2000 in chess

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Events in chess during the year 2000:

Top players

FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating - July 2000;[1]

Daniel Yanofsky, Canada's first chess Grandmaster - March 5
Aivars Gipslis, Latvian Grandmaster and chess writer - April 13
Arthur Dake, American chess master - April 28
Vladimir Bagirov, Grandmaster, chess author, and chess trainer - died of a heart attack while playing chess in Finland - July 21
George Koltanowski, record holder for most games won blindfolded simultaneously - September 17
Karl Robatsch, Australian chess player and botanist - September 19

gollark: This is in fact true. They have properties like high, er, monochromaticity too, but it's essentially just coherent light.

gollark: Shining bright or coherent things into eyes makes me nervous.

gollark: Lasers are just very focused light, utter bee.

gollark: Lasers are very dangerous because they get focused onto a small spot on the eye, and all that.

gollark: Well, yes, but directly doing things to eyes sounds possibly eye-damaging.

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