Sorry, guys, but he's busy preparing for Fritz

12/19/2001 – Originally Vladimir Kramnik had signed up to play in the traditional Wijk aan Zee tournament in January. But now he has cancelled, specifying his need to prepare for his match against Fritz in Bahrain, scheduled for early February. His place is taken by his second Evgeny Bareev. The other big disappointment for Wijk: Vassily Ivanchuk and Ruslan Ponomariov have cancelled too, due to another match scheduled in Moscow. You will find a list of participants who have not cancelled more

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Corus Chess Tournament 2002

Wijk aan Zee, January 12-27

Players Group A (category 18)

  Name               Country Birthday  Elo
 1 Kasparov Garry       RUS  63/4/13   2838
 2 Leko Peter           HUN  79/9/8    2739
 3 Adams Michael        ENG  71/11/17  2731
 4 Bareev Evgeny        RUS  66/11/21  2719
 5 Wely , van Loek      NED  72/10/7   2714
 6 Kasimdzhanov Rustam  UZB  79/12/5   2706
 7 Khalifman Alexander  RUS  66/1/18   2702
 8 Gelfand Boris        ISR  68/6/24   2701
 9 Dreev Alexey         RUS  69/1/30   2676
10 Grischuk Alexander   RUS  83/10/31  2666
11 Lautier Joel         FRA  73/4/12   2653
12 Piket Jeroen         NED  69/1/27   2649
13 Gurevich Mikhail     BEL  59/2/22   2605
14 Timman Jan           NED  51/12/14  2600
   
Average rating  2693
Days of play: January 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27.
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