Elsewhere on the Web : FIDE World Championship - The Players

Saturday September 17, 2005

The first round of the FIDE World Championship starts 28 September in San Luis, Argentina. For each player we list the nationality, rating as of July 2005, and birthday; plus links to the player's FIDE Card at FIDE.com and collected games at ChessGames.com.

• GM Michael Adams : England; 2719; 1971-11-17; FIDE Card; Games.
• GM Viswanathan Anand : India; 2788; 1969-12-11; FIDE Card; Games.
• GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov : Uzbekistan; 2670; 1979-12-05; FIDE Card; Games.
• GM Peter Leko : Hungary; 2763; 1979-09-08; FIDE Card; Games.
• GM Alexander Morozevich : Russia; 2707; 1977-07-18; FIDE Card; Games.
• GM Judit Polgar : Hungary; 2735; 1976-07-23; FIDE Card; Games.
• GM Peter Svidler : Russia; 2738; 1976-06-17; FIDE Card; Games.
• GM Veselin Topalov : Bulgaria; 2788; 1975-03-15; FIDE Card; Games.

For more information about the event see the Official Site and the FIDE Announcement (18 May 2005). • For our previous report see Elsewhere on the Web : FIDE World Championship 2005-2007 (21 May).

Index of all World Championship blog posts