Classical World Chess Championship 2000 information
Classical World Chess Championship 2000
Defending champion
Challenger
Garry Kasparov
Vladimir Kramnik
Garry Kasparov
Vladimir Kramnik
6½
Scores
8½
Born 13 April 1963 37 years old
Born 25 June 1975 25 years old
Winner of the 1995 Classical World Chess Championship
Runner-up of 1998 Candidates Match (replacement for Alexei Shirov)
Rating: 2849 (World No. 1)[1]
Rating: 2772 (World No. 3)[1]
← 1995
2004 →
The Classical World Chess Championship 2000, known at the time as the Braingames World Chess Championships,[2] was held from 8 October 2000 – 4 November 2000 in London, United Kingdom. Garry Kasparov, the defending champion, played Vladimir Kramnik. The match was played in a best-of-16-games format, with Kramnik defeating the heavily favoured Kasparov.[3] Kramnik won the match with two wins, 13 draws and no losses.[4] To the supporters of the lineal world championship, Kramnik became the 14th world chess champion.
^ ab"Top 100 Players – October 2000". Ratings.fide.com.
^Due to the sponsorship by Braingames, the match was known at the time as the Braingames World Chess Championships. Kramnik would later refer to the title as the "Classical" World Championship, hence this 2000 match was also a match for the "Classical" title.
^The Week in Chess 308 2 October 2000
^The Week in Chess 313 6 November 2000
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