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Chess World Cup 2002

The FIDE World Cup 2002, marketed as the Second Chess World Cup, was a 24-player Category XVI chess tournament played between 9 October and 22 October 2002 in Hyderabad, India.[1]. The tournament was hosted at Ramoji Film City and organized by FIDE in conjunction with the All India Chess Federation. Former World Cup winner Viswanathan Anand defeated Rustam Kasimdzhanov in the final to retain the title[2].

Format

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The tournament began with a league stage, consisting of 4 groups of six players each. Each player played a game against each of the other players in his group once. At the end of the group stage, the top two players from each group progressed to the quarterfinals. In the knockout rounds, each player played a two-game match against his opponent. If the match was tied after the regular games, blitz tie-breaks were used to determine a winner[3].

Participants

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All players are Grandmasters unless indicated otherwise.

Calendar

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Round Dates
Group Stage 5-13 October
Quarterfinals 15-16 October
Semifinals 17-18 October
Final 19-20 October

Group Stage

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The group stages featured a number of surprising upsets, with the top three seeds all struggling to remain in contention. Anand, the No. 1 seed, overcame an early loss to Krishnan Sasikaran with wins over Kasimdzhanov and Al-Modiahki to finish second in his group. Vassily Ivanchuk was less fortunate, dropping games to Malakhov and Macieja and finishing fifth in Group A[4]. Morozevich never recovered after suffering a disastrous start with three straight losses to Ehlvest, Ganguly, and Harikrishna. He scored only one point in five matches, finishing second-to-last in the entire tournament and dropping below 2700 in Elo rating for the first time since 1998[5].

Group A Pts. Group B Pts. Group C Pts. Group D Pts.
  Vladimir Malakhov 3½   Alexey Dreev 3½   Rustam Kasimdzhanov 3½   Alexander Beliavsky 3½
  Ye Jiangchuan 3   Sergei Rublevsky 3   Viswanathan Anand 3   Nigel Short 3½
  Bartłomiej Macieja 3   Teimur Radjabov 3   Krishnan Sasikiran 2½   Jaan Ehlvest 3½
  Giovanni Vescovi 3   Zurab Azmaiparashvili 2½   Hichem Hamdouchi 2½   Surya Ganguly 2
  Vassily Ivanchuk 2   Alex Yermolinsky 1½   Mohammed Al-Modiahki 2   Pentala Harikrishna 1½
  Saidali Iuldachev ½   Watu Kobese 1½   Xu Jun 1½   Alexander Morozevich 1

Playoffs

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Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
         
  Alexander Beliavsky 1½
  Sergei Rublevsky ½
  Alexander Beliavsky ½
  Rustam Kasimdzhanov 1½
  Ye Jiangchuan ½
  Rustam Kasimdzhanov 1½
  Rustam Kasimdzhanov ½
  Viswanathan Anand 1½
  Nigel Short 1½
  Alexey Dreev 2½
  Alexey Dreev 2½
  Viswanathan Anand 3½
  Vladimir Malakhov ½
  Viswanathan Anand 1½

Final

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Final position of the match

In the final, Viswanathan Anand defended his World Cup title won in Shenyang against Rustam Kasimdzhanov in a two-game match. The first game of the match ended in a 16-move draw, with Kasimdzhanov failing to make any headway against Anand's Caro-Kann defence. In Game 2, Anand gradually outplayed Kasimdzhanov in the Petroff defence, gaining a strong advantage after 22... Nxh3+?. Kasimdzhanov would resign seven moves later[6]

Name Rating 1 2 Total
  Viswanathan Anand (IND) 2755 ½ 1 1½
  Rustam Kasimdzhanov (UZB) 2653 ½ 0 ½

References

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  1. ^ "The Hindu: Anand for World Cup".
  2. ^ "CB News: The winners of Hyderabad".
  3. ^ "The Week In Chess: FIDE World Cup in Hyderabad (Wayback Machine Internet Archive)".
  4. ^ "CB News: Indian ladies dazzle in Hyderabad".
  5. ^ "2700.com - Morozevich, Alexander".
  6. ^ "The Hindu: Anand retains world title".

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