000 US Championship, Benjamin won the playoff USW2000 US Women's Championship, Baginskaite won the playoff ECC2000 European Club Championship, Bosna Sarajevo won JRB2000 World Junior Championship for Boys, GM Bruzon won JRG2000 World Junior Championship for Girls, WFM Xu won Najdorf2000 Najdorf Memorial, Buenos Aires, Bologan, Polgar first Sydney2000 2000 Olympics, Sydney Australia Anand - Shirov drew 2 Zone2000-11 FIDE Zone 1.1 Western Europe 6 advanced to FIDE 2000 Zone2000-13 FIDE Zone 1.3 Nordic Europe 3 advanced to FIDE 2000 WCM2000 FIDE World Cup (Men) Shenyang China, Anand won WCW2000 FIDE World Cup (Women) Shenyang China, Xu Yuhua won OpenSants2000 Open Sants, Barcelona Spain, Campos and Oratovsky won ARM2000 Armenian Championship, Yerevan Armenia, Sargissian won Zone2001-23 FIDE 2001 Zone 2.3 qualifier, Venezuela FR2000 French Championship, Vichy France, Bacrot won. PZ2000 Rubinstein Memorial Polanica Zdroj Poland, Gelfand first WMCC2000 World Microcomputer Champ. London, England Shredder won. Amsterdam2000 Lost Boys, Amsterdam M.Gurevich I.Sokolov Tregubov tie Montreal2000 Montreal International, Canada Rozentalis, Smagin tie WDR-TV GM Kramnik defeated GM Leko on German TV WDR Mecking-Vescovi Sao Paulo, Brazil GM Vescovi 3.5 GM Mecking 2.5 UK2000 British Championship Somerset England Hodgson won Zone2000-25 FIDE Zone 2.5 Buenos Aires Vasquez and Fiorito advance Biel2000 Biel Chess Festival, Biel Switzerland Svidler won Surya2000 Surya Chess Club, Monte Catini Italy Ivanchuk first WIPRO2000 WIPRO International Vladimirov won FloridaMatches GM Fedorowicz-FM Martinez 3-1 FM Fernandez-WIM Shahade 3-1 ShakkiNet2000 ShakkiNet - Helsinki, Finland Solozhenkin won. Edmonton2000 Canadian Open, Edmonton, Canada 3 tied for first. Tan2000 Tan Chin Nam Cup - Beijing, China 4 tied for first. CCA-CW2000 CCA-Chesswise Vermont, USA Blatny, Ehlvest tied USJR2000 US Junior Championship, Baltimore Perelshteyn won Dortmund2000 Dortmund Germany, Anand Kramnik tied NorthSea2000 North Sea Cup Esbjerg, Denmark Svidler Gurevich tied VetLadies2000 Munich, Germany Ladies 27.0 - Veterans 23.0 Euro2000 European Chess Championship, Tregubov won Manila2000 Equitable Card, Manila Villamayor: third GM norm WO2000 World Open Philadelphia GM Benjamin won playoff WhiteNights2000 White Nights St. Petersburg Russia 3rd IM norm for Krush Andorra2000 Andorra Open, Andorra. Psakhis won TorneoLinares Linares, Chile GM Zarnicki won Zone2000-14 FIDE zone 1.4 Budapest, Hungary 4 advanced Zone2000-16 FIDE zone 1.6 Samara, Russia 3 advanced USCadet2000 US Cadet, San Francisco Geist, Traldi tied for first JCI2000 Jack Collins International 3 made GM norms Frankfurt2000 Frankfurt Game/25 Anand won Giants, Adams won Masters Zone2000-17 FIDE zone 1.7 Mezezers, Latvia 3 advanced. Zone2000-19 FIDE zone 1.9 Ordzhonikidze, Ukraine 3 advanced. OZ-1 1094 games from the OZ qualifier on ICC Merida2000 1st Magistrate Tournament, Merida Mexico Shirov won Zone2000-15 FIDE zone 1.5 Yerevan, Armenia 4 advanced Zone2000-42 FIDE zone 4.2 Cairo, Egypt El Taher advanced Zone2000-24 FIDE zone 2.4 Sao Paulo, Brazil Lima, Leitao advanced Parkroyal2000 Parkroyal Surfers Paradise, Australia GM Ftacnik won VungTau2 Vung Tau, Viet Nam, part 2. Villamayor won, got GM norm VungTau1 Vung Tau Intourco GM Circuit - Barus, Villamayor won IN2000 India Championship Kunte won. Leon2000 Ciudad de Leon, Spain. "Advanced" chess Anand won LYM2000 Lausanne Young Masters Switzerland Grischuk won. Malmo2000 Sigeman & Co Malmo, Sweden Judit Polgar won Zone2000-32a FIDE zone 3.2a Vung Tau, Vietnam 2 advanced Sara2000 Bosna 2000 Sarajevo Kasparov won Zone2000-32b FIDE zone 3.2b Auckland, NZ IM Wohl advanced Havana2000 Capablanca Memorial Havana, Cuba Volzhin won Stein2000 Leonid Stein Memorial. L'viv Ukraine Ivanchuk won. NL2000 Dutch Championship van Wely won, de Vreugt: 3rd GM norm NYO2000 New York Open, Smirin won. USJRHS2000-1 US Jr High School Tucson, Arizona. Rensch, Martinez won Essen2000 Julian Borowski tourney Essen, Germany 3 tie for first Zone2000-33 FIDE Zone 3.3 qualifier China 3 advance to finals Japfa2000 Japfa Classic. Bali, Indonesia. Judith Polgar won. Fox2000 Foxwoods Open Connecticut 5 tie for first Oakham2000 Oakham Rutland, England. Pert won, Krush got 2nd IM norm DK2000 Danish Championship GM Curt Hansen won Zone2000-12 FIDE Zone 1.2 qualifier. Pula, Croatia 7 advance Redbus2000 Redbus Knockout Southend, England Adams won AKYE Karpov - Ye match 3.0 - 1.0 Shenyang, China AKXJ Anatoly Karpov - Xie Jun match 4.0-2.0 Guangzhou, China Reykjavik2000 Reykjavik Iceland. Hannes Stefansson first ChessAtIceland OZ.COM GM Tournament. Kasparov defeated Anand in final LCWC2000 Lightning-Chess (1 0) Hawkeye 10.5 - Tack 5.5 Amber2000 9th Amber at Monaco Rapid and Blindfold. Shirov won. DHK2000 Dos Hermanas Knockouts on ICC, isradiamond won SUFE2000 SUFE Cup Shanghai, China Krasenkow, Ye tie for first Linares2000 Linares, Spain Kasparov, Kramnik tie for first MCF Millenium Festival Portsmouth, VA 8 tied for first AKEB Karpov-Bacrot match at Cannes, France each won 3 games CLG2000 Capelle la Grande, France. Kruppa, Milos tie for first KCGP1 Kasparov Chess Grand Prix Piket won MAYS2000 Adams 5.0 Seirawan 3.0 match in Bermuda Goodricke2000 Goodricke International, Calcutta India Kaidanov won. Pad2000 Paderborn Computer tourney. Shredder won, Junior second Wydra Wydra Rapid Play Anand won, Gelfand Svidler tied for second CCT1 ICC Computer