FIDE World Chess Championship 1998

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.

New World Championship Format

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 2 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 inviatation.

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 2 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 inviatation.
* 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. flagathlete|Vladimir Kramnik1|RUS, 2770
  2. flagathlete|Viswanathan Anand|IND, 2765
  3. flagathlete|Anatoly Karpov|RUS, 2745
  4. flagathlete|Veselin Topalov|BUL, 2745
  5. flagathlete|Vassily Ivanchuk|UKR, 2725
  6. flagathlete|Alexander Beliavsky|SLO, 2710
  7. flagathlete|Alexei Shirov|ESP, 2700
  8. flagathlete|Boris Gelfand|BLR, 2695
  9. flagathlete|Michael Adams|ENG, 2680
  10. flagathlete|Valery Salov|RUS, 2680
  11. flagathlete|Yevgeny Bareev|RUS, 2670
  12. flagathlete|Kiril Georgiev|BUL, 2670
  13. flagathlete|Judith Polgar|HUN, 2670
  14. flagathlete|Matthew Sadler|ENG, 2665
  15. flagathlete|Vladimir Akopian|ARM, 2660
  16. flagathlete|Aleksej Alexandrov|BLR, 2660
  17. flagathlete|Joel Lautier|FRA, 2660
  18. flagathlete|Nigel Short|ENG, 2660
  19. flagathlete|Peter Svidler|RUS, 2660
  20. flagathlete|Alexander Khalifman|RUS, 2655
  21. flagathlete|Loek van Wely|NED, 2655
  22. flagathlete|Zurab Azmaiparashvili|GEO, 2650
  23. flagathlete|Sergei Rublevsky|RUS, 2650
  24. flagathlete|Alex Yermolinsky|USA, 2650
  25. flagathlete|Michal Krasenkov|POL, 2645
  26. flagathlete|Lembit Oll|EST, 2645
  27. flagathlete|Eduardas Rozentalis|LTU, 2645
  28. flagathlete|Ulf Andersson|SWE, 2640
  29. flagathlete|Alexander Chernin|HUN, 2640
  30. flagathlete|Alexey Dreev|RUS, 2640
  31. flagathlete|Rafael Vaganian|ARM, 2640
  32. flagathlete|Arthur Yussupov|GER, 2640
  33. flagathlete|Peter Leko|HUN, 2635
  34. flagathlete|Vadim Milov|SUI, 2635
  35. flagathlete|Ivan Sokolov|BIH, 2635
  36. flagathlete|Vadim Zvjaginsev|RUS, 2635
  37. flagathlete|Predrag Nikolic|BIH, 2630
  38. flagathlete|Jeroen Piket|NED, 2630
  39. flagathlete|Yasser Seirawan|USA, 2630
  40. flagathlete|Giorgy Giorgadze|GEO, 2625
  41. flagathlete|Julio Granda|PER, 2625
  42. flagathlete|Jan Timman|NED, 2625
  43. flagathlete|Zoltan Almasi|HUN, 2615
  44. flagathlete|Boris Alterman|ISR, 2615
  45. flagathlete|Vladimir Malaniuk|UKR, 2615
  46. flagathlete|Vladislav Tkachiev|KAZ, 2615
  47. flagathlete|Utut Adianto|INA, 2610
  48. flagathlete|Jaan Ehlvest|EST, 2610
  49. flagathlete|Viktor Korchnoi|SUI, 2610
  50. flagathlete|Lajos Portisch|HUN, 2610
  1. flagathlete|Johann Hjartarson|ISL, 2605
  2. flagathlete|Zbynek Hracek|CZE, 2605
  3. flagathlete|Friso Nijboer|NED, 2605
  4. flagathlete|Curt Hansen|DEN, 2600
  5. flagathlete|Grigory Kaidanov|USA, 2600
  6. flagathlete|Ivan Morovic|CHI, 2600
  7. flagathlete|Gilberto Milos|BRA, 2590
  8. flagathlete|Alexander Morozevich|RUS, 2590
  9. flagathlete|Emil Sutovsky|ISR, 2590
  10. flagathlete|Sergei Tiviakov|RUS, 2590
  11. flagathlete|Viktor Bologan|MDA, 2585
  12. flagathlete|Miguel Illescas|ESP, 2585
  13. flagathlete|Vasilios Kotronias|GRE, 2585
  14. flagathlete|Alexander Nenashev|RUS, 2585
  15. flagathlete|Andrei Sokolov|RUS, 2585
  16. flagathlete|Joel Benjamin|USA, 2580
  17. flagathlete|Boris Gulko|USA, 2580
  18. flagathlete|Kevin Spraggett|CAN, 2575
  19. flagathlete|Vladimir Epishin|RUS, 2570
  20. flagathlete|Stephan Kindermann|GER, 2570
  21. flagathlete|Konstantin Lerner|UKR, 2560
  22. flagathlete|Margeir Petursson|ISL, 2555
  23. flagathlete|Paul van der Sterren|NED, 2555
  24. flagathlete|Larry Christiansen|USA, 2550
  25. flagathlete|Andrei Istratescu|ROM, 2550
  26. flagathlete|Roman Slobodjan|GER, 2550
  27. flagathlete|Ashot Anastasian|ARM, 2545
  28. flagathlete|Etienne Bacrot|FRA, 2545
  29. flagathlete|Bojan Kurajica|BIH, 2545
  30. flagathlete|Alexander Fominyh|RUS, 2535
  31. flagathlete|Hichem Hamdouchi|MAR, 2535
  32. flagathlete|Peng Xiaomin|CHN, 2530
  33. flagathlete|Peter Wells|ENG, 2530
  34. flagathlete|Gilberto Hernandez|MEX, 2525
  35. flagathlete|Thomas Luther|GER, 2525
  36. flagathlete|John van der Wiel|NED, 2525
  37. flagathlete|Wang Zili|CHN, 2520
  38. flagathlete|Dibyendu Barua|IND, 2515
  39. flagathlete|Sarunas Sulskis|LTU, 2510
  40. flagathlete|Igor Glek|RUS, 2505
  41. flagathlete|Igor Miladinovic|GRE, 2500
  42. flagathlete|Tal Shaked|USA, 2500, IM
  43. flagathlete|Niaz Murshed|BAN, 2490
  44. flagathlete|Gildardo Garcia|COL, 2480
  45. flagathlete|Vassily Smyslov|RUS, 2480
  46. flagathlete|Helgi Gretarsson|ISL, 2475
  47. flagathlete|Esam Mohammed2|EGY, 2460, IM [cite web|url=http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic212.html|title=The Week in Chess 212]
  48. flagathlete|Hendrik Hoeksema|NED, 2400, IM
  49. flagathlete|Watu Kobese|RSA, 2315, IM
  50. flagathlete|Alexander Umgaev|RUS, unrated, no title

    51. 1 Kramnik declined participation on the grounds that Karpov's direct entry into the final was unacceptable. [citeweb|url=http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/9798$cix.htm|title=World Chess Championship, 1997 FIDE Knockout Matches]

    2 Mohammed did not appear.

    Garry Kasparov, Gata Kamsky, and Zsuzsa Polgar declined participation in advance.

    Results, rounds 5–7

    8TeamBracket
    RD3=Final
    RD1-seed1=
    RD1-team1=Michael Adams
    RD1-score1=2.5
    RD1-seed2=
    RD1-team2=Loek van Wely
    RD1-score2=1.5
    RD1-seed3=
    RD1-team3=Nigel Short
    RD1-score3=2
    RD1-seed4=
    RD1-team4=Michal Krasenkov
    RD1-score4=0
    RD1-seed5=
    RD1-team5=Boris Gelfand
    RD1-score5=2.5
    RD1-seed6=
    RD1-team6=Alexey Dreev
    RD1-score6=1.5
    RD1-seed7=
    RD1-team7=Viswanathan Anand
    RD1-score7=1.5
    RD1-seed8=
    RD1-team8=Alexei Shirov
    RD1-score8=0.5
    RD2-seed1=
    RD2-team1=Michael Adams
    RD2-score1=4
    RD2-seed2=
    RD2-team2=Nigel Short
    RD2-score2=3
    RD2-seed3=
    RD2-team3=Boris Gelfand
    RD2-score3=0.5
    RD2-seed4=
    RD2-team4=Viswanathan Anand
    RD2-score4=1.5
    RD3-seed1=
    RD3-team1=Michael Adams
    RD3-score1=4
    RD3-seed2=
    RD3-team2=Viswanathan Anand
    RD3-score2=5

    Results, rounds 1-4

    ection 1

    4RoundBracket-Byes
    RD3=Third round
    RD4=Fourth round
    RD1-seed03=
    RD1-team03=Giorgy Giorgadze
    RD1-score03=4
    RD1-seed04=
    RD1-team04=Etienne Bacrot
    RD1-score04=3
    RD1-seed05=
    RD1-team05=Eduardas Rozentalis
    RD1-score05=1.5
    RD1-seed06=
    RD1-team06=Konstantin Lerner
    RD1-score06=0.5
    RD1-seed11=
    RD1-team11=Utut Adianto
    RD1-score11=2
    RD1-seed12=
    RD1-team12=Wang Zili
    RD1-score12=0
    RD2-seed01=
    RD2-team01=Michael Adams
    RD2-score01=2
    RD2-seed02=
    RD2-team02=Giorgy Giorgadze
    RD2-score02=0
    RD2-seed03=
    RD2-team03=Eduardas Rozentalis
    RD2-score03=0.5
    RD2-seed04=
    RD2-team04=Sergei Tiviakov
    RD2-score04=1.5
    RD2-seed05=
    RD2-team05=Peter Svidler
    RD2-score05=1.5
    RD2-seed06=
    RD2-team06=Utut Adianto
    RD2-score06=0.5
    RD2-seed07=
    RD2-team07=Ivan Sokolov
    RD2-score07=1.5
    RD2-seed08=
    RD2-team08=Vladimir Epishin
    RD2-score08=2.5
    RD3-seed01=
    RD3-team01=Michael Adams
    RD3-score01=1.5
    RD3-seed02=
    RD3-team02=Sergei Tiviakov
    RD3-score02=0.5
    RD3-seed03=
    RD3-team03=Peter Svidler
    RD3-score03=1.5
    RD3-seed04=
    RD3-team04=Vladimir Epishin
    RD3-score04=0.5
    RD4-seed01=
    RD4-team01=Michael Adams
    RD4-score01=4
    RD4-seed02=
    RD4-team02=Peter Svidler
    RD4-score02=2

    ection 2

    4RoundBracket-Byes
    RD3=Third round
    RD4=Fourth round
    RD1-seed07=
    RD1-team07=Curt Hansen
    RD1-score07=1.5
    RD1-seed08=
    RD1-team08=Igor Miladinovic
    RD1-score08=2.5
    RD1-seed11=
    RD1-team11=Boris Alterman
    RD1-score11=1.5
    RD1-seed12=
    RD1-team12=Peter Wells
    RD1-score12=0.5
    RD1-seed13=
    RD1-team13=Larry Christiansen
    RD1-score13=4
    RD1-seed14=
    RD1-team14=Ulf Andersson
    RD1-score14=5
    RD1-seed15=
    RD1-team15=Vasilios Kotronias
    RD1-score15=1.5
    RD1-seed16=
    RD1-team16=Vadim Milov
    RD1-score16=2.5
    RD2-seed01=
    RD2-team01=Veselin Topalov
    RD2-score01=0.5
    RD2-seed02=
    RD2-team02=Jeroen Piket
    RD2-score02=1.5
    RD2-seed03=
    RD2-team03=Loek van Wely
    RD2-score03=1.5
    RD2-seed04=
    RD2-team04=Igor Miladinovic
    RD2-score04=0.5
    RD2-seed05=
    RD2-team05=Kiril Georgiev
    RD2-score05=2.5
    RD2-seed06=
    RD2-team06=Boris Alterman
    RD2-score06=1.5
    RD2-seed07=
    RD2-team07=Ulf Andersson
    RD2-score07=3
    RD2-seed08=
    RD2-team08=Vadim Milov
    RD2-score08=4
    RD3-seed01=
    RD3-team01=Jeroen Piket
    RD3-score01=2.5
    RD3-seed02=
    RD3-team02=Loek van Wely
    RD3-score02=3.5
    RD3-seed03=
    RD3-team03=Kiril Georgiev
    RD3-score03=1.5
    RD3-seed04=
    RD3-team04=Vadim Milov
    RD3-score04=0.5
    RD4-seed01=
    RD4-team01=Loek van Wely
    RD4-score01=1.5
    RD4-seed02=
    RD4-team02=Kiril Georgiev
    RD4-score02=0.5

    ection 3

    4RoundBracket-Byes
    RD3=Third round
    RD4=Fourth round
    RD1-seed05=
    RD1-team05=Sergei Rublevsky
    RD1-score05=2
    RD1-seed06=
    RD1-team06=Kevin Spraggett
    RD1-score06=0
    RD1-seed07=
    RD1-team07=Tal Shaked
    RD1-score07=3
    RD1-seed08=
    RD1-team08=Ivan Morovic
    RD1-score08=2
    RD1-seed11=
    RD1-team11=Viktor Korchnoi
    RD1-score11=1.5
    RD1-seed12=
    RD1-team12=Gilberto Hernandez
    RD1-score12=0.5
    RD1-seed13=
    RD1-team13=Alexander Chernin
    RD1-score13=2
    RD1-seed14=
    RD1-team14=Andrei Istratescu
    RD1-score14=3
    RD1-seed15=
    RD1-team15=Andrei Sokolov
    RD1-score15=1.5
    RD1-seed16=
    RD1-team16=Watu Kobese
    RD1-score16=0.5
    RD2-seed01=
    RD2-team01=Alexander Beliavsky
    RD2-score01=1.5
    RD2-seed02=
    RD2-team02=Jan Timman
    RD2-score02=0.5
    RD2-seed03=
    RD2-team03=Sergei Rublevsky
    RD2-score03=1.5
    RD2-seed04=
    RD2-team04=Tal Shaked
    RD2-score04=0.5
    RD2-seed05=
    RD2-team05=Nigel Short
    RD2-score05=3.5
    RD2-seed06=
    RD2-team06=Viktor Korchnoi
    RD2-score06=2.5
    RD2-seed07=
    RD2-team07=Andrei Istratescu
    RD2-score07=0
    RD2-seed08=
    RD2-team08=Andrei Sokolov
    RD2-score08=2
    RD3-seed01=
    RD3-team01=Alexander Beliavsky
    RD3-score01=2.5
    RD3-seed02=
    RD3-team02=Sergei Rublevsky
    RD3-score02=1.5
    RD3-seed03=
    RD3-team03=Nigel Short
    RD3-score03=2
    RD3-seed04=
    RD3-team04=Andrei Sokolov
    RD3-score04=0
    RD4-seed01=
    RD4-team01=Alexander Beliavsky
    RD4-score01=1
    RD4-seed02=
    RD4-team02=Nigel Short
    RD4-score02=3

    ection 4

    4RoundBracket-Byes
    RD3=Third round
    RD4=Fourth round
    RD1-seed03=
    RD1-team03=Roman Slobodjan
    RD1-score03=1.5
    RD1-seed04=
    RD1-team04=Peter Leko
    RD1-score04=0.5
    RD1-seed05=
    RD1-team05=Aleksej Alexandrov
    RD1-score05=3
    RD1-seed06=
    RD1-team06=Boris Gulko
    RD1-score06=2
    RD1-seed07=
    RD1-team07=Johann Hjartarson
    RD1-score07=2.5
    RD1-seed08=
    RD1-team08=Sarunas Sulskis
    RD1-score08=1.5
    RD1-seed11=
    RD1-team11=Vladimir Malaniuk
    RD1-score11=2
    RD1-seed12=
    RD1-team12=Hichem Hamdouchi
    RD1-score12=0
    RD1-seed13=
    RD1-team13=Michal Krasenkov
    RD1-score13=1.5
    RD1-seed14=
    RD1-team14=Paul van der Sterren
    RD1-score14=0.5
    RD1-seed15=
    RD1-team15=Emil Sutovsky
    RD1-score15=0.5
    RD1-seed16=
    RD1-team16=Gildardo Garcia
    RD1-score16=1.5
    RD2-seed01=
    RD2-team01=Zurab Azmaiparashvili
    RD2-score01=2.5
    RD2-seed02=
    RD2-team02=Roman Slobodjan
    RD2-score02=1.5
    RD2-seed03=
    RD2-team03=Aleksej Alexandrov
    RD2-score03=2.5
    RD2-seed04=
    RD2-team04=Johann Hjartarson
    RD2-score04=1.5
    RD2-seed05=
    RD2-team05=Yevgeny Bareev
    RD2-score05=2
    RD2-seed06=
    RD2-team06=Vladimir Malaniuk
    RD2-score06=0
    RD2-seed07=
    RD2-team07=Michal Krasenkov
    RD2-score07=1.5
    RD2-seed08=
    RD2-team08=Gildardo Garcia
    RD2-score08=0.5
    RD3-seed01=
    RD3-team01=Zurab Azmaiparashvili
    RD3-score01=1.5
    RD3-seed02=
    RD3-team02=Aleksej Alexandrov
    RD3-score02=0.5
    RD3-seed03=
    RD3-team03=Yevgeny Bareev
    RD3-score03=0.5
    RD3-seed04=
    RD3-team04=Michal Krasenkov
    RD3-score04=1.5
    RD4-seed01=
    RD4-team01=Zurab Azmaiparashvili
    RD4-score01=3
    RD4-seed02=
    RD4-team02=Michal Krasenkov
    RD4-score02=4

    ection 5

    4RoundBracket-Byes
    RD3=Third round
    RD4=Fourth round
    RD1-seed01=
    RD1-team01=Vassily Smyslov
    RD1-score01=0
    RD1-seed02=
    RD1-team02=Alexander Morozevich
    RD1-score02=2
    RD1-seed03=
    RD1-team03=Margeir Petursson
    RD1-score03=0.5
    RD1-seed04=
    RD1-team04=Lembit Oll
    RD1-score04=1.5
    RD1-seed05=
    RD1-team05=Alexander Fominyh
    RD1-score05=0.5
    RD1-seed06=
    RD1-team06=Vladislav Tkachiev
    RD1-score06=1.5
    RD1-seed09=
    RD1-team09=Dibyendu Barua
    RD1-score09=2
    RD1-seed10=
    RD1-team10=Zbynek Hracek
    RD1-score10=3
    RD2-seed01=
    RD2-team01=Alexander Morozevich
    RD2-score01=0.5
    RD2-seed02=
    RD2-team02=Lembit Oll
    RD2-score02=1.5
    RD2-seed03=
    RD2-team03=Vladislav Tkachiev
    RD2-score03=3
    RD2-seed04=
    RD2-team04=Valery Salov
    RD2-score04=1
    RD2-seed05=
    RD2-team05=Zbynek Hracek
    RD2-score05=0.5
    RD2-seed06=
    RD2-team06=Joel Lautier
    RD2-score06=1.5
    RD3-seed01=
    RD3-team01=Lembit Oll
    RD3-score01=1.5
    RD3-seed02=
    RD3-team02=Vladislav Tkachiev
    RD3-score02=2.5
    RD3-seed03=
    RD3-team03=Joel Lautier
    RD3-score03=2
    RD3-seed04=
    RD3-team04=Boris Gelfand
    RD3-score04=4
    RD4-seed01=
    RD4-team01=Vladislav Tkachiev
    RD4-score01=2.5
    RD4-seed02=
    RD4-team02=Boris Gelfand
    RD4-score02=3.5

    ection 6

    4RoundBracket-Byes
    RD3=Third round
    RD4=Fourth round
    RD1-seed01=
    RD1-team01=Hendrik Hoeksema
    RD1-score01=0.5
    RD1-seed02=
    RD1-team02=Alexander Nenashev
    RD1-score02=1.5
    RD1-seed05=
    RD1-team05=John van der Wiel
    RD1-score05=0.5
    RD1-seed06=
    RD1-team06=Jaan Ehlvest
    RD1-score06=1.5
    RD1-seed11=
    RD1-team11=Joel Benjamin
    RD1-score11=2
    RD1-seed12=
    RD1-team12=Vadim Zvjaginsev
    RD1-score12=3
    RD1-seed13=
    RD1-team13=Yasser Seirawan
    RD1-score13=3
    RD1-seed14=
    RD1-team14=Ashot Anastasian
    RD1-score14=1
    RD2-seed01=
    RD2-team01=Alexander Nenashev
    RD2-score01=0.5
    RD2-seed02=
    RD2-team02=Alexey Dreev
    RD2-score02=1.5
    RD2-seed03=
    RD2-team03=Jaan Ehlvest
    RD2-score03=2
    RD2-seed04=
    RD2-team04=Matthew Sadler
    RD2-score04=4
    RD2-seed05=
    RD2-team05=Grigory Kaidanov
    RD2-score05=2
    RD2-seed06=
    RD2-team06=Vadim Zvjaginsev
    RD2-score06=4
    RD2-seed07=
    RD2-team07=Yasser Seirawan
    RD2-score07=1.5
    RD2-seed08=
    RD2-team08=Vassily Ivanchuk
    RD2-score08=0.5
    RD3-seed01=
    RD3-team01=Alexey Dreev
    RD3-score01=1.5
    RD3-seed02=
    RD3-team02=Matthew Sadler
    RD3-score02=0.5
    RD3-seed03=
    RD3-team03=Vadim Zvjaginsev
    RD3-score03=2.5
    RD3-seed04=
    RD3-team04=Yasser Seirawan
    RD3-score04=1.5
    RD4-seed01=
    RD4-team01=Alexey Dreev
    RD4-score01=3
    RD4-seed02=
    RD4-team02=Vadim Zvjaginsev
    RD4-score02=1

    ection 7

    4RoundBracket-Byes
    RD3=Third round
    RD4=Fourth round
    RD1-seed01=
    RD1-team01=Helgi Gretarsson
    RD1-score01=1.5
    RD1-seed02=
    RD1-team02=Miguel Illescas
    RD1-score02=0.5
    RD1-seed05=
    RD1-team05=Peng Xiaomin
    RD1-score05=0.5
    RD1-seed06=
    RD1-team06=Zoltan Almasi
    RD1-score06=1.5
    RD1-seed09=
    RD1-team09=Igor Glek
    RD1-score09=1.5
    RD1-seed10=
    RD1-team10=Friso Nijboer
    RD1-score10=2.5
    RD2-seed01=
    RD2-team01=Helgi Gretarsson
    RD2-score01=0.5
    RD2-seed02=
    RD2-team02=Arthur Yussupov
    RD2-score02=1.5
    RD2-seed03=
    RD2-team03=Zoltan Almasi
    RD2-score03=1.5
    RD2-seed04=
    RD2-team04=Judith Polgar
    RD2-score04=0.5
    RD2-seed05=
    RD2-team05=Friso Nijboer
    RD2-score05=0
    RD2-seed06=
    RD2-team06=Alexander Khalifman
    RD2-score06=2
    RD2-seed07=
    RD2-team07=Predrag Nikolic
    RD2-score07=0
    RD2-seed08=
    RD2-team08=Viswanathan Anand
    RD2-score08=2
    RD3-seed01=
    RD3-team01=Arthur Yussupov
    RD3-score01=0.5
    RD3-seed02=
    RD3-team02=Zoltan Almasi
    RD3-score02=1.5
    RD3-seed03=
    RD3-team03=Alexander Khalifman
    RD3-score03=2.5
    RD3-seed04=
    RD3-team04=Viswanathan Anand
    RD3-score04=3.5
    RD4-seed01=
    RD4-team01=Zoltan Almasi
    RD4-score01=0
    RD4-seed02=
    RD4-team02=Viswanathan Anand
    RD4-score02=2

    ection 8

    4RoundBracket-Byes
    RD3=Third round
    RD4=Fourth round
    RD1-seed01=
    RD1-team01=Alexander Umgaev
    RD1-score01=0
    RD1-seed02=
    RD1-team02=Viktor Bologan
    RD1-score02=2
    RD1-seed05=
    RD1-team05=Thomas Luther
    RD1-score05=3.5
    RD1-seed06=
    RD1-team06=Lajos Portisch
    RD1-score06=2.5
    RD1-seed09=
    RD1-team09=Gilberto Milos
    RD1-score09=2
    RD1-seed10=
    RD1-team10=Niaz Murshed
    RD1-score10=0
    RD1-seed11=
    RD1-team11=Stephan Kindermann
    RD1-score11=3
    RD1-seed12=
    RD1-team12=Alex Yermolinsky
    RD1-score12=2
    RD1-seed13=
    RD1-team13=Bojan Kurajica
    RD1-score13=1.5
    RD1-seed14=
    RD1-team14=Julio Granda
    RD1-score14=2.5
    RD2-seed01=
    RD2-team01=Viktor Bologan
    RD2-score01=0
    RD2-seed02=
    RD2-team02=Rafael Vaganian
    RD2-score02=2
    RD2-seed03=
    RD2-team03=Thomas Luther
    RD2-score03=0.5
    RD2-seed04=
    RD2-team04=Vladimir Akopian
    RD2-score04=1.5
    RD2-seed05=
    RD2-team05=Gilberto Milos
    RD2-score05=2
    RD2-seed06=
    RD2-team06=Stephan Kindermann
    RD2-score06=0
    RD2-seed07=
    RD2-team07=Julio Granda
    RD2-score07=0.5
    RD2-seed08=
    RD2-team08=Alexei Shirov
    RD2-score08=1.5
    RD3-seed01=
    RD3-team01=Rafael Vaganian
    RD3-score01=3
    RD3-seed02=
    RD3-team02=Vladimir Akopian
    RD3-score02=4
    RD3-seed03=
    RD3-team03=Gilberto Milos
    RD3-score03=1.5
    RD3-seed04=
    RD3-team04=Alexei Shirov
    RD3-score04=2.5
    RD4-seed01=
    RD4-team01=Vladimir Akopian
    RD4-score01=0.5
    RD4-seed02=
    RD4-team02=Alexei Shirov
    RD4-score02=1.5

    References

    External links

    *Mark Weeks: [http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/9798$cix.htm Groningen] [http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/9798$wix.htm Lausanne]
    * [http://www.brasilbase.pro.br/rot1997w.htm Brasilbase]


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