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World Chess Championship 2000
2 December 2000

Round 1 results

The tiebreaks of the first round are finished. All results are below. We will give you round 2 colors as soon as we get them. The pairs can be deducted from the table; the winner of the 1st round match will play against the player on the right column.

GM Tisdall reports

Round 1.1

Round 1.2

Round 1.3

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View the decisive moments of round 1.1
View the decisive moments of round 1.2
View the decisive moments of round 1 tie-breaks

GM Einar Gausel annotates:
Sutovsky vs. Nataf 1.1
Speelman vs. Macieja 1.1
Stefansson vs. Bologan 1.2
Dao vs. Ponomariov 1.2

The colors on the right illustrate who the winners will be facing in the future rounds. The final will see the survivor of the top half of the table play against the survivor of the bottom half of the table.

The players in the left column had the white pieces for game 2.

27 and 28 (+29) Nov.			Winner will face in r2:
Stefansson, Hannes g ISL 2557	½-½ 0-1	Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2641	Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2762
Blehm, Pawel m POL 2510	0-1 ½-½	Lputian, Smbat g ARM 2598	Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2670
Macieja, Bartlomiej g POL 2536	0-1 1-0 ½-½ 1-0	Speelman, Jon. g ENG 2623	Krasenkov, Michael g POL 2702
Galkin, Alexander g RUS 2587	1-0 1-0	Wohl, Aleksandar m AUS 2461	Beliavsky, Alexander g SLO 2659
Volkov, Sergey g RUS 2554	0-1 1-0 0-1 1-0 ½-½ 1-0	Sakaev, Konstantin g RUS 2627	Leko, Peter g HUN 2743
Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan IRI 2488	½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 0-1	Lutz, Christopher g GER 2595	Khalifman, Alexander g RUS 2667
Nataf, Igor g FRA 2526	1-0 ½-½	Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2609	Short, Nigel g ENG 2677
Leitao, Rafael g BRA 2567	1-0 ½-½	Lautier, Joel g FRA 2648	Benjamin, Joel g USA 2577
Benjamin, Joel g USA 2577	1-0 1-0	Fiorito, Fabian m ARG 2418	Leitao, Rafael g BRA 2567
Dao, Thien Hai g VIE 2555	½-½ 1-0	Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2630	Adams, Michael g ENG 2755
Al-Modiahki, Mohamad g QAT 2499	0-1 ½-½	Yermolinsky, Alex g USA 2596	Xu Jun g CHN 2668
Rytshagov, Mikhail g EST 2529	½-½ ½-½ 0-1 0-1	Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2613	Svidler, Peter g RUS 2689
Adianto, Utut g INA 2583	1-0 ½-½	Hakki, Imad m SYR 2429	Peng, Xiaomin g CHN 2657
Hansen, Sune Berg g DEN 2545	½-½ 0-1	Kharlov, Andrei g RUS 2627	Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2707
		Georgiev, Kiril g BUL 2661	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROM 2592
Kveinys, Aloyzas g LTU 2522	0-1 0-1	Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2605	Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2676
Asrian, Karen g ARM 2566	½-½ 0-1	Van Wely, Loek g NED 2643	Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2573
Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2573	½-½ 1-0	Simutowe, Amon m ZAM 2322	Van Wely, Loek g NED 2643
Milos, Gilberto g BRA 2633	½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 1-0	Kunte, Abhijit g IND 2556	Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2756
Vladimirov, Evgeny g KAZ 2598	1-0 1-0	Barua, Dibyendu g IND 2502	Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2668
Tregubov, Pavel g RUS 2620	½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 1-0 ½-½	Rustemov, Alexander g RUS 2534	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2690
Vasquez, Rodrigo m CHI 2454	0-1 0-1	Lesiege, Alexandre g CAN 2584	Tkachiev, Vladislav g FRA 2657
Ehlvest, Jaan g EST 2627	½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 1-0 1-0	Nogueiras, Jesus g CUB 2552	Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2719
Iordachescu, Viorel g MDA 2594	½-½ ½-½ 1-0 ½-½	Godena, Michele g ITA 2485	Movsesian, Sergei g CZE 2666
Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2606	½-½ ½-½ 1-0 ½-½	Lima, Darcy g BRA 2525	Smirin, Ilia g ISR 2677
Fedorov, Alexey g BLR 2646	0-1 ½-½	Ivanov, Alexander g USA 2567	Serper, Grigory g USA 2574
Bagheri, Amir m IRI 2409	0-1 ½-½	Serper, Grigory g USA 2574	Ivanov, Alexander g USA 2567
Onischuk, Alex. g UKR 2627	1-0 ½-½	Agrest, Evgenij g SWE 2554	Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2746
Minasian, Artashes g ARM 2595	½-½ ½-½ 0-1 1-0 1-0 1-0	Villamayor, Bong g PHI 2495	Gurevich, Michael g BEL 2667
Psakhis, Lev g ISR 2611	½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 0-1 1-0 0-1	Dizdarevic, Emir g BIH 2527	Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2681
Piket, Jeroen g NED 2649	½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 1-0	Hernandez, Gilberto g MEX 2572	Nevednichy, Vlad. g ROM 2582
Labib, Ibrahim Hasan m EGY 2426	½-½ 0-1	Nevednichy, Vlad. g ROM 2582	Piket, Jeroen g NED 2649
Vaganian, Rafael g ARM 2623	1-0 1-0	Hamdouchi, Hichem g MAR 2541	Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2702
El Taher, Fouad m EGY 2485	½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 0-1	Alexandrov, Alexej g BLR 2591	Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2660
Baklan, Vladimir g UKR 2599	½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 1-0	Zaja, Ivan m CRO 2513	Azmaiparashvili, Zurab g GEO 2673
Gulko, Boris g USA 2643	½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 1-0	Bezgodov, Alexei g RUS 2557	Chernin, Alexander g HUN 2572
Utnasunov, Alexander RUS 2257	0-1 ½-½	Chernin, Alexander g HUN 2572	Gulko, Boris g USA 2643

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