Russia vs. The World: results, links and photos

Match of the New Century
Russia vs. The World
Moscow,
September 8th-11th 2002

Day 1 (September 8)
World 6 - Russia 4
World 5.5 - Russia 4.5
Day 2 (September 9)
Russia 5.5 - World 4.5
Russia 5.5 - World 4.5
Russia 5 - World 5
Day 3 (September 10)
World 5 - Russia 5
World 5 - Russia 5
World 6 - Russia 4
Day 4 (September 11)
World 5.5 - Russia 4.5
World 5 - Russia 5

Final result:
Rest of the World 52
Russia 48

Individual results:
Shirov          7/10
Bareev          6/10
Ivanchuk        6/10
Morozevich      6/10
Gelfand         6/10
Ponomariov      6/10
Leko            5.5/10
Grischuk        5.5/10
Svidler         5/9
Karpov          5/9
Anand           5/9
Radjabov        5/10
Dreev           4.5/8
Smirin          4/9
Kramnik         4/9
Kasparov        4/10
Khalifman       3.5/9
Rublevsky       3/6
Short           2.5/8
Azmaiparashvili 2/4
Polgar          2/7
Akopian         1/3
Motylev         1/6
Zvjaginsev      0.5/4

Ukrainian Chess Online:
preview in Russian
diary in Russian
photos by D.Kohlmeyer

Ponomariov interviews:
worldchessrating
izvestia.ru
facts.kiev.ua

Event coverage:
chess.alfabank.ru
FIDE.com
worldchessrating
chessbase.com
chessbase.de
TWIC
izvestia.ru
sport-express.ru
facts.kiev.ua

All photos on this page
are by Mikhail Golubev