World Chess Cup 2000

The 2000 World Chess Cup was a chess tournament that took place from September 1st to 13th, 2000 in Shenyang , China . Tournament winner was Viswanathan Anand , who prevailed against Yevgeny Bareev in the final .

Attendees

At the start of the following 24 participants, some of which qualified through the Continental Championships and partly due to their were -Elo rating system received a free place:

Surname	country	Elo rating
Anand, Viswanathan	India	2762
Morozevich, Alexander	Russia	2756
Ivanchuk, Wassyl	Ukraine	2719
Bareev, Yevgeny	Russia	2702
Swidler, Pyotr	Russia	2689
Gelfand, Boris	Israel	2681
Short, Nigel	England	2677
Drejew, Alexei	Russia	2676
Asmaiparashvili, Zurab	Georgia	2673
Ye Jiangchuan	People's Republic of China	2670
Xu Jun	People's Republic of China	2668
Gurevich, Mikhail	Belgium	2667
Chalifman, Alexander	Russia	2667
Movsesjan, Sergei	Czech Republic	2666
Tkachiev, Vladislav	France	2657
Fjodarau, Alyaksej	Belarus	2646
Gulko, Boris	United States	2643
Zhang Zhong	People's Republic of China	2636
Milos, Gilberto	Brazil	2633
Ponomarev, Ruslan	Ukraine	2630
Tregubov, Pavel	Russia	2620
Alyaksandrau, Alyaksej	Belarus	2591
Rizouk, Aimen	Algeria	2350
Tissir, Mohamed	Morocco	2342

mode

The 24 participants each played a simple round-robin tournament in four groups , from which the first two qualified for the quarter-finals. If there was a tie between second and third place, two rapid chess games were played, if these did not result in a decision, blitz chess games followed up to the first winning game. The same procedure would have been used in the event of a tie for first and second place. In the case of a tie for the remaining places in the preliminary round, first the Sonneborn-Berger rating and then the Elo rating decided. From the quarter-finals onwards, the competition was held in the knockout system . A competition consisted of two games, if this did not result in a decision, two rapid games followed. If after that there was still no winner, blitz chess games were played until the first winning game.

Results

Group A

space	player	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	Points
1	Gilberto Milos	xx	½	½	½	1	1	3½
2	Zurab Asmaiparashvili	½	xx	½	½	½	1	3
3	Boris Gulko	½	½	xx	½	½	½	2½
4th	Alexei Drejew	½	½	½	xx	½	½	2½
5	Alyaksey Alyaksandrau	0	½	½	½	xx	1	2½
6th	Alexander Morozevich	0	0	½	½	0	xx	1

Group B

space	player	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	Points
1	Ye Jiangchuan	xx	½	1	½	1	½	3½
2	Vasyl Ivanchuk	½	xx	½	½	½	1	3
3	Nigel Short	0	½	xx	1	1	½	3
4th	Mikhail Gurevich	½	½	0	xx	0	1	2
5	Xu Jun	0	½	0	1	xx	½	2
6th	Ruslan Ponomarev	½	0	½	0	½	xx	1½

Playoff: Wassyl Ivanchuk - Nigel Short 2-0

Group C

space	player	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	Points
1	Yevgeny Bareev	xx	½	½	½	1	1	3½
2	Sergei Movsesjan	½	xx	½	½	½	1	3
3	Pyotr Swidler	½	½	xx	0	1	1	3
4th	Zhang Zhong	½	½	1	xx	0	½	2½
5	Alyaksey Fjodarau	0	½	0	1	xx	½	2
6th	Aimen Rizouk	0	0	0	½	½	xx	1

Playoff: Sergej Movsesjan - Pyotr Swidler 2: 1

Group D

space	player	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	Points
1	Viswanathan Anand	xx	½	½	½	1	1	3½
2	Boris Gelfand	½	xx	½	½	1	½	3
3	Vladislav Tkachiev	½	½	xx	½	½	1	3
4th	Pavel Tregubov	½	½	½	xx	½	½	2½
5	Alexander Chalifman	0	0	½	½	xx	1	2
6th	Mohamed Tissir	0	½	0	½	0	xx	1

Playoff: Boris Gelfand - Vladislav Tkachiev 2-1

Quarter-finals to finals

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

A1

Gilberto Milos

3

C2

Sergei Movsesjan

2

A1

Gilberto Milos

1½

C1

Yevgeny Bareev

2½

C1

Yevgeny Bareev

2½

A2

Zurab Asmaiparashvili

1½

C1

Yevgeny Bareev

½

D1

Viswanathan Anand

1½

B2

Vasyl Ivanchuk

½

D1

Viswanathan Anand

1½

D1

Viswanathan Anand

3½

D2

Boris Gelfand

2½

D2

Boris Gelfand

2½

B1

Ye Yiangchuan

1½

swell

• Schach 10/2000, pp. 4-31.

Web links

• Results of the preliminary round, quarter-finals and semifinals in The Week in Chess 305, from September 11, 2000.
• Results Final in The Week in Chess 306, September 18, 2000.