1999 in chess

Events of 1999 in chess include the list of top chess players and news.

List of years in chess (table)

Top players

FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating - January 1999;

  1. Garry Kasparov  Russia 2812
  2. Viswanathan Anand  India 2781
  3. Vladimir Kramnik  Russia 2751
  4. Alexei Shirov  Spain 2726
  5. Alexander Morozevich  Russia 2723
  6. Michael Adams  England 2716
  7. Vasily Ivanchuk  Ukraine 2714
  8. Peter Svidler  Russia 2713
  9. Anatoly Karpov  Russia 2710
  10. Veselin Topalov  Bulgaria 2700

Chess news in brief

Deaths

  • Lodewijk Prins, Dutch chess master and arbiter - November 11
  • Lembit Oll, Estonian Grandmaster and world top 50 player - May 17
  • Ortvin Sarapu, "Mr New Zealand Chess", 20-time NZ chess champion – April 13
  • Gary Koshnitsky, Australian Master - September 17
  • Catharina Roodzant, three-time winner of the women's Dutch championship – February 24
  • Ramchandra Sapre, former national champion of India and chess columnist - May 18
  • Francisco José Pérez Pérez, Spanish/Cuban master – September 11

Notes

  1. Crowther, Mark (15 March 1999), THE WEEK IN CHESS 227, retrieved 2008-06-08
  2. Crowther, Mark (19 July 1999), THE WEEK IN CHESS 245, retrieved 2008-06-15
  3. Crowther, Mark (1 February 1999), THE WEEK IN CHESS 221, retrieved 2008-06-08
  4. Crowther, Mark (5 July 1999), THE WEEK IN CHESS 243, retrieved 2008-06-15
  5. Crowther, Mark (22 March 1999), THE WEEK IN CHESS 228, retrieved 2008-06-08
  6. Crowther, Mark (11 January 1999), THE WEEK IN CHESS 218, retrieved 2008-06-08
  7. Crowther, Mark (4 January 1999), THE WEEK IN CHESS 217, retrieved 2008-06-08
  8. Crowther, Mark (24 May 1999), THE WEEK IN CHESS 237, retrieved 2008-06-08
  9. Crowther, Mark (25 January 1999), THE WEEK IN CHESS 220, retrieved 2008-06-08
  10. Crowther, Mark (3 May 1999), THE WEEK IN CHESS 234, retrieved 2008-06-08
  11. Crowther, Mark (6 September 1999), THE WEEK IN CHESS 252, retrieved 2008-06-15
  12. Crowther, Mark (25 October 1999), THE WEEK IN CHESS 259, retrieved 2008-06-15
  13. Crowther, Mark (4 October 1999), THE WEEK IN CHESS 256, retrieved 2008-06-15
gollark: This isn't much of a balance issue - replacing said random utility pickaxe isn't costly, just irritating.
gollark: *Self*-repairing - going to an anvil is still a chore - and the effectiveness of repairs drops if you do them lots - and XP cost.
gollark: Slowly self-repairing pickaxes? It's nice to not have to replace your "random utility pickaxe" half the time.
gollark: I mean, sure, real life pickaxes can't magically go faster if you sprinkle redstone on them. But you can't make industrial machinery out of piles of metal bars and redstone, smelt iron using a cube made from rocks, kill giant spiders running around everywhere with your fists...
gollark: Why?

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