Champion of the New Millenium.pdf

Champions of the New

Millenniun

Lubonir Ftacnik

Danny Kopec

Walter BroWne

Qualiy Chess

ualiychess. co. uk

First English edition 2009 by Quality Chess UK LLP

2009 Lubomir Ftacnik, Danny Kopec and Wl ter Browne

Champions ofthe New Mllennium

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Contents

Key to symbols used

Foreword by Anthony Saidy

Preface

January 2009 ratings and World ranking

1 Veselin Topalov (2796-World no. 1)

2 Viswanathan nand (2791 - World no. 2)

3 Vassily lvanchuk (2779 -World no. 3)

4 Magnus Carlsen (2776-World no. 4)

5 Alexander Morozevich (2771 -World no. 5)

127

6 Teimour Radjabov (2760 - World no. 6)

153

7 Vladimir Kramnik (2759 - World no. 8)

173

8 Peter Leko (2751 - World no. 9)

195

9 Levon Aronian (2750 - World no. 11)

221

10 Alexei Shirov (2745-World no. 12)

245

11 Wang Yue (2739-World no. 13)

263

12 Alexander Grischuk (2733-World no. 14)

285

13 Ruslan Ponomariov (2726 -World no. 16)

309

14 Gata Kamsky (2725 -World no. 17)

331

15 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2724 - World no. 18)

355

16 Peter Svidler (2723 -World no. 20)

377

17 Sergey Karjakin (2706 - World no. 27)

405

18 Judit Polgar (2693 -World no. 36)

425

Index of complete games

450

Alphabetical index of complete games

452

Selected list of photographs

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