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Russian Vladimir Kramnik was voted the
best player for the year 2000, and was awarded the Chess Oscar 2000, in
a poll taken by the Russian magazine "64" run by Alexander
Roshal. The results were released by Alexander Roshal, editor-in-chief of the magazine,
who started the award again 6 years ago after a break. India's
Viswanathan Anand who won the World Championship, Tehran and the World
Cup, Shenyang took the second place in the public poll.
This year there were 326 submissions from 58 countries. Each entry was weighted in the following manner. 1st places were given 13 points, 2nd - 11 points, 3rd -9 points, 4th - 7 points, 5th - 6 points all the way down to 10th with 1 point. Kramnik
got the edge when he took 179 first places, ahead of Anand 78 first
places and Kasparov 60 first places.
Chess
Oscar 2000 listings
| Rank |
Player |
Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Vladimir Kramnik |
Russia |
3796 |
| 2 |
Viswanathan Anand |
India |
3410 |
| 3 |
Garry Kasparov |
Russia |
3372 |
| 4 |
Alexei Shirov |
Spain |
2028 |
| 5 |
Michael Adams |
England |
1388 |
| 6 |
Alexander Grischuk |
Russia |
971 |
| 7 |
Alexander Morozevich |
Russia |
891 |
| 8 |
Peter Leko |
Hungary |
758 |
| 9 |
Vasily Ivanchuk |
Ukraine |
721 |
| 10 |
Alexander Khalifman |
Russia |
490 |
| 11 |
Polgar Judit |
Hungary |
451 |
| 12 |
Boris Gelfand |
Israel |
374 |
| 13 |
Evgeny Bareev |
Russia |
266 |
| 14 |
Veselin Topalov |
Bulgaria |
157 |
| 15 |
Ruslan Ponomariov |
Ukraine |
112 |
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