2002 in chess
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Events in chess during the year 2002:
- The Manhattan Chess Club closes. Founded in 1877, it was the second oldest chess club in the United States.
Top players
FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating - October 2002;[1]
- Garry Kasparov
- Vladimir Kramnik
- Viswanathan Anand
- Michael Adams
- Veselin Topalov
- Peter Leko
- Ruslan Ponomariov
- Evgeny Bareev
- Alexander Morozevich
- Vassily Ivanchuk
Deaths
- Ricardo Calvo, a Spanish chess International Master - September 26
- Eduard Gufeld, a Ukrainian International Grandmaster and chess author - September 23
- Edmar Mednis, an American International Grandmaster and chess writer - February 13
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gollark: Dismissing problems because other things have problems is the problem.
gollark: The problem there is not the comparing though!
gollark: I did retroactively.
gollark: You can compare things without it also implying "we should immediately do whatever the 'better' thing does".
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