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Ruslan Ponomariov became the new FIDE World Chess champion! Our congratulations! Read /News/2002/Ponomar.html"> an article about the new Champion

The final match Ivanchuk - Ponomariov took place january 16-25.
The score of the match 4.5 - 2.5 in favour of Ponomariov and he became the new FIDE World Champion! .
We give the annotations of the games by the best Saint-Petersburg GMs.

GM Mark Taimanov annotates the /Java/2002/WCC7/on.html"> 7th game .
GM Sergey Ivanov annotates the /Java/2002/WCC6/on.html"> 6th game .
GM Sergey Ionov annotates the /Java/2002/WCC5/on.html"> 5th game .
The Saint-Petersburg Champion GM Valerij Popov annotates /Java/2002/WCC4/on.html"> the 4th game .
GM Mark Taimanov /Java/2002/WCC3/on.html"> annotates the 3rd game .
GM Konstantin Sakaev /Java/2002/WCC2/on.html"> annotates the 2nd game .
GM Sergey Ivanov /Java/2002/WCC1/on.html"> annotates the 1st game .
/Java/2002/WCC/viewer.html"> View games
/Java/2002/WCC/wccf.zip"> Games in PGN

Dreev	/Images/table/center.gif">	1/2,0-1	Anand	/Images/table/center2.gif">	1-0,1/2 /Images/table/center1.gif">	Anand Ivanchuk	/Images/table/center3.gif">	1/2,1/2, 1/2,0-1 /Images/table/center1.gif">
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Anand
Topalov	/Images/table/center.gif">	1/2,1/2	Shirov
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Shirov		1/2,1/2,0-1,1-0,0-1
Ivanchuk	/Images/table/center.gif">	1-0,1/2	Ivanchuk	/Images/table/center2.gif">	1/2,1/2 /Images/table/center1.gif"> 1/2,1/2,1-0,1/2
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Ye
Lautier	/Images/table/center.gif">	1/2,1/2	Lautier
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Nikolic		1-0,1-0

Adams	/Images/table/center.gif">	1/2,1/2	Svidler	/Images/table/center2.gif">	1/2,1/2 /Images/table/center1.gif"> 1/2,1/2,1-0	Svidler Ponomariov	/Images/table/center3.gif">	1/2,1/2, 0-1,1/2 /Images/table/center1.gif">
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Svidler		1/2,1/2,1/2,0-1,1/2
Azmaiparashvili	/Images/table/center.gif">	1/2,1/2	Gelfand
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Gelfand		0-1,1-0,0-1,1/2
Ponomariov	/Images/table/center.gif">	1-0,0-1	Ponomariov	/Images/table/center2.gif">	1/2,1/2 /Images/table/center1.gif"> 1-0,1-0
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Morozevich		1/2,1-0
Bareev	/Images/table/center.gif">	1-0,1-0	Bareev
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Ehlvest

We remind of the previous results of the WCC FIDE:
Men's semifinal:
Anand - Ivanchuk 1.5 - 2.5
Ponomariov - Svidler 2.5 - 1.5
Women's final:
Zhu Chen - Kosteniuk 2 - 2
The result of tie-break: 3 - 1 in favour of Zhu Chen , and she has become the World Champion!

The Saint-Petersburg Champion Valerij Popov /Java/2001/WCC64/on.html"> annotates the 4th games of men's semifinal and women's final.
Konstantin Aseev /Java/2001/WCC63/on.html"> annotates the 3rd day semifinal's games.
Konstantin Aseev /Java/2001/WCC62/on.html"> annotated 2nd day semifinal's games.
Sergey Ivanov /Java/2001/WCC61/on.html"> annotated 1st day semifinal's games.
Mark Taimanov annotated the 1/4 final's games - /Java/2001/WCC51/on.html"> day1 and /Java/2001/WCC52/on.html"> day2 .
The 1/8 final's games were annotated by GM Sergey Ionov - /Java/2001/WCC41/on.html"> day1 and /Java/2001/WCC42/on.html"> day2 .
The FIDE World Chess Championships took place in Moscow in the Kremlin Congress Palace November 25th - December 14th 2001 and the final January 16th-26th 2002.
We corrected the movement by rounds table (who plays with who) rounds 1-3 for /News/2001/WCC/round1m.html"> men and /News/2001/WCC/round1w.html"> women and rounds 4-6 for /News/2001/WCC/round2m.html"> men and /News/2001/WCC/round2w.html"> women
The tables with results of the 4-6 rounds : /News/2001/WCC/round2m.html"> men and /News/2001/WCC/round2w.html"> women
The tables with results of the 1-3 rounds : /News/2001/WCC/round1m.html"> men and /News/2001/WCC/round1w.html"> women
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC65/viewer.html"> View games (tie-break round6)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC65/WCC6tb.zip"> Games in PGN (tie-break round6)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC64/viewer.html"> View games (day4 round6)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC64/WCC64.zip"> Games in PGN (day4 round6)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC63/viewer.html"> View games (day3 round6)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC63/WCC63.zip"> Games in PGN (day3 round6)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC62/viewer.html"> View games (day2 round6)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC62/WCC62.zip"> Games in PGN (day2 round6)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC61/viewer.html"> View games (day1 round6)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC61/WCC61.zip"> Games in PGN (day1 round6)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC53/viewer.html"> View games (tie-break round5)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC53/WCC53.zip"> Games in PGN (tie-break round5)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC52/viewer.html"> View games (day2 round5)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC52/WCC52.zip"> Games in PGN (day2 round5)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC51/viewer.html"> View games (day1 round5)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC51/WCC51.zip"> Games in PGN (day1 round5)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC43/viewer.html"> View games (tie-break round4)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC43/WCC43.zip"> Games in PGN (tie-break round4)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC42/viewer.html"> View games (day2 round4)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC42/WCC42.zip"> Games in PGN (day2 round4)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC41/viewer.html"> View games (day1 round4)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC41/WCC41.zip"> Games in PGN (day1 round4)
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC3/viewer.html"> View games 1-3 rounds
/Java/2001/WCC/WCC3/WCC.zip"> Games in PGN (1-3 rounds)
The information about the participants: /News/2001/WCC/listm.html"> men and /News/2001/WCC/listw.html"> women