Linares , February 22 - March 10
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/Images/Players/Small/kasparov.jpg" align="left" alt="Gary Kasparov" border=0> Gary Kasparov is the winner of the super-tournament in Linares which took place February 22 - March 10.
This was the seven player double round robin tournament.
The participants: Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Michael Adams, Vassily Ivanchuk, Alexei Shirov, Francisco Vallejo Pons and FIDE World champion Ruslan Ponomariov .
We gave the online annotations of games by Saint-Petersburg GMs .

1st round results:
Ponomariov - Ivanchuk 1-0
Shirov - Anand 1/2
Vallejo Pons - Kasparov 1/2
    2nd round results:
Adams - Ponomariov 1-0
Anand - Vallejo Pons 1/2
Ivanchuk - Shirov 1/2
    3rd round results:
Kasparov - Anand 1/2
Shirov - Adams 1/2
Vallejo Pons - Ivanchuk 1/2
4th round results:
Adams - Vallejo Pons 1/2
Ivanchuk - Kasparov 1/2
Ponomariov - Shirov 1/2
    5th round results:
Anand - Ivanchuk 1/2
Kasparov - Adams 1-0
Vallejo Pons - Ponomariov 1/2
    6th round results:
Adams - Anand 1-0
Ponomariov - Kasparov 1/2
Shirov - Vallejo Pons 1/2
7th round results:
Anand - Ponomariov 1/2
Ivanchuk - Adams 1-0
Kasparov - Shirov 1/2
    8th round results:
Anand - Shirov 1-0
Ivanchuk - Ponomariov 1/2
Kasparov - Vallejo Pons 1-0
    9th round results:
Ponomariov - Adams 1-0
Shirov - Ivanchuk 1-0
Vallejo Pons - Anand 1/2
10th round result:
Adams - Shirov 1-0
Anand - Kasparov 1/2
Ivanchuk - Vallejo Pons 1-0
    11th round results:
Kasparov - Ivanchuk 1/2
Shirov - Ponomariov 1/2
Vallejo Pons - Adams 1/2
    12th round results:
Adams - Kasparov 1/2
Ivanchuk - Anand 1/2
Ponomariov - Vallejo Pons 1-0
13th round results:
Kasparov - Ponomariov 1-0
Anand - Adams 1/2
Vallejo Pons - Shirov 1-0
    14th round results:
Shirov - Kasparov 0-1
Ponomariov - Anand 1/2
Adams - Ivanchuk 1/2
IM Evgeny Alekseev , one of the most perspective young chessplayers in Russia (see the /News/2002/Alekseeveng.html"> interview with him) annotates the games of the /Java/2002/Linarescom14/on.html"> 14th round
One of the best Russian chessplayer, Champion of Russia - 1999, the member of Russian team GM KONSTANTIN SAKAEV annotates the games of the /Java/2002/Linarescom13/on.html"> 13th(decisive) round
GM Sergey Ionov annotates the games of the /Java/2002/Linarescom12/on.html"> 12th round
GM Konstantin Aseev annotates the games of the /Java/2002/Linarescom11/on.html"> 11th round
GM Sergey Ionov annotates the games of the /Java/2002/Linarescom10/on.html"> 10th round
St.-Petersburg Champion GM Valerij Popov annotates the games of the /Java/2002/Linarescom9/on.html"> 9th round .
GM Mark Taimanov annotates the games of the /Java/2002/Linarescom8/on.html"> 8th round .
GM Konstantin Aseev annotates the games of the /Java/2002/Linarescom7/on.html"> 7th round .
GM Konstantin Sakaev annotates the games of the /Java/2002/Linarescom6/on.html"> 6th round .
GM Mark Taimanov annotates the games of the /Java/2002/Linarescom5/on.html"> 5th round .
St.-Petersburg Champion GM Valerij Popov annotates the games of the /Java/2002/Linarescom4/on.html"> 4th round .
GM Sergey Ivanov annotates the games of the /Java/2002/Linarescom3/on.html"> 3rd round .
IM Evgeny Alekseev , one of the most perspective young chessplayers in Russia annotates the games of the /Java/2002/Linarescom2/on.html"> 2nd round .
GM Sergey Ivanov annotates the games of the /Java/2002/Linarescom/on.html"> 1st round .
Final standings:
1. Kasparov - 8.0/12
2. Ponomariov - 6.5/12
3-5. Ivanchuk, Adams, Anand - 6.0/12
6. Vallejo Pons - 5.0/12
7. Shirov - 4.5/12
/Java/2002/Linares/viewer.html"> View games
/Java/2002/Linares/Linares.zip"> Games in PGN
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