01/01 FIDE: Kasparov-2851, Anand-2771, Kramnik-2758, Shirov-2751.

01/12 Sutovsky won the Hastings Congress.

01/25 The regulations of the 4th world Universities Chess championship to be held in Varna, Bulgaria from 1 to 11 September 2000.

01/27 Regulations approved and used for the 1999 world championship will be used for the cycle 2000.

01/30 Kasparov won Corus Wijk aan Zee.

02/05 Koltanowski died in San Francisco.

02/22 Memorandum on the commercialisation of FIDE.

02/22 FIDE President is presenting this memorandum on the commercialisation of FIDE.

03/02 Communiqué of the meeting of the first quarter FIDE presidential board in Marrakech.

03/05 Daniel Yanofsky died at the age of 74.

03/10 Kramnik and Kasparov won Linares.

03/15 Details of the recommendations of the presidential board on a memorandum on commercialisation of FIDE.

03/16 Introduction to the 2000 FIDE handbook; circular letter on the FIDE handbook 2000.

03/26 Message of the FIDE president H.E. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov to the participants of the children’s Chess Olympiad held in Artek, International Children Centre at the Crimea, Ukraine.

03/28 Shirov won the 9th Amber tournament.

04/13 Aivars Gipslis died at the age of 63 in Berlin.

04/25 Oleg Raikis, Russian sculptor made a new Chess set design, devoting it to the world champion Xie Jun, representative of China.

05/02 Letter of Mr. Iclicki in respect of the publication of the FIDE rapid rating list.

05/11 Smirin won the New York Open.

05/17 Summary of decisions of FIDE presidential board at its meeting at Simpson’s-in-the-Strand, London, 13-14 May 2000.

05/31 IOC president received the youngest WGM A. Kosteniuk.

06/26 Publishing the proposed amendments to the Laws of Chess as submitted by the rules committee Chairman Geurt Gijssen.

06/27 Volkov won the 53rd Russian championship.

06/28 Circular letter in respect of the inaugural 2000 world Chess Cup and women’s world Chess Cup.

06/29 Regulations for the world Chess Cup.

06/29 Circular letter on the information of the new FIDE bank accounts.

06/30 Letter to the qualifiers of the 2000 women’s world Chess Cup.

06/30 Player’s undertaking for participation in the 2000 Shenyang world Chess Cup.

06/30 Istanbul has been chosen by FIDE as the host city for the 34th Chess Olympiad and 71st FIDE congress in the year of 2000.

07/18 Deadline to register for the 34th Chess Olympiad.

07/21 Reply of the FIDE executive director Emmanuel Omuku to the open letter of GM Yasser Seirawan dated 12 June 2000.

07/22 Vladimir Bagirov died in Finland.

07/30 Deadline for the intermediate rating list.

08/07 2000 world Chess Cup.

08/07 Final list of the participants for the 2000 world Chess Cup.

08/16 Rehabilitation of the grave of world champion Alexander Alekhine.

09/06 2000 world Chess Championship.

09/06 Women’s world Chess championship 2000.

09/15 The proposed amendments to the Laws of Chess as submitted by the rules committee chairman Geurt Gijssen.

09/16 The dates for the 2000 world Chess championships were officially confirmed today.

09/18 Accommodation and venue for the world Chess championship 2000.

09/28 On 25 Sep in Sydney, in the embassy of Slovenia took place the presentation of the Chess Olympiad 2002. Bled was selected the venue of the Olympiad 2002.

10/02 Lazaro won the world junior championship in Armenia.

10/07 71st FIDE congress. General assembly agenda.

10/07 Benjamin, Shabalov, Seirawan won the US championship, Seattle.

10/30 Time control proposal from GMA Sirov on the change of time control.

11/04 Kramnik beats Kasparov in the Braingames world championship.

11/12 34th Chess Olympiad, Istanbul. 1st Russia; 2nd Germany; 3rd Ukraine.

12/06 Titles awarded at 71st FIDE congress in Istanbul, Turkey.

12/11 World Chess championship finals in Tehran, Iran.

12/21 Chess can teach politicians how to resolve conflicts and contradictions, thinks Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

12/26 The Chess Organizers Handbook’ is now available from Stewart Reuben, price $15.

12/26 Tehran declaration on the world Chess championship titles.

12/27 Anand won the FIDE world championship in Tehran.

01/01 FIDE: Kasparov-2849, Anand-2790, Kramnik-2772, Adams-2746.

01/07 Conquest and Sasikirin won 76th Hastings congress.

01/08 New Laws of Chess coming into force on July 1st 2001, approved in the FIDE congress in Istanbul.

01/09 Explanation of the basis for the decision of the presidential board to introduce the new time control.

01/10 FIDE and Karpov settle. Official press release on the decision of the Court of Arbitration for sport in respect of the Karpov vs. FIDE case.

01/12 Wijk aan Zee gave data for the first ranking calculation.

01/23 The corrections to the Laws of Chess published 11 December 2000.

01/23 FIDE press release on the consent arbitral award by the Court of Arbitration for sports in Karpov vs. FIDE.

01/25 FIDE Commerce International Ltd signed a contract with Octagon Sponsorship Consulting Ltd Corporation.

01/28 Kasparov won Corus Wijk aan Zee.

02/05 FIDE 2001 rapid rating list.

02/22 Linares 2001 (02/22/2001 - 03/07/2001).

02/28 Anna-Maria Botsari played 1102 boards simultaneously in Greece.

03/04 Gerardo Barbero died. Argentina GM. Born Aug 21, 1961.

03/07 Kasparov won Linares.

03/11 Akopian and Zhang won the National Open.

03/21 Topalov and Kramnik won 10th Amber championship.

03/22 Kosteniuk - Sebag Match, Cannes (FRA), 22-25 March 2001.

03/22 Nigel Short will encounter Alexander Khalifman for the first FIDE.COM trophy.

03/22 FIDE Commerce International took a decision on development and introduction of Chess uniform.

03/23 World Cup of rapid Chess, Cannes (FRA), 21-25 March 2001.

03/27 Nigel Short wins the first FIDE.COM Trophy.

03/27 Vasily Smyslov, the seventh world Chess champion celebrates his 80th birthday.

04/01 Eugenio German died, age 70. First Brazilian IM.

04/09 FIDE rating list of April, 2001.

04/09 Alexandra Kosteniuk, 16. Twice the winner of the Russian women’s Cup, European and world junior champion, Grandmaster.

04/16 Samples of Chess uniform presented in Cannes during the world Cup of rapid Chess, March 22 - 23.

04/20 FIDE’s response to the open letter of GM’s Anatoly Karpov, Gary Kasparov, and Vladimir Kramnik.

04/24 A. Karpov, G. Kasparov and V. Kramnik declared war against Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. By IM Vladimir Barskij, Kommersant, 21 April 2001.

04/26 Easter in Rethymno 2001 Chess Festival. Karpov-Kouvatsou 1-1. The Greek girl won the second game.

04/29 Moscow hosted a Chess fashion performance.

04/29 Kramnik beats Kasparov again.

04/30 54th Russian Chess championship.

05/02 FIDE officially created the Medical Commission.

05/03 54th Russian men’s Chess championship. Konstantin Chernyshov took lead after the third round with 3 points out of 3.

05/04 72nd FIDE Congress.

05/04 Nona Gaprindashvili, the former women’s world champion, celebrates her 60th birthday.

05/08 54th Russian Chess championship finals finished today in Elista. GM Alexander Motylev from Moscow became a champion of Russia. GM Alexander Lastin 2nd and GM Andrey Kharlov 3rd.

05/11 The world junior and girls U-20 Chess championship is scheduled to hold in Athens, Greece (15-30 August 2001).

05/15 International super tournament in Astana, Kazakhstan.

05/19 FIDE Commerce releases Spanish and Russian versions of their website.

05/22 Olympic Capital Young Masters Chess tournament 2001.

05/23 Anand won the II Merida Tournament. The tournament took place 16th-22nd May with Anand, Khalifman, Short, and Hernandez.

05/25 Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, FIDE president, was awarded with the Order of Gold Fleece.

05/30 The magnificent ten Chess players of the 20th century.

06/01 Olga Zimina wins Russian women’s Chess championship. Julia Demina and Ekaterina Korbut were second and third.

06/01 Gary Kasparov beats Vladimir Kramnik and becomes the winner of Astana super tournament.

06/02 2nd European Chess championship. Ohrid, Macedonia. June 1 - 15, 2001.

06/07 The city of Leon, Spain, welcomes the international grandmaster tournament “Ciudad de Leon” (06/07/2001 - 06/11/2001).

06/11 Anand won Shirov in the final of the international grandmaster Chess Tournament “Ciudad de Leon”.

06/13 Gary Kasparov lost to 17 year old Hans Kristian Simonsen of Faroe islands.

06/16 Emil Sutovsky - a new champion of the Europe.

07/02 World Chess champion Anand beats Kramnik in rapid Chess.

07/05 72nd FIDE Congress.

07/05 World junior championship 2001.

07/08 Smirin, Onischuk, Yudasin, Goldin, Shulman, Benjamin, A Ivanov won world Open.

07/11 International Chess Festival Czech Open 2001 will start in Pardubice on Thursday July 12th.

07/19 Dr. Jacques Rogge of Belgium new IOC president.

07/23 Leen Huissoon from New Zealand, the first winner of the WICC tournament.

08/04 Claude Bloodgood died. Born July 14, 1924.

08/10 Joseph Gallagher won the British championship.

08/12 Wojtkiewicz, Benjamin, Doettling, Stripunsky won US Open, Framingham, MA.

08/16 Carmine Nigro died at the age of 91.

08/23 Deep Junior 7 won the 18th world microcomputer championship.

08/29 Peter Acs won the world junior championship in Athens, Greece.

08/30 World junior Chess championship 2001.

08/31 WICC nomination awards.

09/01 A special official Arbiters’ commission for the WICC 2001 tournament has been formed.

09/03 Ibragimov won the 123rd NY State championship.

09/10 Alexei Suetin died in Moscow. Born Nov 16, 1926.

09/14 Najdorf Memorial 2001, Buenos Aires (Arg.), 4-13 IX 2001. Anatoly Karpov is the winner of the Najdorf Memorial tournament with 6.5 points of 9.

09/14 European Club Cup, Crete (Gre.), 23-30 IX 2001.

09/21 The first intercontinental match Europe-Asia, Batumi (Geo.), 17-19 IX 2001.

10/10/ Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz postponed.

10/10 The 5th world team championship will be held October 12-20, 2001, in Yerevan, Armenia.

10/10 Former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia join the world championship organized by FIDE.

10/13 Ponomariov wins Governor’s Cup Kramatorsk (Ukraine).

10/16 4th world junior team championship in Copacabana - Rio de Janeiro.

10/16 GM Valerij Filippov wins the final tournament of 5th Russian Cup.

10/18 Online world Chess in Amsterdam.

10/23 World Chess Hall of Fame grand opening rescheduled for December 16-17.

10/28 Klovans won the world senior championship in Italy.

10/24 Sri Lanka national championship.

11/12 Tony Miles died.

11/25 Khachian won the 37th American Open.

11/26 Vladimir Putin’s greeting speech to the participants and guests of the WCC 2001. Chess does make the man wiser and clear-sighted, Putin considers.

11/27 Anand beaten by the internet championship qualifier.

11/28 Anand qualified, Karpov is out. The first day of world championship 2001 in Moscow started with a shocking defeat by Anand.

12/01 PCA: Kasparov-2798; Kramnik-2794; Anand-2733; Topolov-2706.

12/02 John Collins died at the age of 89. Born in 1912.

12/14 Zhu Chen is a new world women Chess champion.

12/24 Traditional Corus Chess tournament 2002 will take place in Wijk aan Zee 12-27 - January.

01/01 FIDE: Kasparov-2838; Kramnik-2809; Anand-2757; Adams-2742.

01/04 January 2002 FIDE rating list.

01/06 Harikrishna and Barsov won 77th Hastings congress.

01/08 IOC President, Dr. Jacques Rogge extends his very best wishes for the world championship in Moscow.

01/10 Final match of the world Chess championship between Vassily Ivanchuk and Ruslan Ponomarev, to start on 16 January 2002.

01/13 De Firmian and Christiansen won the US championship, Seattle.

01/16 2001-2002 world chess championship began.

01/23 Ponomariov draws 7th game to clinch match and become 16th world champion.

01/26 Ruslan Ponomariov beat Ivanchuk for FIDE world champion, Moscow.

01/27 Bareev won Corus, Wijk aan Zee.

01/28 Corus Chess tournament 2002, Wijk aan Zee (Ned.) January 12-27.

02/04 The international Open Chess festival "Aeroflot Open 2002" is held in Moscow from 4 February (the day of arrival) to 11 February 2002.

02/11 Ponomariov will participate in Linares tournament.

02/13 Edmar Mednis died. Born Mar 22, 1937.

02/14 2nd world Cup in Mumbai (India).

02/20 This year the famous tournament in Linares will be held 22nd February - 10th March 2002.

02/22 Florencio Campomanes, the honorary president of FIDE, celebrate his birthday today.

03/04 Vaselin Topalov and Boris Gelfand are the winners of the NAO Chess Masters tournament with 6 points of 9.

03/11 Gary Kasparov is the winner of the Linares 2002 with 8 points of 12.

03/11 Yermolinsky and Browne won the national Open, Las Vegas.

03/27 FIDE releases the new rapid rating list.

03/28 Morozevich won the Amber tournament in Monaco.

03/28 Weekly Cup of FIDE tournament zone.

03/29 Alexander Morozevich is the winner of the Amber blindfold and rapid Chess tournament with 15 points of 22.

04/03 Women’s world champion Zhu Chen defeated the current world champion and top seed Ruslan Ponamariov.

04/05 Kirsan Ilyumzhinov the president of FIDE and president of the republic of Kalmykia, celebrates his 40th birthday today.

04/08 The first weekly Cup is over. The next tournament starts April 13. Mitin Andrey winner.

04/10 25th Asian junior Chess championship 2002 Marawila, Sri Lanka.

04/10 April 2002 FIDE rating list.

04/10 Peter Leko is the highest ranked Chess player in the 2002 FIDE Grand Prix series having collected 1176 ranking points.

04/24 Alexander Golshchapov is the winner of the 4th Dubai Open Chess championship.

04/24 Eurotel world Chess trophy (Cze.), 28 IV - 5 V, 2002.

05/05 Viswanathan Anand is the winner of the Eurotel world Chess trophy.

05/13 125th anniversary of the German Chess federation.

05/31 Proposal for the unification and post-unification world Chess championships.

06/05 Gary Kasparov, the winner of 2002 Moscow Grand Prix.

06/07 Ponomariov challenges Anand.

06/13 Match of the century: Russia vs. World.

06/19 World Youth Chess championship 2002.

06/19 David Garcia Ilundain, Spanish GM, died at the age of 31.

06/26 25th Asian junior Chess championship 2002.

07/07 Milton won the 30th world Open.

08/04 Zaitshik and Najer won the US Open in Cherry Hill, NJ.

08/10 Ramesh won the British championship.

08/20 Mainz, August 18: Vishy Anand beats the acting world Chess champion Ruslan Ponomariov.

08/20 Sergej Karjakin is GM at 12 years, 7 months. Youngest GM ever (beating Bu Xiangxhi). Born Jan 12, 1990.

08/28 Before it started, the match Russia vs. World has already been named historical.

09/02 Benjamin, Stripunsky, Rohde, and Pixton won the 124th NY championship.

09/03 World number 1 rated player Gary Kasparov of Russia visited the FIDE rating office in Elista on Sunday, September 1st.

09/04 Lastin won the 55th Russian championship.

09/05 Address of the Russian president V. Putin to the participants of ‘Russia vs. World’ match.

09/08 Michel Roos, former French champ, died in Strasbourg. Born Aug. 27, 1932.

09/08 Humy Koneru becomes a GM at 15 years, 1 month, 27 days. Youngest female GM.

09/10 Grandmaster Larry Christiansen will play Chessmaster 9000 in a four game match played over two days via live internet broadcast.

09/11 Rest of the world beat Russia in the match of the new century, Moscow.

09/20 Botvinnik Memorial. The participants are all either rivals or pupils of Botvinnik whose career spanned five decades.

 09/23 Eduard Gufeld died in Los Angeles. Born on March 19, 1936.

09/26 Ricardo Calvo died in Madrid. Born October 22, 1943. IM 1973.

Chessmaster 9000 defeated reigning US Chess champion GM Larry Christiansen, 2.5 to 1.5 in a four game match played September 28-29.

10/03 Live webcast of the Kramnik-Deep Fritz match. The first game will be broadcasted at 7:30 am Eastern Time in the US on October 4.

10/10 The match of former world champion Gary Kasparov against the Deep Junior Chess program has been delayed until December 1, 2002.

FIDE champion Ponomariov claims unification matches favor Kasparov.

10/15 Fritz defeats Kramnik again at “Brains in Bahrain” in round 6.

10/20 Anand wins 2nd FIDE world Cup. Hyderabad, Viswanathan Anand (2755) vs. Rustam Kasimdzhanov (2653).

10/22 Kramnik draws with Deep Fritz in Bahrain. 2 wins, 2 losses, 4 draws.

11/02 Petkevich won the 12th world senior Open.

11/11 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled. 1st Russia; 2nd Hungary; 3rd Armenia.

12/01 Blatny and Shulam won the 38th American Open.

12/20 Karpov beat Kasparov in a rapid match in New York. 2 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw.

12/21 Aronian won 41st world junior championship.

12/22 Victor Batirnsky, head of Karpov’s team died. Born June 27, 1914.

01/01 PCA: Kasparov-2805; Kramnik-2789; Topalov-2712; Anand-2698.

01/01 FIDE: Kasparov-2847; Kramnik-2807; Anand-2753; Topalov-2743.

01/05 Peter Nielsen won 78th Hastings congress.

01/18 Shabalov won the 2003 US Chess championship, in Seattle.

01/26 Anand won 65th Corus Wijk aan Zee.

02/07 Kasparov drew with Deep Junior in New York. 1 win, 1 loss, 4 draws.

03/06 Ludek Pachman died in Passau, Germany. Born May 11, 1924. IM 1950. GM 1954.

03/08 Lim Kok Ann, former FIDE general secretary, died. Born Jan 27, 1920.

03/09 Leko and Kramnik win Linares.

03/15 Cambridge beat Oxford in the 121st varisty match.

03/27 Anand wins 12th Amber tournament.

05/10 Milan Vukcevich died in Cleveland. Born March 11, 1937.

05/16 Bogdan Sliwa of Poland died at age 81. Born in 1922. IM in 1953. GM in 1987.

05/19 Orlov won 28th Paul Keres Memorial, Vancouver, Canada.

06/21 Alvise Zichichi, former Italian champion died in Rome. Born in 1938.

07/03 Mamedyarov won the 42nd world junior championship.

07/06 Ehlvest won the 31st world Open.

07/08 Attila Schneider, international master died.

07/11 Ken Whyld died. Age 77.

07/24 Gulko won the US Senior Open, Wilmington, Delaware.

07/26 Harold Schonberg died in New York, age 87.

08/02 Kunte won the British championship.

08/15 Shabalov won the US Open, Los Angeles, CA.

09/01 Donaldson and Langer won the 22nd North American Open.

09/01 Ehlvest and Ibragimov won the 125th New York State championship.

09/12 Svidler won the 56th Russian championship.

11/18 Kasparov draws with Fritz X3D in New York; 1 win, 1 loss, 2 draws.

11/29 Shabanov won the 13th world championship for seniors.

11/30 Shredder won the 19th world computer Chess championship, Graz.

11/30 Akobian, Atilik, Blatny won the 39th American Open.

12/15 Ehlvest won the 87th Marshall Chess Club championship.

12/15 Shabalov won the North American Open in Las Vegas, Nev.

01/01 PCA: Kasparov-2786; Kramnik-2730; Anand-2713; Svidler-2701.

01/01 FIDE: Kasparov-2831; Kramnik-2777; Anand-2766; Svidler-2747.

01/05 Rowson and Kotronius won 79th Hastings 2003/04.

01/15 Tunc Hamarat of Austria won the 16th world correspondence championship.

01/25 Anand wins 66th Corus Wijk aan Zee.

02/21 Martin sets record of playing 321 Chess players at the same time.

03/05 Kramnik wins Linares; Cat 20 (2731 rating average).

06/08 Stefanova wins FIDE women’s championship in Elista.

06/20 Yermolinsky wins US Open in Las Vegas.

07/06 Akobian wins 32nd world Open.

07/12 Deep junior wins 12th world computer championship in Israel.

07/13 Kasimdzhanov wins FIDE world championship in Tripoli.

07/13 Bobby Fischer arrested in Tokyo, Japan.

07/20 Milman wins US junior championship, Kansas.

08/15 Seven way tie in US Open, Fort Lauderdale.

08/22 Aseev, Konstantin died. GM. Born in 1960. Died at age 43.

10/18 Kramnik draws with Leko in Switzerland to remain classical world champion.

10/31 36th Chess Olympiad at Mallorca. 1st-Ukraine; 2nd-Russia; 3rd-Armenia.

11/27 Kasparov wins Russian championship.

12/01 Harikrishna wins world Jr. championship in India.

12/05 Nakamura wins US Championship in San Diego, CA.

 01/01 FIDE: Kasparov-2804; Anand-2786; Topalov-2757; Kramnik-2754.

01/02 Arnold Denker died in Ft Lauderdale at age 94. Honorary GM in 1981. Born in 1914.

01/08 Jaime Emma died. IM (1978) from Argentina.

01/09 Vladimir Belov wins Hastings Christmas congress.

01/16 Victor Frias died. Born in 1956. Chilean IM.

01/30 Leko wins Corus Wijk aan Zee (cat 19-2721).

02/15 Joop van Oosterom wins 18th world correspondence championship (+8=6-0). Correspondence GM in 1993.

03/05 Cambridge beat Oxford in the 123rd Varsity match. Cambridge won 55, lost 50, drew 18.

03/14 Simon Webb murdered by his son. He was 55. Born in 1949. IM 1977. Corr. GM.

03/17 Kasparov and Topalov win Linares 2005 (cat 20- 2743). Gary Kasparov retires.

03/24 Bobby Fischer arrives in Iceland. He was detained 253 days in Japan.

03/31 Anand wins 14th Amber blindfold and rapid Chess tournament in Monte Carlo.

04/05 Dragoljub Minic died of a heart attack, age 69. Born on 4/5/1936. Yugoslav GM in 1991.

04/09 Teimour Radjabov wins 13th Dos Hermanas International.

04/22 Leonid Shamkovich died at age 81. Born in 1923. IM 1962; GM 1965.

05/15 Vladimir Savon died. Born in 1940.

05/22 Topalov wins the Mtel Masters in Sofia, Bulgaria.

05/22 Zviad Izoria wins the HB Global Chess Challenge in Minneapolis.

06/12 Dmitry Gurevich wins national Open in Las Vegas.

06/27 Hydra beats Michael Adams (2737) with 5 wins and 1 draw in London.

07/01 FIDE: Kasparov-2812; Anand-2788; Topalov-2788; Leko-2763; Ivanchuk-2752.

07/04 Egod Ditt died. Born in 1931. FIDE VP from 1990 to 1994.

07/04 Kamil Milton wins the world Open in Philadelphia (USA). He beat Magesh Panchanathan in play-off.

07/17 Arkadij Naiditsch wins Dortmund 2005.

07/29 Ildar Khairullin wins the world youth Chess championship in Belfort, France.

07/29 Andrei Volokitin and Boris Gelfand win Biel GM tournament.

08/01 Susan Polgar played 326 simultaneous games; 1,131 consecutive games; 96.93% winning percentage.

08/13 Jonathan Rowson wins British Chess championship at the Isle of Man.

08/14 Vadim Milov and Joel Benjamin wins the US Open in Phoenix. 455 players.

08/14 Anand beats Grischuk at the Chess classic Mainz.

08/16 Lazaro Bruzon wins the American Continental championship in Buenos Aires.

08/21 The program Zappa wins the 13th world computer Chess championship in Reykjavik.

09/05 GM Gata Kamsky wins 127th New York State championship.

09/27 Start of the FIDE championship in San Luis, Argentina.

10/01 Roman Toran, age 73, died in Madrid; President of the Spanish Chess Federation; FIDE VP from 1982-1990.

10/10 GM Liuben Spassov wins 15th world seniors championship in Italy.

10/10 David Jacobs wins the US Armed Forces championship; Army won the service competition.

10/16 GM Veselin Topalov wins FIDE world championship in San Luis, Argentina; Svilder and Anand took 2nd-3rd.

11/11 Russia won the world team championship in Beer-Sheva, Israel; China took 2nd.

11/12 GM Dragutin Sahovic (born Aug 8, 1940) died in Belgrade.

11/17 GM Igor Ivanov (born in 1947) died in St. George, Utah; GM in 2005.

11/22 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the world jr championship in Istanbul; Elisabeth Paehtz won the girls title.

11/27 IM Vladimir Mezentsev wins the 41st American Open in Los Angeles, CA.

12/15 IM Enrico Paoli born in 1908, died; HGM in 1996; Italian champion in 1951, 1957, 1968; IM in 1951.

12/18 Levon Aronian won the FIDE world Chess Cup in Khanty Mansyisk, Russia; Ponomariov took 2nd.

12/18 Leonid Yudasin wins the Marshall Chess Club championship.

12/30 Sergey Rublevsky wins the Russian championship.

01/01 FIDE ratings: Kasparov 2812, Topalov 2801, Anand 2792, Svidler 2765, Aronian 2752, Kramnik 2741.

01/06 Valerij Neverov wins 2005-06 Hastings Chess Congress.

01/19 Anand and Topalov win Corus Wijk aan Zee.

02/18 Ratmir Kholmov dies at the age of 80. Born 5/13/1925.

02/23 Gary Abram dies. Born in 1930. ICCF IM.

02/26 Levon Aronian wins Linares; cat 20 (2732).

03/11 Oxford wins 124th Oxford vs. Cambridge Varsity match.

03/12 Alexander Onischuk wins US championship in San Diego. Anna Zatonskih wins women’s final.

03/25 Xu Yuhua (2502) wins women’s world Chess championship in Russia.

03/30 15th Amber rapid and blindfold tournament; won by Anand and Morozevich.

04/20 Wolfgang Unzicker died. Born 6/26/1925. German GM.

05/01 Topalov wins Chess Oscar.

05/13 Burt Hochbrg dies. Born in 1933. Former Chess Life editor.

06/01 Deep Junior wins 14th world computer Chess championship in Turin.

06/01 Kirsan Ilyumzhinov re-elected FIDE president.

06/04 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin; 1st-Armenia; 2nd-China; 3rd-USA.

06/19 Wojtkiewicz wins National Open in Las Vegas, Nev.

07/04 Gata Kamsky wins 34th world Open in Philadelphia.

07/14 Aleksander Wojtkiewicz dies in Baltimore. Born 1/15/1963.

07/20 Robert Hess wins US junior Invitational in Dallas.

07/23 Rudolf Teschner dies at the age of 84. He was born on Feb 16, 1922. 1951 German champion.

08/04 Alexander Morozevich wins 39th Biel International festival.

08/13 Yuri Shulman wins the 107th US Open in Chicago.

08/19 Jonathan Rowson wins the 93rd British championship in Swansea.

08/20 Anand wins Chess Classic Mainz.

09/04 Idar Ibragimov and Joel Benjamin win the 128th NY State championship in Albany.

09/07 Alexander Grischuk wins world blitz championship in Israel.

09/22 Korchnoi wins world senior championship in Italy.

10/01 FIDE: Topalov-2813; Anand-2779; Kramnik-2750; Svidler-2750; Morozevich-2747.

10/13 Vladimir Kramnik wins world championship reunification match against Topalov in Elista.

10/17 Zaven Andriasian wins world under 20 championship in Yerevan, Armenia.

10/19 Vladimir Berlinsky wins world blind championship in Goa, India.

10/29 Braun Arik wins world youth championship under 18 in Batumi, Georgia.

11/27 Hikaru Nakamura wins 36th national Chess congress in Philadelphia.

11/29 David Pruess and Melikset Khachiyan win American Open.

12/05 Kramnik - Deep Fritz computer match, played on Bonn, Germany. Computer wins match by 4:2.

12/05 David Bronstein died in Minsk. Born Feb 19, 1924.

12/07 Ivanchuk (2741) wins 41st Capablanca Memorial in Havana. Cat 17 tournament.

12/15 India wins the gold medal in Chess at the Asian games in Doha, Qatar.

05/23 Alexander Shabalov wins 51st US championship in Stillwater, OK.

05/26 Start of the FIDE candidates in Elista; 16 GM’s playing; top 4 qualify for world championship in Mexico.

06/18 Rybka wins 15th world computer Chess championship.

07/04 Varuzhan Akobian wins world Open in tb over Alex Stripunsky; held in King of Prussia, PA.

07/20 Irina Krush wins US women’s Chess championship.

08/04 Magnus Carlsen wins 40th International Chess Festival in Biel.

09/11 World Chess championship in Mexico; Anand wins.

09/28 Algimantas Butorius wins 17th Chess senior world championship in Mexico city.

10/15 Anand is highest rated in FIDE (2801), followed by Ivanchuk (2787), and Kramnik (2785).

11/22 Start of the world Chess Cup in Khany-Mansiysk - won by Kamsky.

11/25 43rd American Open in Los Angeles; won by Alex Yrmolinsky.

12/18 Kamsky wins Chess world Cup.

12/30 Morozevich wins Russian championship.

01/01 Anand and Kramnik are rated 2799.

01/17 Bobby Fischer dies of kidney failure at the age of 64 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

03/27 Levon Aronian wins 17th Amber blindfold/rapid tourney in Nice.

05/08 Anand presented 2007 Chess Oscar.

05/21 Yuri Shulman wins US championship, held in Tulsa. Anna Zatonskih win women’s US championship in Tulsa.

07/08 Evgeny Najer wins 36th world Open in Philadelphia on tb over Negi, Ftacnik, and Moiseenko.

08/09 Stuart Conquest won the 95th British championship held in Liverpool.

08/10 GM Igor Zakharevich of Russia died. Born July 14, 1963. GM in 2000.

08/10 Enrico Sevillano, Alexander Shabalov and Rad Milovanovic win the 109th US Open in Dallas.

08/15 Abhijeet Gupta of India wins world junior championship held in Turkey.

09/18 Alexandra Kosteniuk wins world women’s championship in Nalchik, Russia.

10/28 Svidler wins 61st Russian championship for 5th time.

10/29 Anand defeats Kramnik in Bonn for the world Chess championship.

11/08 Leinier Dominguez Perez wins world blitz championship in Kazakhstan.

11/12 Start of the Chess Olympiad in Dresden.

11/25 Armenia wins gold in Chess Olympiad, followed by Israel (silver) and USA (bronze).

11/29 Bob Wade died at age 86. IM. Born April 10, 1921.

12/09 Mark Diesen died at age 51. Former world junior champion  (1976) died in Conroe, TX.

12/22 Topalov wins Pearl Spring Super GM tournament in Nanjing, China.

12/24 Hugh Myers died in Davenport, Iowa at age 78. Chess author (Myers Opening Bulletin).

12/29 Radjabov, Javkovenko, and Grischuk tie at Elista Grand Prix.

12/31 Ratings: Topalov is 2796, Anand is 2791, Ivanchuk is 2779, Carlsen is 2776.

01/05 Igor Kurnosov wins Hastings Chess congress.

02/01 Igor Sergey Karjakin wins Wijk aan Zee.

02/26 Topalov beats Kamsky to challenge Anand for world championship title.

03/26 Aronian wins Amber blindfold/rapid tourney for the 2nd time in a row.

04/01 FIDE rating: Topalov 2812; Anand 2783; Carlsen 2770; Kramnik 2759; Radjabov 2756; Aronian 2754.

04/29 Aronian wins 4th FIDE Grand Prix tournament in Nalchik.

05/17 Hikaru Nakamura, age 21, wins the US championship in St. Louis; won in 2004; won $40,000.

05/18 Rybka wins 17th world computer championship in Pamplona.

05/23 Shirov wins 5th M-Tel Masters in Sofia.

05/24 Gelfand wins 3rd ACP world rapid Cup in Odessa.

06/07 Akobian and Sevillano tie for 1st in the National Open in Las Vegas, Nevada.

07/01 FIDE rating: Topalov 2813; Anand  2788; Carlsen  2772; Aronian 2768; Jakovenko  2760; Kramnik  2759.

07/05 Hikaru Nakamura and Evgeny Najer (won on tiebreak) tie for 1st in world Open in Philadelphia.

07/12 Kramnik wins Dortmund tournament for the 9th time.

07/16 Ray Robson wins US junior Closed championship in Milwaukee.

08/08 David Howell wins 96th British championship, held in Torquay, UK.

08/09 Lenderman, Kudrin, Yermolinsky, Stopa, Kraai, Gurevich (won on tiebreak) tie at 110th US Open in Indianapolis.

12/03 Milikset Khachiyan wins American Open.

12/28 Hastings Masters Chess tournament, Hastings, USA