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          Site: Belgium  Groningen
          Event Date: 09.12.1997 - 30.12.1997

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 01
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Belarus BLR 2660  GM Aleksej Aleksandrov ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 3.0/5 
02 United States USA 2580  GM Boris Gulko ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 2.0/5 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 02
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 United States USA 2580  GM Joel Benjamin ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 2.0/5 
02 Russia RUS 2635  GM Vadim Zvjaginsev ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 3.0/5 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 03
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Russia RUS 2650  GM Sergei Rublevsky 1 1       2.0/2 
02 Canada CAN 2575  GM Kevin Spraggett 0 0       0.0/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 04
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 GER 2590  GM Stefan Kindermann 1 0 0 1 1 3.0/5 
02 United States USA 2650  GM Alex Yermolinsky 0 1 1 0 0 2.0/5 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 05
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Lithuania LTU 2645  GM Eduardas Rozentalis ½ 1       1.5/2 
02 Ukraine UKR 2580  GM Konstantin Lerner ½ 0       0.5/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 06
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Iceland ICE 2555  GM Margeir Pétursson 0 ½       0.5/2 
02 Estonia EST 2645  GM Lembit Oll 1 ½       1.5/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 07
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Poland POL 2645  GM Michal Krasenkow 1 ½       1.5/2 
02 The Netherlands NED 2555  GM Paul van der Sterren 0 ½       0.5/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 08
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD SD SD SD SD TOTAL 
01 United States USA 2615  GM Lar. Christiansen ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 4.0/9 
02 Sweden SWE 2640  GM Ulf Andersson ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 5.0/9 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 09
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Hungary HUN 2640  GM Alexander Chernin ½ ½ 1 0 0 2.0/5 
02 Romania ROM 2550  GM Andrei Istratescu ½ ½ 0 1 1 3.0/5 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 10
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Germany GER 2550  GM Roman Slobodjan 1 ½       1.5/2 
02 Hungary HUN 2635  GM Péter Lékó 0 ½       0.5/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 11
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 United States USA 2630  GM Yasser Seirawan ½ ½ 1 1   3.0/4 
02 Armenia ARM 2545  GM Ashot Anastasian ½ ½ 0 0   1.0/4 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 12
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH 2610  GM Bojan Kurajica 1 0 0 ½   1.5/4 
02 Peru PER 2625  GM Julio Granda 0 1 1 ½   2.5/4 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 13
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD SD SD TOTAL 
01 Georgia GEO 2625  GM Giorgi Giorgadze ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 4.0/6 
02 France FRA 2545  GM Étienne Bacrot ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 3.0/6 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 14
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Russia RUS 2535  GM Alexander Fominyh 0 ½       0.5/2 
02 France FRA 2615  GM Vladislav Tkachiev 1 ½       1.5/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 15
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Ukraine UKR 2615  GM Vladimir Malaniuk 1 1       1.5/2 
02 MOR 2535  GM Hichem Hamdouchi 0 0       0.5/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 16
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 China CHN 2605  GM Peng Xiaomin ½ 0       0.5/2 
02 Hungary HUN 2615  GM Zoltan Almasi ½ 1       1.5/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 17
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
02 Israel ISR 2615  GM Boris Alterman 1 ½       1.5/2 
01 United Kingdom ENG 2530  GM Peter Wells 0 ½       0.5/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 18
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 The Netherlands NED 2525  GM John van der Wiel ½ 0       0.5/2 
02 Estonia EST 2610  GM Jaan Ehlvest ½ 1       1.5/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 19
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Switzerland SWI 2610  GM Viktor Korchnoi 1 ½       1.5/2 
02 Mexico MEX 2525  GM Gilberto Hernández 0 ½       0.5/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 20
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Germany GER 2525  GM Thomas Luther ½ 1       1.5/2 
02 Hungary HUN 2610  GM Lajos Portisch ½ 0       0.5/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 21
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Indonesia INA 2610  GM Utut Adianto 1 1       2.0/2 
02 China CHN 2520  GM Wang Zili 0 0       0.0/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 22
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 IND 2515  GM Dibyendu Barua ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 2.0/5 
02 Czech Republic CZE 2605  GM Zbynek Hrácek ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 3.0/5 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 23
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 ISL 2605  GM Jóhann Hjartarson ½ ½ ½ 1   2.5/4 
02 LTU 2510  GM Sarunas Sulskis ½ ½ ½ 0   1.5/4 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 24
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Russia RUS 2505  GM Igor Glek 1 0 ½ 0   1.5/4 
02 The Netherlands NED 2605  GM Friso Nijboer 0 1 ½ 1   2.5/4 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 25
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Denmark DEN 2600  GM Curt Hansen 1 0 0 ½   1.5/4 
02 Serbia SRB 2500  GM Igor Miladinovic 0 1 1 ½   2.5/4 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 26
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 United States USA 2500  IM Tal Shaked ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 3.0/5 
02 CHI 2600  GM Iván Morovic ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 2.0/5 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 27
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Brazil BRA 2590  Gilberto Milos 1 1       2.0/2 
02 Bangladesh BAN 2645  Niaz Morshed 0 0       0.0/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 28
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Russia RUS 2490  GM Vasily Smyslov 0 0       0.0/2 
02 Russia RUS 2590  GM Alexander Morozevich 1 1       2.0/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 29
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 ISR 2590  GM Emil Sutovskij 0 ½       0.5/2 
02 Colombia COL 2480  GM Gildardo Garcia 1 ½       1.5/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 30
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Iceland ICE 2475  GM Helgi Grétarsson ½ 1       1.5/2 
02 Spain ESP 2585  GM Miguel Illescas Córdoba ½ 0       0.5/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 31
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Greece GRE 2585  GM Vassilios Kotronias ½ ½ ½ 0   1.5/4 
02 Switzerland SWI 2645  GM Vadim Milov ½ ½ ½ 1   2.5/4 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 32
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 The Netherlands NED 2400  IM Pieter Hendrik Hoeksema ½ 0       0.5/2 
02 Uzbekistan UZB 2585  GM Alexander (Nenashev) Graf ½ 1       1.5/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 33
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Russia RUS 2580  GM Andrei Sokolov 1 ½       1.5/2 
02 South Africa RSA 2585  IM Watu Kobese 0 ½       0.5/2 

          ROUND TWO - MATCH 34
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME SG SG R1 R1 SD TOTAL 
01 Russia RUS 2188  Alexander Umgaev 0 0       0.0/2 
02 Moldova MDA 2585  GM Viktor Bologan 1 1       2.0/2 





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FIDE World Chess Championship 1998

The FIDE World Chess Championship 1998 was contested in a match between the FIDE World Champion Anatoly Karpov and the challenger Vishwanathan Anand. The match took place between 2 January and 9 January 1998 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The challenger was determined in a tournament held in Groningen, Netherlands, between 9 December and 30 December 1997. After the championship match ended in a draw, Karpov won the rapid playoff, becoming the 1998 FIDE World Chess Champion.

Background

From 1948 to 1993, the world chess championship had been administered by FIDE, the international chess federation. In 1993, World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov split from FIDE and formed a rival organisation, the Professional Chess Association. FIDE stripped Kasparov of his title, meaning there were now two rival championships: the FIDE title, held by Anatoly Karpov, and the PCA title, held by Kasparov. Karpov and Kasparov had successfully defended their titles at the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 and PCA World Chess Championship 1995 respectively.

From 1948 until 1996, World Chess Championships had followed a similar pattern: a series of qualifying tournaments and matches were held over more than a year, culminating in the Candidates Tournament. The winner of the Candidates tournament was the official challenger for the world title and would play the incumbent champion in a match for world championship. (The 1996 cycle was an exception. The incumbent world champion participated in the Candidates tournament as a seeded semi-finalist.)

In 1997, FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov proposed a completely new structure: a knockout tournament, consisting of two-game matches (slightly longer in the final rounds), with match tie-breakers using rapid chess and blitz chess if necessary. This format had been done before in tournaments, but never at the world championship level.

In addition to the new format, it was proposed by Ilyumzhinov as a way to unify the two rival world titles. To do this, FIDE champion Anatoly Karpov and PCA champion Garry Kasparov were each to be seeded into the semi-finals.

Kasparov did not want to defend his title under these circumstances and declined his invitation. The format was then modified to have FIDE champion Karpov seeded directly into the final.

Controversies

The advantages of the new format were:
  • It avoided a long cycle, and was all over in a month or so. This is could all be done in the one venue, it would not have the scheduling problems which had beset some previous world championship cycles. Each round could be played in 3 days (one day for each normal time control game, and one for the tie breaks).
  • More players (up to 128) could be included.
  • There were no special privileges for the incumbent champion or seeded players (although some were preserved in the earlier championships, these were completely eliminated later on).
Opponents pointed out disadvantages of the format:
  • Short matches (only two games in the earlier rounds) left too much to chance - the stronger player could blunder a game, and it would be difficult to recover from a bad start. (Many world championship and Candidates matches had been won by the player who recovered from an early loss).
  • The rapid playoffs were also seen to be left too much to chance: strength in rapid chess is not the same as strength in chess with normal time controls.
  • These first two considerations, taken together, meant there was a very high chance that the best player would not win, or even that a complete outsider might win, opponents argued.
  • Some people felt that the tradition of the champion being seeded into the final should be preserved, so that a new champion can only be champion by defeating the old champion.
Prominent non-participants
  • Kasparov did not want to defend his title under these circumstances, and declined his invitation.
  • Vladimir Kramnik declined to play, in protest against Karpov being seeded into the final.
Championship match



Participants

All players are grandmasters unless indicated otherwise.



1 Kramnik declined participation on the grounds that Karpov's direct entry into the final was unacceptable.
2 Mohammed did not appear.
Garry Kasparov, Gata Kamsky, and Zsuzsa Polgar declined participation in advance.

Results, rounds 5–7



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