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Veselin Topalov    Vladimir Kramnik

              Site: United States Nevada  Las Vegas
              Event Date: VII-VIII, 1999

              ROUND FOUR - MATCH 01
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME S1 S2 R1 R1 R2 R2 TOTAL 
01 Bulgaria BUL 2700  GM Veselin Topalov ½ ½ 0 0     1.0/4 
02 Armenia RUS 2751  GM Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik ½ ½ 1 1     3.0/4 





Michael Adams    Alexey Dreev
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              Site: United States Nevada  Las Vegas
              Event Date: VII-VIII, 1999

              ROUND FOUR - MATCH 02
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME S1 S2 R1 R1 R2 R2 TOTAL 
01 United Kingdom ENG 2716  GM Michael Adams ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 4.0/6 
02 Russia RUS 2640  GM Alexey Dreev ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 2.0/6 





Sergei Movsesian    Alexei Fedorov

              Site: United States Nevada  Las Vegas
              Event Date: VII-VIII, 1999

              ROUND FOUR - MATCH 03
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME S1 S2 R1 R1 R2 R2 TOTAL 
01 Slovakia SVK 2650  GM Sergei Movsesian ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 3.5/6 
02 Belarus BLR 2648  GM Alexei Fedorov ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 2.5/6 





Kiril Georgiev    Vladimir Akopian

              Site: United States Nevada  Las Vegas
              Event Date: VII-VIII, 1999

              ROUND FOUR - MATCH 04
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME S1 S2 R1 R1 R2 R2 TOTAL 
01 Bulgaria BUL 2659  GM Kiril Georgiev ½ 0         0.5/2 
02 Armenia ARM 2640  GM Vladimir Akopian ½ 1         1.5/2 





Judit Polgar    Vadim Zvjaginsev

              Site: United States Nevada  Las Vegas
              Event Date: VII-VIII, 1999

              ROUND FOUR - MATCH 05
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME S1 S2 R1 R1 R2 R2 TOTAL 
01 Hungary HUN 2677  GM Judit Polgar ½ ½ 1 1     4.0/6 
02 Russia RUS 2658  GM Vadim Zvjaginsev ½ ½ 0 0     2.0/6 





Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman    Boris Gelfand

              Site: United States Nevada  Las Vegas
              Event Date: VII-VIII, 1999

              ROUND FOUR - MATCH 06
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME S1 S2 R1 R1 R2 R2 TOTAL 
01 Russia RUS 2616  GM Alexander Khalifman ½ ½ 1 ½     2.5/4 
02 Israel ISR 2691  GM Boris Gelfand ½ ½ 0 ½     1.5/4 





Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu    Vassily Ivanchuk

              Site: United States Nevada  Las Vegas
              Event Date: VII-VIII, 1999

              ROUND FOUR - MATCH 07
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME S1 S2 R1 R1 R2 R2 TOTAL 
01 Romania ROM 2594  GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu ½ ½ ½ 1     2.5/4 
02 Ukraine UKR 2714  GM Vassily Ivanchuk ½ ½ ½ 0     1.5/4 





Alexei Shirov    Nigel Short
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              Site: United States Nevada  Las Vegas
              Event Date: VII-VIII, 1999

              ROUND FOUR - MATCH 08
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME S1 S2 R1 R1 R2 R2 TOTAL 
01 Spain ESP 2726  GM Alexei Shirov 1 ½         1.5/2 
02 United Kingdom ENG 2697  GM Nigel Short 0 ½         0.5/2 



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FIDE World Chess Championship 1999

The FIDE World Chess Championship 1999 was held in Las Vegas, United States, between 31 July and 28 August 1999. The championship was won by Russian Alexander Khalifman, making him the FIDE World Chess Champion.

Format

The format was a knockout tournament of short matches. This was similar in style to that used at the FIDE World Chess Championship 1998, and had the same advantages and disadvantages - see FIDE World Chess Championship 1998#Controversies.

A change from the 1998 championship was that incumbent champion (Anatoly Karpov) had no special privileges, other than that he (like a number of leading players) was seeded into the second round. In protest at this, Karpov refused to play

Controversy and non-participants

In addition to Karpov, neither Garry Kasparov nor Viswanathan Anand took part. Kasparov, holder of a rival world championship title, refused to play in any of the FIDE knockout championships, and Anand was negotiating to play a match against Kasparov for his title. (This match never took place - see Classical World Chess Championship 2000).

Kasparov was dismissive of the FIDE event, saying that most of the participants were "tourists".

Winner Khalifman was rated 44th in the world at the time, which some compared unfavourably to PCA champion Kasparov being rated #1. Khalifman said after the tournament, "Rating system works perfectly for players who play only in round robin closed events. I think most of them are overrated. Organizers invite same people over and over because they have the same rating and their rating stays high." Perhaps in response, Khalifman was invited to the next Linares chess tournament, and performed creditably (though placing below joint winner Kasparov).

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